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  Column! I’m still using a six-year-old Apple MacBook Air M1 – here’s why I don’t need to upgrade. https://www.stuff.tv/features/im-still-using-a-six-year-old-apple-macbook-air-m1-heres-why-i-dont-need-to-upgrade/ This one is sure to thrill Apple’s accounts team.

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  OK, so I was a C64 lad but am keen to get more into the Speccy. I’ve obvs played many Speccy games but if you’re a *big* fan, what are the very best – old *and* new? BUT! No games that are objectively better elsewhere. (So: no Head Over Heels or Chase HQ, say.) And the games need to hold up today.

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  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/

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  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.

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

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  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/

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.)

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  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/

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  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/

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  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.)

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  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

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  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

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  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.)

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  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/

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  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

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

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  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.

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

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  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.

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  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.)

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  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…

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  “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

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  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.)

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

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  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”.)

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  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/

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  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/

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  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