★ The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake

As of today, Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…

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★ The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake

As of today, Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…

First-Dose Vaccinations Quadruple in Quebec Ahead of Restrictions at Liquor and Cannabis Stores

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First-Dose Vaccinations Quadruple in Quebec Ahead of Restrictions at Liquor and Cannabis Stores

★ The App Store Is Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake

As of today, Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…

App Store Scam of the Week: ‘AmpMe’

First Impressions of web3

Moxie Marlinspike (Hacker News): web3 is a somewhat ambiguous term, which makes it difficult to rigorously evaluate what the ambitions for web3 should be, but the general thesis seems to be that web1 was decentralized, web2 centralized everything in…

AmpMe

John Gruber: Kosta Eleftheriou has found another apparently multi-million-dollar-grossing app that’s been on the App Store for over three years: a shitty music “volume boosting” music player named AmpMe that costs $10 per week after the three-day tr…

Blue Bubble Envy Is Real

James Vincent (via Nilay Patel): Google has accused Apple of benefiting from bullying as part of a deliberate strategy to make Android users into second-class citizens on the iPhone-maker’s iMessage service.Apple’s messaging service includes a numbe…

AirPods 3 Alternatives

Julio Ojeda-Zapata: [There] are good reasons that the $199 Beats Fit Pro, not the $179 AirPods, may be your next Apple earbuds.For an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the Apple earbud landscape, consult a mega-chart I created to compare features…

App Store Scam of the Week: ‘AmpMe’

App Store Scam of the Week: ‘AmpMe’

More on T-Mobile Blocking iCloud Private Relay

T-Mobile Might Be Blocking iPhone Users From Enabling iCloud Private Relay in the U.S.

Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer

Converting from Aperture to Apple Photos

John Gordon: Photos said it could not open the Aperture library. It did not say why. I then regenerated full sized previews per Apple’s directions and I tried again. This time the import proceeded. I could see the Version of my original photo but no…

Has Time Machine Slowed for Small Files?

Howard Oakley: The only common factor is that, when trying to back up folders containing seriously large numbers of very small files, some of which may be hard links, the rate of copying falls to ridiculously low numbers. […] Looking back before 10.…

Updating “Basic Computer Games”

Jeff Atwood: From here, if you were lucky, you might have a cassette tape drive. If you knew the right commands, you could type them in to load programs from cassette tape. But that was an expensive add-on option with early personal computers. For m…