My PDF adventures continue. Like Chloé-Agathe, I too needed to create a large (30+ pages), single PDF file out of a combination of multiple other files, and page numbers – i.e., re-numbering – is really helpful. I already know of pdftk, and from her blog post – and others, I learned that this was all still possible 11 years later on macOS 27.0.1. Step 1: Combine the 1st two pages of foo.

Follow up on my earlier post. They call it the iPhone Duo, and priced from 2000 USD: They call it iPhone 18 Pro, and priced from 1200 USD: Here’s the pricing on the current iPhones lineup then: Released Price Previous Price iPhone Duo Sep ‘26 2000 N/A iPhone 18 Pro Sep ‘26 1200 N/A iPhone Air Sep ‘25 1100 1000 iPhone 17 Sep ‘25 900 800 iPhone 17e Mar ‘26 700 600 Such is RAMageddon…

I was listening to John Gruber/Chance Miller on The Talk Show talking about iPhone pricing come September. I promptly stopped listening to write this post comprised of unoriginal thinking. I still find it still helps me clarify my own plans. As a recap, here are the iPhones 17 lineup pricing in USD from last September, effectively ancient history now: Screenshot from an earlier post of mine. I don’t know that the numbers above will hold for their upcoming lineup in view of RAMageddon.

AirPods (Pro 3) Apple Watch (SE 3, Series 11, Ultra 3) iPhone (17, Air, 17 Pro)

In the flurry of (my own personal) happenings this past week, I completely forgot that Tim Apple posted a teaser about new hardware. Belatedly, I watched the video. For me, the most exciting thing is probably the bundling of their in-house modem, marketed as “C1”: USD pricing: I suppose the “e” means everyone; i.e., the iPhone for everyone. Nice. Update: I like the Compare feature on the current lineup. Of course, 16e < 16 < 16 Pro.

I love Apple’s “bento box” summaries, so here are the hardware (and software) presented a couple days ago (ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarNiSl_uh4). The following sections have, of course, been reordered in terms of my own personal excitement level. AirPods Pro 2 as a hearing aid If this works as advertised, take my money! This is an older model at this point, but just take my money!! I am so excited by this new software feature that I snuck in a non-bento box image.