The Keychron K1's space grey matches my MacBook Pro perfectlyA few weeks ago, David Sparks wrote about a new mechanical keyboard he was buying. I’d stumbled upon the video a...More
Cheri Baker on Patreon: Here we have a business that people like, offering a service we value, and it enables small businesses to grow, benefiting many people. That’s how busin...More
This happened while I was on the road back home, and I’m still shocked. So happy Apple did this. Facebook broke the rules (big time I might add) and needed to face the consequen...More
Shockingly, this story from literally last week already feels old. Every new day comes with a new horrible thing Facebook is doing. Is it remotely possible for Facebook to survi...More
DHH on Signal v. Noise: Writing for us is not a business, in any direct sense of the word. We write because we have something to say, not to make money off page views, advertis...More
Four years later, and Dave Rupert is still on Windows. I honestly feel he doesn’t stay out of obligation—he prefers it. His example reminds me that attaching one’s identity to a...More
Yet another example of how users suffer when companies have petty arguments. In the end, Netflix still tells people to sign up by going to the site; they just end up understandi...More
I’m glad that the irony of writing this post on Medium isn’t lost on DHH. That aside, I agree. At this point, a business that decides not to associate itself with Facebook (or i...More
Walt Mossberg on Twitter: I’ve decided to quit Facebook around the end of the year. I am doing this - after being on Facebook for nearly 12 years - because my own values and th...More
Mark Rober got tired of people taking packages from his front porch. After talking to the police—and them subsequently telling him this wasn’t worth their time—he disguised a ...More
Kashmir Hill writing for Gizmodo: The business team wanted to get Bluetooth permissions so it could push ads to people’s phones when they walked into a store. Meanwhile, the gr...More
Welp, I’m afraid this probably includes me. I wish the Apple Pay system were ubiquitous. Apple Pay obfuscates my actual credit card number from the vendor, which would make brea...More
I’ve covered this before. It’s been almost two years since then, and nothing much has changed. I figured display manufacturers would jump on the 5K and Thunderbolt 3 train, bute...More
Jack Stewart writing for Wired: Every Tesla built since the end of 2016 comes with eight cameras around the car, a radar behind the front bumper, and ultrasonic proximity senso...More
From Emojipedia: When Apple first released the new emoji support in iOS 12.1 beta 2, many were quick to criticize the bagel. “What midwestern bagel factory did this bagel come ...More
The Jabra Move Wireless headphonesAudio is important to me. If I’m going somewhere, working, cleaning, taking a shower, or just needing to relax, you’ll likely find me liste...More
Things 3 on iPadI’ve never been a fan of to-do apps. I don’t use them. People everywhere seem to swear by these things. There’s much talk about the whole GTD mentality, and ...More
Ben Thompson writing about the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities: Faced with a fundamental imbalance (data fetch slowness versus execution speed), processor engine...More
From the Twitter Safety account: We’re rolling out an update to login verification. You’ll now be able to use a third party app for two-factor authentication instead of SMS te...More
Adi Robertson writing for The Verge: Scoble, who apparently published this post against the advice of his lawyer, claims he did not have enough power over his accusers to sexua...More
Dan Moren on Six Colors: Movies Anywhere promises a pretty sizable library, though there are still holdouts—Paramount being the largest, along with other significant players li...More
Jacqui Cheng: Since The Wirecutter was founded in 2011 and The Sweethome in 2013, we haven’t wavered from our mission to help people effortlessly choose and buy the stuff they ...More
Karolina Szczur: Over a year ago I wrote on the subject of empathetic hiring and how we’re still failing to make it efficient, respectful and inclusive. … There are innumerab...More
After debating whether I should buy a DSLR for almost a year, I finally decided last week that I was going to pull the trigger. If you like geeking out about gear like me, here...More
Or, an alternate sub-title: A long time Mac user and web developer’s perspective on the current state of Windows vs. macOSOnce upon a time when I was about seventeen, when I tho...More
Greetings, you fine-looking people!This week was a busy one with a lot of news. I didn’t have enough time to write about each of them so I’m putting them all together in one pos...More
Ina Fried reporting for Recode: LG has found a fix for a problem that left its high-end Mac monitor unable to work properly when placed within a few feet of a router. An LG sp...More
Rob Baesman on the Dropbox Business Blog: As more people work together in teams, the need for storage space grows exponentially. This presents big challenges. But with our new ...More
One of the reasons I love technology is tinkering with it to make my life easier. I’m constantly automating tasks so I can either do them faster, or not have to worry about them...More
Josh Ginter on the Day One Blog: With TextExpander’s potential in mind, the app becomes a natural fit for creating consistency, structure, and organization inside Day One. I ha...More
