Netflix is using vast amounts of behavioral data to spend obscene amounts of money to make the blandest possible content. By design.

Save links to investigate later: Stop with the 200 open tabs, they’re a giant mess and grind your classic computer to a halt. Use the share sheet and save them to Reminders for later. Bonus tip: ...

I think Apple Music handles song metadata in a nuanced way that was confusing the heckin out of us.

These utilities make it easy to open links to specific companies in a browser of your choice. But they could definitely remove the tedium from getting set up.

I think we can do better. “Slop” evokes a tepid cylinder of condensed cream of mushroom soup, glumly wibbling in a chipped bowl. When I think of GenAI, I picture something closer to tropical insects ...

I get out of the house fairly often to work with my iPad Pro, and it’s great being able to go wherever I want since I have a T-Mobile data plan for it. Tethering to my phone has always had too many ...

Over a decade ago, someone posted a story about riding on the bus when a car aggressively tried to cut it off and turn right in front of it, all the while honking like a jerk. The bus driver, calmly ...

For sure, points are to be awarded for the clever dystopian portrayal of capitalist surveillance through the mechanism of robotic Birds, capital B. But when introducing Safari as our protagonist and ...

Hi, I’m David Chartier and I’m obsessed with productivity and polish. I’ve written for Macworld, Ars Technica, The Mac Observer, MacStories, TUAW, and other publications. I created Finer Things in ...

A combination of a self-inflicted wound may have combined with an obscure bug to render our HomePods as paperweights. Fortunately, I fixed it.

One of the core ideas that draws me to services like Mastodon is “the fediverse.” In short, the goal is that you can have a single digital identity and use it across multiple sites and services. It ...

I agree with Benjamin Mayo: The Apple services experience is not good enough. The Music and TV apps are just plain bad. TV in particular is severely lacking in features. The recent additions to iCloud ...