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December 2014

  1. Apple Hit With Class Action Over iOS Storage Requirements
  2. Amazon Names Amazon Show as Best of 2014
  3. Performance Degradation Between Tiger and Yosemite
  4. What’s So Special About the AeroPress
  5. Promoted Accounts on Twitter
  6. iTunes Syncing Is Broken
  7. 90 Day Apple ID Password Reset
  8. Apple Offers EU Customers 14-Day Money-Back Returns on Electronic Purchases
  9. Samsung Closes Flagship London Store
  10. Now Entering the Public Domain: Ian Fleming, Et. Al
  11. Apple Has a Way to Push Software Updates to OS X Automatically
  12. Unswitchers
  13. OS X NTP Security Update
  14. On Developer Confidence in iOS
  15. PHG’s Fund Releasing Policy
  16. The Curse of Compressing Reality
  17. Apple Forces the Nintype Keyboard to Drop Its Calculator
  18. On File Formats, Very Briefly
  19. The Most Popular Websites Every Year Since 1996
  20. Samsung to Shut Down ChatOn Next Year
  21. Get Info Redesigned
  22. Journalism as Entertainment
  23. Stop the Presses
  24. The State of Apple’s Mac Software 2014
  25. Drafts 4.0.6
  26. App Store Discovery Is Completely Broken
  27. Shaw Wins Gold in Verbal Gymnastics
  28. The Ten Year DRM Saga Is, at Last, Over
  29. All-Canadian Duopoly
  30. Who’s Apple’s Ideal Customer?
  31. Insecure Keyboard Entry
  32. IUMA: Digital Music’s First Big Chance
  33. The Sony Hacks Are Terrifying
  34. Apple Probed in Canada Over iPhone Carrier Contracts
  35. Workflow for iOS
  36. Transmit’s Forced Removal of Its Sharing Sheet to Be Overturned
  37. Instagram Surpasses Twitter’s Userbase
  38. Twitter Clients in 2014
  39. Apple Pay’s User Experience
  40. Big Dogs/Little Fish
  41. Shy
  42. Untransmitted
  43. Profound Stupidity, Round Three
  44. …And Then It Got Weird
  45. Deleting the Evidence
  46. SPECTRE
  47. “I Can’t Breathe”
  48. The iPod/DRM/iTunes/Holy-Shit-It’s-December-2014 Trial Begins
  49. Apple Tells ‘Drafts’ to Remove Note Creation Feature in its Notification Centre Widget
  50. I Dot Me Cloud Drive

November 2014

  1. Ars Technica’s iWork ’14 Review
  2. A Eulogy for RadioShack
  3. Android vs. iOS Start Experience
  4. Red Bull Racing Is the NASA of Cheating
  5. AT&T Told to Stop Calling U-Verse the “Fastest Internet for the Price”
  6. Attack of the 50-Foot Save Sheet
  7. Ferguson
  8. Homescreens in 2014
  9. Podcasts Swirling, Whirling, Moving
  10. Calendaring Layouts
  11. “The World’s Most Personal Distraction Device”
  12. A Second Kryptos Clue
  13. Comments in the Age of Social Media: Recoded
  14. Thoughts on WatchKit
  15. NSA Reform Stalls
  16. Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
  17. Ads in Firefox’s New Tab Page Are Live
  18. “Or Maybe It’s Just a Malware Infested Serbian Honeypot”
  19. Apple Releases iOS 8.1.1
  20. Watchville
  21. Code Names of the Surveillance State
  22. AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs
  23. Google Glass Future Cloudy
  24. The A8X’s GPU
  25. MS14-066
  26. Comments in the Age of Social Media
  27. Twitter’s New Mission Statement
  28. Ars Technica’s Android “Lollipop” Review
  29. Ted Cruz’s Net Neutrality Take Isn’t Just Dumb, It’s Dangerous
  30. President Obama on Net Neutrality
  31. iCloud Drive Stumbles
  32. Wulu
  33. The Future of Unison
  34. De-Register and Turn Off iMessage
  35. Amazon’s Echo Chamber
  36. The Great Bitcasa Data Purge
  37. Amazon Echo Amazon Echo Amazon Echo
  38. Matias Duarte and Bullshit
  39. Too Much Encryption Killed BlackBerry, According to a Former NSA Lawyer
  40. Verizon Injecting Perma-Cookies to Track Mobile Customers
  41. Should I Call 999 for a Whambulance?
  42. Verizon Is Launching a Tech News Site That Bans Stories on U.S. Spying
  43. Amazon Unclear on Diversity
  44. The Internet’s First Family
  45. Trent Reznor Is Doing Something at Apple
  46. Let’s Talk About Money
  47. Police Can Require Cellphone Fingerprint, Not Pass Code

