Om Gupta, writing for India Today: The researchers believe smartphones fundamentally changed how young people interact with each other. More time shifted online, while face-to-face socialising…

Disable Apple Creator Studio update popup in iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers) defaults write com.apple.iWork.Pages TSADisableUpdateNotifications -bool yes defaults write com.apple.iWork.Keynote…

scaling back the time you spend mindlessly staring at your phone is a good idea, what i don't get are dumb phones. to my understanding, a dumb phone only has the simple apps, like calling, messages,…

AI Luddites • An Elon/OpenAI Verdict • Big Tech's Emissary Movement • Apple's 'Dinged Can' Strategy • Siri Heads Back to "Beta" • The Great SF AI Divide

Playing a video game -- with occasional math or vocabulary questions -- now counts as homework.

This is an iconic observation: If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design This isn’t, however, just the story of Apple’s…

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Todd Bookman (via Roman Loyola): Then, according to Carter, the cards are carefully placed back in their original packaging, and are returned to the store’s shelves, where an unsuspecting…

PolyAI opened its enterprise voice-agent platform to every builder, free for two months. It is practical, overconfident, and much sharper than the average AI call-center sermon.

Google just released an official guide called “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search,” and honestly, I’m glad they finally published it. Why? Because it confirms…

The frontier labs are building deployment companies for enterprise AI. OpenAI should steal the better Apple playbook: make AI physical, approachable, and easy to try.

A digital billboard company now has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks. A digital ad company is introducing a new feature to those trucks you might have seen with illuminated ads on their…

While everyone is expecting Gemini AI 3.5 to be released tomorrow, May 19, at Google I/O 2026, some changes took place in advance. Starting on May 17, 2026, there are […]

You might be able to see the new Piccadilly line trains out on trial runs during the week as they ramp up testing ahead of going into live service.Read more ›

My journey for offline music continues and I appear to have come up with a system that works for me on the iPhone. It is not as easy as using Android or GrapheneOS but it is doable. Using VLC, Kid3…

Bitcoin Depot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company operates a fleet of kiosks at retail locations that allow customers to purchase bitcoin with cash. Bitcoin Depot announced in a press…

May 18, 2026 Marked 3 is officially out Marked 2 will continue to be available for those who don’t need everything Marked 3 offers. It will always be a one-time purchase, but won’t see a lot of…

Subaru has really rolled the dice with the 2026 Outback. For one, it no longer looks like an Outback – because it no longer looks like a wagon. It has been restyled to look more like a…

We demoed a vertical slice at Creative Tech Scotland Gathering 2026.

Virogex sued ResolvX and ResolvX’s founder Leonidov for trademark infringement and false advertising following a bitter split between Virogex and Leonidov, who had served as Virogex’s…

I know this blog has strayed a fair distance from its Mac-centric origins, but I’ve been keeping a mental list of all the things that are broken, missing or inexplicably neglected in Apple ’s…

Byte Nov ‘88 (special edition issue) via Vintageapple.org We’re doing it folks. We’re diving into one of the most infamous computer advertising rabbit holes of all time: Gateway 2000.  It will…

Los Angeles will ban Chromebooks and tablets for K-2 students and limit screen time for older students as the ed-tech backlash spreads.

A new version of Chapterize is out now that includes multi-document editing across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This is a free update for existing users and you can get it now.There's really not much…

A couple years ago, I went to the Cannes Lions, the main show for advertising. There’s a giant gallery room in the basement of the main Palais building with all the work submitted for awards.…

Case study of redesigning workflows for AI in computer game studios | Can you live 4 days without AI? | AI increases learning when used as a tutor and hurts when doing the exercises for the students…

I finally switched to Thaw, since Ice looks unmaintained. I prefer to stay on an open-source app instead of going back to bartender after their shenanigans. Mac OS 26 should improve the situation…

Back in June 2025, a new phone service called Trump Mobile was trumpeted promising a price of $47.45 a month for unlimited service. They also were taking pre-orders of the $499 T1 phone that was to…

For Cyber Cycles, redesigning an icon is dangerous territory, so the German bike component company kept the soul intact on its Cross Blade DSC fork for the Gen 2 ($684) and only optimized the…

Digitized ≠ digital. The post Notes on Designed for Digital by Jeanne Ross et al first appeared on Neil Williams.

ISSUE 23.20 • 2026-05-18 PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Normally, I’d come to you at this time of the month and say, “Forget the operating systems — patch those browsers.” This time, I’m going to say,…

Multiple job boards releaced ChatGPT apps that allow job seekers to search and apply for jobs directly on the platform. What does this mean for job boards?

Ricordiamo che costui, che dice che gli info-plutocrati stanno rovinando il mondo e fregando i giovani, è lo stesso che in un convegno dichiarava di fare una conference call settimanale con tutti i…

Güven Phone is a simple, fast, privacy focused and accessible dialer app for Android phones It offers a clean and intuitive experience for making calls,…

Over the last few years, Google has placed increasing emphasis on content quality, expertise, trust, and topical relevance through concepts such as E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness…

For decades, the large professional-services networks operated through a relatively stable institutional bargain. Member firms remained legally independent partnerships with substantial local…

Version 6.2.8 of Default Folder X is available now, delivering a compatibility fix for the Finder-click feature when used with Path Finder 26 and a new Finder-click capability when used with Bloom.…

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links. My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Pupteck Dog Cooling Bandanas (2 Pack). Does your doggy tend to suffer in the summer heat? This just might be a…

This post is not about electric vehicle hesitations like range anxiety and more complicated trip planning. No, this post is just me complaining about the digital experiences that come with owning a…

OLED is no longer just the expensive promise of the future for people who like to say “contrast” and then ignore their bank balance when it comes to gaming monitors. The technology has arrived in the…

The LEGO One Piece Season 2 sets release in August and pre-orders have been going since early April but there are some price changes for some of the sets since then. LEGO has silently increased the…

I keep Fantastical and Things on my second macOS space, and everything else on the first. However, there’s a bug that showed a black screen for a split second every time I would switch space using…

Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. Apple Intelligence so far is more like a bicycle with no chain. The frame is gorgeous, and the engineering is extraordinary, but you…

A contributor has recently started translating KDE to Amharic . They are looking for people to help since translating KDE is a lot of work. Please join the kde-l10n-am mailing list and introduce…

If you were eagerly awaiting your weekly dose of robotics news and it didn't come - apologies; I've been traveling quite a bit and getting older, I find it harder and harder to borrow 4+ hours of…

I had never considered the question before, but thought I'd share an answer I discovered in the explainlikeImfive subreddit: Back in the late Cretaceous when I was learning to drive, most cars and…

Linux App Summit 2026 is a over (but you can watch talks if you missed it), FuriLabs launches the FLX1s+, an improved FLX1s promising better cameras, Phosh 0.55.0 is out, the Sovereign Tech Fund is…

Musical Theatre Review critic Scott Matthewman has created CritiCal, the first app designed from the ground up for professional theatre critics, available on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Built by Scott and…

Check out my updated office and desk setup for 2023. This week I had the opportunity to write about my desk setup on Club MacStories weekly newsletter so I'm also sharing it here in case you are…