IEEE Spectrum: Rather than fight to repair my wounded device, I did what Big Tech and other manufacturers increasingly want owners to do. I threw it away. Today repair remains an option, one that makers want to monopolize or eliminate. … Continued∞ …
Lees meerThis has been around a while but I'm not a fan of Jimmy Fallon so I hadn't seen it until it popped up on my Facebook feed. First of all, it's an amazing editing job. Secondly, watching Brian Williams, in all his dead seriousness "rapping" is equally…
Lees meerThere's just something about the British accent that makes curse words so much more enjoyable. Plus, they have words we don't use in most of the English speaking world like "wanker" and "knob end" that just sound great.
Lees meerI interviewed Murch many years ago at a Macworld Expo and he was a fascinating guy to talk to.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerVery kind move by the developers. Great game.
Lees meerThe company that posted the information, Tectonix GEO, seems to think this demonstration was a good thing. But it shows just how much information can be gleaned from our phones. It also points out just how dangerously irresponsible it was to keep th…
Lees meerI only really started to care about the wallpapers in Mavericks. Nowadays, I don't even see them, preferring to use the Irvue app for multiple, changing desktop wallpapers.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerThe site will also have an app to download. There's not a lot here that isn't already known but it might be a good resource to have some of this information handy.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerSure they missed some - why isn't the Pontiac Aztek on this list!? - but overall, it's fun to look at some of these truly unsightly automobiles.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerFor Canadians, this is actually a big deal. According to Wikipedia, 7 million boxes of Kraft Dinner are sold each week around the world. Canadians consume 1.7 million of those. For a population of only 37 million people, that's a lot of KD.∞ Read th…
Lees meerWhile you're stuck at home this weekend, watch this fun video and learn from a professional bartender how to make classic cocktails.
Lees meer[VIDEO] This is a pretty cool story, as told by Jon Lott on Reddit (via BoingBoing): At the Raynham flea market 2 years ago I found a DVD with 80 minutes of previously unseen Seinfeld bloopers. These are different from the official DVD bloopers,…
Lees meerStart off with this 9to5Mac post from Chance Miller, "Report claims new iPad Pro’s A12Z Bionic chip is just a ‘renamed A12X with an enabled GPU core’": In its press release for the new iPad Pro, Apple said that one of the changes with the A12Z B…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple this week acknowledged that MacBook Air models with Retina displays can exhibit anti-reflective coating issues, as indicated in a memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers and obtained by MacRumors. …
Lees meerFew people will need this, but cool to know that optical is becoming an option for Thunderbolt 3. If you need the extra cable length, optical is the path. Ever since I was a kid, I found fiber optic cable's ability to transmit signals over vast dis…
Lees meerBe forewarned - FCP X is not an easy program to wrap your head around. But with so much information on Apple's website and the internet in general, you can get up to speed fairly quickly.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerThere are a lot of reasons to not use Amazon and these sites might help.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerThis is one of the silliest, most delightful things I've seen on Twitter.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerIt's like the people at Zoom just can't help shooting themselves in the feet.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerOur local grocery store hasn't had yeast on hand for 10 days. Luckily, we have lots and my wife loves making "Italian Bread" and I make a delicious "Japanese Milk Bread." We're also going to get into making sourdough bread because it doesn't require…
Lees meerI'll take fellow Canadian Hadfield's critiques over deGrasse Tyson's any day of the week.
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