This is the third in a series of posts I’ll be doing through the end of the year looking at where each of Apple’s major product lines are at going into the new year. Here’s previous pieces on the iPhone and iPad.How the | Continue reading
A couple years ago I made a website for myself, Quick Reviews, and I've used it hundreds of times to create nice reviews for social media. Today I've made a few changes to the site, as I like to do every year or so. It' | Continue reading
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s major product lines in 2023. Here’s my look at the iPhone.How the year startedApple updated 4 of their 5 iPad models in 2022 (everything but the iPad Mini) and added a new model | Continue reading
I saw this post over on json.blog, OpenAI Is Just Uber, which sounds like it makes sense, but I think is drawing the wrong conclusions on a couple fronts.A decade later, ride-sharing hasn’t evolved significantly since its launch. Costs have risen as consumers now pay the | Continue reading
This is the first in a 4-part series of posts I’m writing to close out the year where I can get my thoughts out about Apple’s biggest product lines. I won’t be giving a score, but I will share my thoughts on the state | Continue reading
Ben Werdmuller: Leaving the Nazi BarIf I find that the owner of the living room allows people who make me or my friends feel unsafe — or, as is true in this case, pays them to hang out there, and makes money from their presence — I can use | Continue reading
Are movies getting longer than they used to be? It’s something I think a lot of us feel is true, but is it? I wanted to get a feel for this, so I collected some data, looked at the trends, and made some proposals based on that info. | Continue reading
David Pierce for The Verge, 2023 in Social Media: The Case for the FediverseIt doesn’t make sense that we have a dozen usernames, a dozen profiles, a dozen sets of fans and friends. All that stuff should belong to me, and I should be able to access | Continue reading
Sometimes I read the last post in my Mastodon feed, and pull to refresh, and there’s nothing new to see. Other times I’ll read everything in my RSS feeds, so there’s nothing in my queue.Then there are places like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, | Continue reading
I feel like blogging can be inherently negative sometimes, as it’s simply more fun to write about the things that annoy you than the things you like, so today I’m just going to list a few software and gadgets that I adore right now.Things continues | Continue reading
Philip Berne: Apple Needs a Foldable iPhone Soon or iPhones Won't Be Worth BuyingApple, I’ve got good news. The iPhone is refined enough. It is refined well beyond what other manufacturers even care to accomplish. Other phone makers could build a phone that pays just as much atte … | Continue reading
Listen hereThis is an entry in the 365 Albums Project in which I plan on posting one album I enjoy every day for a full year. You can subscribe to the Apple Music playlist to hear one song from every album mentioned in this series. | Continue reading
Listen hereThis is an entry in the 365 Albums Project in which I plan on posting one album I enjoy every day for a full year. You can subscribe to the Apple Music playlist to hear one song from every album mentioned in this series. | Continue reading
Listen hereThis is an entry in the 365 Albums Project in which I plan on posting one album I enjoy every day for a full year. You can subscribe to the Apple Music playlist to hear one song from every album mentioned in this series. | Continue reading
Eric Tucker: Trump Allies Cite Clinton Email Probe to Attack Classified Records Case. There Are Big DifferencesBeyond just the hoarding of documents — in locations including a bathroom, ballroom, shower and his bedroom — the Justice Department says Trump showed highly sensitive m … | Continue reading
Emma Roth: This free TV comes with two screensWhile ads shouldn’t interrupt whatever you’re watching on the main display, Telly’s chief strategy officer, Dallas Lawrence, tells The Verge that ads might utilize both displays when you’re not using the TV. “When the Theatre display … | Continue reading
Listen hereThis is an entry in the 365 Albums Project in which I plan on posting one album I enjoy every day for a full year. You can subscribe to the Apple Music playlist to hear one song from every album mentioned in this series. | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to another Friday! This week we’ve got flying toasters, which I always see as a good start to the day. As always, you can subscribe to get this in your inbox every Friday morning. The Big LinkAfter Dark in CSS Younger readers may not be familiar, | Continue reading
"Hello, I'd like to buy one of the new iPhones, please!" "Sure thing, here's the new iPhone 12. It's fast, beautiful, and is generally awesome." "Sweet, I'll take it. This box is really small." "Yup, that's because Apple is making the environmental move to reduce waste and not gi … | Continue reading
The new iPhone SE officially comes out today, and I have had strange feelings about this phone since it was announced last week. That strange feeling? “Why the hell isn’t this my phone?” See, I’m currently using an iPhone 11 Pro, and have been spending $700-1,200 on | Continue reading
We have a couple Mac users in the office so I went around and asked them how to do some things on macOS, which as we all know, is much better than iPadOS at making important, useful UI elements easily discoverable. I talked to 3 people who have been using | Continue reading
My ambitious, but largely practical concept for what I’d like to see from the next generation of watchOS. | Continue reading
I saw that story go by today and I got me thinking again: if you want the best Google software, iOS is really the place to be. That sounds crazy, and maybe for some people it is, but as someone who… | Continue reading