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The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025
It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good of a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds when we…

The best Nintendo Switch 2 accessories include an irresistible Piranha Plant webcam
Sure, you’re excited to finally hold your new Switch 2 in your hands, but why stop there? The best Switch 2 accessories will make sure you squeeze every last drop of fun out of the new Nintendo console — if you can get one in the first place. The buzz around the Nintendo Switch 2 has…

Mastering Multimodal UX: Best Practices for Seamless User Interactions
We all know the feeling: you’re in the middle of an interaction, your app is humming along beautifully, and then—bam!—you hit a wall. Maybe it’s because your user is trying to control a device with a voice command while also swiping through a page, or they’re moving between devices and losing all context. Multimodal interfaces…

Getting Creative With HTML Dialog | CSS-Tricks
Like ’em or loath ’em, whether you’re showing an alert, a message, or a newsletter signup, dialogue boxes draw attention to a particular piece of content without sending someone to a different page. In the past, dialogues relied on a mix of divisions, ARIA, and JavaScript. But the HTML dialog element has made them more…

Best Crypto Payments Gateways in 2025 — SitePoint
An increasing number of companies worldwide are allowing their customers to make payments using cryptocurrencies, such as stablecoins. With an estimated 420 million cryptocurrency holders around the globe, businesses that embrace digital currencies can tap into new markets and customer segments through a crypto payment platform. To facilitate crypto payments, most companies collaborate with a…

Prelude To Summer (June 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Enjoy! There’s an artist in everyone. Some bring their ideas to life with digital tools, others…

CMS Market Share Trends: Top Content Management Systems (May 2025)
WordPress has dominated the content management system (CMS) space since launching in 2003, and while it’s still the leader, the market is shifting in ways worth paying attention to. As of May 2025, WordPress powers 43.5% of websites surveyed and holds a 61.2% share among sites that use a CMS, according to W3Techs. That’s still…

Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom
Of course you can run Doom on a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let’s go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander’s AIX Doom, because that…

Slate Auto FAQ: your questions answered
Alright, we get it. Y’all are excited about Slate. We thought the little Slate Truck was cool, but based on the number of clicks and comments on our Slate Auto articles so far, you’d like to know more. Many of you wrote in with questions and more than a few people raised some doubts. So,…

Pocket is shutting down. Here are the read-later app alternatives.
Pocket will soon be no more. Mozilla, the creators of the web browser Firefox, announced last week that it would be shutting down Pocket, the read-later platform it acquired back in 2017. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Pocket was the most popular read-later service with more than…