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The best iPhone and iPad photography apps Fastbackward Apple’s Photos provides algorithmic ‘Memories’, designed help you revisit much-loved experiences to make happy faces at. But if you want to gawp at every photo taken on today’s date throughout the years? Tough. Well, unless you install Fastbackward. This app groups your pics by year, and lets you dive into each one to check out location info and metadata. It also makes the tedious business of library pruning less soul-crushing because you can check in daily to delete the duds. But if even that feels like too much effort, hit ‘Show a…
All the top movies to check out this year. What are you looking forward to the most? Josh O’Connor in Disclosure Day Summer 2026 is here, which means blockbuster season is just getting started. But megabucks movies are only one part of the upcoming movies banquet awaiting us this year. Hollywood has a full slate of new sequels and fresh adaptations ready to roll on film both at movie theatres and on home streaming services, as well as some entirely original stuff for movie lovers to sink their teeth into. From hidden extraterrestrials to charismatic stuntmen, there’s no shortage of…
We’re more than a decade into the music streaming era, and if we’ve learned anything thus far, it’s that physical media and streaming services can coexist. Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music combine to account for roughly a billion users, and there’s no underestimating the behemoth that is the streaming industry. However, physical media isn’t exactly hurting either. Vinyl is the most popular physical media format, with 46.8 million EPs and LPs sold last year in the U.S. The medium started making its comeback in the late 2000s after virtually dying in the heyday of CDs, and it’s officially surging…
I’ve owned OLED TVs since 2015. Over the past decade, I’ve sweated over OLED burn-in for the longest time. Thankfully, my obsessive routines have so far prevented the threat of permanent image retention. Yet when it comes to my latest TV tech defect, there’s really no hard and fast way to fix the problem. Color banding might not be nearly as well known as OLED burn-in, but for mega AV dweebs like myself, it’s an absolute thing. Color banding has semi-ruined some of my favorite PC games, yet if you know what TV settings and software measures to deploy, this…
Backrooms is a new horror film from A24, based on the series of Backrooms short films that director Kane Parsons has been releasing on his YouTube channel since 2022. And the original germ of the story can be traced to a creepy bit of internet folklore. Backrooms is something of a home-grown internet success story; the movie taking in over $70 million in its debut weekend, demolishing its $10 million budget. Kane Parsons is all of 20 years old, and was just 16 when he started uploading his Backrooms shorts to YouTube. Some people have had a hard time believing…
I have been deep into OpenClaw for a while now. It is a great tool, genuinely, but at some point I started wondering if there was something that did everything it does and then some. So I went looking. I am the kind of person who, once something is working, immediately starts wondering what the ceiling is. The ceiling on OpenClaw turned out to be lower than I wanted. So I went looking, found Hermes, and things got a lot more interesting. Hermes beats OpenClaw in the ways that actually matter Do more, with fewer tokens If you have not…
Driving in India means learning to expect your signal to disappear at the worst possible time. One moment you have full bars, and the next you are crawling through an underpass, stuck in a basement parking lot, or driving across a highway stretch where the network simply gives up. I cannot even count how many times an app has frozen mid-drive because it suddenly needed an internet connection to function. That is exactly why I have come to appreciate a handful of Android Auto apps that keep working even when connectivity fails. They do not panic the second the network…
When deciding on a streaming device, you have a lot of options. Most people don’t need the insanely powerful Nvidia Shield TV which has a 256 core CPU. By far the most economical options are streaming sticks; these sticks usually cost under $50 and simply plug into an empty HDMI port on the back of your television and are powered by one of the TV’s USB ports. They connect over Wi-Fi, and give you full access to all the streaming options you could ever want. The vast majority of people will pick a Roku or Amazon Fire TV streaming stick,…
The Last Kingdom is an excellent historical drama that ran for five seasons between 2015 and 2022. Set in the country that would become England in the ninth and tenth centuries, it follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), the dispossessed son of an English lord who grows up among Dane raiders. That puts him in a unique position to understand people on both sides of the long-running, violent conflict between native Saxons and Dane invaders. We watch him as he tries to reclaim his home and in the process becomes an unsung hero of history. The Last Kingdom has a…
A while ago, I made a pretty big change to how I watch movies and shows — I canceled my monthly Netflix subscription and turned my NAS into a personal streaming setup using Plex. When I first set everything up, I used Plex for free for months. But over time, I got deeper into the ecosystem — remote streaming, better media management, hardware transcoding, and the convenience of having everything work smoothly across devices. Eventually, paying $250 for the Plex Pass lifetime subscription felt justified. That’s why the recent price jump hit so hard. With Plex Pass now sitting at…