ANCEL BD310 Diagnostic Computer OBD2 I’ve tested quite a few OBD2 readers on this blog and know my way around them pretty well. Today we’ll be looking at the ANCEL BD310 Bluetooth OBD2…

In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Nathan Wrigley and Dan Maby about Show.fm, their new podcast operations platform, and why they skipped the MVP and launched with a complete…

Learn how to test Brave's new native Containers, Temporary Containers, and Traffic Control to isolate accounts and route web traffic effortlessly.

The best novel and book writing software in 2026, compared on price, how each organizes a long draft, ebook and print output, collaboration, and AI: Scrivener, Reedsy Studio, Novelcrafter, Dabble,…

The videos were recorded in San Francisco on October 7th, 2026 at around 2:40pm and 7:30pm PDT. This article was … More

Adam Engst: Apple has significantly improved dictation in iOS 27 by adding a few capabilities for editing text from the Voice Control system. In other words, Apple has finally done some of the things…

Google's hidden "Web" mode hides the AI Overview. You can make it the default search engine in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and other browsers.

No sooner did I go through all the work to find a new TV tracking app a new one came out called Bingers made by the founder of TV Time...

For the first time Amazon has released two distinctly different versions of the basic Kindle. I decided to buy both to see how they compare, and after testing them I’m still not 100% sure which…

My daughter, who works at one of the Boston area colleges, reports: “I thought you’d be interested to know that the hip thing kids are doing now is using MP3 players and it makes no sense…

When speaking to my friends Keir and Craig, I just found out that a lot of people don’t know that you can use a “C7 figure‑8 power cord” with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel…

TL;DR: I forgot to clean the cooling fans inside my old MacBook Pro and a new monitor is where I noticed the throttling. The fans speed didn’t sound like act-ci or fine tuning Qwen. After the…

The default Home Assistant dashboard does exactly what it needs to do. Cards in columns, your entities, a few toggles. It works, but it’s not something you would want to hang on the wall in…

Review of the Blackmagic Camera App, (version 3.4). This is a free, yet advanced videography app from Blackmagic Design (who are the company behind DaVinci Resolve) for iOS and Android smart phones.

Democracy Now! has a video podcast, and has had one for the last 15 years, at least. This means you can experience the show in either audio or video.

I recently got myself a new Garmin, of the Edge 850 variety. I got it from eBay at a relative steal, from a vendor who purported to be London-based. The package tracking however told a different…

I treat notifications on my phone as a task list. I have my phone at my desk and I see the screen light up, and at the back of my mind I know there’s something up I have to look up later. Since…

This one is an unfolding story. Chronological order. 2026-09-13 It happened yesterday. There was no specific hurdle that broke the camel's back. It was just the combination of time I made in order to…

Two trailers bearing the Nvidia logo vanished, and when thieves pried the doors open, all they found was sand.

There is probably no GIS practitioner in China who has not heard of Tianditu. It is a national-le...

This was not on my bingo card for… well, this decade, given the relative success of their more recent gear like the KO II . Sure, there are some really strange things in the line-up, like the…

Currently available in Obsidian’s Settings > Community plugins: Note Gallery (alpha) Displays notes or images using a masonry gallery by defining a code block in your note. [ 📌 maadhattah ] Callout…

Coverage of previous days: Day 1: Opening Statements, CEOs take the stand Day 2: ALA Commitments and Bloomberg leak in focus Summary of Day 3: Today was the most interesting day in the trial so far.…

An orange H9 II and a Glass Purple E9 join Sony's gaming audio range. The hardware underneath is unchanged, and Sony has not yet said what either special edition will cost.

 The AirTag 1 almost instantly because the best Bluetooth tracker for most of your valuables (assuming you have an Apple device). Apple next to Android has the largest de facto net AirTags can…

Version 2.0 of Royale has released. I'd really consider this more of a version 1.5 or something like that, but the Zig SDK seems to only support major and minor versions, and this is certainly not a…

Microsoft announced the new Surface Ultra RTX Laptop today. Of course I want the RTX Spark Machine! Who doesn’t? It is awesome! I am being nostalgic about my original Microsoft Surface Pro from…

I’ve been a fan of hashing out my thoughts or preparing for projects using mind maps for many years, and over this time have gone back and forth between using dedicated mind-mapping Mac or iOS apps…

Have you ever wondered how big the iPhone Duo is compared to the iPhone mini? I have. And so I used size.fyi to show me. I didn't build this, but it is wonderful and I want others to know.

Six small Mac utilities that quietly handle everyday annoyances, become part of your habits, and make your personal computer feel more like yours.

OpenAI's Decisions API brings a big-lab competitor to Jev. How do their contracts, limits, accuracy, latency, and costs compare on BANKING77?

Battery-electric share of new cars in nine markets, January to September 2026, from national registration data.

I had an interesting exchange with Benedict Evans over on LinkedIn, prompted by this post:

I didn't choose Linux just to get a different desktop. I wanted to understand my computer.

For the past few weeks I’ve been exploring the use of NetBSD as a desktop OS. If the X sets are chosen during install, NetBSD includes an X server and the lightweight CTWM window manager integrated…

Anthropic's two new betas are templates on the artifacts system, not new models. A dashboard is a page of SQL queries run through your connectors on the viewer's own credentials; a Motion animation…

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds : Save and restore tab groups You can save the current set of open tabs as a named group and restore it later with Save Tab Group ( CmdTabGroupSave ) and…

Aparna Pappu of YouTube: This builds on the incredible success we’ve seen with other Studio tools like A/B testing, where creators have run more than 40 million experiments to find the perfect…

This Waymo Depot has about 98 Waymo Jaguar iPaces and 102 Waymo Ojais. It’s the first time that Waymo Ojais … More

I have written before about my Swedish Colemak hack, but I never explained what makes it so good. This is a better image what it looks like: If you’re struggling to find the difference against…

News of the death of Mark Stephens has been making the rounds on social media this week. You're probably not familiar with that name. You might be familiar with the name "Robert X.…

Explore an exploded DGX Spark model in 3D, AR, and VR.

Just to be clear, I’m not asking you to Google ‘Japan makes a real conveyor belt keyboard,’ but you probably already knew that. You’re a smart cookie. I’m a dumb…

Spotlight can’t search Google Drive files on Mac. Learn how to enable indexing with a simple terminal command for seamless file searches. Google’s official client for Mac OS, “Backup and Sync” is no…

SAP used its Las Vegas keynote to put the autonomous enterprise into general availability. Customer experience got two minutes on stage and found its real airtime in the executive Q&A. The News Five…

Limited-time offer: Buy any 5DayDeal bundle with my affiliate link in this article and I’ll give you a copy of my upcoming Printing: From Start To Finish course for FREE (or use discount code…

A startup lets diners order straight from ChatGPT, skipping DoorDash entirely. Here's why that makes brand awareness matter more than ever.

Little Memory 2.1 is out. Most of the updates for it came from feedback on 2.0: Fixed the iOS 27 bug I mentioned a few days ago, where the paging dots under the diary didn’t match the top…

RemoveMacAI: An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back "defaults write -g…