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• Post #4339948

  As Atari signs a deal to turn 10 of its classic games into movies, here’s a repost of my column about the retro games we really want to see on the big screen: https://www.stuff.tv/features/another-mario-movie-put-these-retro-games-on-the-big-screen-instead/

• Post #4339947

  Column! This is what worries me about Apple’s incoming revamped rent-an-iPhone deal – and what it could get right https://www.stuff.tv/features/this-is-what-worries-me-about-apples-incoming-revamped-rent-an-iphone-deal-and-what-it-could-get-right/ ^ Digging into the known quantity of the UK replacement and the rumours of what might happen in the US.

• Post #4339946

  Apparently, Readly has now decided I am French and won’t take no (or non) as an answer.

• Post #4339945

  Weeknote! (Late, I know…) 🎧 Return of the iPod – why Apple’s music player is making a comeback 📱 Is Apple’s Upgrade Program(me) really an upgrade? 👾 Atari games as movies? Pfft. Put these retro classics on the big screen instead 🧱 Lego Star Trek and X-Files https://reverttosaved.com/2026/07/28/weeknote-28-july-2026-ipods-apple-upgrade-programme-lego-atari-movies-and-more/

• Post #4339944

  Good grief, the UX for the new financing on Apple’s UK site is a shitshow. It turns out that 0% *is* available for Macs, but the option only finally appears when you are several pages deep into checkout. That seems like… not a good thing. People will see the default and assume 0% isn’t available.

• Post #4339943

  Doesn’t say amazing things for the Mac App Store that I find it faster to search for something in a search engine than within the MAS itself. And that’s when I already know the name of what I’m looking for.

• Post #4339942

  Always lovely when devs take note of accessibility concerns. When I was writing about @quicheindustries Browser for Stuff recently, I found a vestibular trigger. Mentioned it to the dev. Now it’s not only been fixed, but users can opt to use the simpler tabs crossfade without having Reduce Motion on. (If you do have Reduce Motion on, the crossfade animation is enforced.)

• Post #4339941

  Weeknote: 💡 Why Lego should pay attention to a brick toy company lighting up the world 🔗 Quick Browser deep dive 💰 My thoughts on the US and UK iPhone Upgrade Program(me) replacements 🧠 Journalists don’t know everything 👾 Another retro doodad is here https://reverttosaved.com/2026/08/01/weeknote-lumibricks-quiche-browser-covid-nonsense-0-apple-financing-and-more/

• Post #4339940

  Column! Why Lego should be paying close attention to this upstart company lighting up the block-building world https://www.stuff.tv/features/why-lego-should-be-paying-close-attention-to-this-upstart-company-lighting-up-the-block-building-world/

• Post #4339939

  Any recommendations for a USB CD drive for Mac that isn’t insanely noisy? I’d like something I can use for CD playback that isn’t really distracting. (I know units are always going to be pretty noisy when ripping.)

• Post #2428816

  UK: “It’s still illegal to rip a CD you legally own to MP3!” Also UK: “Hey, let’s exempt those AI guys from copyright law!” FFS. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence

• Post #2369297

  At least there’s some good news today, in that David Attenborough made it to his century. The Gruan wrote a piece with 100 highlights from his looooong career: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/ng-interactive/2026/may/08/david-attenborough-100-most-spectacular-screen-moments

• Post #1808280

  By me: The ZX Spectrum and C64 have been reimagined as Nintendo DS-style retro gaming handhelds – and they look amazing https://www.stuff.tv/news/the-zx-spectrum-and-c64-have-been-reimagined-as-nintendo-ds-style-retro-gaming-handhelds-and-they-look-amazing/ (Well, the Speccy one looks amazing. The C64 one is very beige. But it still looks pretty cool.)

