Craig Grannell
@craiggrannell.bsky.social
Writer for hire. Mostly tech, Apple, games, retrogaming, design. Smashes out words for Stuff, Wired, TapSmart and others. He/him. GF/DF. Likes Lego and Mini Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com // https://linktr.ee/craiggrannell
Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
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Say what you like about Change UK, at least they managed a dinner
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Say what you like about Change UK, at least they managed a dinner
Weeknote:
👾 Vanishing iPad games and Simogo’s Legacy Collection
🎨 Classic iPhone app Color Splash
📱 The iPhone 17 is this year’s best buy
🗄️ Alternative file managers for iPhone
💥 175 graphic novels for $18
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/29/w...
👾 Vanishing iPad games and Simogo’s Legacy Collection
🎨 Classic iPhone app Color Splash
📱 The iPhone 17 is this year’s best buy
🗄️ Alternative file managers for iPhone
💥 175 graphic novels for $18
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/29/w...
Weeknote: 29 November 2025 – vanishing iPad games, Color Splash, the iPhone 17, Apple Files and cheap digital comics | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology
Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.
reverttosaved.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Weeknote:
👾 Vanishing iPad games and Simogo’s Legacy Collection
🎨 Classic iPhone app Color Splash
📱 The iPhone 17 is this year’s best buy
🗄️ Alternative file managers for iPhone
💥 175 graphic novels for $18
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/29/w...
👾 Vanishing iPad games and Simogo’s Legacy Collection
🎨 Classic iPhone app Color Splash
📱 The iPhone 17 is this year’s best buy
🗄️ Alternative file managers for iPhone
💥 175 graphic novels for $18
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/29/w...
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Really happy with this one: I add the superb Color Splash to my iPhone classics series, and nab an interview with the app’s creator, Hendrik Kueck.
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
Classics: why fingertip photo fixer Color Splash became an App Store icon
The latest entry in our classic iPhone app series let you bring a touch of color back into a grayscale photographic world.
www.tapsmart.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Really happy with this one: I add the superb Color Splash to my iPhone classics series, and nab an interview with the app’s creator, Hendrik Kueck.
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
Column: Why I think the best future for iPad games might be the Nintendo Switch // A love letter to Device 6, a look at Simogo Legacy Collection and a critique on the state of iOS and iPadOS game preservation and longevity. www.stuff.tv/features/why...
Why I think the best future for iPad games might be the Nintendo Switch | Stuff
Simogo Legacy Collection coming to Nintendo Switch says a lot about the future of iPad games – and not good things
www.stuff.tv
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Column: Why I think the best future for iPad games might be the Nintendo Switch // A love letter to Device 6, a look at Simogo Legacy Collection and a critique on the state of iOS and iPadOS game preservation and longevity. www.stuff.tv/features/why...
@katebevan.com Just saw this. Thought of Daphne. (And how there is surely no way you’d get away with it with your ankles intact.)
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@katebevan.com Just saw this. Thought of Daphne. (And how there is surely no way you’d get away with it with your ankles intact.)
I wish our council would do this. Instead, the flags limply wrap themselves around the Christmas decorations on the high street lampposts. It looks a right state.
Flag-shagging ain’t cheap — lad slapped with a £2,000 fine for decorating 64 lamp posts like it’s Brexit Christmas 🎄😂
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I wish our council would do this. Instead, the flags limply wrap themselves around the Christmas decorations on the high street lampposts. It looks a right state.
Came back from lunch. iMac sounded like a jet engine. Several seconds to respond to any click. Somehow managed to get Activity Monitor open. Shell (Wallpaper) was eating CPU like nobody’s business. My wallpaper is… a plain colour. Perhaps the purple iMac took offence at the purple background.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Came back from lunch. iMac sounded like a jet engine. Several seconds to respond to any click. Somehow managed to get Activity Monitor open. Shell (Wallpaper) was eating CPU like nobody’s business. My wallpaper is… a plain colour. Perhaps the purple iMac took offence at the purple background.
175(!) item Image Comics Humble Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/image-...
Humble Comic Bundle: Image Comics in the '10s
Get a collection of 100+ badass Image Comics featuring SAGA, Paper Girls, and more. Pay what you want & support the BINC Foundation!
www.humblebundle.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
175(!) item Image Comics Humble Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/image-...
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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Literally!! The right wing papers Hate You Anyway!! Why not give them something to Really Hate You For, and know - at least - people will thank you in ten years time???
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Literally!! The right wing papers Hate You Anyway!! Why not give them something to Really Hate You For, and know - at least - people will thank you in ten years time???
