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Columbia's first and only community radio station is celebrating 50 years. A commemorative book is in the works and needs photos and stories.

Apple on Thursday released multiple new betas to developers, including iOS 16.4 beta 1 and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1. As we’ve already seen, the latest beta software for iPhone and iPad comes with some interesting changes. Among them, the Apple Music interface has been slightly tweaked, but there are still no signs of Apple Classical […]

Tedium is slowly working on its glossary over the next year, taking time to develop definitions its subject matter. Today’s starting point? Software.

Bunch is an amazing little automation tool for controlling work environments on your Mac.

It’s February 2nd, the day we first launched Write.as in 2015! A lot has happened this past year, both on the web and with the small team...

Your For You feed might look a little different.

Standards-based interoperability makes a comeback, sort of.

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time…

Five radio stations—Dublin Digital Radio (ddr.), Rádio Quântica, Oroko, Skylab and Threads—provide some tips on how to do it yourself.

Elon Musk partially reversed his API policy.

What if we took social media a little less seriously -- even the "better" solutions like the #fediverse? What if we didn't worry about "changing the world" with some new startup idea, and instead improved life for a few people? What if we just made cool shit online that could help pay our bills and then we do something new when that gets old? What if we forgot the 1990s-2020s delusion that the information superhighway was go...

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....

I’ve been following with great interest this series of articles by John Gruber (and Matt Birchler’s related story) about the chasm between iOS and Android apps. I have some thoughts since expanding my app knowledge beyond iOS and iPadOS is one of my goals for 2023. About a month ago, during my holiday break, I

Established in 2011 by users on 4chan’s /v/ — Video Games board, the Vidya Gaem Awards are the video game industry’s best kept secret. It…

A deep dive into our ever growing SwiftUI usage.

It’s not just you.

The company has lost a major source of inspiration.

Things 3.17 is out for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with greatly expanded support for Shortcuts. That opens up a much wider variety of possible automations than ever before. It’s a lot to take in at once, but I’ve been playing with these actions since the end of last year, so I thought I’d highlight what

After a lengthy argument, a right to repair comes to agricultural machinery.

The popular tech site has employed the use of AI for its financial explainer articles under the byline of "CNET Money Staff."

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

Mountain View, CA – Jan. 19, 2023: The Computer History Museum, the leading museum exploring the history of computing and its impact on the human experience, announced a partnership with The Verge this year to explore some of the most important innovations that changed the future of technology and the world. A respected tech news …

As noted by Craig Hockenberry, it has been a full decade since Apple shipped the first version of the iPhone SDK to developers. It’s hard to remember today that, in the beginning, the iPhone didn’t have third-party apps. It came with a handful of built-in apps written by Apple for things like checking stocks and

furbo.org is Craig Hockenberry's place to write for the web. He makes app and runs websites.

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Tapbots, the company behind the popular Tweetbot app designed for Twitter, is working on developing a new app called Ivory that integrates with the...

The Mac Tweetie was a very famous Mac App for Twitter Login And Search.

Just how far have Apple’s chips come since 2021?