Jason Snell on Six Colors: I write a lot about automating repetitive computer tasks, but most of my history with automation has involved using AppleScript (and later, Automator...More
So here’s the problem: you’ve got a personal calendar and a work calendar, but you want both to be in sync. Googling how to do this is practically useless. Mostly, you’ll find a...More
Shivan Kaul Sahib describes his second round interview at Amazon: My second round interview involved me being on line with a proctor (from ProctorU), whose job was to provide t...More
Some of you may have heard of Manton Reece’s Indie Microblogging Kickstarter. If you haven’t, check it out. We need to start moving away from Twitter, people; it’s mostly toxic ...More
Jake Underwood writing for MacStories: Partly Sunny, like other paid weather apps, is loaded with data. At its most informative, the app will give you temperature (high, low, “...More
Online banking service Simple is today rolling out a new product: shared accounts. However, unlike joint checking accounts typically shared by spouses, Simple’s shared account...More
Jen Simmons: I worry about Twitter. The company doesn’t care about things I care about. It will do whatever it needs to for the money it wants. It might go away. It might get e...More
David Smith: Four years ago today I introduced a weather app called Check the Weather. I was really proud of how it turned out. It was my first app where I was able to do every...More
Chris Gonzales on The Sweet Setup: Back in early July (2016), Australian designer and developer Matthew Palmer released Rocket, a Mac app that gives you Slack-style emoji autoc...More
Ben Brooks: When I last wrote about sit-stand electric desks, I took a look at the Jarvis desk — at the time one of the cheapest desks you could get, while still getting a very...More
Mike Schmitz for The Sweet Setup: There are an abundance of options when it comes to budgeting apps for Mac users. We’ve put many of them through the ringer and believe Banktiv...More
Yes, this is the app you’ve been looking for. Using it is incredibly easy, and forget having to search for the tab the Google Hangout is on, wait for controls to appear on hover...More
David Sparks commenting on this BuzzFeed article: I don’t buy Twitter’s claim that they’re worried about lawsuits. Most people on the Internet have the ability to kick somebody...More
Dave Teare on the AgileBits Blog: Today is a very exciting day in the world of passwords! We have not one, not two, but three(!) incredible things to announce: An awesome ...More
Peter Kafka reporting for Recode: In a letter sent this week to Apple’s top lawyer, Spotify says Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers” by rejecting an upda...More
Chris Gonzales writing on The Sweet Setup: Summer’s in full swing here in the US. Whether you’re trying to make memories while traveling, enjoying food and drink with loved one...More
Jonathan Weisman writing for The New York Times: For weeks, I had been barraged on Twitter by rank anti-Semitic comments, Nazi iconography of hooknosed Jews stabbing lovely Chr...More
Chris Brookins on the Help Scout Blog: With a deliberate culture of consistent asynchronous communication, team members can focus on their work while staying in the loop. Our e...More
Sarah Vessels on the GitHub blog: Earning green squares on your contribution graph means celebrating the work you do in open source and public projects. Starting today, you can...More
Jason Snell writing on Six Colors: I have no ill will toward SoundCloud, but they have never seemed to see podcasting as anything but a way to capture users and draw them in to...More
I’ve worked from home for about 6 years. In that time, I’ve invested real money into my office for about two. I’m grateful I did, and wish I would’ve started sooner. A few years...More
Michael Grinich on the Nylas Blog: Today we’re announcing a premium version of N1 that is both affordable for our users and will cover server costs. It follows an old idea: you...More
Federico Viticci on MacStories: I’ve switched to Airmail as my full-time email app on the iPhone and iPad. While Airmail doesn’t necessarily reinvent email as we know it, Bloop...More
This one is from a while ago, but still fascinating. David Z. Morris writing for Fortune: “Geography, age, and gender? We put that in the garbage heap,” VP of product Todd Yell...More
Manton Reece: It has taken 6 years from the original iPad introduction to the iPad Pros we have today that fulfill what I had hoped a tablet could be. Was it worth the wait? Ye...More
If only more companies put these tips into practice, they too could hire the best people.More
Michael Tsai: The new service makes it really easy to share snippets with other people, and it sounds like there are big plans for more team/collaborative features in future ve...More
Brian Stucki: Now, I could just announce this with no explanation and be done with it. I could also write one of those generic acquisition posts focused on sunsets and brands a...More
Nick Bilton in his last column for The New York Times: As a longtime tech columnist, I’ve seen the dark side of technology. I’ve written about the privacy minefields of Faceboo...More
Uncle Dave: When I opened up my Macbook I hadn’t charged it in weeks or months, but instantly the screen came on and there was still 54% battery. I couldn’t help but contrast t...More
David Sparks: Today Flexibits released version 2.2 of Fantastical for the Mac. They could’ve easily named this update version 3.0. There are a lot of new features in this updat...More