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My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:
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Really happy with this one: I add the superb Color Splash to my iPhone classics series, and nab an interview with the app’s creator, Hendrik Kueck.
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
Classics: why fingertip photo fixer Color Splash became an App Store icon
The latest entry in our classic iPhone app series let you bring a touch of color back into a grayscale photographic world.
www.tapsmart.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Really happy with this one: I add the superb Color Splash to my iPhone classics series, and nab an interview with the app’s creator, Hendrik Kueck.
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
www.tapsmart.com/apps/photo-v...
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Imagine China occupying California, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon and then the EU telling America: “Make a deal with the occupier or we won’t support you.”
Absurd, right? No country would accept that.
Yet this is exactly what Ukraine is being told today.
Absurd, right? No country would accept that.
Yet this is exactly what Ukraine is being told today.
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Imagine China occupying California, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon and then the EU telling America: “Make a deal with the occupier or we won’t support you.”
Absurd, right? No country would accept that.
Yet this is exactly what Ukraine is being told today.
Absurd, right? No country would accept that.
Yet this is exactly what Ukraine is being told today.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Weeknote!
💾 Windows hits 40
🫧 The magnificence of Bubble Bobble
🍎 The online App Store is the best and worst of Apple
📷 Best iPhone photo editors
📱 2025’s best & worst iPhones
🎞️ Managing huge photo libraries
✈️ Gifts for frequent flyers
⌨️ Type-in listings are back!
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/24/w...
💾 Windows hits 40
🫧 The magnificence of Bubble Bobble
🍎 The online App Store is the best and worst of Apple
📷 Best iPhone photo editors
📱 2025’s best & worst iPhones
🎞️ Managing huge photo libraries
✈️ Gifts for frequent flyers
⌨️ Type-in listings are back!
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/24/w...
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Weeknote!
💾 Windows hits 40
🫧 The magnificence of Bubble Bobble
🍎 The online App Store is the best and worst of Apple
📷 Best iPhone photo editors
📱 2025’s best & worst iPhones
🎞️ Managing huge photo libraries
✈️ Gifts for frequent flyers
⌨️ Type-in listings are back!
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/24/w...
💾 Windows hits 40
🫧 The magnificence of Bubble Bobble
🍎 The online App Store is the best and worst of Apple
📷 Best iPhone photo editors
📱 2025’s best & worst iPhones
🎞️ Managing huge photo libraries
✈️ Gifts for frequent flyers
⌨️ Type-in listings are back!
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/24/w...
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It’s probably not great the vast majority of American journalists and other media zeitgeist people are letting their brains marinate in this toxic sludge
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s probably not great the vast majority of American journalists and other media zeitgeist people are letting their brains marinate in this toxic sludge
I guess Massimo Belardinelli was a fan of Battlestar Galactica back in the day.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I guess Massimo Belardinelli was a fan of Battlestar Galactica back in the day.
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My column this week: I always wanted a full-size arcade machine, but this is even better
Basically a love letter to the best arcade game ever (Bubble Bobble – don’t @ me) and how the new Evercade Alpha properly scratches that itch. www.stuff.tv/features/i-a...
Basically a love letter to the best arcade game ever (Bubble Bobble – don’t @ me) and how the new Evercade Alpha properly scratches that itch. www.stuff.tv/features/i-a...
I always wanted a full-size arcade machine, but this is even better | Stuff
Evercade Alpha Taito Bartop Arcade puts my favourite arcade game on my desk and proves I don’t need a mansion to live the arcade dream.
www.stuff.tv
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My column this week: I always wanted a full-size arcade machine, but this is even better
Basically a love letter to the best arcade game ever (Bubble Bobble – don’t @ me) and how the new Evercade Alpha properly scratches that itch. www.stuff.tv/features/i-a...
Basically a love letter to the best arcade game ever (Bubble Bobble – don’t @ me) and how the new Evercade Alpha properly scratches that itch. www.stuff.tv/features/i-a...
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Tusk slips the knife in right at the end.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tusk slips the knife in right at the end.
Someone on Reddit claims to have iPadOS 26 running on an iPhone, allowing it to do an Android 16. (External display. Windows. Proper multitasking.) www.reddit.com/r/iphone/s/3...
From the iphone community on Reddit: My hacked iPhone running iPadOS! And running a Mac-like experience on the external monitor! It can multitask + run iPad apps. Apple doesn't allow this as it would ...
Explore this post and more from the iphone community
www.reddit.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Someone on Reddit claims to have iPadOS 26 running on an iPhone, allowing it to do an Android 16. (External display. Windows. Proper multitasking.) www.reddit.com/r/iphone/s/3...
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This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?