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It’s the end of the decade and I love lists, so today I’m starting a series of lists about my favorite things. Today we’re looking at my favorite albums of the past 10 years. What I learned more than anything with making this list is that 2010
I’m so bad at celebrating BirchTree’s anniversaries, so this post on a Tuesday night 12 days after the actual anniversary is gonna have to do it this year. At this point I have written at this site for over one quarter of my life, which is nuts. This
Here’s how most smartphone camera comparisons go: 1. Frame up two phones with the same shot 2. Take photo That’s it, no editing or tapping the screen to focus or set exposure, just point and shoot. In many ways that probably the most fair ways to do it,
You can find this all over the web these days, but dark mode is important and I figured I’d share in one more place how easy it can be to get your site up and running in no time. Here’s all the code it takes to do dark
Apple Arcade Seems Like The Future Of Gaming, For Better Or Worse - Kotaku Maddy: I have guilt about these kinds of services and our new subscription-flavored future. I don’t think I can do anything about it, but I don’t love it. Kirk: Your guilt is related to
John Gruber’s “claim chowder” is one of my favorite running gags in the Apple blogging world, and I thought I’d take tonight, the night before we see a bunch of new iPhones and Apple Watches, to look back on some claims and positions I’ve taken over the
Most of you probably don’t know, but I run a small, but shockingly popular credit card BIN lookup site called Quick BIN Lookup. I launched the site in early 2016 and have made some small updates over time to make it faster and more reliable. But the look and
In the middle of June I mentioned on my podcast that I was going to take a bit of a summer break from the show, and that turned into a break from blogging here (only 9 posts in 6 weeks), as well as a break from Twitter and the relentless
https://youtu.be/WYEcRWpXFdc I'm taking a break from the Persona series to talk about what I'm pretty confident is my favorite video game of all time. This game is just unbelievable and this series will go through some of the elements that I think come
My overview of Microsoft Word for the iPad over on The Sweet Setup: Microsoft Word on the iPad is currently a solid app. It has the core functionality nailed down. Editing documents is as pleasant as it’s been on any version of Word I’ve used in my lifetime.
I had the great pleasure of guesting with Greg and Nati on their always fun BYOD podcast this weekend. I was on to talk all about the Apple Watch, what we expect from WWDC, and why Apple currently has nothing to fear from the Android-based smartwatches out there today. I
Ok, hear me out, but I’ve been using OmniFocus as my “read later” service for about a month and it’s kind of working great for me. I tweeted about this earlier in the week and people were…confused, to say the least1. Let me explain myself. Getting in
So much of what I do online is about following the newest, latest, best stuff that’s out there. What’s the best phone? What are the best new games? What’s next in…everything? This is just how I am and I generally enjoy being on the cutting edge.
The weather is insane right now in the Midwest, and I was hearing people say the same things you always hear when it gets really cold or hot: “this is the hottest/coldest day in my life!” Well, today I decided to find out. Methodology I have a Dark Sky
https://youtu.be/ZxfchFEO3yA I've never really had time to spend on video games on BirchTree, but I spend a decent amount of my free time playing video games and I just adore them. Despite this love, I've never spent much time on them here because