Jared Newman
@advisorator.com
Tech journo, newsletter publisher, yacht rock appreciator, fast food enthusiast.
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Jared Newman
@advisorator.com
· Jan 28
I'm sharpening my focus for Advisorator this year. The response has already been great and I can't wait to get started in earnest. https://buff.ly/4hcAGSL
I don't know about you, but I get all my TV reviews from THE VARGE
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I don't know about you, but I get all my TV reviews from THE VARGE
Who had "Evernote buys AOL" on their bingo cards? www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/y...
Bending Spoons scoops up AOL in $2.8B debt-fueled deal
: Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye
www.theregister.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Who had "Evernote buys AOL" on their bingo cards? www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/y...
Reposted by Jared Newman
"So I told my wife I'm in Skate or Die, and I ask her why she's smiling. She knows I cant skate!"
January 17, 2024 at 3:09 AM
"So I told my wife I'm in Skate or Die, and I ask her why she's smiling. She knows I cant skate!"
Reposted by Jared Newman
Electronic Arts totally stole Ariel and Rodney Dangerfield's likeness for their Skate or Die/Ski or Die series, didn't they?
January 16, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Electronic Arts totally stole Ariel and Rodney Dangerfield's likeness for their Skate or Die/Ski or Die series, didn't they?
Translation: Someone's got to pay for all this AI stuff www.techmeme.com/251023/p21#a...
Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% “accountability margins”, or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
www.techmeme.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Translation: Someone's got to pay for all this AI stuff www.techmeme.com/251023/p21#a...
I feel you should all know about this blog that has spent the last decade attempting to document every type of sandwich in existence - www.sandwichtribunal.com
Sandwich Tribunal
A sort of sandwich death panel
www.sandwichtribunal.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I feel you should all know about this blog that has spent the last decade attempting to document every type of sandwich in existence - www.sandwichtribunal.com
I just swiped up on my paper notebook because I was running out of room to write on the page, how's your day going?
August 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I just swiped up on my paper notebook because I was running out of room to write on the page, how's your day going?
Certainly I've left money on the table by not hosting my newsletters on Substack.
On the upside, I don't have to worry that my readers might inadvertently get a swastika in their push notifications www.techmeme.com/250730/p21#a...
On the upside, I don't have to worry that my readers might inadvertently get a swastika in their push notifications www.techmeme.com/250730/p21#a...
July 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Certainly I've left money on the table by not hosting my newsletters on Substack.
On the upside, I don't have to worry that my readers might inadvertently get a swastika in their push notifications www.techmeme.com/250730/p21#a...
On the upside, I don't have to worry that my readers might inadvertently get a swastika in their push notifications www.techmeme.com/250730/p21#a...
Big day for my little newsletter operation. (Read the note at the top.) https://advisorator.com/members/2025/06/24/want-to-go-passwordless-read-this-first/
June 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Big day for my little newsletter operation. (Read the note at the top.) https://advisorator.com/members/2025/06/24/want-to-go-passwordless-read-this-first/
Little scoop: Max quietly updated its support pages in Feb to note that it's showing 50% more ads on its ad-supported plan. It's also showing ads in the middle of HBO shows despite initially promising not to.
www.pcworld.com/article/2820...
www.pcworld.com/article/2820...
It’s not just Prime Video: Max shows 50% more ads now
Max's support pages acknowledge that it's showing 6 minutes of ads per show, up from 4 minutes last year. Ads now run in the middle of HBO programming.
www.pcworld.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Little scoop: Max quietly updated its support pages in Feb to note that it's showing 50% more ads on its ad-supported plan. It's also showing ads in the middle of HBO shows despite initially promising not to.
www.pcworld.com/article/2820...
www.pcworld.com/article/2820...
Here’s my second piece for Wirecutter, reviewing a whole mess of USB-C hubs. Fun topic and I learned a bunch doing it! https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-usb-c-hubs-and-docks/
June 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Here’s my second piece for Wirecutter, reviewing a whole mess of USB-C hubs. Fun topic and I learned a bunch doing it! https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-usb-c-hubs-and-docks/
The decline of popular music in one chart (via the always-great Can’t Get Much Higher newsletter – https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/why-did-we-stop-using-saxophones )
March 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The decline of popular music in one chart (via the always-great Can’t Get Much Higher newsletter – https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/why-did-we-stop-using-saxophones )
This is huge!
