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My first introduction to The Browser Company was back when Arc was still in its early beta days, and I ended up becoming one of its earliest adopters. Arc was easily the best browser I had ever used, and nothing else even came close to how well it fit my workflow. But like most good things, it did not last. The team eventually shifted its focus away from Arc and onto its new browser, Dia. I tried it a few months ago and honestly hated it. Arc had so many features that every modern browser should copy, yet Dia launched…

Science fiction is, to me, that genre gift that keeps on giving. While it may not be as popular a genre when it comes to box office returns, streaming services are still greenlighting lots of new sci-fi projects. From standouts on Amazon Prime Video to Apple TV+’s lineup of predominantly sci-fi prestige shows, it’s a great time to get invested. But there’s something about revisiting older sci-fi from when I was growing up that really speaks to that nostalgic part of my brain. Most of that output comes from the early to mid-2000s, an era of film that hasn’t aged…

Remember 1997? When the internet was still figuring itself out, when MP3s felt like the future, and when a scrappy little media player called WinAmp burst onto the scene? Well, in the era of cloud streaming, WinAmp isn’t just alive and kicking, but it’s available on more devices—perfect for turning an Android phone into the ultimate minimalist music player. The MP3 king that never really died How WinAmp survived obsolescence and kept its cult alive Back in April 1997, two University of Utah students named Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev did something remarkable. They created a Windows audio player so…

Not every single movie can be a major box office hit. Even critically acclaimed films sometimes fall flat, due to a variety of factors, from poor marketing to an overly competitive release schedule. It’s just the nature of things. Sometimes these movies end up fading away entirely, destined to be another entry in the box office bomb category and serving as a warning to other films and studios. But sometimes, these financial failures can find a second life elsewhere. Back before the days of streaming, these would be your cult classics that would eventually find a fanbase to appreciate them…

You probably start your day the same way many of us do: reach for your phone and instinctively tap the green circle for Spotify, or the red notes for YouTube Music or Apple Music. The music streaming wars effectively ended years ago for most people, with the big three occupying nearly all the mindshare. However, there’s a music streaming service that’s been perfecting the playlist experience for years, and it deserves more attention than it gets: Deezer. The service offers a one-month free trial of Deezer Premium (not available in all regions), making it easy to choose the right plan…

All the best works of science fiction make us think. What will the future be like? How is technology changing the shape of our lives? What is the nature of consciousness? Westworld hit on all three of these buttons. The HBO show was set in the near future when human beings have created human-like androids nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. The action takes place in a theme park where human visitors interact with these robotic “hosts” to play out fantasy scenarios, before the hosts inevitably gain consciousness and turn against their human creators. Unfortunately, Westworld was just one of…

The Walking Dead may be the ultimate post-apocalyptic franchise: the original show, about survivors trying to unite after a zombie plague destroys civilization, ran for 11 seasons, and that’s without counting the numerous spinoffs. A great many characters die brutally in that span, and they were just as likely to be killed by their fellow human beings as by the undead. It was a very grim show. But that doesn’t mean it has no competition. There are actually a ton of shows set after the end of the world, and they all tend to be pretty gritty, for obvious reasons;…

You don’t need me to tell you that YouTube is getting worse in all sorts of ways. From clickbait thumbnails to AI slop to Shorts being shoved into every corner of the service (and much more), it’s harder than ever to navigate and find what you’re looking for on YouTube. It’s interesting to take a closer examination of one specific area of big problems like this to break them down. I recently had a renewed realization of how poor YouTube’s search results are, which I shouldn’t be surprised at, given how Google’s results have degraded over recent years. Finding clear,…

Adapting a book for the big screen is not an easy thing to pull off. Fans of a book can be very particular when it comes to how a film handles the source material. I would know, because I’m one of them. I can’t even count the amount of times that I have walked out of a theater completely disappointed with yet another mediocre adaptation. The life of an avid reader is not an easy one, I can assure you. But every once in a while, I come across a film that just gets it. No adaptation is going to…

Using cloud-based AI tools can be frustrating. Since I primarily use Obsidian for note-taking, whenever I wanted to ask ChatGPT or NotebookLM about something, I had to copy my notes into a separate window. My personal knowledge base felt locked away from the AI that could actually help me synthesize it. I also worried about my private notes being sent to servers I don’t control. Then I discovered MCP, and everything changed. MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It’s a general protocol for connecting AI models to external tools, but what makes it transformative for me is how well it…