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Apple had taken a step back its USB-C only doctrine with reverting back to MagSafe for power, 3.5mm headphone jack for audio, HDMI for display, and embedded SD card reader for SD cards. These were the some of the ports and features most professionals wanted out in the field without carrying an additional item. It…
With the leak macOS 26 may be named Tahoe, I’m seeing reports on the list of the devices that will be left behind. No doubt this is more a concern for personal Macs than ones handled in an organization — they would already have made an upgrade plan. It is likely Apple will release few…
It’s that time of the year for Apple’s product announcement: WWDC. We already know the California-based company will announce new OS with some witty jokes, but we’ve already seen two major issues with annual release cycle: one. the supposed major update is no longer significant enough, and two. the aside from macOS, all of the…
MacBooks are known for its clamshell mode — I think laptop’s popularity plays a big role. It does make sense why it could be more appealing. As of now, maxed out M4 chip is available on both MacBook Pro and Mac Studio, and the heat throttling from form factor is known to be minimal. I’ve…
Spoiler alert for the game ahead. The game Inscryption was released in 2021, and I suspect most of the hypes and attentions it had once received have settled down since. Back in 2021, I ended up postponing writing a piece for the game, as I believed the game was technically being played out and discussed…
Spoilers ahead of the game. I did a spiel on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 recently, and I wanted to elaborate on the subject. If you haven’t read it already, that one does not have any major narrative spoilers and primarily focused on the gameplay aspect. And for this particular piece, much of it relies on…
This is sort of a PSA for all the future developers out there. Developers, do remind yourselves: emails are not permanent. When asking for emails to create a login credential, I suggest you come up with an auxiliary system that allows email address to be changed or updated in the future. And when it is…
I have been migrating from one Mac to another whenever I upgrade the machine. Often it is delivered with the convenience that I get almost identical experience as before, but only on the newer hardware. That said, the part of the ‘migration’ includes, though I didn’t verify it, copying over login items and system extensions…
After adding some number of accessories to the HomeKit, my HomePod usually returns ‘some accessories were unresponsive’ error, even though the scene is correctly set. Same goes with Macs and iPhones. I can see there is some latency, but it’s nearly impossible to troubleshoot as HomeKit generally does not have troubleshooting guidelines aside from generic…
Normally, iOS and any apps on it that have a password prompt should label it as such. The system recognizes the textbox is reserved for password then offers to fill-in automatically from the password manager of choice. But not all apps have properly labeled its password prompts, let alone iOS’. Anyone who has more than…
I think I can comfortably say most readers have already seen the beautifully rendered trailers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 one way or the other. The premise that anyone older than the number on the giant monolith would die is simple, yet convincing, enough to get a world of live-action JRPG rolling. The number is…
With the introduction of iOS-like Control Center on macOS, many Menu Bar icons can now be hidden unless they are absolutely necessary. I have most of the icons hidden unless they are active. But there are times when having a similar level of access the older icons had are simply needed — such as what…
Stellaris is a 4X game started in 2016, and its DLCs are still being released as of 2025. I would argue the game itself is alive and has been successful thus far. But as the title suggests it, the game has gone through several major overhauls during its lifetime and we are going through its…
Before I start going through the op-ed, I do need to state there could be some confusions no thanks to mixed use of marketing terminologies. There are two competing, albeit not in the same league to begin with, standards of “remote gaming”, one is from the cloud and the other is from your own device,…
In the recently released Hotfix #30, there is a known issue on Baldur’s Gate 3 where the game starts to have graphical glitches once fast-traveled to a different location. On DirectX 11 mode, the screen simply goes dark except for the UI; on Vulcan, the screen’s color is distorted to pink or purplish hue. It…