I recently got an Apple Pencil to go with my iPad 9, so naturally I had to figure out the best note-taking app to use with it. After reading some articles and watching some YouTube reviews, Goodnotes and Notability stood out as the most popular and feature-rich.…
It amazes me how good ChatGPT is at generating new, unique (ish) works from existing pieces of literature. It's creative and articulate enough that the stories it creates are actually fun to read. Today I used it to generate a short Harry Potter fanfiction, and I thought…
It's aging, but still good. Apple’s HomePod mini is officially 2 years old. It got a small color update in 2021, adding orange, blue, and yellow. So, after waiting a bit to make sure that the HomePod software could be stable enough, I picked one up in…
Google's smartphones have long held a reputation of being unreliable and mid range phones with a flagship price. While that may have been true for earlier versions, the most recent revisions have proven that Google is serious about remaining in the smartphone market. The new camera layout…
Silicon Critics is a casual tech blog hosted by several tech enthusiasts. We, the contributors, post about our hobbies and things we find interesting. Silicon Critics isn't about making money through advertisements or sponsorships, it's about having fun and chronicling our tech (mis)adventures. Personally, the things I…
You may have heard about the Arc browser, which started in 2022 and was created by The Browser Company of New York. Arc is indeed a new take on the web browser. I started using Arc in October 2022, and I was very skeptical. I used Safari…
