Thoughts on Blog Search Engines
Love this idea! This is what I was going for when I made the personal blogs repo, but Brent Simmons’ thoughts are way better. …More
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Ikea and Sonos to Release New Speakers in August
© Ikea/Sonos Chris Welch reporting for the Verge: Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years. The Symfonisk table lamp ($179)…More
Happy Tools
Distributed teams, changing business needs, and complex dynamics are redefining the workday. Happy Tools makes it possible for your office to run smoothly, no matter what it looks like or who makes it…More
Unroll.me Mines and Sells Your Data, but at Least They Tell You
Chris Coyier on Email is Good: Do you trust them, while they definitely are reading your personal emails, to not doing anything you wouldn’t want them to with it? I think it’s gonna be a no from me,…More
Cardhop for iOS
One of my favorite developers, Flexibits, has released their newest app called Cardhop. Cardhop was already on the Mac and I love it. Managing contacts is one of those things that just kind of sucks.…More
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
Brian Krebs: The Facebook source said the investigation so far indicates between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more…More
It’s Time to Quit Facebook
A few months ago, I deleted both my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Facebook was pretty easy; there wasn’t much happening on there that mattered to me. Most of my remaining family was busy resharing…More
OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock
OWC provided me this product for review at no cost. All opinions are mine and have had no editorial input from OWC. A Thunderbolt 3 dock is a necessity if you have a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.…More
Patreon, Venture Capital, and the Loss of the Win-Win
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 business should work. But because…More
The New Keychron K1 Mechanical Keyboard is a Gorgeous Piece of Hardware
The Keychron K1’s space grey matches my MacBook Pro perfectly A few weeks ago, David Sparks wrote about a new mechanical keyboard he was buying. I’d stumbled upon the video a few days…More
Apple Revokes Facebook's Enterprise Developer Certificates
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 consequences for that. If Apple is going…More
Facebook Knowingly Duped Game-Playing Kids and Their Parents Out of Money
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 survive all this? …More
The Cost of a Centralized Web
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, advertisements, or subscriptions. If…More
4 Things I Miss About Mac
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 company is foolish. After all,…More
On Netflix Pulling Out of iTunes Billing for New Users
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 understanding that information in a huge…More
Become a Facebook-Free Business
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 it’s other brands) is a business I…More
Man Uses Glitter Bomb to Get Back at Package Thief
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 glitter bomb as an Apple…More
Walt Mossberg: ‘I’ve Decided to Quit Facebook’
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 the policies and actions of…More
Leaked Emails Prove Facebook Is Creepy as Hell
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 growth team, which is…More
Marriott Breach Leaves 500 Million Exposed
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 breaches like this ineffective. …More
What Happened to 5K Displays?
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, but evidently not. Can’t wait to see…More
Tesla's Autopilot Now Changes Lanes
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 sensors embedded into the front and…More
Apple Fixes Bagel Emoji After Controversy
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 out of?” asked Nikita…More
Jabra Move Wireless Headphones
The Jabra Move Wireless headphones Audio is important to me. If I’m going somewhere, working, cleaning, taking a shower, or just needing to relax, you’ll likely find me listening to something.…More
Things 3 for Mac and iOS
Things 3 on iPad I’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 what app is the best…More
Meltdown and Spectre
Ben Thompson writing about the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities: Faced with a fundamental imbalance (data fetch slowness versus execution speed), processor engineers devised an ingenious…More
Twitter Now Allows Third-Party App for Two-Factor Authentication
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 text messages. This one…More
Robert Scoble Denies Sexual Misconduct Claims, Suggesting Accusers Motivated by ‘Peer Pressure’
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 sexually harass them. “If I were…More
Movies Anywhere Now Goes Beyond Disney
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 like Lionsgate. But the service…More
Wirecutter, but for Everything
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 need in order to live a better…More
Karolina Szczur: ‘Your Tech Job Posting is Broken’
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 innumerable amounts of tech job…More
I Bought a Camera
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’s the list of things I’m…More
Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC
Or, an alternate sub-title: A long time Mac user and web developer’s perspective on the current state of Windows vs. macOS Once upon a time when I was about seventeen, when I thought I was going to write…More
Week in Review: March 10, 2017
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 post á la Katie Floyd. Here are…More
Dropbox Announces New Smart Sync Feature and Collaboration Tools
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 Smart Sync feature, users can…More