October 2014

  1. 90% of Mobile Transactions in the US Are Made at a Starbucks
  2. A Week With the Retina iMac
  3. Apple Reverses Its Profoundly Stupid PCalc Rejection
  4. Tim Cook: “I’m Proud to Be Gay”
  5. A Translation of MCX’s Hastily-Written Blog Post from PR-Speak to Plain English
  6. PCalc’s “Featured” Calculator Widget Isn’t Allowed in the App Store Any Longer
  7. Profit Margin of Error
  8. CurrentC’s API Potentially Returns Private Data
  9. CurrentC, Not PrivaC
  10. Samsung Knox Stores PINs in Plain Text
  11. The Race to Archive TwitPic
  12. Yosemite, Spotlight, and Privacy
  13. Gruber’s New iPads Review
  14. 5.5 Million Macs
  15. iPad Air 2 Benchmarked
  16. iTunes 12’s New Interface
  17. Apple Updates iWork Suite
  18. iCloud’s Reliability and Trustworthiness
  19. The Retina iMac
  20. John Siracusa’s OS X Yosemite Review
  21. Why.I.Am
  22. Keynote Eve Jitters
  23. GT Advanced Executive Scheduled Shares to be Sold the Day Before the iPhone 6 Announcement
  24. Dropped
  25. Tilde.Club
  26. Microsoft CEO Tells Women Not to Ask For a Raise at Women in Tech Event
  27. Microsoft Issues More Comprehensive Diversity Report
  28. Wolpphire
  29. The Magazine is Closing
  30. iOS 8 Adoption Stagnates
  31. On iPods, iTunes, DRM, and Lock-in, in 2014, for Some Reason
  32. iPhone 6 Looks
  33. HealthKit Should Allow Tracking of Menstrual Cycle Data
  34. “Fanboys, I Weep For Your Souls”
  35. The Story Behind the Cube
  36. Holder Lovejoy
  37. The Transit App Adds Notification Centre Widget (iTunes Link)

September 2014

  1. Windows X
  2. Google and the Right to Be Forgotten
  3. How to See Your iOS 8 Health Data
  4. Most OS X Users Safe From Shellshock
  5. Oodbye
  6. Giant Gaping Security Chasms
  7. iOS 8.0.1 Workaround for Loss of Cell Service, Touch ID
  8. Bendghazi
  9. Comparing the iPhone 6 Camera to Its Predecessors
  10. First Weekend iPhone 6 Sales Top 10 Million
  11. Ars Technica’s iOS 8 Review
  12. Rene Ritchie’s iOS 8 Review
  13. iOS 8 Review Updates
  14. Austin Mann Reviews the iPhone 6 Plus’ Camera
  15. Apple: Privacy
  16. iOS 8: The Pixel Envy Review
  17. John Gruber’s Initial Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Apple Watch
  18. Anger Over Songs Of Innocence
  19. On Death and iPods
  20. iPhone 6 Displays Demystified
  21. SwiftKey Keyboard for iOS
  22. “Historical”, My Achtung Ass
  23. Unexposed Edition Field Notes
  24. Stepping Off
  25. The First Product-Launch Keynote
  26. “A Day to Remember”
  27. Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media
  28. ABC News Teases Report of ‘Historic’ Apple Announcement
  29. The Elephant Outside of the Frame
  30. “What Smart, Efficient Design Looks Like”
  31. Marc Newson Is Joining Apple
  32. Joan Rivers
  33. Twitpic is Shutting Down
  34. Twitter Timelines Are Going to Change in a Big Way
  35. Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft
  36. The Great Naked Celebrity Photo Leak of 2014
  37. AnandApple

