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Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents by Tim Hardwick at MacRumors via 512 Pixels Microsoft will prevent Office 2019 for Mac owners from editing their documents from July 13, a restriction the company is attributing to the productivity suite's expiring digital certificate... Microsoft has actually renewed the suite's certificate, but the fix can only be delivered through a software update. That means users of Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 are in the clear –…

This article has sat as an open tab in my mobile browser for I guess nine years now. Time to finally share it. "Last weekend’s New York Times profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had plenty of important revelations about Kalanick and the company he runs, both of which have been facing some tough PR lately. But there was one incidental, almost throwaway line buried in the piece that made me stop in my tracks: “In other personal pursuits, he once held the world’s second-highest score for the…

"Designed in California is a podcast dedicated to telling stories from across the whole scope of Apple history, hosted by Myke and Jason. We have been discussing Apple current events in depth on the Upgrade podcast since 2014! Now it's time to consider the bigger picture." Recent guest on The Max Frequency Podcast and friend of the blog, Myke Hurley, is making a new podcast alongside Jason Snell. It's a fusion of Upgrade and their favorite podcast The Rest is History. I am eager to give it a…

Thanks to Jason Kottke, I came across this art project. Each window is a story. It's fun to see the trends too. I noticed tons of nature, as if the residence are trying to escape the concrete jungle. Plenty of Asian massage parlors and feet. This particular one of a billboard for the law firm Morgan & Morgan being warped in glass actually is an accurate representation of how I perceive John Morgan. I do find it disappointing that there is some sort of crypto/NFT angle to the art. Somehow, it…

Logan Moore and Max are back once more to press F to pay respects for the Electronic Entertainment Expo by predicting summer shenanigans from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and Geoff Keighley. Download (58MB) — Episode Transcript Show Notes How Did We Do in 2025? MFP46 - "Spice Up the SEO" with Logan Moore Xbox 2026 Predictions

"There are so many aspects that make up a video game, and this means incredible ideas have the opportunity to exist alongside terrible ones, turning the game as a whole into something not all that remarkable despite containing aspects that are. This video is an examination and celebration of a few games that fall into this category." My pal Razbuten put out a new essay a few days ago. He explores neat mechanics in mediocre games. While I was watching/listening while cooking dinner, I got to…

Season 2 of Marathon looks sick. I continue to be in love with the game and am amped for all this new content and a fresh start. I mean, look at these screenshots and the cinematic trailer! I think the new level up system dubbed "The Cradle" will be a huge win and change of pace from burying stats in Faction trees. The KKV-9SD and its integrated suppressor sounds so, so fun. The n

I watched a little bit of Google IO this week. If you missed it, here's a great summary. One bit I did see was a demo of Google using AI to develop an operating system. "So using the new Antigravity and Gemini 3.5 Flash, we asked our agents to take on what we consider to be a highly complex and impressive task: Build a working operating system from scratch. We were surprised by what we found...Over 12 hours, 93 subagents working in parallel made over 15000 model requests and processed 2.6…

"My PSN account was hacked, seemingly as part of an ongoing sophisticated series of moves against both random and "prominent" users. Indeed, I was told by someone a few days ago that I was going to be targeted, and he was right. (He was also hacked.)" Colin shared quite the thread on Twitter yesterday afternoon.1 These types of hacks have been ongoing in the PlayStation community. I remember seeing a headline about the top trophy hunter in the world getting their account banged by hackers…

"But because the streaming system is tied to the camera, and not the player… well, even if I take control of the camera and fly far away, the streaming will just follow me and the city will materialise around me. The only solution, ultimately, would be to somehow get the GTA 3 source code, rewrite several sections of the program, and compile a brand new executable. So, I got the GTA 3 source code, I rewrote several sections of the program, and I compiled a brand new executable." A great video…

I've fallen out with Fortnite over the last couple of months. I think the last season I touched was the South Park one. It felt same-y, commercial, and it was harder and harder to get the boys together for a night. I still see the updates though and I remarked to my pals that it feels more and more like a Disney marketing machine. Seems my feelings were spot on. Cecilia D'Anastasio at Bloomberg reported on Epic banking on all this Disney IP and money to help Fortnite make a comeback. "The…

Now that my review of Marathon is out, I can finally share other's work on the game in good conscience. My YouTube algorithm is all sorts of messed up now, so I watched this yesterday per recommendation. I've heard one element of his thesis before; that the game and its commercial success are two different elements, but online commentary fuses the two then reduces them to whatever brings in the clicks. If I never had to see a Steam player count chart again. It's a big part why my review focuses…

