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With so many podcasts out there, companies like Goodpods and Breaker are popping up to help listeners find their next podcast. Run by siblings, the year-old Goodpods bills itself as the GoodReads for podcasting.

Threads has taken the world by storm and established new playbooks, and although it isn’t my favorite social network, I’m enjoying kicking the tires

In early 2023, Apple launched Final Cut Pro for iPad and now a few months later, the company's finally adding some important new additions.

An online forum is a great place to ask questions and generally seek advice on what you want to do with technology. I spend a bit of time each day catching up on the latest discussions across maybe a half dozen or so technical fora. On some of them I am a heavy contributor, and on others I generally lurk, just gleaning insights and keeping up with the latest conversations. Having been involved with technical forums for the past thirty years or so I’ve seen plenty of good and bad practices, and in this post I am going to share five tips on what I think are valuable and practical considerations for posting queries to technical forums.

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Reminders has been my one true shopping list since it landed on the iPhone in iOS 5. In iOS 17,...

If you’ve had even a cursory interest in cars in the social media age, chances are you’ve seen Matt Farah either talking about them, thrashing test vehicles in video reviews, or hanging out with the upper echelon of car culture cognoscenti.

“You can just kind of go down a rabbit hole and stay there for hours.”

Why do apps all feel the same? Many are run by just one company.

Today, Shiny Frog launched Bear 2.0, a ground-up rewrite of its popular note-taking app for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac that has been years in the making. The new version has been rebuilt with a custom text editing engine and introduces a long list of features, including: Tables Section folding Tables of contents and backlinks

Apple is releasing the first public betas of iOS and iPadOS 17 today, and I’ll cut right to the chase: I’ve been using both of them on my primary devices since WWDC, and I’m very satisfied with the new features and improvements I’ve seen to date – especially on iPadOS. More importantly, both OSes are

"The obsession with EV range is all wrong," argues a new article in the Washington Post's Climate section. "This year, one EV on the market — the sleek $140,000 Lucid Air Grand Touring — boasts a whopping 516-mile range. Toyota recently announced that it had achieved a breakthrough wit...

The company’s guilty conscience is making it nudgy.

It’ll be every voter, and bot, for themselves.

“The volatility and the unpredictability of what seemed to be going on there” presented Instagram with an opportunity, he says.