August 2014

  1. SansAnandTech
  2. September 9
  3. “Wipe My Ass With Your Feelings”
  4. Uber’s Playbook for Sabotaging Lyft
  5. Facebook to Reduce Click-Bait Headlines With This One Weird Trick
  6. Samsung’s Ice Bucket Challenge
  7. A Brief History of Anonymous Outing the Wrong Person
  8. Your Twitter Timeline Is More Than Just Tweets From People You Follow
  9. Ferguson and Police Militarization
  10. What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson
  11. California Über Alles
  12. Apple on Diversity
  13. Diversity at Pinterest
  14. “Diversity” at Salesforce
  15. Diversity of Various Tech Companies By the Numbers
  16. Opinionated Software
  17. What It Was Like to Do Surprise Improv With Robin Williams
  18. Robin Williams
  19. Ten Years of the Impulsive Buy
  20. Researching Link Rot
  21. The Lie Behind 1.2 Billion Stolen Passwords
  22. Unprepared
  23. Schiit Happened
  24. Suitable Disruption
  25. Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords
  26. “It’s Not A/B Testing. It’s Just Being an Asshole.”
  27. I Want It, and I Want It Now
  28. 4Chan Conceptual Artwork Reaches $90,000 on eBay
  29. Macintel: The End Is Nigh
  30. No Permission Necessary

July 2014

  1. Roboto Puffery
  2. Square Adding EMV Chip Support
  3. How the Sausage Gets Made
  4. Apple Hit With Location Services Class Action Suit
  5. Needs Must
  6. No Skin Thick Enough
  7. The Apple Backdoor That Wasn’t
  8. Pedro de Noronha “Might Become Obsolete in Three Years”
  9. Topolsky Leaving the Verge
  10. Yosemite Public Beta
  11. Stickers, Scratches, and Dings
  12. Canvas Fingerprinting
  13. Here’s Why Your Comcast Rep Is Yelling at You
  14. Reagan 12333
  15. Translation of Stephen Elop’s Memo to Microsoft Employees From Weird Corporate Euphemisms to English
  16. Quick Note Regarding Post Frequency
  17. Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and Audiobooks
  18. Overcast
  19. Apple and IBM Sitting in a Tree, Again
  20. Comcast ‘Embarrassed’ by the Service Call Making Internet Rounds
  21. Standard Controls
  22. Inspector Gadget
  23. I Am One of the Lucky Ones
  24. Apple’s App Review Should Test Accessibility
  25. Lightroom Never Fully Expires
  26. The Stories Behind Six Film Studio Logos
  27. I Am the 14%
  28. “Time to Scrap the iPod”
  29. HP’s Fanless Chromebox Has a Noisy Fan Inside
  30. Inspecting Yosemite’s Icons
  31. American Intensity
  32. A Second Snowden?
  33. Goldman Says Google Has Blocked Email With Leaked Client Data
  34. “Homebase” May Become Reality
  35. Windows ‘Threshold’
  36. Mike Rundle on Material Design
  37. Google’s Material Design
  38. Apple Assembling More Robust Siri Team to Replace Nuance
  39. Aperture Features in Photos

