Author: Jack Slater

  • Animal Crossing’s New Island Tour Creator

    Animal Crossing’s New Island Tour Creator

    Nintendo released a little single-purpose Animal Crossing: New Horizons website that you can use to make either a poster advertising your Animal Crossing island or a short video about the island. Oddly, the website is only available through the end of this year. The process of getting photos and videos off of a Nintendo Switch is so…

  • The Secret Life of Components: Hinges

    The Secret Life of Components: Hinges

    Tim Hunkin’s ongoing series about the parts that he uses to make his contraptions continues in episode three: Hinges. Tim is an absolute legend and he can even make hinges interesting. The series has so far covered working with chains and LEDs. You can find out more about The Secret Life of Components at Hunkin’s…

  • Apple Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Review

    Apple Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Review

    Apple’s iPad devices are feeling more and more like laptop alternatives, for better or for worse they are now overloaded with features that let them multitask and confuse people who just want to use them without learning about hidden functionality that allows that multitasking. All of the multi-tasking functionality is hidden behind swipes and gestures…

  • Apple Discontinued the iMac Pro and HomePod

    Within the past week Apple has discontinued the full-size 2018 HomePod and the 2017 iMac Pro. Both of these devices have replacements, but I imagine some people are a little disappointed that Apple doesn’t keep updating these devices and selling them as they worked for certain purposes. The 2017 iMac Pro was originally intended to replace the…

  • Bonesweeper Prototype Released

    Cheese, the developer of Hive Time and other games, has released a new free or “name your own price” game prototype with the most metal name for a game post-Crüe Ball called Bonesweeper for Windows, macOS, and Linux. In Bonesweeper you’re a paleontologist searching for fossils at a dig site and trying not to break…