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Accidental Tech Podcast

38: Auto-Update My Parents

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2013

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, if only you had a picture manager in slumber shit.

0:04.1

Yeah, I would be nice.

0:06.0

Oh, I'm with you for your obstacle.

0:07.6

We should talk about that for another hour.

0:09.2

Let's do that.

0:11.8

Last week, we talked about the problem of

0:14.2

disabling the turning on the reduced motion thing.

0:17.2

And if you turn it off, then you get the parallax effect and it zooms in your background image

0:22.8

and it was cutting off my background image that I wanted to use with my dog.

0:25.6

And so I was talking about if I could extend the the background of the image of my dog to make

0:32.0

the image bigger.

0:32.8

So it kind of looked like I could get the same crop as I had with reduced motion on and off

0:37.9

by using two different pictures.

0:39.5

And I mentioned using content of where I failed to try it in Photoshop.

0:42.0

And I did that content of where I failed is not magic.

0:45.2

It worked okay.

0:46.2

I tried touching it up and I made a version that was extended a little bit before it wasn't great.

0:50.4

And then a lot of people recommended to me an iOS app called Anticrop.

0:54.7

And I'm like, well, that's probably going to work about the same as content of where I failed.

0:58.3

But that was not the case.

0:59.4

It worked way better than content of where I failed.

1:02.0

Obviously Photoshop in the hand of someone who knows what they're doing might be better than

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