June 2014

  1. Exactly What a Good Computer Should Be
  2. Facebook Doesn’t Understand the Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study
  3. Let’s Talk About Market Segmentation Vis-a-Vis iPhone Storage Wait Where Are You Going Really It’s Interesting I Promise
  4. Facebook’s Mood Manipulation Experiment
  5. Apple Stops Development of Aperture
  6. Spokesdouche
  7. Mike Daisey Is Feeling Himself
  8. Apple Tweaks iPod Touch Lineup
  9. Introducing the New Gmail API
  10. Everything You Need to Know About Google’s I/O Keynote
  11. Google TV Turns On at I/O
  12. Material Design
  13. …And I Know My Rights, So You Gonna Need a Warrant for That
  14. iWatch Thoughts
  15. Inside Out
  16. Starting Anew
  17. How to Resolve Apple Maps Data Errors
  18. “Glanceable” Android Wear
  19. Adding ‘rebeccapurple’ Color to CSS Color Level 4
  20. Meta: Small Mobile Improvements
  21. Bugs Are Magic Tricks
  22. YouTube Isn’t Necessarily Being Evil to Indie Artists
  23. Friending the App Store
  24. Sparks to Return to Formula 1
  25. Apple’s HomeKit Hub
  26. Adobe CC 2014
  27. Amazon Fire Phone
  28. Nailedish It
  29. The Uncanny Valley of Personalization
  30. YouTube to Block Indie Labels Who Don’t Sign Up to New Music Service
  31. Jonathan Ive on Apple’s Design Process
  32. Yosemite Is the Mac Interface Rebuilt for Retina Displays
  33. Trajectory
  34. App Store Bundles as an Upgrade Path
  35. The History of Android
  36. Breaking: Tim Cook Is Not Steve Jobs
  37. Google Fit
  38. Timing ritchie
  39. The Colour Purple
  40. Section 2.8
  41. No, a ‘Supercomputer’ Did Not Pass the Turing Test for the First Time
  42. “This Wouldn’t Have Happened Under Steve Jobs”
  43. “What Would Steve Do?”
  44. The Next Five Years
  45. Slow Progress in Maps
  46. Bigfoot
  47. Goodbye “@Everyword”
  48. Free With Limits
  49. New Territory
  50. The “Apple Doesn’t Get the Cloud” Era Is Officially Over
  51. Brent Simmons’ Thoughts on WWDC
  52. IKEA Life At Home
  53. Bitter Medicine
  54. Confidence
  55. Twitter’s New Typeface Neglects the Countries Where It’s Growing the Fastest
  56. The Swift Programming Language
  57. El Capitan
  58. WWDC 2014 Video
  59. Scoring Spitballing WWDC 2014

May 2014

  1. A Tale of Two Apples
  2. Today Is Katie Cotton’s Last Day at Apple
  3. Samsung Is Working With Oculus
  4. The Verge to Automatically Opt Users Into Email Newsletter
  5. iOS 8 Banner Going Up at Moscone West
  6. How Google’s New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works
  7. The Internet With a Human Face
  8. Google Maps Mania Is Not Posting About Google Maps Any More
  9. Apple to Acquire Beats
  10. “I’m a Developer. I Can Take It.”
  11. “Feature” #3598533
  12. “File A Bug”
  13. Photo Post-Production on an iPhone
  14. WWDC 2014 Streaming Video
  15. Vesper 2.0 with Sync
  16. The ROI of iCloud Photo Storage
  17. Spitballing WWDC 2014
  18. Lenovo Canada Cancels Customer Orders After Online Pricing Error
  19. Skrwt released
  20. A Guide to Computer Backups
  21. Jordan Golson Wants You to Watch the Monaco Grand Prix
  22. Giants Behaving Badly
  23. What Backblaze Doesn’t Back Up
  24. Tablet-Laptop Redundancy
  25. Myths About Apple Design
  26. “No Place to Hide”, Reviewed
  27. On the Future of MetaFilter
  28. Upheaval
  29. WWDC 2014 Schedule Released
  30. iWork for iCloud Updated With Improved Collaboration
  31. Surface Pro 3
  32. State of MetaFilter
  33. Apple to Avoid Slide Into Irrelevance by Releasing 3D Printer, and Other Bullshit
  34. Google Maps Adds Elevation Profiles to Bike Routes
  35. Apple and Google’s Motorola Settle
  36. From the File of Historical iTunes Update Bugs
  37. Investigating the Mysteriously-Disappearing /Users Folder
  38. Bring Back the Hidden /Users Folder in OS X 10.9.3
  39. Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
  40. Who Has Your Back? 2014
  41. No Place to Hide
  42. Gell-Mann Amnesia
  43. FCC Votes for Internet “Fast Lanes”
  44. Coda 2.5
  45. Rumour Mill Keep on Churnin’
  46. About Damn Time
  47. The Everything-but-Hachette Store
  48. Square Pulls Square Wallet From App Store, Unveils New Order-Ahead App
  49. FCC Head to Ostensibly Revise Broadband Rules Plan
  50. Nerdz Wit Attitudes
  51. “The Ferengi Plan”
  52. How Apple Beats the Demise of Music Downloads
  53. Gruber on Beats
  54. Mapping the International Availability of Entertainment Services
  55. Apple Reportedly Nearing Beats Acquisition
  56. Litely Looks to Improve Mobile Photo Editing
  57. iCloud Feels Like Another Apple Hobby
  58. Katie Cotton
  59. Safari’s Shared Links
  60. After Facebook Deal, Moves App Changes Privacy Policy
  61. Google Brings Play Music Streaming to Canada
  62. Encrypt What You Can
  63. App.net State of the Union
  64. Accel Announces a $40M Series A Investment in VSCO
  65. Mad Men’s Award-Winning Set Design
  66. Galaxy S5 “Explained”
  67. Close the EarPod Doors Please HAL
  68. The Great Smartphone War
  69. Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore Talks Windows Phone
  70. Angela Ahrendts Officially Starts Role at Apple
  71. Our Comrade the Electron
  72. Tech Companies Defy Authorities, Increasingly Notify Users of Secret Data Demands
  73. The Gladiatorial Virtuoso Who Still Sets the Standard
  74. The People Who Decide the Fate of Net Neutrality Used to Work for Verizon and Comcast
  75. Burying the URL
  76. The Problem With Payments

