Arguing against improvements
Apple will be announcing new Macs next week, and that could mean it’s finally time for them to update
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Don’t take early digital movie releases to automatically mean failure
The Verge is reporting on Joker: Folie à Deux, one of the most derided movies of 2024, coming to digital
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My first Apple embargo (members post)
What it was like being a part of my first Apple hardware embargo.
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This is the sort of thing that makes me like Apple
Chris Welch for The Verge: Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound
Being able
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I think we’re done making “shitty games”
Blooper Team’s Jacek Zieba, who just released the Silent Hill 2 remake, in an interview with GameSpot: Bloober Team
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The most important line in any headset review
Riley Hill: I Bought A Vision Pro After Everyone Said It Was Dead
After about two weeks of using the
Did you know you can (technically) cut and paste in the Finder?
Yesterday I posted this video about a Mac app called Supercharge which adds a number of quality of life features
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Digg, 20 years later
David Pierce: How Digg helped invent the social internet
In its early days, Digg was something like the homepage of
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Passkeys get a bit closer to becoming portable
Lori Glavin: FIDO Alliance Publishes New Specifications to Promote User Choice and Enhanced UX for Passkeys
The FIDO Alliance has
Minor update to Quick Reviews
Last night I pushed an update to Quick Reviews to make 2 changes:
1. The reset buttons on the color,
The Apple Pencil lineup is doing what we should have all expected
Back in May when the latest iPad Pros were announced, there was some consternation about how the Apple Pencil story
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Productivity apps won’t do your work for you, but they can still help
Casey Newton many weeks ago: Three apps that made me more productive this year
A year ago this week, I
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Remember, the computers don’t think
Kyle Orland for ArsTechnica: Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
The results of this new GSM-Symbolic paper
Home Depot is finally rolling out contactless payments (yes, the "finally" is warranted")
Steven Aquino writing for Forbes: Home Depot’s Rollout Of Apple Pay Reminds Apple Pay, Accessibility Are One
My friend
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How to set up author tags on Mastodon
Mastodon recently added the ability to natively add author labels to links on Mastodon. Basically, when a link is posted,
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Mujjo iPhone 16 Pro case and wallet review
Last year, I thought Mujjo’s iPhone cases were excellent. I thought they were so good that when I realized
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Above is a photo I took of the Statue of Liberty last night from a boat. It looks pretty good,