Well, closing off this year's April Fool's roundup, this one is apparently from Apple.  Android has cute vinyl collectible figures?  Why not Apple?  The funny thing is that I had just listed to the recent Vergecast podcast and they were talking about Apple's early days and Steve Jobs' idea of "Mr. Macintosh" - so my brain went directly to "Oh...this is basically Mr. Macintosh" 😹

I never really got the "I lost my socks" trope that seems common in North America. I've had socks with holes in them, but never found only one of a pair. Still...tech that locates your socks using some kind of mesh network...funny...sort of.

OK, this was an April Fools's from Hue, the smartlight folks.  You may get a good chuckle from this but this may, in fact, be one of those sleeper ideas.  Why just have moodlighting that changes and pulses with your TV?  Why not have a small dancefloor of LED lights that make the house feel like a disco? ;-)

OK...so THIS one got me.  It was the first April Fool's thing I was reading today, and it came as an email...sooo...I got to the end of the email and slapped my head... APRIL FOOLS!!! Thank you, Juiced.GSApple-1 successor prototype discoveredAPRIL 1, 2026 — LEOMINSTER, MA — Fifty years ago today, Apple Computer Company was founded to sell their debut product, the Apple-1 computer.

Another smartwatch bites the dust....  About three years ago I replaced my Sony Smartwatch 3 with a TicWatch Pro 3.  I would have loved to have kept onto the Sony smartwatch, but the band had rotted away after 5 years of daily use, and the MacGyver method of 3D printing a holder to get a generic band only worked so long (the holder itself broke after a while).  The battery also barely

Oh, come on, Mozilla!Looks like Mozilla is shutting down Pocket (originally known as "Read it later").The move is not unexpected, if you've been paying attention to Mozilla's developments over the past few years.  They've divested from the Open Badges things that they helped create, they divested from the VR stuff they also created, and now they are killing off another legitimately useful tools. 

 Well...this one was a suprise... Grammarly is doing a Year in Review, and I guess by whatever metrics they've collected and measured from the emails, proposals, and papers I've written in 2024 I am an "inventor" 😹

Reddit has the weirdest measuments for how long you've been on their platform.  They measure time spent on there as "bananas scrolled" - which brings to mind jokes like "Americans will use almost anything to measure things, except metric" 😹.  After being presented with communities like ForgottenTV and MartialArts, I joined those.  Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and old TV shows, and

My complete and utter 🐂💩 cardWell, this was a weird one for me. I saw this posted on people's timelines on LinkedIn, and I thought I'd give it a try to see what kind of things it gleaned about me.  I didn't change any of the automatically generated text (I assume it's some kind of GPT). I used LinkedIn more in 2023 than I had used it in the past.  And, mostly to boost messages posted

At the end of  November, I decided to scale back a lot of my Twitter usage (no, I won't call it "X").  I've been using Fedica to cross-post across mastodon, bluesky, and twitter since this summer (and when threads becomes available, I'll post on threads too). Meanwhile I have 5 tabs open in the browser, and four apps on my old phone (now used like an "iPod touch" style device) that I use