April 2014

  1. Android Silver
  2. iOS 7 “Brought About Only Superficial Changes”
  3. The Verge’s Moto 360 Feature
  4. Newsstand Needs to Go Away
  5. The New Leica T-System
  6. Tomorrow’s Updated MacBook Air Line to Offer Slightly Faster Processors
  7. On Peak iPad
  8. Netflix Researching “Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Technology”
  9. The Microsoft-Nokia Deal Has Closed
  10. The Net Neutrality Endgame
  11. Anti-Net-Neutrality “Fast Lanes” Are Bullshit
  12. The Newly Green Apple
  13. Google+ to Become a Platform Layer, Not a Product
  14. Hey, Remember Net Neutrality?
  15. Federico Viticci’s iOS 8 Wishes
  16. The Genius Estimate
  17. Towards a Better App Store
  18. Nobody Lives Here
  19. OS X Beta Seed Program
  20. Apple Steps Up Payments Push
  21. It Was a Good Day
  22. Beats Music’s First Hundred Days
  23. Pono Kickstarter Closes at $6.2 Million
  24. Nike Will Stop Making Wearable Hardware
  25. Facebook Launches Optional Nearby Friends
  26. “Plastered on Like a Cheap Garmin”
  27. Samsung on Design
  28. iPhone, Embiggened
  29. New Details on Amazon’s Smartphone
  30. Windows Phone 8.1 Is Somehow Working With Apple’s Passbook
  31. Time’s Windows Phone 8.1 Review
  32. This Presentation Can’t Be Opened Because It’s Too Old
  33. Happy Birthday, Spam
  34. “iCloud in Its Current Implementation Is Chock Full of Stupid”
  35. Behind “Bliss”
  36. Appeals Court Reverses Hacker/Troll “weev” Conviction and Sentence
  37. Memories of Steve
  38. iOS, OS X, and “Key Web Services” Not Affected by Heartbleed
  39. Morning for iPhone
  40. Dropbox’s Next Chapter
  41. Apple Testing Maps Notifications to Inform Users of Fixed Problems
  42. How Heartbleed Works
  43. Dropbox Announces Mailbox for Android and Desktop; Carousel
  44. There Won’t Be Another iPhone-Class Product for a Very Long Time
  45. Heartbleed
  46. The Rise of the Patent Troll
  47. New Twitter Profile Pages Are Rolling Out
  48. “Something Drastic Has to Change”
  49. Practical Advice for the Obsessive Compulsive Traveler
  50. Blue Bottle Buys Tonx
  51. Teaching the Camera to See My Skin
  52. Kelly stout alert
  53. Brendan Eich’s Freedoms and Mozilla’s Freedoms
  54. Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO
  55. WWDC 2014 Kicks Off June 2
  56. NYT Now
  57. USB-IF Posts First Photos of New Reversible Type-C Connector
  58. The Story of Cortana
  59. Apple Releases Safari 7.0.3
  60. Fools of the Year
  61. Opinionated?
  62. Mark All as Read
  63. “The Rest of the Players in the Ultra Mobile CPU Space Didn’t Aim High Enough”

