- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №28
- Self Harmony
- Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts
- Very Minimalist Movie Posters
- Criterion’s Jackie Chan box set is the hottest Blu-ray buy of the fall
- Amazon Pharmacy simplifies insulin savings with automatic coupons
- It’s time to rethink our relationships with streaming services
- X seemed to throttle some competitors and news sites for more than a week
- TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service
- Apple moved the end call button again in iOS 17
- Today I learned you can easily pause the Windows Task Manager to stop apps moving around
- NHL 24 trailer reveals gameplay overhaul, cover athlete, battle pass
- Special counsel obtained ‘some volume’ of DMs from Donald Trump’s Twitter account
- Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim anime brings the gang together in first trailer
- Threads gets retweets — sorry, reposts — in the reverse-chronological feed
- Elon Musk says (yet again) that X will stop letting you block users
- X breaks Twitter images and links posted prior to December 2014
Tag: iOS
Weekly Links 07.10–07.16
- Naz Hamid — Midlife Malaise Part II
- Design Notes on the Alphabet
- The Wellington Family
- The Ambient Sounds of Japan’s Jazz Kissas (Listening Cafes)
- Jon Hicks — A new logo for Thunderbird
- Jeremy Keith — Permission
- Chris Coyier — Sass Features in CSS
- Barbenheimer
- Why Do American Diners Look That Way?
- Instruction Manuals for 6000+ Lego Sets, Courtesy of the Internet Archive
- Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users
- The Twitter bot tracking Elon Musk’s private jet resurfaces on Threads
- Something odd is happening when you try and search Twitter for Threads links
- Bear 2 for Mac and iOS is here, with tables, GIFs, and more
- Democrats call on DOJ to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
- Disney Plus will start streaming Cinderella in 4K in August
- Apple’s iOS 17 is a lot of little updates that make a big impact
- This is a quietly big year for the Apple TV and tvOS
- The Mac sure is starting to look like the iPhone
- Here’s a reminder to make your Venmo transactions private, courtesy of Clarence Thomas
- Disney CEO Bob Iger will stay for at least two more years
- Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported 55-inch TVs
- Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos
- UK investigation places Adobe’s $20 billion Figma deal in peril
- SAG-AFTRA goes on strike at midnight tonight
- Hollywood studios proposed AI contract that would give them likeness rights ‘for the rest of eternity’
- The unions of Hollywood are trying to save it from itself
- LG plans to expand ads and subscriptions across its TV and appliances
- Republicans defend Elon Musk in FTC’s Twitter probe
- Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023
- Those new M3-equipped iMacs may come in October
Weekly Links 06.05–06.11
- Why Does Jack Nicholson Repeatedly Break the Fourth Wall in The Shining?
- Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
- Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
- Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO
- 1Password users can now preview passwordless sign-on technology
- The 2023 Food Photographer of the Year Awards
- WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you
- Jeremy Keith — Reaction
- Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots
- Marvel Snap adds a competitive ladder with new Conquest mode
- Star Wars: Outlaws is a new open-world Star Wars game from Ubisoft
Apple WWDC news
- Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air is the ‘world’s thinnest’
- Apple’s iOS 17 is official with better autocorrect and StandBy
- Apple’s new journaling app turns your iPhone into a digital diary
- Apple is changing the ‘Hey Siri’ trigger phrase to just ‘Siri’ in iOS 17
- Apple’s iPadOS 17 adds personalized lock screen and interactive widgets
- Apple announces macOS Sonoma with game mode and support for desktop widgets
- Apple announces widgets will return to watchOS 10 at WWDC
- FaceTime is coming to Apple TV with tvOS 17
- Standby is a new iOS 17 feature for your iPhone that could be great for Apple Home users
- Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset
- Apple upgrades WebKit, adds new features to Safari
- Apple announces visionOS, the operating system for its Vision Pro headset
- Apple News Plus is getting crossword puzzles with iOS 17
- For better or worse, Apple is avoiding the AI hype train
- With iOS 17, Apple lets you share AirTags with friends and family
- iPadOS 17 finally supports external USB webcams and cameras
- Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
- Apple’s Journal app needs to read the room
- Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air is a perfect response to slowing Mac revenue
- Apple TVs with tvOS 17 will get native VPN support
Weekly Links 05.01–05.07
- The Galactic Menagerie, Wes Anderson’s Star Wars
- The future of streaming is free ad-supported TV and movies
- These are the FAST services you need to know about
- The best part of FAST TV is the choice it takes away
- Forget ad-supported streaming — here come the ad-supported TVs
- The Verge’s favorite Stream Deck hacks
- How a cleaning app tricked me into taking care of myself
- Hollywood writers to strike over low wages caused by streaming boom
- Netflix Condemns WGA Strike For Putting Future Show Cancellations Behind Schedule
- The Kidnappers Foil, the Most Remade Movie in History
- You Can Register Domain Names in iOS’s iCloud Settings
- 9 wild Disney conspiracy theories that will never die
- Nanoleaf Essentials Matter smart lights review: A better bulb
- Using Arc Boosts to identify bots in Elk
- Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
- AMD makes Ryzen 7840U official, claims it can beat Apple M2
- The new Pokémon Trading Card Game app is finally launching this June
- Google is replacing Chrome’s misleading lock icon
- Discord is making all users pick a new username
- A Collection of Sci-Fi Movie Logos
- The Browser Company Is Building a Swift Development Toolchain for Windows
- ‘Nice Twitter Handle You Have There. Would Be a Real Shame if Something Happened to It.’
- Microsoft Teams is getting animated backgrounds for your meetings
- The Google Home app is finally getting garage door controls
Weekly Links 03.27–04.02
- iOS 16.4 is here, and it brings new emoji like a moose and goose to your iPhone
- Arc’s mobile browser is here — but it’s not trying to replace Safari and Chrome yet
- Apple Music Classical is now available from the App Store
- Amazon to flag ‘frequently returned’ products you maybe shouldn’t buy
- Hidden Systems is a book that could teach your kids how the internet works
- Finally, a Logitech name-brand headset for little school kids
- Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City
- Philips Hue’s Matter update has been delayed
- The Home Assistant SkyConnect is a combination Zigbee and Thread dongle for better smart home control
Weekly Links 02.13–02.19
- Jeremy Keith — Home stream
- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №25
- Jon Hicks — Fiddling makes me happy
- Warren Beatty returns as Dick Tracy in a sequel to one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen
- Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
- Happy Valentine’s Day: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer divorce is complete
- Super Bowl LVII was the most-streamed Super Bowl yet
- Tweetbot’s creators added an edit button to their Mastodon client
- Plex makes it easier to skip movie and TV show credits
- The Winners of the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year Competition
- PSVR 2 review: love on a leash
- Brad Frost — Thanks, An Event Apart
- A new mainline Civilization game is in development at Firaxis
- Ikea’s new air quality monitor lets you keep an eye on pollutants in your home
- iOS 16.4 will let web apps on your homescreen send push notifications
- Apple’s new iOS 16.4 developer beta includes new emoji, web app notifications, and more
- Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication
- How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends
Weekly Links 01.30–02.05
- How to use the Apple HomePod’s temperature and humidity sensors
- Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown
- Zeldman — Twitter Blue
- Free access to the Twitter API is ending:
- FTC fines GoodRx $1.5 million for sending consumer health data to Google and Facebook
- It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT
- Dave Rupert — SOLVED! The Case of the Bing Ban Theory
- A remastered version of Myst is coming to iOS
- Alex Ovechkin, son share ‘special’ All-Star moment with Sidney Crosby
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