An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

A Shortcut for quickly adding entries to my notebook index.

Okay, so “space black” isn’t the Black MacBook return we were hoping for, but Apple’s new Pros sound pretty nice. Which one should you buy, though? It’s complicated. Plus, that Scary Fast event was shot on an iPhone — so where does that mean we are in the evolution of smartphone cameras? All that, and some AR glasses, and you don’t even have to listen at 8PM on a Monday night.

To find out who did, look all the way back to the start of the story.

Here's how to make the most of Slack's new look.

Musk wants X to replace YouTube, LinkedIn, FaceTime, dating apps, and even your bank.

My view on the state of social media in late 2023

Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.1 – the first major updates to the operating systems that launched (and I reviewed) in September. I’ll cut to the chase: these are not big updates and don’t come with new emoji. Instead, iOS and iPadOS 17.1 bring a variety of previously-announced (and then delayed) features such as

Are you thinking of participating in National Novel Writing Month this November? Whether you regularly join in or you've always wanted to...

02:19:51 - We recorded this weeks ago I genuinely don't remember what we all even talked about but uh we'll see you next week when I remember that on…

Third-party web browsers on iOS and iPadOS have been in a peculiar state for some time. While it has been possible since iOS 14 to set a third-party browser as the default for opening web links, Apple still doesn’t permit the use of third-party browser engines — at least for now. This means third-party web

Good compact phones died with the iPhone Mini.

While some of Google's failed products genuinely deserved to die, others were undernourished, misunderstood, or just ahead of their time

Articles and posts written and edited by Jared Newman

Three stories that all relate to governance, in their own different ways. Mbin is a new fork of Kbin, due to governance issues at Kbin. A research paper on that gives some structure to how different Mastodon servers organise their rules. And Owncast runs into issues with how Apple governs access to the App Store.

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The 2022 Annual Report is now available for download! As a non-profit organization supported exclusively by donations, we like to keep our community updated on our yearly progress, and 2022 was an interesting year to say the least.

Please, not another “unexpected item in the bagging area.”

Elon Musk thinks that a dollar and phone number will keep the bots away.

We apologize for the lack of regular community updates during the past few months. In short, the people who usually wrote them became very busy. However, we have a new way to write and publish these…

Apple's upcoming iOS update will address iPhone 12 safety concerns.

There are too many messaging apps. But things could get better.

iPhone 15 (Pro) im Test • Tipps zu iOS 17, macOS 14, watchOS 10 • Apps ohne Abo • Mac Pro M2 Ultra im Test​ • Windows-Spiele am Mac • iPad in Schulen und mehr.

Over the last decade or so, Apple has been hard at work in simplifying the user interfaces that power its myriad platforms. I've welcomed most of that work, but it's hard to deny that we've all lost some things along the way. Today, we look at a UI element that started life in iTunes, but [...]

A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

Plus! A Sonos v. Google surprise, a 101 case rejects cert, and Celgene's REVLIMID

Overzealous security measures are ruining the simplicity of the macOS experience.