March 2014

  1. The Case for Profanity in Print
  2. Three Mozilla Board Members Resign Over Choice of New CEO
  3. Profanity
  4. Office 255.5
  5. Microsoft Launches Office for iPad
  6. Sonnet’s New Rack Mount for the 2013 Mac Pro
  7. Twitter Rolling Out Photo Tagging
  8. Mark Zuckerberg Pursued Oculus Over Several Months
  9. The New HTC One
  10. At furbo
  11. Apple Rolling Out New App-Discovery Feature in App Store
  12. Obama to Seek NSA Curb on Call Data
  13. Apple in Talks With Comcast About Streaming Service
  14. Twitter to Shut Down Music App and Service
  15. Field Notes “Shelterwood” Edition
  16. Yahoo, Google and Apple Also Claim Right to Read User Emails
  17. Apple After Jobs: Pretty Much the Same as Ever
  18. Microsoft Sniffed Blogger’s Hotmail Account to Trace Leak
  19. What I Learned Hanging Out With Nigerian Email Scammers
  20. Trip Chowdhry Is My Favourite Analyst Ever
  21. On Preview, Tags and iOS 8
  22. Apple Launches Cheaper 8GB iPhone 5C
  23. Dumb sbnet
  24. A 26-Story History of San Francisco
  25. Why Do Big Magazines Hire Hacks for Big Tech Stories?
  26. Android Coming to Wearables With Moto 360
  27. Making Espresso for Milk Drinks
  28. Letting the Machines Mess With Your Text
  29. Sniff Petrol’s 2014 Formula 1 Guide
  30. Introducing OneNote for Mac
  31. The Jonathan Ive Interview
  32. CarPlay Thoughts
  33. Are Malls Over?
  34. Something That May or May Not Exist Has Been “Cancelled”
  35. The End of Trust
  36. High-Resolution Music Is a Marketing Ploy
  37. Apple iSight
  38. Flying ‘Internet Drones’ Over Africa Is a Dumb Fantasy
  39. Candy Crush Maker Decides It Will Be Worth About $7.6 Billion Before Its Collapse
  40. The Cutting Up of Content
  41. How to Distinguish the Shift Key States in iOS 7.1
  42. Listening to Nirvana With a Two-Year-Old
  43. iOS 7.1’s Incoming Call Screen
  44. CarPlay in iOS Simulator
  45. Dot One
  46. The Data Brokers
  47. Neil Young Launching PonoMusic for $399
  48. GeoGuessr House Rules and Hints
  49. The Satoshi Paradox
  50. Snooping and Charging
  51. The Invention of the AeroPress
  52. Considering CarPlay
  53. Mercedes-Benz Plans Aftermarket CarPlay Installations
  54. Apple Releases New iTunes Festival App
  55. Apple Should Provide iCloud Backup Storage for Every iOS Device
  56. If Only GnuTLS Had Been Open Source
  57. The Single-Pixel GIF Trick
  58. The Affordance of Intimacy
  59. The Doomsday Cult of Bitcoin
  60. Windows XP Still Has 29% OS Market Share
  61. Misconceptions About Changing Email Addresses
  62. Behind the Preplanned Oscar Selfie
  63. Gestures
  64. Then Again, Again
  65. GrubHub and Seamless Take a Tip
  66. When Start-Ups Don’t Lock the Doors
  67. Digesting Apple’s Security White Paper
  68. Samsung Galaxy S5 Comes With Premium App Subscriptions
  69. Apple CarPlay Debuts
  70. Then Again…
  71. iOS in the Car to Debut Next Week
  72. Tim Cook Soundly Rejects Politics of the NCPPR

