Author: Jack Slater
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Selaco Shows off Combat in Trailer
Selaco looks like a fun new sci-fi FPS and it is using the free-software GZDoom engine which is a very cool thing to see as a proponent of free software game engines. Check out the first trailer of the game’s combat above. Hopefully the developers of this retro FPS don’t milkshake duck themselves like Ion…
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The Secret Life of Components: LEDs
The second in Tim Hunkin’s eight-episode series for makers, The Secret Life of Components, is up. This episode focuses on LEDs. A subject I finally know a tiny bit about because some mechanical keyboards can use them, but there is a lot more to learn from Hunkin about LEDs and he goes through a short…