March 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is huge!
RAB Thoughts: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/03/14/rab-thoughts/
March 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
RAB Thoughts: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/03/14/rab-thoughts/
“This Is Not The Song I Wrote” is really clever musically: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/03/13/this-is-not-the-song-i-wrote-is-really-clever-musically/
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“This Is Not The Song I Wrote” is really clever musically: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/03/13/this-is-not-the-song-i-wrote-is-really-clever-musically/
New Advisorator: What to do when uBlock Origin stops working.
March 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New Advisorator: What to do when uBlock Origin stops working.
Bandcamp Friday. Clarity of Cal. You know what to do.
March 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Bandcamp Friday. Clarity of Cal. You know what to do.
Another action-packed Cord Cutter Weekly:
- The sports streamers have realized they're charging too much
- DirecTV's cheaper pay TV packages
- Broadcaster pushing to kill ATSC 1.0
- Some good deals on Apple TV boxes
Read it here!
- The sports streamers have realized they're charging too much
- DirecTV's cheaper pay TV packages
- Broadcaster pushing to kill ATSC 1.0
- Some good deals on Apple TV boxes
Read it here!
Sport streaming's too expensive, DirecTV's skinny bundles
It’s taken a couple years, but regional sports networks are starting to realize they charge too much to stream local games.
cordcutterweekly.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Another action-packed Cord Cutter Weekly:
- The sports streamers have realized they're charging too much
- DirecTV's cheaper pay TV packages
- Broadcaster pushing to kill ATSC 1.0
- Some good deals on Apple TV boxes
Read it here!
- The sports streamers have realized they're charging too much
- DirecTV's cheaper pay TV packages
- Broadcaster pushing to kill ATSC 1.0
- Some good deals on Apple TV boxes
Read it here!
Here's how to actually use that Kindle Bulk Downloader that everyone keeps mentioning, even if you've never seen a terminal before - advisorator.com/members/how-...
How to download all your Amazon Kindle e-books in bulk
Jared Newman | February 23, 2025
On February 26, Amazon will disable the option to download Kindle e-book files from its website to your computer.
This won't affect your ability to read e-bo...
advisorator.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Here's how to actually use that Kindle Bulk Downloader that everyone keeps mentioning, even if you've never seen a terminal before - advisorator.com/members/how-...
Reposted by Jared Newman
I like to set aside some time for cleanups over the weekend and this time, I've used @advisorator.com's excellent advice to disable those awful "Sign In With Google" pop-ups advisorator.com/members/2025...
Stop the "Sign in with Google" pop-ups
Banishing one of the internet's most persistent low-grade annoyances.
advisorator.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I like to set aside some time for cleanups over the weekend and this time, I've used @advisorator.com's excellent advice to disable those awful "Sign In With Google" pop-ups advisorator.com/members/2025...
Why is the internet so dull now?: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/02/21/why-is-the-internet-so-dull-now/
February 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Why is the internet so dull now?: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/02/21/why-is-the-internet-so-dull-now/
“They don’t respect you.”: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/02/20/they-dont-respect-you/
February 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“They don’t respect you.”: https://jarednewman.com/blog/2025/02/20/they-dont-respect-you/
Are you so annoyed by those "Sign in with Google" pop-ups in Safari that you'd set up a custom style sheet or ad filtering rule to get rid of them? Have I got the article for you!
Stop the "Sign in with Google" pop-ups
Banishing one of the internet's most persistent low-grade annoyances.
buff.ly
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Are you so annoyed by those "Sign in with Google" pop-ups in Safari that you'd set up a custom style sheet or ad filtering rule to get rid of them? Have I got the article for you!
Reposted by Jared Newman
God forbid Netflix does something user-friendly for once.
Netflix confirms it didn't mean to support that Apple TV feature everyone has wanted for years - 9to5Mac
Netflix has taken a break from raising prices to confirm that it didn’t mean to support that Apple TV feature...
9to5mac.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
God forbid Netflix does something user-friendly for once.
It has come to my attention that there is a Windows 95 watchface for Pebble.
February 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It has come to my attention that there is a Windows 95 watchface for Pebble.