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TinyStart is a fast, minimalist launcher for macOS that focuses on the essentials: opening apps, folders, links, and search engines.

Ubiquiti's new UniFi network-attached storage device, UNAS 4, is a stylish, quiet, and fast 4-drive NAS designed for home offices. It's ideal for file sharing, Time Machine backups, and off-site cloud...

The share button solves the problem of Mastodon users being on unique servers. It can also be customized and dynamically generated.

There’s now an official “Share to Mastodon” widget.

Joost de Valk announced that FAIR will no longer focus on WordPress and will instead invest its resources in TYPO3. Those who no longer want to use FAIR's connector plugin but still want the feature t...

Why I switched from Gmail to Fastmail, and why Proton Mail didn't work for me.

Current rethinks RSS for the modern reader. Your feeds flow like a river. No inbox anxiety, no unread counts. Just beautiful reading.

Customers of Fathom Analytics can now connect to and associate Google Search Console data with their sites, and report on Google referrer data directly in their dashboard.

Research by AISI shows that AI can assist with more basic tasks in the workplace, but falls short on tasks that require higher-order thinking.

How sites are making an offline connection with their audience through an old medium.

Why not learn while you also doom scroll? This demonstration of how social media algorithms work is also fun to use.

After the Publishing Maintenance Working Group surveyed publishers, tool developers, reading system developers, independent authors, ebook retailers, social DRM providers, conversion vendors,…

Google is adding the next-gen JXL image format back to Chrome after controversially removing it in 2022. Will re-adding it breathe new life into the format, or is it too late?

Starlink quietly enabled third-party AI model training on its customers' personal data by default. Fortunately, there's a way to opt out.

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol signals a shift to agentic commerce, raising significant questions for e-commerce SEO, Shopify, and WooCommerce.

With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent,…

All major browsers now support the hidden=until-found attribute on the Details disclosure element, allowing visitors to search and auto-expand hidden text on pages without JavaScript.

Managing apps and services on macOS with the command-line interface (CLI) tool Homebrew just got a lot easier with Taphouse, a graphical user interface (GUI) for the popular package manager.

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Enzor-DeMeo, and then Jake Archibald, Mozilla's Web Developer Relations Lead, to assure users th...

SubGrid is a free, open-source tool that visualizes subscription costs to help manage monthly budget decisions more effectively.

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Jake Archibald, Mozilla's Web Developer Relations Lead, to assure users that there will be an AI...

Google deemed Preferred Sources a success due to high usage and doubling of traffic to sites from Top Stories. Google announced that the feature is being rolled out to all regions and languages.

In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge...

The privacy-first GA4 alternative, Fathom Analytics, added the ability to block and exclude unwanted referral traffic.

Charts in Google Search Console (GSC) can now have custom annotations added to them to highlight events that may affect search performance.

The Mastodon engineering team added SocialMediaPosting Schema.org markup to version 4.5 of its software to optimize social posts for search engines and other systems.

The new Alertmouse tool monitors people and brand mentions as simply as Google Alerts, but provides better results and reporting similar to those from expensive contract-based enterprise solutions.

Helium provides an alternative to Google Chrome for Mac users who don't want AI Mode and Gemini forced into the browser and prefer privacy over Google's data collection.

Meredith Whittaker, Signal's President, published an open letter on Mastodon addressing concerns over Signal's reliance on AWS.

The independent and privacy-focused email service Fastmail now has native desktop apps for accessing emails, calendars, contacts, and files.

The newest version of Google Chrome displays AI features in the browser without any way to remove them. Fortunately, there's a workaround that will allow you to continue using Chrome without having to...

Until now, there hasn't been a Best Current Practice RFC IETF standard for how bots should crawl sites. The authors of a new Crawler Best Practices draft hope to fill that gap for bots and publishers.

Your new connectivity command center.

My fool-proof method for displaying geo-targeted content that is easy to implement and can be optimized for Google Search.

Cloudflare introduced new rules for the Robots Exclusion Protocol to help publishers specify how AI bots can access their content.

In September of 2014 I started Hall Analysis as a SEO audit and analysis company for businesses and agencies that wanted to deliver high quality, in-depth SEO audits and analysis. I am extremely proud...