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No One Note-Taker for Me
Mike Rockwell on Initial Charge:
There isn’t any one app that does everything I want so I’ve ended up with a handful of apps that all loosely serve the purpose of “note taking”. I can understand why someone would want to find the One App to Rule Them All, but I kind of
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It's Almost Like it's All Pandering to an Audience
First up is a report from the Software Freedom Conservatory on Trump's new TRUTH Social app's licensing:
Today, we saw the Trump Media and Technology Group ignoring those important rules — which were designed for the social good. Once caught in the act, Trump's Group scrambled and took the site
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You Don't Always Need to Go Pro
Greg Morris:
These Pros are for those that need serious power on the go, yet I have a feeling I will see these all over the place in a few weeks.
Greg touches on the feeling that a lot of us enthusiasts have where we feel like we should get the "pro" models
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SD is Still the Best Option
Exile from Dongletown – Six Colors
Apple’s argument for getting rid of the SD slot was that the future would be wireless, and we wouldn’t need to use cards to transfer data anymore. It wasn’t true back in 2016, and it’s still not true. Sure, some devices equipped with SD cards now
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Why Reviews are Hard for Smaller Reviewers
The video game review process is broken - The Washington Post
Most writers are at the mercy of Google’s search engine, and time their work to the peaks at which people are seeking out reviews. Take an extra day to polish your prose, and you’ve given up pageviews to your competitors. Google’s search
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Microsoft's Walk Back on 3D Emoji is Just More of the Same (marketing assets vs the actual UI)
Microsoft backed away from giving us the most fun emoji yet:
Microsoft originally promised new 3D emoji for Windows 11
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People Can’t Stop Talking About the Metaverse
Metaverse! Metaverse? Metaverse!! — Benedict Evans
But VR today seems to be at risk of stalling out as no more than a subset of hardcore games. We have a great consumer device but we don’t have any other use cases, and indeed some games people would argue that VR isn’t even working in games.
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The Return of Style in Software
Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding" - Molly Mielke
Style matters to our economy, our society, and to each of us personally — it allows us to communicate who we are and who we want to be. While it is widely understood that style is the driving force behind consumer purchasing decisions in
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We Actually Can Handle the Truth
Michael Bang Petersen writing for Nature:
During a pandemic, rapid behavioural change is crucial, so people cannot be asked to
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Delightful iPhone Ringtones and Notifications
Josh Ginter:
Cleartones are awesome. They’re simple notification tones and ringtones made with simple instruments. To me, these are
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I've Never Seen Cheating on a Test Like This
This is nuts!
"The slippers had a sim card and the candidates had a tiny Bluetooth bug implanted in
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Live to Work? Ehhhhhh…maybe.
Who Gets To Have Fun At Work? - Charlie Warzel
So why do people in Armstrong’s position take this criticism
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Going Into the Office to Zoom with Colleagues
Anne Helen Petersen:
On college campuses across the United States, staff are back in the office. More specifically, they’re
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Give Me More $20 Games I Can Beat in a Weekend
PS5 Boss Wants Future Games To Be As Popular As Music
“Right now, we are narrowing ourselves down into genres and sequels and certain types of games,” Shawn Layden, former CEO of SIE Worldwide Studios, told GamesIndustry.biz in July. “Favourites like my own, like Parappa and Vib-Ribbon, those things don’t seem to
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Facebook’s PR Landslide
Why Facebook is spiraling - by Casey Newton - Platformer
And so once again, even when the details are wrong, I think the scrutiny is broadly right. How does Facebook affect our mental health? How does it affect our politics? What does it know about itself that it has so far declined to share?
These strike me
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What Happens to All this Rage?
What Do We Do With All This Rage? - Charlie Warzel
When I walk around public spaces now — no matter where — I find myself thinking about the vaccination status of those around me and whether some reckless person will turn me into a vector for disease that will get my father-in-law or my friends&
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It’s All About Storytelling
Life by anecdote | Seth's Blog
“What evidence would you need to see to change your mind?”
The honest answer to this question is usually: “I need a new story that’s more immediate, more vivid and most of all, more culturally aligned than the one I have now.”
Stories are way more powerful
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Consumerism as Patriotism
How 9/11 convinced Americans to buy, buy, buy:
This version of patriotism — consumer patriotism — was on full display after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 in 2001. The message from political leaders was that the way for Americans to move past the