Bradley Chambers writing for The Sweet Setup: Email apps are highly personal. Everyone manages their email differently. For some, it’s a to-do list. For others, it’s a temporar...More
John Koblin reporting for The New York Times: Television executives have been frustrated because Mr. Sarandos has at times suggested Netflix shows would fare better than what i...More
From the Alfred blog: This week, Alfred celebrates his 6th birthday. While eating birthday cake is always exciting, it’s with even greater excitement that we can finally announ...More
Federico Viticci: With all the email clients we’ve seen launch to great promise and eventually be abandoned for something else, it’s difficult to make the case that Spark will ...More
Jake Underwood writing for MacStories: Is Day One 2 worth the purchase? I think so. Even though its functionality centers around text editing, it offers so many other features ...More
Ben Brooks on how difficult it is to find good content: There’s piles of shit every where you look, which you have to sift through item by item in order to find something decen...More
Sam Thielman reporting for The Guardian: Want to know why you can’t get tickets for Adele at Madison Square Garden in September without auctioning a kidney? New York attorney g...More
Talia Jane: Will you pay my phone bill for me? I just got a text from T-Mobile telling me my bill is due. I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much o...More
Greg Sandoval reporting for GeekWire: T-Mobile, one of the country’s largest providers of mobile internet access, launched Binge On in November. The service features video from...More
First off, let’s just acknowledge how #firstworldproblem-sy this is. They’re just links right? But I come across a lot of stuff on the web, and there’s some of it that I need to...More
Matt Gemmell on what he’s calling “tiered social media”: There are problems with that approach, the main one being the tacit admission that their ads are detrimental. If you’re...More
Mandy Brown on what happens when an app tries to keep you within that app: Because what Twitter (or Facebook, or Apple, or whomever) is also doing when they bring the web to us...More
Timothy Burke on Screengrabber: Microsoft has been on a season-long campaign to make sure you know the tablet computers on NFL sidelines are their Surface models, not iPads. Li...More
Timothy Geigner on Techdirt: Lots of sites have recently made ad blocking software a target of their ire, complaining that such software ruins everything and is a form of puppy...More
David Fallagar on The Netflix Blog: We look forward to offering all of our content everywhere and to consumers being able to enjoy all of Netflix without using a proxy. That’s ...More
Casey Liss: I’m living in the future. I’ve experienced Amazon Prime Now. And it’s awesome.More
Chris Coyier nails it: Discussions are always worth having. Weighing options is always interesting. Demonstrating what has worked (and what hasn’t) for you is always useful. Th...More
Jean-Louis Gassée on the Monday Note: We feel cheated and rightly so. As users, we understand that we’re not really entitled to free browsing; we pay our bills with our selves:...More
I recorded an unboxing video for the Sony MDR-7506 headphones. I had used these headphones before when I worked at my college radio station. Interestingly, although less expensi...More
Jeremy Keith: If the message coming down from above is that performance concerns and business concerns are fundamentally at odds, then I just don’t know how the developers are ...More
Benjamin Mayo reporting for 9to5Mac: Popular podcasting app Instacast for iOS and Mac is shutting down as the founders can no longer fund it or any of Vemedio’s other projects....More
There are twenty-nine days to go, and Pebble has already made over $10 million in pre-sales of it’s newest watch: Pebble Time. Who says there isn’t a smartwatch market?More
Sonos is widely regarded as a premier speaker system for your home. Their newest product, the Play:1, is their most affordable one, and could potentially get more people into th...More
Look and feel are important to me when writing. Ulysses and iA Writer both do this well. But I must admit I like that Ulysses allows me to organize my writing, as well as writ...More
Ben Brooks on The Brooks Review: In the end, I just emailed the files to myself and read them, finally, on my iPad. Insanity.Ben perfectly articulates a regular problem I have...More
Shifty Jelly updated Pocket Casts to version 5 today, and with that, two of our awesome shows on Goodstuff were featured in the post.Here’s what Chris had to say: Maybe someda...More
Whiskey is a new Markdown editor that Sam has been working on. I got in on the beta quite early because I love his work. Whiskey is looking to be an awesome app, and Sam has bee...More
Steven Aquino for MacStories: The second problem with Apple’s implementation of third-party keyboards is they don’t have all the bells and whistles that the system keyboard doe...More
As I said last week, I was going to order a Incipio NGP Case for my new iPhone 6. I’ve only had it three days, which isn’t enough time to write a thorough review, but just enoug...More
Yesterday, I went out and got myself an iPhone 6.1 I’ve had an iPhone since the iPhone 4, and at first I had a screen protector on it, and a bulky case.2 When I upgraded to an 5...More
Federico Viticci writing on MacStories: With version 2.2, Flexibits has built a powerful share extension that brings the full Fantastical interface to any app that can share te...More
