Update 2: Hold on. I’m not so sure this is actually what’s happening.

The exact language from the Photo Stream KB page says:

There is no limit to the number of photos you can upload to My Photo Stream over time, but iCloud limits the number of photos that can be uploaded within a given hour, day, or month to prevent unintended or excessive use. […]

There is no limit to the amount of photos you can upload to My Photo Stream over longer periods (such as several months or years). Photos uploaded to My Photo Stream or shared photo streams are not counted against your iCloud Storage.

That sounds like unlimited photo stream uploading forever. But I think what they’re actually talking about is throttling your uploads if you get out of hand.

This FAQ page says that “The photos you upload to My Photo Stream are stored in iCloud for 30 days to give your devices plenty of time to connect and download them.”

That’s how it’s always been. You can upload all you want and have at least 30 days to get them out of Photo Stream and onto your computer. But when the dust settles you’re still only allowed 1,000 photos.

Alas, I don’t think that has changed after all.

Also worth noting is that the FAQ page was updated on October 28, 2013 while the photo stream KB page was updated on September 18, 2013.

Below is what I first wrote with my original link, but I think I was wrong in the interpretation. I deeply apologize for my mistake.

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This is great. You can now store unlimited photos in your Photo Stream and they don’t count against your iCloud storage plan.

Though it isn’t a complete replacement for what we lost with Everpix, it does solve one of the biggest problems we had with Photo Stream: that 1,000-photo limit.

Everpix actually solved two issues: (1) syncing all your photos from all your devices to all your devices; and (2) assisted re-discovery.

This updated Photo Stream limits help with the first problem — syncing all photos to all devices — but it doesn’t solve it quite as elegantly as Everpix, Loom, and ThisLife. For example: the pictures I take with my E-PL5 which I then save to my Mac, are not automatically uploaded to my Photo Stream — I still have to import them into iPhoto.

And the second problem — assisted re-discovery of old photos — isn’t solved at all by Photo Stream.

Here are some of the things I loved about Everpix that aren’t a part of how iCloud Photo Stream works:

• Daily flashback emails that would send me the photos from this day in history (one year ago, two years ago, etc.)
• Auto detection of “more important” photos. Everpix basically had a “highlights” reel that — based on the quality of the image and the contents (people vs food) — would show you what it thought were most likely the best photos from all your pictures.
• Auto upload from the Mac of any folder you chose.

BUT! I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth. The lifting of the Photo Stream sync limit is fantastic. Photo stream is better than ever before while retaining its simplicity — it doesn’t require any fiddling, and it’s exactly what most people need.

Update: Totally missed this the first time through, but this Apple Knowledge Base article was last updated almost two months ago, on September 18, 2013. Curious that myself and a few others I’ve talked to have not seen an increase in Photo Stream capacity, also why wasn’t this bigger news back on or around September 18th? It’s kinda a big deal.

It’s a good one this year. Some returning champions — such as the Kindle Paperwhite, the AeroPress, and the Apple TV — along with some new toys, such as the new B&W P7 headphones, the Spyderco Sage pocketknife (thanks, Ben!), and one of the nicest iPad cases I’ve seen.

There is some great and interesting coverage of Twitter’s IPO in today’s edition of Dave Pell’s Next Draft newsletter.

Marc Edwards charted out a month’s worth of steps counted by both the M7 in his iPhone and his FitBit Zip. The stats are extremely close.

Methinks if you’re casually interested in step counting and keep your iPhone in your pocket most of the time, it might be worth saving the money you’d spend on a pedometer and put that towards a 5s (if you don’t already have one).

P.S. Pedometer++ is a pretty cool, and free, app for tracking steps on the iPhone 5s.

Catherine Price wrote an awesome article for Slate about the Vitamix 5200:

When you first buy a Vitamix 5200, the so-called Ferrari of blenders, two thoughts are likely to pass through your mind. The first is “Did I really just spend more than $400 on a blender?” And the second is “This machine is going to change my life.”

Anna and I have this very same blender in our kitchen. We bought it two years ago — at the recommendation of about 13.4 different friends of ours who also own Vitamixes — so we could save money by making our own baby food (my wife was pregnant with our oldest at the time). Little did we know how awesome it would be. Did you know the Vitamix can make homemade whipped cream in about 7 seconds? It literally takes longer to get all the ingredients into the blender than it does to turn them into a dessert topping.

This season’s Productive Macs software bundle has some excellent Mac apps.

Keyboard Maestro is one of the most indispensable apps on my Mac. And I know a lot of people nerd out over Default Folder X as well, but I never got in to it. The rest of the apps in the bundle are new to me.

You can get al 7 apps for $30, making it worth the price of admission for Keyboard Maestro alone.

This is an excellent piece by Kyle Baxter. I linked to it in my article last night about the iPad Air being the first iPad without compromise, but Kyle’s article deserves a link all its own.

The Doxie Flip is a new, battery powered, small flatbed scanner. It’s just the right size to scan your Field Notes pages (or anything else that size), and then tote around with you or keep in your desk drawer.

The folks at Doxie were generous enough to send me a Flip last week and I’ve been using it to scan in some of my own Field Notes pages and saving them to Day One. The Flip scans to an SD card — which easily pops into my MacBook Air — and the scan quality is very high. My first question about the Flip was to wonder why the scanning bed wasn’t big enough to scan in a spread of Field Notes pages. But as I’ve looked through my own Field Notes notebooks, I realize none of them have related spreads — every page is its own island of scribbles.

The Flip is $150 on Amazon. Also, Brad Dowdy has much more in-depth review (as well as having much better handwriting than I).

CJ Chilvers:

Marketing phrases like “personal brand” come and go, and are mostly the work of marketers who believe to own something, you must re-name it.

Go back decades before such buzzwords pervaded our lives and you’ll find the foundation of this concept was more simply called your “reputation.”

Very sad to hear this news. Everpix was the best alternative-slash-replacement to Apple’s wimpy Photo Stream. I loved that Everpix would upload all the photos from my iPhone, my wife’s iPhone, and the shots from my E-PL5, and then have those available from any of our iOS devices and on the Web.

Apple’s photo stream stinks in comparison. It maxes out at 1,000 pics and doesn’t automatically include any of the shots I take with my E-PL5 and put on my Mac.

I’ll be checking out Loom and PictureLife — as those seem to be the only other real services in this space — but with a significant amount of caution. If Everpix was the best and they couldn’t make it work who knows how Loom or PictureLife will fare in the months and years to come.

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