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
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?
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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"A Cornerstone Of Gaming History" - Microsoft, Xbox, & Activision Team Up To Make Original Zork Trilogy Open-Source. (Repost)
"A Cornerstone Of Gaming History" - Microsoft, Xbox, & Activision Team Up To Make Original Zork Trilogy Open-Source
You are likely to be eaten by a grue
www.timeextension.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"A Cornerstone Of Gaming History" - Microsoft, Xbox, & Activision Team Up To Make Original Zork Trilogy Open-Source. (Repost)
Taito Super Pocket is now a smidgeon under 40 quid at Amazon UK. That’s a very good price for what you get, if you fancy an instant blast of 1980s arcade goodness. www.amazon.co.uk/Blaze-Entert...
Blaze Entertainment Hyper Mega Tech Super Pocket Taito Edition Arcade Handheld Gaming Device
Product Description Your Arcade in your pocket. From the makers of Evercade comes Hyper Mega Tech and the brand-new Taito Super Pocket. A portable gaming device that you can take anywhere in your pocket that doesn’t sacrifice power or playability. 18 amazing arcade games, fully licensed from classic arcade publisher Taito, including Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, Puzzle Bobble, Elevator Action, The New Zealand Story, Rastan, and more along with support for Evercade’s Cartridges to make this the ultimate arcade companion. Also Available: Capcom Super Pocket Safety Warning If you've experience epilepsy or seizures, consult your doctor before use.
www.amazon.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Taito Super Pocket is now a smidgeon under 40 quid at Amazon UK. That’s a very good price for what you get, if you fancy an instant blast of 1980s arcade goodness. www.amazon.co.uk/Blaze-Entert...
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It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n
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One of the hardest parts of being an indie developer is deciding which feature requests to follow and which ones to let go.
People often assume that every suggestion should become part of the roadmap, but that is not how a product grows.
People often assume that every suggestion should become part of the roadmap, but that is not how a product grows.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
One of the hardest parts of being an indie developer is deciding which feature requests to follow and which ones to let go.
People often assume that every suggestion should become part of the roadmap, but that is not how a product grows.
People often assume that every suggestion should become part of the roadmap, but that is not how a product grows.
It is also excellent.
Nodded along so vigorously to this that I may have given myself whiplash. Or an exciting new career as a novelty toy dog that you stick in the back window of a Ford Fiesta.
Nodded along so vigorously to this that I may have given myself whiplash. Or an exciting new career as a novelty toy dog that you stick in the back window of a Ford Fiesta.
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It is also excellent.
Nodded along so vigorously to this that I may have given myself whiplash. Or an exciting new career as a novelty toy dog that you stick in the back window of a Ford Fiesta.
Nodded along so vigorously to this that I may have given myself whiplash. Or an exciting new career as a novelty toy dog that you stick in the back window of a Ford Fiesta.
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You can add exemptions to immigration rules for different groups, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. When you say that migrants are second class and "less than" others, as this government is doing, that feeds through to everyone. Migrants aren't a disposable resource to pick and choose from.
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
You can add exemptions to immigration rules for different groups, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. When you say that migrants are second class and "less than" others, as this government is doing, that feeds through to everyone. Migrants aren't a disposable resource to pick and choose from.
Only just heard of this. Completely bonkers. Also, it sounds brilliant. (Yes, I am old enough to have typed listings into various 8-bit machines. Yes, I still have the mental scars when they didn’t work due to some random typo or other.)
🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Only just heard of this. Completely bonkers. Also, it sounds brilliant. (Yes, I am old enough to have typed listings into various 8-bit machines. Yes, I still have the mental scars when they didn’t work due to some random typo or other.)
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By me for Stuff: Microsoft Windows at 40 – from wonky beginnings to world-domination www.stuff.tv/features/mic...
Microsoft Windows at 40 – from wonky beginnings to world-domination | Stuff
We look back at four decades of Microsoft Windows, from its origins and high points to versions we’d rather Ctrl-Alt-Forget
www.stuff.tv
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
By me for Stuff: Microsoft Windows at 40 – from wonky beginnings to world-domination www.stuff.tv/features/mic...
By me for Stuff: Microsoft Windows at 40 – from wonky beginnings to world-domination www.stuff.tv/features/mic...
Microsoft Windows at 40 – from wonky beginnings to world-domination | Stuff
We look back at four decades of Microsoft Windows, from its origins and high points to versions we’d rather Ctrl-Alt-Forget
www.stuff.tv
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
By me for Stuff: Microsoft Windows at 40 – from wonky beginnings to world-domination www.stuff.tv/features/mic...
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In my Scrivener coaching sessions, this is one of the features that impresses the most. Most people don't know about it, and using this makes editing dialog for flow much easier.
For info about my one-to-one Scrivener coaching:
kirkville.com/scrivener-co...
For info about my one-to-one Scrivener coaching:
kirkville.com/scrivener-co...
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In my Scrivener coaching sessions, this is one of the features that impresses the most. Most people don't know about it, and using this makes editing dialog for flow much easier.
For info about my one-to-one Scrivener coaching:
kirkville.com/scrivener-co...
For info about my one-to-one Scrivener coaching:
kirkville.com/scrivener-co...
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I certainly didn't guess the reason. It's astonishing how much a singular obsession has warped the minds of some people in the UK
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I certainly didn't guess the reason. It's astonishing how much a singular obsession has warped the minds of some people in the UK
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you know it’s a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
you know it’s a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅
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If you want a recent example of FPTP enabling a right-wing party to get an enomous majority due to fractured opposition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_On...
2025 Ontario general election - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
If you want a recent example of FPTP enabling a right-wing party to get an enomous majority due to fractured opposition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_On...