Does what Meta do surprise anyone anymore? This past year there have been several news reports about TikTok challenges such as the “devious licks” challenge in schools, where students would vandalize classrooms. Unfortunately for common decency, these challenges were made up by a firm paid for by Meta (formerly Facebook) to tarnish the image of TikTok. The stories would originate on Facebook, and were then picked up by the local news.

The iconic iMac G4 turns 20, Facebook is still creepin’ on you, and more.

That fancy new smartphone is more expensive than you may have realized.

If you are a fan of Ted Lasso, you can download Richmand Team Logo wallpapers for your computer.

Anyone who used a Macintosh in the 90s has seen the flying toasters screen savers, and you can now relive those times in your browser. Be sure to take your browser to full screen for the full affect.

Apple’s Airpods are pretty small, but I never thought seeing what happens after I swallowed one.

Sometimes you have to build what Apple won’t make.

There is a bug in iOS that breaks wifi when you connect to an access point named %p%s%s%s%s%n. No word yet on whether the person who found the bug is still entering random printf statements to name their SSID.

I love a good hack, and this one is great. Here is a project that allows you to upload data using Apple’s Find My network. Apple’s Find My network is pretty cool. Apple devices can see other Apple devices around them, and upload information to Apple that owner of said devices can use to find their devices. It’s all done securely, and is really cool. This is how Apple’s new AirTags work, since they do not have any sort of wifi or cellular capability.

One difference between Macs and other computers with 3.5" disk drives was that the Mac relieved you of the work of pulling the disk out of the drive. The Mac had a powered eject that would gently eject the disk from the machine and basically handing the disk to you. This works great where you have gravity, but it has some issues in space.

What do you do when your Macbook has stopped working? How about stuffing a Raspberry Pi 4 inside.

The Apple II didn’t support lowercase letters and now you know why. Inverse characters are a nice hack though.

At the Apple event, Apple brought out the multi-colored iMacs. I’m sure these will be a big hit with social influencers and YouTubers. The general consensus is that they look great, except for one thing. The chin. Apple could have install the computer behind the screen and eliminated the chin at the expense of making the computer thicker. Heaven forbid we have a Mac that is thicc. But, I have a theory…