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They never figured out how the ring got to Finland. Wish it had some sort of GPS to track its journey. Curious story.

As the tech guy for our family of 12 macOS and iOS connected devices, I’m the one charged with managing all the storage, backup, and maintenance details. What a PITA.

Many of us have complicated feelings about death and dead bodies. Personally, I wouldn’t want to do this but I understand why some would.

I’m a “beginner cook” so I love little tips and tricks of cooking and baking. I’ve seen these “food hacks” all over Facebook and Twitter and many of them seemed suspect to me.

Bare Bones Software, makers of BBEdit, is one of my favorite software companies — in fact, I’ve been using BBEdit for more than 20 years. BBEdit has been updated to version 13, and is available in the Mac App Store as a subscription! Same great features. Same user experience. You can subscribe in the Mac App Store or purchase perpetual licenses directly from Bare Bones Software. Also, you can still get great merch, including Classic and Rebus T-shirts, enamel pins, and more in their merch store!

Bad news for Apple but not completely unexpected. The company will undoubtedly bounce back.

Krause’s software was simultaneously the most interesting and the most frustrating user interface I’ve ever experienced.

This whole “to recline or not to recline” issue has popped up again. For the record, as a guy who is 6’3″ tall with bad knees, you not only can’t recline your seat in front of me (the seat ends up slamming into my knees), I won’t let you, going so far as to physically prevent your seat from moving back. But, keep in mind, instead of blaming each other, we should get angry at the airlines who jam us into coach with seats so tiny even the average-sized person can’t fit in some of them.

Good explainer of leap years.

Trying to make a bad situation a little bit better.

This case is an excellent example of the fact that, while Apple appears customer friendly, they have some very employee unfriendly policies.

There are some great songs on this list. Glad my favourite artist made number one.

This was a lot funnier than you would have expected it to be.

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Apple TV+ tops the list of topics in today’s podcast as Dave and I talk about the newly released Mythic Quest. We also have some fun with Andy Rubin and Samsung.

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OMG! That headline! Run! HIDE! SAVE YOURSELVES! Except… This article spread like….well…a virus over the past couple of days, prompting much glee and snickering from certain groups of computer users. And it’s an example of something I rail about on … Continued

My wife and I are big fans of Costco. Even though it’s a two hour one way trip (including a ferry ride) away, we look forward to shopping there. As a matter of fact, we’ve got a big “Costco shop” planned for tomorrow. We’ll make a day of it in the Big City. While she gets her hair done, I’ll shop for new stuff for our recently adopted puppy and then we’ll go to Costco and have sushi afterward. Sounds like a perfect Valentine’s Day.

Do not watch this without a supply of tissues at the ready.

The Japanese dedication to this principle is remarkable.

The fact that Voyager 1 and 2 are still operational is amazing. When the news came that Voyager 2 had gone dark, I thought its mission was over. But NASA engineers “kept working the problem” and managed to fix it – from 11+ billion miles away.

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That was one hell of a blast. I hope everyone in the area knew about it because that would scare the bejesus out of you if you were just out walking the dog.

This is a long but fascinating story about a woman some of you may have heard of and whose life and death and age are still in dispute.

[VIDEO] When Apple rolled out the Pro Display XDR, they compared it to the much more expensive Sony Reference Monitor ($43,000). Reviewer Vincent Teoh digs in. Video embedded in main Loop post.

My wife and I watched the first episode last night and this review is pretty much how we felt about it. I’m not saying it’s a bad show but we didn’t laugh once during the first episode. Laughter should be a given in a sitcom.

Hey Wacom – if you had thought about this to begin with, you wouldn’t be in this trouble now. Companies need to learn what “opt-in” means.

With the way Jobs took over and made wholesale changes as well as inserting NeXT employees into almost every facet of the company, I always say today is the day NeXT acquired Apple.

Dave got his new AirPods Pro this week, so we spent some time talking about our thoughts on the product. We also discussed the improved Apple Maps, and share our thoughts on Apple News+.

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Apple was damned if they did and damned if they didn’t. The biggest error was in not being more open and forthcoming about this decision as it was happening. That being said, this fine is likely an intentional slap on the wrist.

There’s just so much dumb in this story. The school should have known better (you can’t just publicly show a movie without paying the rights holder) and Disney’s legal department handled it in the worst possible way. They could have simply said, “Don’t do it again.” but they ended up embarrassing their company and causing a lot of ill will and hurt feelings.