Marco Arment: The app market is becoming a mature, developed industry, with vastly increased commoditization compared to its early days. Competition is ubiquitous, relentless, ...More
Back in June, I wrote a post on my RSS consumption setup. The setup has changed a little, so I wanted to write an updated version that I can point people to.When I wrote the fir...More
Stephen Hackett writes a concise review of Bartender, and why it’s The Sweet Setup’s best app for keeping the menu bar organized.I’m a huge fan of Bartender. Because I normally ...More
Ken Yeung on The Next Web: Are there any shockers in the top searches of 2013? What may come as no surprise to some people is that Miley Cyrus takes the top spot, followed by K...More
John Ribeiro on TechHive: Amazon.com plans to deliver packages to customers using unmanned aerial vehicles in 30 minutes or less. “It looks like science fiction, but it’s real...More
Shawn Blanc launched a new site last week, called The Sweet Setup. I’ve always payed close attention to Shawn’s app recommendations, but creating a site just for these is a grea...More
Darrell Etherington on TechCrunch: Twitter is testing a new website design, which opts for a lighter, flat design that seems at least partly inspired by its shift to similar de...More
Vlad Savov reporting for The Verge: Today was always going to be a momentous day for BlackBerry, with a looming deadline for its proposed takeover deal with Fairfax Financial H...More
Reported on The Next Web: Twitter is strong in Japan (as we noted back in 2011) where it’s used by one-third of the Internet population — but the country accounts for under 10 ...More
Harry Marks: Things have gotten out of hand. Tech writers are given far too much freedom to perpetuate inaccuracies and falsehoods, as well as a generous helping of incompetenc...More
Jared Newman reporting for Macworld: When Adobe announced the breach on October 3, it said that attackers stole user names and encrypted passwords for an undisclosed numbers of...More
Matt Pearson: Being micromanaged by robots is no better than by humans. This kind of stats-obsessed moronity breeds a toxic workplace.I couldn’t agree more. Although this produ...More
Hilarious, and true. This is Tumblr at its best.More
While I admire all the hard work that went in creating this new version of Tweetbot, I can’t help be a little disappointed. The app has lost much of its personality; both visual...More
Rachel Andrew writing on A List Apart: Almost every conference’s second day opens with attendees being asked how their hangovers are. Second day early-slot speakers joke that n...More
I love this. Architecture is an integral part of the beauty and history of our cities. The fact that companies like Amazon, and Apple are doing things to contribute to that hist...More
Aaron Souppouris reporting for The Verge: After being caught paying for false praise and negative comments about competitors, Samsung has been fined just over $340,000. The iss...More
Frank Shaw on The Official Microsoft Blog: Surface and Surface 2 both include Office, the world’s most popular, most powerful productivity software for free and are priced belo...More
Josh Ong reporting for The Next Web: Fitbit CEO James Park said the company is “inching closer and closer to being a smartwatch.” … Park also emphasized that Fitbit is vertic...More
To use Square Cash, all you do is compose an email to a friend, type the amount you way to pay in the subject title, and cc cash@square.com. If it’s your first time using the ...More
If anyone thinks MediaTemple is just going to be exactly the same or better forever, I’ll bet you a nickel you’re wrong. I bet they are losing employees as we speak who aren’t...More
Dan Seifert from The Verge: Compared to the similarly priced Jambox, the Play:1 is considerably louder, crisper, and more present. The more expensive Big Jambox offers a wider ...More
Jon Russell reporting for The Next Web: Instagram announced earlier this month that it will begin serving in-feed advertising before the end of the year, and the Facebook-owned...More
Hewlett Packard and Microsoft are changing “from partners to outright competitors,” says HP CEO Meg Whitman… Microsoft has made a number of recent decisions contrary to HP’s ...More
Google today decided to clarify its stance for small businesses using Google Fiber. In short, small businesses aren’t allowed to take advantage of the ISP, at least not yet. ...More
Eric Schmidt is apparently quite the jokester. When told that some don’t find Android secure, Schmidt responded, “Not secure? It’s more secure than the iPhone.”Good one, dude.More
This week, a Yale law professor took aim at Microsoft’s “Bing It On” campaign… And Ayres’ results differed sharply from Microsoft’s: “We found that, to the contrary of Micros...More
1Password is one of my favorite apps. The amount of time it has saved me is unmeasurable, and it’s made my password strategy secure and delightful. Table of Contents Chevr...More
Chris Enns: The people who scoff at App.net and wonder “why do we need another Twitter?” are missing the point. Actually, they’re missing the point of the internet. Ther...More
If you need tons of features or anything I’m choosing not to do, you’ll probably be happier with one of the others. (Before I started using Overcast full-time, Downcast was my...More
BlackBerry has officially filed a letter with Canadian holding company Fairfax Financial, an offer that could lead to it returning to private ownership.This could be a good th...More