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Snopes is my go to site for debunking general fake news.

What a great way to spend your Christmas money.

For my family, Christmas Day was always for relatives’ visits. Boxing Day was the day you went to visit friends.

Not surprising, given the court proceedings going on between the two companies.

Now everyone can get beautiful Portrait Mode photos with their iPhone. Depth Effects gives you the power to apply a striking depth of field to any photo. Get DLSR-quality focus and bokeh with simple controls. Also, Depth Effects is the best app for anamorphic depth of field and cinematic bokeh.

We often rightfully complain about Google but it does provide a lot of interesting data driven information.

Consumer Reports has a history of embarrassing itself in its recommendations. I think we all saw that something was wrong with its results and that they were published specifically to get headlines. That certainly worked for them, but it also further damaged their reputation. They should have postponed publishing the results until they were sure everything was correct. Rene Ritchie has a nice article on it.

I was never a huge Seinfeld fan but the Festivus stuff was hilarious.

One of my favorite Leonard Cohen songs sung beautifully. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Lots of us will have lots of Amazon boxes left over from this holiday season. This is a great way to give a little back.

This is an interesting article if only for the fact that every audio engineer I’ve ever known (and I’ve known quite a few), hate the way Bose devices sound. They would often say, “No highs, no lows, must be Bose”.

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This is unlikely to hurt Uber in the long run but the arrogance on display in California certainly won’t endear them to governments of the state.

Luckily for players who own Apple Watches, rumors the game wasn’t going to be available proved to be false.

Regardless of your opinion of Consumer Reports, this does not look good for Apple. Apple refused comment on the report but expect them to, in the New Year, address the issue.

Like a well-oiled machine.

Elf!? Wow. This is a really lame list.

It just doesn’t get much more Candian than this.

Raise your hand if you’re old enough to remember scrounging for cheat codes.

I know Sinbad and asked him about this at a Macworld Expo many years ago. He thought it was hilarious and was sure people were confusing him with the Shaquille O’Neal movie.

This is a “good news, bad news” kind of thing for Canadians.

I don’t use iCloud Photos but this looks like a decent update to start bringing it more in line with macOS Photos app.

Great news for Pro Tools users on Sierra.

I really didn’t know what to expect, but this is really cute. My favorite is the two bananas hugging.

I’ll take the AirPods every time.

This is just so great.

Today, AT&T launches AT&T Call Protect. The free network-based service gives eligible AT&T wireless customers with HD Voice more control over unwanted calls on their smartphones.

This innovative solution harnesses the power of the AT&T network to give customers automatic fraud blocking and suspected spam call warnings.

Sounds like a great idea, but I was under the impression that many of the spam calls cycle through numbers endlessly. That could be a long cat and mouse game, but hopefully with technology, they can curb a lot of it.

Nokia Corp said on Wednesday it had filed a number of lawsuits against Apple Inc for violating 32 technology patents, striking back at the iPhone maker’s legal action targeting the one-time cellphone industry leader a day earlier.

djay Pro provides a complete toolkit for DJs of all skill levels. Built exclusively for iPhone, djay Pro seamlessly integrates with your media library and Spotify, giving you instant access to millions of tracks. Pristine sound quality and a powerful set of features including high-definition waveforms, four decks, and video mixing give you endless creative flexibility to mix music on-the-go.

These guys do such a great job with their apps, I just love them.

In April, a British Airways jet was hit by a suspected drone as it landed at London’s Heathrow airport, while in August a passenger plane narrowly avoided being hit by a drone as it prepared to land in Cornwall.

There are a lot of very responsible drone owners, but like many things in life, there are a few that are so irresponsible, it gives everyone a bad name. Flying a drone anywhere near an airport or over a major fire when helicopters are trying to fight the fire is just plain stupid.