Longtime Mac users may recall a handy old shareware application for the Classic Macintosh called Stapler, which essentially helped manage projects by grouping a series of apps and documents into a single document that when opened would then launch all of those documents and their respective programs. Much easier than digging around in your file system and individually launching apps and files. And guess what? Stapler has returned, from a new developer, to modern MacOS!

Launch All Apps & Documents Related to a Project with Stapler for Mac

Your Android phone's web browser picks up a lot of files, images and data from the websites that you visit, and a lot of that does not need to be on your phone. Whether you're using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Samsung Internet, this data stored in your cookies and cache can be helpful in some cases. It's what lets you quickly load websites you frequently access and keeps you logged into accounts you have. That's nice, but there's plenty of information in the cookies and cache of your browser that isn't necessary and could even be a privacy risk.

Your Android Phone's Web Browser Has Junk Files You Can Delete Now

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Microsoft just released a new compact Xbox Game Bar that’s a better fit for gaming handhelds, but Windows 11 needs a better solution for portable devices.

The compact Xbox Game Bar is fine, but I hope it’s not a Windows handheld bandage

In our review of the Asus ROG Ally last year, many of our complaints centered on having to fiddle with an "awkwardly scaled" version of Windows. That's especially true when you compare the ROG Ally experience to Valve's Steam Deck and its finely handheld-tuned SteamOS 3. Those ROG Ally complaints...

Valve’s bespoke Steam Deck OS will be officially available on Asus’ ROG Ally

Fans ported the original Diablo to web browsers, including mobile with touchscreen support. Players can use a Shareware version or upload the MPQ file from a purchased copy to play. This browser version avoids legal issues by requiring users to own the original game. Fans of the original Diablo game...

Here’s how you can play the first Diablo game in a web browser

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"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

Artists defending a class-action lawsuit are claiming a major win this week in their fight to stop the most sophisticated AI image generators from copying billions of artworks to train AI models and replicate their styles without compensating artists. In an order on Monday, US District Judge William Orrick denied...

Artists claim “big” win in copyright suit fighting AI image generators

Some 66 million years ago, an errant asteroid wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. That has long been the scientific consensus. However, three years ago, Harvard astronomers offered an alternative hypothesis: The culprit may have been a fragment of a comet thrown off-course by Jupiter's gravity and ripped apart by the Sun.

An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, not a comet, new study finds

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The Nitro Deck+ is a must for handheld Switch players that want pro-controller style functionality in a more comfortable form factor.

I finally started playing my Switch in handheld mode after seven years and it’s all thanks to this controller

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Kei cars are the antithesis of the big American SUV. Where EPA regulations effectively penalize automakers for building smaller, more efficient cars, Japan's Kei car regulations cap size, weight, and power to just fractions. Kei cars aren't just small, they're also pretty cheap, a fact that has made them a sales success in Japan and highly desirable as a gray-market import, particularly by people who think new cars have gotten too large, too complicated, and too expensive. A few years ago, Ars even wrote a guide on how to go about importing one from Japan.

A cute, cheap death trap? Japanese Kei cars banned by yet another US state

When it was first discovered, the coelacanth caused a lot of excitement. It was a living example of a group of fish that was thought to only exist as fossils. And not just any group of fish. With their long, stalk-like fins, coelacanths and their kin are thought to include the ancestors of all vertebrates that aren't fish—the tetrapods, or vertebrates with four limbs. Meaning, among a lot of other things, us.

The fish with the genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced

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I grew up on these babies. This cookie is sweet nostalgia to me. There are so many variations to make it too, you really can't go wrong with it! For a super easy and fast cookie bar, these are a winner!

Magic Layer Bars aka Hello Dolly Bars

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In the mystical realm where astrology intersects with spiritual beliefs, certain zodiac signs are thought to possess inherent qualities that offer protection against malevolent entities and negative energies. This intriguing concept has roots in ancient astrology and cultural traditions worldwide, where the alignment of the stars at one's birth is believed to influence not only personality traits but also spiritual protection. This post delves into the 5 celestial shields of the zodiac, highlighting signs that are particularly noted for their protective aura against evil spirits.

5 Zodiac Signs That Possess a Protective Aura Against Evil Spirits

Google announced its fall lineup of Pixel phones today: three standard phones and a second tablet-esque folding model. There are new chips, new cameras, Satellite SOS, and some notable promises, like the 9 phones being "twice as durable" as their Pixel 8 equivalents and getting seven years of updates. But as you might expect this year, they're primarily showcases for all the things Google's Gemini AI promises to do for you.

The Pixel 9 phones are big cameras and screens soldered onto Gemini AI ambitions

Here at Ars, we're always on the lookout for hints and actions that suggest the long, long wait for Half-Life 3 may eventually come to an end. So when users across the Internet started making note of the mysterious and intriguingly named BlackMesa.com recently, our ears perked up for signs of a new promotional alternate reality game (ARG).

Mysterious “Black Mesa” website says it’s “not secretly working on Half Life 3”

Roku has finally axed the Redbox app from its platform. Redbox parent company Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June and moved to Chapter 7 in July, signaling the liquidation of its assets. However, the app has remained available but not fully functional in various places, leaving customers wondering if they will still be able to access content they bought. This development, however, mostly squashes any remaining hope of salvaging those purchases.

Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content

Apple now allows PC emulators like iDOS 3 in the App Store, following clarification of guidelines in July. Old school gamers rejoice with easy access to legacy titles on the go without sideloading apps. Developer Chaoji Li celebrates after the long wait for Apple to open up to PC emulators.

DOS emulator lands on the App Store following Apple's change of heart

If you've purchased a new laptop that uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus processors, you might have noticed that the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) doesn't work, despite coming preinstalled on the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Well, after Microsoft's unwillingness to fix it, Snapdragon Insider, Windows on Arm enthusiast, and Windows developer Jeremy Sinclair went out and did it himself.

Someone fixed the Windows Subsystem for Android because Microsoft refuses to — here's how you can do it

The "largest and most complex" automotive safety recall in US history is still not over, nine years after the first owners were contacted about a fix. Today, Ford issued a "do not drive" advisory for owners who still have not had their Takata airbags replaced, for a mix of vehicles that range from Ranger pickup trucks to the mid-engined GT supercar.

Ford tells owners to stop driving if they’ve ignored 9-year-old airbag recall

Back in May, Nintendo spilled the beans on its Switch 2 launch plans, saying a "successor" to its wildly popular handheld game console would arrive "within this fiscal year." Nintendo's fiscal year runs through March 2025, so any time before or by then is fair game, right? Maybe not. Game developers are seemingly under the impression that a Switch 2 console will miss Nintendo's public launch target.

Game Devs Reportedly Share Disappointing Update On Nintendo Switch 2 Launch

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Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser

You can now play the original Diablo (and its expansion, Hellfire) in virtually any web browser on any computer with generally excellent performance and operating-as-expected controls....

Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser

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