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A spiritual successor to Apple’s Network Utility, which was removed from macOS after 10.15 (a.k.a. Catalina, c. 2019). You can download Neo Network Utility from https://www.devonte…

The elephant in the room: DDG's search results are primarily sourced from Bing. Unfortunately, as long as DDG depends on third-party crawlers, the suggestions to improve search res…

As Steve Jobs would say, “real artists ship”. (Except now, they’re shipping at a much larger scale...)

IANAL, but “evade law enforcement” seems inaccurate. > HKMAP helps residents comply with the wishes of law enforcement (who communicate their demands by colored flags quickly raise…

Can you expand on your Google comment re. RCS? All I’ve seen recently is that they’re taking the reins from the carriers (at least outside of the US) to speed-up rollout.

Arguably, Apple already offers a version of a “pre-load” button in Safari (on iOS and macOS), with the setting to “Automatically save Reading List articles for offline reading”. (N…

Not ideal, but in case you haven't seen it, Apple's Music Memos app has a built-in tuner.

I realize that you’re referring to traditionally-typed text, but Monotype was recently commissioned to design a typeface for the illustrator of Roald Dahl’s books, and they did ind…

From Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs: >He didn't want outsiders to create applications for the iPhone that could mess it up, infect it with viruses, or pollute its integr…

Ugh. I’m disappointed that they’re referring to storage capacity as “memory capacity”, perpetuating the pervasive confusion amongst non-technical users.

Also see Craig Hockenberry piece, for more on the implications of all this for developers and designers: http://blog.iconfactory.com/2016/04/looking-at-the-future/ One of his key p…

One caveat to your point: in that comment, the Picturelife CEO was apparently criticizing Loom for shutting down their service after being acquired by Dropbox. In this case, it sou…

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_POLICE_TRACKING_AP... From the article: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck complained in a letter to Google's chief executive on Dec. 3…

Note: The two donut charts for "Race and Ethnicity" are visually misleading. The color assigned to each race or ethnicity is not consistent between the two charts, so a visual comp…

Thank you for the confirmation — I have had the same bug with the alarm sound several times now. What I found is that I could stop it only by opening the Clock app, and selecting a…

I’m assuming that the service cost doesn't come primarily from storage, but rather from bandwidth usage, and the increase in hardware requirements for handling a larger number of t…