February 2014

  1. “Like a Fire Alarm”
  2. Uber’s Unique Take on Supply and Demand
  3. Uber Cab Confessions
  4. iOS Security White Paper (PDF)
  5. Yahoo Webcam Images From Millions of Users Intercepted by GCHQ
  6. The “Watch” and the “Phone”
  7. VSCO Grid Wants to Be a Museum
  8. The VSCO Cam 3.0 Update
  9. Mail Improvements in OS X 10.9.2
  10. Apple Fixes Its Shit
  11. Facebook Quietly Ends Email Address System
  12. Perspective
  13. Dear Apple, Fix Your Shit
  14. Reverse Engineering ‘Frequency’
  15. Torpedoed
  16. The Nokia X
  17. Netflix Is Now Paying Comcast for Faster Streaming
  18. What House of Cards Got Right About Hackers
  19. Explaining Apple’s SSL/TLS Bugfix
  20. Stephen Bax and the Voynich Manuscript
  21. Burstly Reportedly Acquired By Apple
  22. Hypercard: Way Too Early
  23. Don’t Knock Tax
  24. Shawn Blanc’s 2014 Membership Drive
  25. Steve Jobs Commemorative Stamp to Be Released in 2015
  26. Om Malik Is Stepping Away From Full-Time Reporting
  27. (Partially) Recovering From a Bizarre iTunes Error Turned Catastrophic
  28. WhatsApp: The Inside Story
  29. WhatsApp’s Opinion on Advertising
  30. Apple Manager Mystique
  31. Samsung’s Updated Smartwatch Rumoured to Shun Android
  32. No, Upworthy’s Traffic Didn’t Get “Crushed” by Facebook’s Algorithm Change
  33. An Unexpected Botnet
  34. Clearing Things Up
  35. Comcast and Us
  36. Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly
  37. Pandora Suit May Upend Century-Old Royalty Plan
  38. Office for iPad: It’s Alive
  39. Obfuscation by Disclosure: A Lawyerly Design Pattern
  40. “Espresso” Roast Profiles Usually Suck
  41. The Story of “House of Cards Against Humanity”
  42. The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card
  43. Apple Supplier Responsibility Report 2014
  44. Android OEM Licensing Terms Leaked
  45. Editorially Is Shutting Down
  46. Comcast Set to Acquire Time Warner Cable for $45 Billion
  47. Lots of Smoke, But No Fire (Yet)
  48. VSCO Cam 3.0
  49. Mozilla to Sell Ads in Firefox
  50. Is Amazon Bad for Books?
  51. Nokia to Release an Android Phone This Month
  52. Apple Brings iTunes Radio to Australia
  53. Carl Icahn Abandons Apple Buyback Proposal
  54. The Pixel Density Race and Its Technical Merits
  55. Steve Wozniak Opens Mouth Again, Again, Again
  56. “Technology” and the “Media”
  57. LinkedIn Intro, Outro
  58. Behind the Trend Micro-NBC News Honeypots (PDF)
  59. Emerging Markets and Plans for Cash
  60. Cloudlike: The Morals of Appropriation of Contemporary Artworks
  61. That NBC Story Is 100% Fraudulent
  62. The Business Card Will Not Die
  63. Steve Wozniak Opens Mouth Again, Again
  64. Placebo-philes
  65. The Third Man
  66. Every Story Has a Name, Round Two: Fan Fiction
  67. Facebook Paper’s Gestural Hell
  68. Designing Unread
  69. Computer History According to Law & Order
  70. Tech Companies Disclose New Data About Number of NSA Requests Received
  71. Apple Acknowledges Continuing Issues With OS X Mail, Offers Manual Workaround
  72. Every Story Has a Name
  73. “1.24.14” Film
  74. Apple’s FDA Meeting Sets Pulses Racing