"TRUE FINAL RELEASE DATE!! 🐭 🙌 Mina the Hollower launches May 29 for only $19.99! Prepare yourself for one of the greatest top-down adventures ever to be delivered directly to your soul for less than 20 bucks. Mark your calendars. Tell your friends. Wishlist now" Confirmed just over a week ago, Yacht Club Games has ended the silence on the indefinite delay that Mina the Hollower received back in October. At the time, Yacht Club cited delaying the game for: Finalizing design, art, and sound,…

I had never heard of Fred again.., but I do know Thomas Bangalter as half of Daft Punk. Jason Kottke shared this performance back when it was uploaded almost two months ago and it has sat in a tab on my laptop since then. I finally dove in this morning and have been loving it. I may not necessarily advise watching the show—there are waaaaaay too many flashing lights. The music is straight fire though. It's a rare treat in many ways. First and foremost, seeing Bangalter live in any way shape or…

sees new A24 trailer "Okay. Let's see if this is a horror movie or something else." reads description "From director Matt Johnson..." Okay. I am now seated.

Jason Kottke celebrating the continued return of Every Frame a Painting: I’m gonna call it: Every Frame a Painting, my all-time favorite YouTube channel, is back. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos stopped producing their fantastic video essays back in 2017 and while they have popped up here and there since then, they’ve mostly stuck to their retirement.1 But for the past few months, the duo have been releasing video essays produced in partnership with Criterion: Night of the Living Dead: Limitations…

"In the process of cooperating with the NYAG’s investigation, we shared with them our efforts over many years to shut down accounts found to be using Valve game items on gambling sites in violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement. We also shared with them our efforts to combat fraud and theft of users’ items and our extraordinary measures to stop gambling sites from taking advantage of Steam accounts and Valve game items. Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites." — via About the New York…

Have you ever been annoyed by your Mac's media keys triggering a random video in your web browser, doing something else weird, or by them doing… nothing? Even though your music player is right there? Me too! And so Keyhole was born. I cannot tell you how many times I want macOS to unpause my music for it to dig into my cavernous web of Safari windows and start playing some random video in the down deep that I have to spelunk for to pause. I gave Keyhole a test today and I can already tell it…

👋🏻 My review for Bungie's Marathon is live. Not that it is a video essay, but if you want a cool 5,500~ words about Bungie's best video game just know ya boy has got you covered. I've been living all up in Tau Ceti IV these last two months and don't think I'll be leaving soon. I was fortunate enough to get a review code for the game and really poured myself into the review. I wanted to make it personal, but sweeping. My mind was a mashup of old multi-page IGN reviews, Charles Dickens, and video…

Last week, Xbox published a manifesto that they sent internally to all teams from the new CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty. The letter received a whole lot of praise, but when I read it, I was left scratching my head. "The model that got us here won’t be the one that takes us forward." And yet... "Console is at the foundation, delivering a premium experience, and cloud brings that experience to any device. You can play where you want, and your games, progress, friends, and identity stay with…

Review Code Provided by PlayStationA copy of Marathon's Deluxe Edition (MSRP $59.99) was provided for review. While I am grateful and humbled, this opportunity did not influence my review of Marathon. Bungie and PlayStation did not see this review before going live or offer any input or guidelines beyond a standard embargo. Thank you for understanding. Ya boy's budget was stretched. "We create unmatched entertainment experiences designed to inspire friendship and lifelong memories." You'd be…

A seemingly rare treat to get an Apple focused essay from Craig. But I think Craig is missing (at least part of) the mark with this one. "The iPad should be radically (though obviously) touch-only. No keyboards. No pointers. No mice. No trackpads. Just your disgusting fingers flopping over the screen and mooshing into icons. It should not have any window’d modes. Each app should fill the whole screen and only the whole screen." My hot pink iPad is just that—touch-only. I don't pair a mouse with…

I love it when cartoons interact with the real world. This looks spot on.

"The first is that I have intensely desired to write outside of the constraints or pressure of doing something for the sake of a video. Going forward, my blog will contain essays on media I’ve been thinking about lately, as well as aspects of art, culture, entertainment, and whatever else is on my mind, in addition to updates on how my life and career have been going. Social media poses intense restrictions and forces people to be too succinct about complex things, and while I could continue to…

"The gist of it is simple: the mechanics of following a link are not important, and should be replaced by something that can make the link stand on its own. This is important for screen readers, but also for basic scannability: a 'click here' label has a lousy scent and requires you to take in the surroundings to understand what it really does. The rule is, in effect, a variant of 'show, don’t tell.'" A convicting read for me this weekend. I've been known to throw a link behind "here."…

👋🏻 I hope you don't mind a little creative soul searching disguised as a newsletter. It's been seven months since I last published a video. I can't seem to find, fabricate, or defend the time necessary to get one across the finish line. It feels like things pop up and take precedence. I feel it all sinking beneath me as I tread the waters of my own creativity. Maybe I am too rigid or particular. Maybe my editing ambitions are too high. Perhaps I need to be fast and loose; to just make make…