To say the “new” Mac Pro is controversial among the enthusiast Macintosh fan scene would be an understatement. For as many people are out there who can say positives about the machine, there are just as many who have quite a bit negative to say, usually focusing on the price more than anything else. That’s […]
A few weeks ago, just a bit before WWDC, there was a small Apple announcement which caught me by surprise — an update to the iPod Touch product line! I know, I’m late as hell to write about this but whatever. I’m going to be completely honest here. As the title suggests, I thought Apple […]
Last Tuesday my Stranger Things Coke order, which included 2 cans of the infamous 1985 “New Coke” formula, came in . This is something I’ve been wanting to try for much of my life, but especially over the past few years have been thinking Coke as a company should bring back in some capacity and, […]
Yes, I know it’s quite the dramatic title. Figured I’d use tactics that were common on YouTube to get some extra attention to this article — more than it already would get naturally. “Play their game” as they say. The other night I finally committed to a decision I had been considering for some time […]
Today, June 12th 2019 marks 10 years since the mandated day that terrestrial television — you know, the “over the air” type you get with an antenna — was set to end analog broadcasts and go “all digital.” It’s actually one hell of a complicated story — far too much for me to go into […]
It’s been a week since Apple’s WWDC event where, among many other things, they finally announced a new Mac Pro, nearly 6 years after the release of the, in retrospect, maligned “trash can” 2013 system. I wanted to let a little time pass before I gave my thoughts on the system, not only so I […]
I know, I know — I said last year I wasn’t going to cover E3 this year and I’m not. Hell, I didn’t know and wasn’t intending on watching Microsoft’s presentation yesterday but a friend made me aware of it and suggested I check it out so we could talk about it later in actual […]
Apparently, in the YouTube scene, we’re going through another “Adpocalypse” — a situation on YouTube where advertising revenue takes a dive because advertisers got pissed about something some big YouTube content creator did and YouTube decides to be more strict on what content can actually be monetized on the site. For those keeping track, this […]
I know, I’ know — I’m beyond late for writing about this. Get over it, I wanted to weigh in myself on this hilarious little attempt Best Buy made back in late April on getting rid of some of their certainly slow-moving stock of the PlayStation Classic console. Here’s what the deal was – on […]
June 2nd marked one year since a work colleague gave (yes, gave) me a Power Mac G5 computer – my first working Macintosh system and, of more interesting note, a specimen of the last generation of PowerPC based Macintosh computers. With me being the kind of tech enthusiast I am the machine was naturally a […]
Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is happening right now in San Jose, California and, as you can imagine, the tech world is focused on this event as sharply as they can be on every aspect of this event, given it sets the stage for the next year of professional end computing and the Apple […]
It’s been a bit of a strange week for Xadara. I haven’t posted much in about a week, but my site traffic has been higher than it has in a long time for reasons I just can’t quite understand. The other weekend I had a spike in traffic which made sense – I was writing […]
Back in July of 2018 I wrote an article (YouTube Is *Still* Showing Me Channels I’ve Unsubscribed From In My Subscription Feed) discussing YouTube showing channels I’ve unsubscribed to in my subscription feed – a problem that many seem to have. I can presume others are having this issue, anyway, for one simple reason: the […]
In a last effort for me to milk the Firefox add-on issue from over this weekend, and to at least let people who may find the page know what’s up, Firefox release 66.0.4 was made available yesterday and contains in its release notes: “Repaired certificate chain to re-enable web extensions that had been disable” The […]
Last night was a pretty big mess for Firefox users (like myself) as the add-on functionality of the browser was, effectively, completely broken, due to an issue involving a security certificate expiring, rendering every add-on for the browser invalid. To put it really simply, a while back Mozilla began validating add-ons themselves, giving them a […]