Author: Alexander Price

As a self-hosting enthusiast and someone who writes about cool new open source tools, I install and test way too many tools and services every week. Yes, I have a separate environment fully set up for testing, and things break sometimes. For the longest time, I thought that backing up my Docker configuration just meant backing up my containers. As long as my volumes, essential folders, and composition files are safely backed up, everything should be fine. Ideally, this should be enough to redeploy my entire setup within a few hours in the event of an outage. But this is…

José Adorno/BGR Last year, previously unreleased code suggested that Touch ID could be present in a future iteration of the Apple Watch. As spotted by Macworld’s Filipe Espósito, the company was experimenting with a biometric unlock mechanism to complement the current password-based authentication system. While the reporter said testing was still in its early stages, Woozad later reported that the change could come as soon as this year. Now, Weibo leaker Instant Digital is pushing back against both reports, saying Apple doesn’t plan to drastically change the way users unlock…

According to the latest rumors, Apple is about to launch its next generation iPad mini. So, what should we expect from the successor to the iPad mini 7 launched by Apple more than a year ago? Read on to find out. Processor and performance Apple is working on a next-generation version of the iPad mini (codenamed J510/J511) featuring the A19 Pro chip, according to information found in code mistakenly shared by Apple in August. Apple’s A19 Pro chip has since debuted in the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro models. The iPhone 17 Pro models include the high-end version of…

Among Apple’s six total wins at the 2026 Art Directors Club of New York awards, the highlight was a Gold Cube honor for the controversial Liquid Glass redesign.Liquid Glass has faced some opposition due to readability issues on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and Apple is expected to introduce an improved version at WWDC 2026. But its initial version earned Apple another Gold Cube ADC award.The 13 judges on the panel have yet to comment on their choices and may not do so until the official ceremony on May 15, 2026. But the pitch that Apple’s internal design team made for…

Apple launched the iPhone 16e last year for $599 – and it’s been a good phone ever since. It was refreshed this year with an A19 chipset, more storage and MagSafe, but for the most part its positioning in the market hasn’t really changed. It’s a decent phone at a decent price. It sold decently, but it didn’t really appeal to Android users in the same way that the MacBook Neo did to PC users. I think that could change. There was something magical about the launch of the MacBook Neo earlier this year that was never felt with the…

iOS 27 could completely redesign the iPhone’s Camera app, Bloombergby Mark Gurman reportsmaking it more customizable and giving professional and amateur users more control over the image output of Apple’s smartphone. The new camera options will join other features Apple reportedly highlighted at WWDC 2026: performance improvements and AI. The biggest change Apple is making to the Camera app is making it more customizable. Rather than being stuck with the company’s predetermined interface for taking photos and capturing video, you’ll apparently be able to modify it to your liking. Bloomberg reports that iPhones will still default to a familiar Apple…

There’s no denying that Nvidia has long been at the top of the PC graphics industry, and I’m not just talking about market share or company footprint. It has also advanced GPU technology with gaming-focused innovations such as real-time ray tracing, upscaling, and, most recently, AI frame generation. With the launch of Multi Frame Generation (MFG) with RTX 50 series GPUs, Nvidia has once again established its feature dominance over the competition. AMD offers AI-based frame generation in its existing FSR suite, but this is limited to a 2x performance increase. MFG has been noticeably absent from FSR, even when…

I’ve always preferred CarPlay to Android Auto, but Google’s in-car platform outperforms Apple’s offering in many ways, including customization options and third-party apps and app stores. The platform also offers many developer options that not everyone knows about, including improving the reliability of your phone’s USB connection to Android Auto with a simple tweak, or in this case, a feature I recently came across that lets you improve the resolution of Android Auto on your car’s screen. Make your Android Auto screen less blurry It’s crazy, I didn’t know this feature existed until recently Have you ever looked at your…

Following changes to betting regulations in Brazil, Apple now requires a Brazilian betting license for fixed odds betting apps on the App Store. Here are the details. New licensing requirement for betting apps in Brazil As Apple announced on its developer blog, developers who want to distribute fixed odds betting apps in Brazil will now need to provide a valid license from the country’s Secretariat of Prices and Betting (SPA). According to the SPA website, the agency is responsible for regulating and supervising the betting sector in Brazil: The Prize and Betting Secretariat (SPA) is the body of the Ministry…

Google just livestreamed the Android Show: I/O Edition, an event that takes place the week before the company’s annual I/O conference. This gave us a glimpse of many new features in the Android operating system, and many of them focus on security. First, the company is preparing enhanced protections against fraudulent banking calls. This is when scammers pretend to be a bank to obtain information about their account so they can get money back. The bad actors here have actually become quite sophisticated, as the spoofing technology makes it appear as if the call is coming from a bank. Google…