January 2014

  1. Microsoft Customers Always Win
  2. Nest Team Will Become Google’s Core Hardware Group
  3. Windows 8.1 Update Hides Tile Interface by Default
  4. The Best Photo Editing App for the Mac
  5. A Unified OS Doesn’t Make Any Sense
  6. 30 Years Ago, Apple Was the Same Company
  7. Lenovo to Acquire Motorola Mobility
  8. Hunting for Short Twitter Handles
  9. How Naoki Hiroshima Lost His Twitter Username
  10. Svbtle vs. Medium
  11. Why Beats Music Matters
  12. Svbtle: Open for Everyone
  13. The iPhone Company
  14. Tim Cook Admits iPhone 5c Share Lower Than Expected
  15. Caught Like Insects in a Web
  16. Spy Agencies Probe Apps for Personal Data
  17. Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All
  18. ‘I Like to Claim That I Bought the Second Macintosh Computer Ever Sold in Europe’
  19. My First Macintosh
  20. Thirty Years of Mac
  21. ‘The Mac Keeps Going Forever’
  22. iWork for iOS and Mac Updated
  23. Sunrise Asks for Apple ID and Password
  24. The Crackdown on Hackers Is the New War on Drugs
  25. Behold the Platonic Ideal of the Glasshole
  26. Squarespace Logo
  27. Thoughts on Beats Music
  28. Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
  29. Outbox is Shutting Down
  30. Making Changes
  31. Apple Must Continue to Ignore People Who Say “Apple Must”
  32. Google Remarketing Ads Found To Violate Canadian Privacy Law
  33. Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers
  34. Thank You
  35. Music Timeline
  36. Everything You Need to Know About Obama’s NSA Reforms, in Plain English
  37. Hoefler & Co.
  38. The Fight Over the Doves
  39. Frere-Jones Is Suing Hoefler for Half
  40. The Best Calendar App for iPhone
  41. If a Time Traveller Saw a Smartphone
  42. The Wrong Words
  43. Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules
  44. Tense Present
  45. Writing Is Thinking
  46. I’ll Shut Up After This One Last Thing About Nest
  47. The Hardware Advantage
  48. Google Was the Only Serious Bidder
  49. Windows 9
  50. Your Verse
  51. Beats Music Launching January 21
  52. Biggest Disappointment
  53. CES Can’t Quit Booth Babes
  54. Obama to Unveil NSA Reforms on Jan. 17
  55. Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Off the Lights?
  56. Obvious in Retrospect
  57. Bitmaps and SVGs
  58. New Gmail Feature Allows Anyone on Google+ to Email You
  59. Mavericks Updates Bypass FileVault
  60. Of Bits and Big Bucks
  61. The New York Times’ Redesigned Website
  62. Semil Shah’s Initial Thoughts On Jelly
  63. UTA Brand Studio’s Brand Indexing Bullshit
  64. Introducing Jelly
  65. App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013
  66. The World’s Best Bounty Hunter
  67. Michael Bay’s “We’ll Do It Live” Moment
  68. Pebble Steel Smartwatch Still Looks Like Ass
  69. Pebble Steel Smartwatch Leaks
  70. Why Would You Want to Side-Mount the Mac Pro?
  71. Last Year’s Apple Rumours Were Somewhat Bogus
  72. Best Art’s Picks for the Best Album Covers of 2013
  73. Letting Go of .Mail
  74. Let’s Talk About Fragmentation
  75. YouTube Goes 4K, VP9
  76. Computer Code in Film
  77. Apple’s 2013 Scorecard
  78. Changes Coming to Droplr
  79. Helplessly Pretty
  80. How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
  81. Re/code
  82. My Favourite Records on Rdio
  83. The Year We Broke the Internet
  84. What Could Have Entered the Public Domain Today?
  85. My Favourite Records of 2013

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