Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is like the KFC Double Down sandwich: It’s equal parts hideous and irresistible. You know that he’s a bigoted clown who has no idea what he’s talking about. You know he’ll never be president. But you find yourself obsessively clicking on every story that pops up about his presidential campaign because it is just so, so amazing.
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It’s easy to forget what a mess email was before Google came along, but Gmail completely changed the email landscape. The product offered a simple user interface, tons of storage, and it was completely free. Google has added plenty of features since Gmail first debuted, but there are still a number of nifty things Gmail can’t do on its own.
Luckily, there’s an app for that.
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We all depend on Amazon reviews to an extent, ensuring that whatever product we’re about to buy is worth our hard-earned cash. We also naturally assume that the reviews we’re reading are legitimate, which means Amazon needs to have some process to vet reviewers. Unfortunately, that process appears to have backfired in the case of indie writer Imy Santiago.
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This has been a heck of a week for paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free, but it’s not over just yet. Friday’s list includes 10 terrific apps that are normally all paid downloads, but each and every one of them is free right now for a limited time.
And it 10 apps aren’t enough, there are still a few apps on sale for free in yesterday’s post.
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George R.R. Martin, the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire books that A Game of Thrones is based on, has written up an interesting review of Marvel’s newest hit movie Ant-Man. While Martin “loved it” overall, he did point out something that he finds a little troubling in most Marvel movies he sees: Namely, the villains.
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Yikes. Fiat Chrysler announced on Friday that it’s recalling 1.4 million automobiles due to concerns about their software security. The announcement comes just days after hackers demonstrated a terrifying hack of a Jeep that was driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour.
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Following Verizon’s recent acquisition of AOL, the industry and readers at large are waiting to see if and how the deal might affect the news sites Verizon now owns, including Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget. Considering Verizon has long been one of net neutrality’s biggest enemies, the worries are fairly obvious.
If there’s one company that readers are likely even more concerned about, it’s Comcast, which has long been the subject of widespread Internet wrath do to complaints surrounding poor service and even worse customer service.
Now, it looks like Comcast is in talks to buy some of its biggest critics.
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With yesterday’s news that Space Jam 2 may actually be on the horizon, it’s as good a time as any to point out that the original Space Jam website from 1996 is, believe it or not, still up and running on Warner Bros’ website.
And it’s not alone. If you scour the corners of the web, you’ll find traces of atrocious mid-90s web design lurking in all sorts of strange places. As it turns out, there are quite a few notable domains that have simply been abandoned and serve as virtual time capsules to a time gone by. Below are a few of the more prominent examples.
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Weight Watchers has worked for millions of people looking to get shed some pounds by improving their diets, but not everyone can afford to pay the $19.95 monthly fee Weight Watchers charges. Sure, there are other ways to lose weight — I lost 50 lbs in just three months without help from Weight Watchers — but the Weight Watchers program has been proven to be effective for many, many people so it’s clearly worth trying.
Now, however, there’s an iPhone app that gives you access to everything the official Weight Watchers program has to offer, but there’s no monthly fee at all.
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Apple’s iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are already in production, and more images showing purported parts for the new smartphones have surfaced. After the first images showing the phone’s housing emerged a few days ago, a new set of pictures that supposedly show the iPhone 6s’s front panel has now also leaked.
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