Gordon's Tech

Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...

I'll keep adding to this list. For historic reasons going back over 10 years all my owned music is under one Apple ID and my iCloud serv...

Google Blogger has been largely forgotten, but   over the past 1-2 years it's been receiving regular updates . Mostly these have been im...

So I learned something today about Google's ancient blogger platform. You can republish old content with new dates without breaking the ...

I’ve been contemplating migration to WordPress for almost a decade, but Google kept Blogger good enough to keep that headache at bay. Alas,...

Apple “Newsroom” smells like a blog, but there’s no RSS feed. I assume it uses Apple’s RSS variant and works with Apple’s News.app , but i...

I think I know how Apple screwed this up. It’s one of those evolutionary path-dependency things. Their iCloud calendar is the child of their...

A book project  forced me to dig into a perennially painful topic — Calendar sharing and subscription in iOS and OS X (MacOS Yosemite) for G...

Appigo has deferred work on archive and export of tasks and projects for at least two years and possibly longer. When I paid Toodledo to pro...

Once upon a time Facebook had RSS support for personal Newsfeeds. That died years ago. I don't know if Facebook ever had RSS support f...

I just added a subscription to my Facebook calendar to my Google Calendar. Is this new? I can't say, but knowing how it works I foun...

[This one's for @duerig .] The earliest mention of "channels" in my web archives dates to 1996 [1]. There's not much mor...

I'm scrambling as usual, so no time for a full post. I've been running through Feedbin, Newsblur and Feedly today. I paid for both F...

[See update below, Jonathon has revised his stream generator so you don't need to look up the userid any more.] I enjoy app.net . I like...

Sad moment in the last days of Google Reader -- I'd forgotten about the 'more like this' item in the Folder Settings (and Feed S...

I was quite pleased with my jury rigged replacement for my long lost Google Reader Shares . (Few remember them now, the net years have passe...

Two days ago my much loved Google Custom Search was working beautifully (emphasis added) ... Why coupons? Price concealment information an...

iTunes tracks how many times tracks have been completely played [2], but it doesn't provide any UI for tracks that have been partly play...

A few weeks after Google 2.0 killed Google Reader Social , I decided I'd take the Twitter route . My Twitter feed was active for about...

Pinboard is the first service I know of that will import a Google Reader Social (shared item) JSON file: Pinboard: howto page Google Reader ...