New Player UI Being Deployed for YouTube + YouTube Ads
Over the weekend, users (self included) noticed a slightly redesigned player UI on YouTube. The new UI has...
macOS 26 Tahoe Beta Liquid Glass UI
Installed the developer beta for Tahoe (mainly to check out the Liquid Glass user interface) on my MacBook...
Microsoft Reported Saving Over $500 million via AI Amidst Laying Off 9,000
The savings came from their call center customer service personnel utilizing AI tools. These remarks by Microsoft’s Chief...
Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams Retiring
Apple issued a press release regarding the transition of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) role held by Jeff...
Thoughts on Aiarty Video Enhancer (Updated)
This is a desktop application (Mac and Windows) by Digiarty that utilizes on system AI models (downloadable from...
Microsoft is Laying Off More Personnel
This latest RIF (reduction in force) is estimated at around 9,000 (based on Microsoft’s 4% of its global...
Testing Video Gallery
Rudimentary test video gallery (removed) with the video media hosted on MEGA (and some existing YouTube ones to...
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Media Embed Test (de-Google/de-Platforming)
Testing the viability of using MEGA for hosting videos to replace YouTube (as part of my de-Googling) as...
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The Need to Unplug More Often (Yet Again)
After WWDC completed (a few weeks ago), I had intended to opine about just a few things from...
Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (Enhanced to HD/1080p)
On the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ profound commencement speech at Stanford University, the Steve Jobs Archive (launched...
Apple World Wide Developers Conference 2025
Apple kicked off its annual World Wide Developers Conference on June 9th in Cupertino (running until June 13th)...
That Japan Megaquake/tsunami Prophecy
Ryo Tatsuki is a well known Japanese manga artist whose most known/famous work is “The Future I Saw”...