• Post #1667187

  By me: From new Macs to iOS, here’s what I’d like to see from new Apple CEO John Ternus. I hope everyone appreciates the image for this too. :D https://www.stuff.tv/features/from-new-macs-to-ios-heres-what-id-like-to-see-from-new-apple-ceo-john-ternus/

• Post #1650571

  FFS. Now a *national* school phones ban that will be cheered on by the perennially online without anyone having fully thought through the ramifications. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7vd6gpq1o

• Post #1634512

  @numericcitizen I suspect the thinking is it’ll be good enough when folded and basically an iPad mini when unfolded. But who knows?

• Post #1634083

  If this really is the back of the iPhone Ultra (or whatever it ends up being called), it’s interesting that Apple hasn’t taken the bump (sorry, _plateau_) further across. This looks like it’ll wobble on a table.

• Post #1633800

  Frankly amazed the design industry centred around Figma without smashing up all their computers.

• Post #1632926

  Apple being consistent here, since this was “downloaded from the internet”. But still funny, given that an Apple OS is warning me about downloading an Apple app from Apple’s own website.

• Post #1601189

  Luxembourg Eurovision entrant Eva Marija covers Look Mum No Computer’s Eins, Zwei, Dwei, and the vibe is… a bit different from the original! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRrcrc1JmrA (Often the sign of a solid foundation if it can be reworked like this.)

• Post #1525863

  Really great how Amazon.com has started figuring out my location and automatically converting USD to GBP. And by “really great”, I mean “bloody annoying”. Off to the VPN I go…

• Post #1525802

  “Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM Now here’s video I never expected to see. I hope this does well. Nice how the trailer throws shade on WB too. “The ACME Corporation is releasing this film for accounting purposes only.” :D

• Post #1463594

  Our garden is also somewhere birds tend to fly over rather than than hang around in. But we managed to get a small number of regulars that use it like the Leigh Delamere services. (Also, once you lose goldfinches, they’re not coming back for ages – possibly ever.)

• Post #1463509

  This ‘copying between two microSD cards’ thing may have been an error on my part.

• Post #1452904

  I wrote about smartphone bans in schools for Stuff: https://www.stuff.tv/features/heres-why-a-school-smartphone-ban-is-a-very-bad-idea/ (I also had a comically short spot on BBC News due to this. It was very “headteacher talks a lot and gets properly lit/filmed” followed by “and now here’s some tech journo on Zoom for 12 seconds”.)

• Post #1395850

  Weeknote! ⏳ The internet’s time machine is starting to run out of time itself 🤮 Liquid Glass is still awful 💻 MacBook Air M5 reviewed 👾 Neo Geo is back. Again. And it’s still spendy. 🧱 Loads and loads of Lego https://reverttosaved.com/2026/04/19/weeknote-19-april-2026-holes-in-the-internet-neo-geo-the-new-macbook-air-lego-and-liquid-glass/

• Post #1321772

  Bit of a different column today, which I hope people find interesting: The internet’s time machine is starting to run out of time itself // Nothing on the internet lasts, and that’s why the Wayback Machine’s problem is your problem too https://www.stuff.tv/features/the-internets-time-machine-is-starting-to-run-out-of-time-itself/

• Post #1260124

  Curious that Microsoft will refund an Xbox Cloud Gaming subscription if you ask for it fairly quickly (definitely within the day). Handy, also, when you just need to quickly check something out and take a few screen grabs. :D

• Post #1247787

  I’ve seen a few takes of late that Liquid Glass is actually Pretty Good Now™, or that upgrade laggards are scared that Apple will merge its operating systems. Most of my devices remain on pre-26 systems because of Liquid Glass. In part, that’s about usability. But mostly, it’s still about accessibility. At best, Liquid Glass is poor, even with accessibility controls turned on. There are so many holes, and it’s clear Apple won’t deal with them, since we’re now on the road to the 27 systems.

• Post #1247607

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tuomas_h/116397694769738857 100% agree. I *need* accessibility on for my general work, due to motion sensitivity issues. But Reduce Transparency (and, to a lesser extent, Reduce Motion) is now so flawed that my main work Mac is still on Sequoia. I don’t recall ever having had a main Mac lag so much. But also in those grabs, those absurd drop shadows that make the buttons the most visually prominent thing on the screen, along with the insanely massive window corners...