LG Has Redesigned Its 5K Mac Monitor So It Can Handle Being Placed Near a Router
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 spokesman told Recode that the…More
My Favorite TextExpander Snippets
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 at all. I felt writing a series…More
Automating Deeper With Keyboard Maestro
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) to control applications. The…More
Five Ways to Automate Your Day One Journal with TextExpander
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 have a plethora of quick Day…More
Sync Two Google Calendars with Zapier
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 articles or support posts on…More
Defining a Microblog Post
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 waste. I emailed Manton to ask if…More
One Man’s Terrible Amazon Interview Experience
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 tech support and make sure I…More
Partly Sunny Review: Weather Reimagined
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, “feels like,” and current),…More
Simple Rolls Out Shared Bank Accounts
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 accounts work differently. Fi 👏🏽 na…More
Hello Again World
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 even worse. By outsourcing our…More
Discontinuing Support for Check the Weather
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 everything ‘right’ from the…More
Slack-style Emoji Everywhere on Mac
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 autocomplete everywhere you type on…More
Autonomous SmartDesk
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 quality product. I left that…More
Shush App
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,1…More
The Best App for Managing Personal Finances and Budgets
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 Banktivity (formerly iBank) has the…More
The Trouble with Twitter
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 off their website or service…More
The New 1Password Subscription Service
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 new state-of-the-art hosted…More
Spotify Says Apple Won’t Approve a New Version of Its App
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 update to Spotify’s iOS app. …More
Apps and Gear for Summer (2016 Edition)
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 ones, or even if you just need…More
Why I Quit Twitter
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 Christians in the back, the gates…More
How Our Remote Engineering Team Stays Agile
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 engineers thrive in an…More
More Contributions on Your Profile
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 also celebrate the work you…More
Soundcloud Shuts Down Podcasts Temporarily
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 their own ecosystem.…More
Human Solution Uplift Desk
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 ago, I bought myself a Herman…More
Nylas Pro
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 pay us money every month, and…More
Federico Viticci Switches to Airmail
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 has built a solid email…More
Netflix Says Geography, Age, and Gender Are “Garbage” for Predicting Taste
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 Yellin said. Instead, viewers are…More
Patience and Impatience in the Tech Industry
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? Yes. But that’s a long time, and…More
Top Tech Companies’ Hiring Secrets
If only more companies put these tips into practice, they too could hire the best people. …More
TextExpander 6 and TextExpander.com
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 versions. This is really cool,…More
Some Changes Here at Macminicolo
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 and blah. Instead, I’ll be…More
The Upside to Technology? It’s Personal
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 Facebook and other social networks.…More
Dave Goes Back to Mac for 20 Minutes
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 this to my Surface which takes…More
Fantastical Version 2.2 Ships
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 update… If you are on the fence…More
Netflix’s Opaque Disruption Annoys Rivals on TV
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 is on cable and broadcast…More
The Best Third-Party Email App for iOS
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 temporary holding place until emails…More
Alfred Version 3
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 announce that Alfred version 3 is on…More
Spark Launches on iPad
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 be around for years to come…More
Day One 2 Review
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 that are worth checking out.…More
Finding Good Content
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 decent — it’s even more work to…More
Buying Event Tickets Is a Sham
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 general Eric Schneiderman knows…More
Ex-Yelp Employee Writes Letter to CEO
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 of that as possible to pay my…More
T-Mobile’s ‘Binge On’ violates Net Neutrality principles
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 Netflix, Amazon, HBO and…More
On Managing Links
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 categorize. Links usually fall…More
Twitter Implies Their Ads Suck
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 rewarding people by reducing…More
Follow the Links
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 users’ feeds, rather than…More
Microsoft Surface Tablets Crash on New England Patriots Sideline
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. Like most Microsoft products,…More
Using an Ad Blocker is Not ‘Puppy Genocide’
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 genocide or whatever. Boy…More
