Author: Awais

It’s a good idea to look for Black Friday Apple deals this time of year if you’re thinking about upgrading an aging laptop or picking up a pair of AirPods or an Apple Watch as a gift. One of the best discounts we’re tracking at the moment is on the M4-powered Mac Mini desktop — it’s $120 off right now, down from $599 to $479. That applies to the 16GB of RAM/256GB SSD model, and it’s pretty close to its all-time-low price.We gave the Mac mini M4 a 90 in our review, in part, because it packs an incredible amount…

KDE is officially announcing that the future Plasma 6.8 desktop environment release will be Wayland-exclusive. The platform will finally drop the decades-old X11 session. This is a massive change. After nearly three decades of running the KDE desktop on the X Server, the Plasma X11 session is gone. For most people reading this, you probably won’t even notice. Wayland is already the default desktop session on the vast majority of distributions. Apparently, many distributions were already planning to drop the X11 Plasma session regardless of what the KDE team decided. This move is really about long-term development. Cutting the X11…

Your voice is your most valuable and most underleveraged asset.  Let’s just start with the spoiler: Founders who post at least 10x a year on LinkedIn generate 33% more leads and drive bigger deal sizes. Are you leaving money on the table because you’re “too busy” or “not a marketer”? What if the product and business insights you already have could become your most powerful lead gen channel? The savviest founders are building personal brands that: Generate millions in pipeline influence. Close deals faster. Attract top talent. You don’t want to miss this on-demand webinar with a rockstar team from…

3. Maintain a simple content calendarA TikTok content calendar helps you see your upcoming posts, track frequency, and avoid posting the same type of content too often. Planning ahead also reduces errors and keeps your social channels aligned, especially if you repurpose TikTok posts for other platforms like Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts.If you’re managing multiple TikTok accounts or posting several times per week, having your schedule in a centralized place is essential.4. Balance the types of TikTok content you postYour TikTok audience responds better when your content varies. Mix educational clips, product demos, behind-the-scenes content, storytelling, and videos that…

The secrets to productivity are so often boring. The most important time-management tool you can use? The humble calendar. If you think time is money, your calendar is your budget. That’s why it’s important to have the best calendar app possible. Supercharge your calendarBut time management isn’t just writing down what you’ll do when. It requires coordinating with other people on your team, keeping track of where your time went, and generally knowing who will be where doing what at whatever time. And that’s just thinking professionally. A calendar can also be incredibly important in your personal life.I considered and…

In my opinion, the best time to start watching holiday movies is whenever you want to start watching holiday movies. For most of my life, however, we never pressed play on one of the classics until Black Friday. Choosing that first movie is never difficult, because for me it has always been and will always be The Muppet Christmas Carol. Not only is it the single greatest thing to come from Henson Studios since Jim Henson passed, but the popularity of this film has started an annual conversation about which movie you could film with an all Muppet cast and…

Digital hoarding is one of our default online habits. Browsers and read-it-later bookmarking apps often fail to turn us into efficient information managers. I have tried to become a more deliberate reader with smarter web clipping workflows and a dedicated personal knowledge management system. But the backlog of unread bookmarks just kept piling up. I wanted to change my relationship with the saved content. Now, NotebookLM, Google’s AI-powered research tool, is quietly solving this problem for me. The NotebookLM tips below are making it fun to work through my backlog and actually use what I save. 5 Turn unread tabs…

I’ve been looking for a new holiday dessert to add to my repertoire, and as I was browsing cookbooks at the library, this one leapt out at me. It’s from Reese Witherspoon’s cookbook, Whiskey in a Teacup. Many of the recipes in this collection are from her grandmother Dorothea, and if there’s anyone whose cooking advice I’ll trust blindly, it’s a Southern granny. I love using sour cream in my cakes for the tang, and the praline frosting was the perfect foil. I put this recipe to the test faster than you can say Sweet Home Alabama. What I Love About Reese…

Let’s get this out of the way: The Samsung Frame is not a good TV. None of the displays that I’d classify as art TVs are — at least not in the ways that we usually think about TVs. They only get a fraction as bright as comparably priced TVs, picture quality is middling, black level performance is bad (even for an LCD TV), and color accuracy out of the box leaves a lot to be desired. But that’s not why people buy art TVs.Close friends of mine love The Frame on their living room wall and have asked me…

John Lawson vividly remembers the moment a butter-yellow ice cream truck first turned up in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood in 2008. Ben Van Leeuwen had just launched his eponymous ice cream brand with his brother Pete and now ex-wife Laura O’Neill.At the time, Lawson managed three Whole Foods Market stores, including the one in Tribeca. After sampling the ice creams and “nerding out” on “a very specific Italian pistachio,” he recalls begging Van Leeuwen to expand his new venture into grocery retail. Though it was early days, Lawson could see the potential beyond scoops. Three months later, Van Leeuwen pints…