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I'm still haunted by the mystery of my hometown's banana peel pile. What strange things can you just not shake?

Email newsletters may be ready for a comeback. The fact is that despite the communications mechanism being old-school, publishers can put in less effort to get more views in an inbox than on a blog. AOL exec Bob Pittman has bet big on email newsletters, funding a number of media startups built around the form of communication. Philip Kaplan (a.k.a. Pud), the founder of FuckedCompany, AdBrite and Blippy, has created his own email newsletter platform called TinyLetter. TinyLetter is a dead simple way to create email newsletters. You pick out a name for your newsletter, and TinyLetter will create a URL to send to contacts via email, Facebook, Twitter and more so they can sign-up. You can then write your newsletter, customize your newsletters by design, add subscribers, read replies from subscribers and track old newsletters. You can also turn on the option to charge per month for your newsletter.

Nostalgia is a powerful balm for difficult times – and replaying skate videos is the one thing lifting my spirits amidst our current reality.

The 500+ mile electric cars have arrived.

Since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, some of its users have migrated to Mastodon, an alternative social platform.

What did I learn from a week on Mastodon? It’s… complicated

Twitter’s new owner has a vision that sounds a lot like a scrappy little social network that already exists, with one key difference.

On Mastodon, users have more of a say in how things work. This new kind of social media could fix the problems with Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

One woman reflects on her path to protesting police brutality.

A COVID-19-related ad slump and difficulty creating content led some publishers, including Hearst and Condé Nast, to rethink summer issues.

For reasons that at not entirely clear, the Tumblr iOS app is cannot currently be found on Apple’s App Store, The Verge reports. “Tumblr says that it is ‘working to resolve an issue with the iOS app,” but it’s not clear if the app is missing from the store because it was removed by Apple, or by Tumblr itself,” it writes.

People have begun arriving in the Nevada desert ahead of “Alienstock” and a number of “Storm Area 51″-related events scheduled to take place to this weekend, the Las Vegas Review-Journal repo…

Every year, Volkswagen Group is a top contender for the title of the world's largest automaker. The company sell cars, commercial vehicles and even motorcycles. It operates 133 manufacturing plants around the world and sells cars in 153 countries. The company is now trying to forge a new future for itself by going electric. » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision » Subscribe to CNBC Classic: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCclassic About CNBC: From 'Wall Street' to 'Main Street' to award winning original documentaries and Reality TV series, CNBC has you covered. Experience special sneak peeks of your favorite shows, exclusive video and more. Connect with CNBC News Online Get the latest news: https://www.cnbc.com/ Follow CNBC on LinkedIn: https://cnb.cx/LinkedInCNBC Follow CNBC News on Facebook: https://cnb.cx/LikeCNBC Follow CNBC News on Twitter: https://cnb.cx/FollowCNBC Follow CNBC News on Instagram: https://cnb.cx/InstagramCNBC #CNBC #VW Why Volkswagen Is Betting On Electric Vehicles

A Columbia man pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to trying to set up a terrorist attack. Robert Hester is now looking at up to 20 years in prison. Hester admitted he picked up supplies and mapped out ideas in an effort to help ISIS for an attack in…

COLUMBIA - A former Hickman High School choir director was arrested again on Wednesday on charges of first degree stalking and violating an order of protection.

Before the festivities get underway, here are a few practical things to keep in mind for Roots N Blues 2019

Is a doctor or an AI system better at diagnosing a particular patient? This machine learning tool makes the call.

The app’s alerts are turned on by default.

Twitter users seem to jump ship in large numbers after reports of monumental changes following Elon Musk's takeover of the firm. Social media platforms, namely Mastodon and the Indian app Koo, look like the biggest beneficiaries of Twitter users seeking alternate platforms.

Crank up a notch on your news reading and take control of what news sources that you want to satisfy your news craving. In this podcast Thomas Domville gives us a walkthrough ‎of NetNewsWire: RSS Reader for iOS, a free and open source RSS reader. It’s fast, stable, and accessible. NetNewsWire shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites — and keeps track of what you’ve read.

My previous post on some useful file renaming in Finder, Forklift, and Path Finder gave me a mental nudge to write up and share with you all some automations for getting some content into files from Safari. More specifically ways to generate links and snapshots of web pages and store them away in the current folder. This time however, rather than using Shortcuts, the tool of choice is Keyboard Maestro.

For the past two years since my girlfriend and I moved into our new apartment, my desk has been in a constant state of flux. Those who have been reading MacStories for a while know why. There were two reasons: I couldn’t figure out how to use my iPad Pro for everything I do, specifically

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Creating custom styles for Marked 2 is pretty easy… if you know CSS. I’ve started work on building an actual templating system, but it hasn’t come to fruition yet. In the meantime…

7 years ago I wrote about a script I was using to generate changelogs for Marked. Since then I’ve continued updating the script to work with just about all of my projects, from Xcode projects…

Homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS, and for good reason. However personally, I believe that Nix is more powerful.Video Links:- Nix Website...

It started when I was playing with LaunchBar search templates. I tried the man page search and it opened a nice window in Terminal. But I didn’t want to open Terminal when iTerm was already…

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

Here we go again with my yearly roundup of my favorite stuff. I’m going to do this year in a few parts. This one will be all Mac apps, and it will the longest because Mac apps are my favorite.