Netflix’s Stand on Proxies and Unblockers
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 the goal we will keep pushing…More
Casey Liss on Amazon Prime Now
Casey Liss: I’m living in the future. I’ve experienced Amazon Prime Now. And it’s awesome. …More
The Gray Gray Ghost That I Call Home
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. There are ways to communicate…More
What The Ad Blocker Debate Reveals
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: When The Product Is Free, We…More
Unboxing the Sony MDR-7506 Headphones
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 expensive, they’re an upgrade from the…More
On The Verge
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 ever going to create a culture…More
Instacast Discontinued as Vemedio Runs out of Money
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. … Hering seems to imply…More
Pebble Pre-Sells its New Watch on Kickstarter
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 Play:1
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 the Sonos ecosystem. First…More
Chris Bowler on Ulysses
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 write. Where iA Writer has to be…More
Insanity
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. I hope hand-off—as…More
Pocket Casts Gets an Update
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 someday I’ll become blasé about…More
Sam Soffes Releases Whiskey Beta
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 been updating almost daily…More
Third-Party Keyboards Have Potential They Can't Reach
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 does. To wit: no access to…More
First Thoughts on Incipio NGP
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 enough time for me to tell you that I…More
The Wirecutter on The Best iPhone 6 Case
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…More
MacStories Reviews Fantastical 2.2
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 text and links. From Safari,…More
‘App Rot’
Marco Arment: The app market is becoming a mature, developed industry, with vastly increased commoditization compared to its early days. Competition is ubiquitous, relentless, and often shameless, even in…More
Updating My RSS Setup
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 first post, there were a couple of…More
Stay Organized with Bartender
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 prefer menu bar apps, things…More
Yahoo’s ‘Year in Review’ Report
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 Kim Kardashian, and American…More
Amazon Plans to Use Drones for New Prime Air Service
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,” Amazon said on its…More
The Sweet Setup
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 great idea. …More
Twitter Tests Cleaner Web Design
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 design trends on mobile. This…More
BlackBerry Secures $1 Billion in Funding
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 Holdings. As it turns out, the…More
Twitter Facing Monetary Challenges in Japan and Korea
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 percent of its global revenue…More
Rules of Tech Journalism
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 incompetence these days. That’s why it’s…More
Adobe Security Breach Worse Than Originally Thought
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 users, along with encrypted…More
Honest Slogans
Hilarious, and true. This is Tumblr at its best. …More
MetaLab Launches Peak
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 product might have been created…More
Tapbots Launches New Tweetbot
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 visually and sonically. The new app has…More
Amazon’s Biodome Approved in Seattle
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 history, in the cities they call…More
Does the Web Industry Have a Drinking Problem?
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 no one will turn up anyway, or…More
Samsung Fined $340,000 in Taiwan for Fake Online Comments
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 issue first arose internationally…More
Microsoft Talks Apple iPads and iWork
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 below both the iPad 2 and iPad Air…More
Fitbit Tracker Becoming More Like a Smartwatch
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 vertically focused on the health…More
Square Cash Makes Sending Money Easy
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 service, you’re directed to…More
Chris Coyier on Media Temple Acquisition
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 happy about this. Things will…More
Sonos Announces the Play:1
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 range and better separation…More
‘Minor’ Upgrade to Instagram No Longer Lets Users Disable Video Autoplay
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 photo and video app has made…More
Google Fiber Won’t Be Available for Small Businesses… Yet
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. … Currently, Google is only…More
HP and Microsoft Become ‘Competitors’
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 own interests, including…More
Eric Schmidt Tells Jokes
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
Yale Professor Calls ‘Bing It On’ Claims Bogus
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 Microsoft’s claim, 53 percent of…More
1Password 4 for Mac
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. For those of you who don’t know about 1Password, it’s a great…More
An Argument for App.net
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. There’s plenty of room for another…More
Marco Arment’s Latest Project: Overcast
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 podcast app of choice.) I’m…More
BlackBerry Receives Buyout Offer
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 thing for them. I remember when…More