Apple’s Contacts app has no way to show recently added contacts. Here’s an Automator action that will find contacts new in the last 3 months and add them to a group called “Recent”. Obviously you can choose your own definition of recent!

Have just discovered the loupe in Preview (press the backtick key). Where have you been all my life? — Fraser Speirs (@fraserspeirs) March 26, 2013

So much of what is written about Apple these days is just horseshit meant to draw flies. Don Melton: Regarding fake projects and loyalty tests

That Apple is able to brush aside the Flash debate as yesterday’s news — even accept as a VP someone who was at the heart of that debate, and on the wrong side — shows to me that they’re only looking forward. Manton Reece: Kevin Lynch at Apple via randomwalks/dj

Good slideshow: Abandoned Apples (Macworld)

Much has been made of the videos on YouTube showing two-year-olds playing with tablets as if they were born knowing how to pinch and squeeze. But maybe a better video would be the one that shows executives in the c-suite experiencing a similarly rapid embrace of the iPad. Both types of videos teach us a […]

lowindustrial: Words with myself.

If a process shrink can make the A5X fit elegantly into an iPad Mini, a Retina model is much closer than I originally thought, almost certainly able to come out this year. Marco Arment: More on that new Apple TV’s likely SOC

It wasn’t magic, it was hard work, thoughtful design, and constant iteration. Glenn Reid: What it’s Really Like Working with Steve Jobs