AJ Dellinger

AJ Dellinger is a freelance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. He’s been described as amazing, flawless, the best, and extremely modest. His work can be found at Digital Trends, Mac|Life Magazine, Gamezebo, and many others. Follow him on Twitter, @ajdell.

Add a Word and Character Count to Any Mac Program

One feature that’s always handy to have, but missing in many applications is a character and word count function. Here is how you can access word counts at your beck and call with just a right click. Mac only.

Mac – Oct 29, 2012

How to Set Applications to Launch at Start Up [Mac]

The number of startup apps will determine how fast your system will run. Here’s how you can customize your login apps in Mac and configure which apps should show up and which one should not.

Mac – Oct 22, 2012

Get Rid of Unnecessary Apps in Your “Open With” List [Mac]

It can be irritating to find the Finder menu’s “Open With” option fill up with unnecessary programs. This tutorial shows you how to remove those unnecessary app from the Open With list.

Mac – Oct 1, 2012

In August 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded into a remote grove in Redwood National Park and pointed a laser rangefinder at a tree that turned out to be 380 feet tall, and the National Park Service has refused to disclose its location ever since, fearing the foot traffic alone would kill it.

Jun 2, 2026

Female engineer testing sound waves in an anechoic chamber with a monitor.

Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human hearing that visitors start to perceive the grinding of their own joints, the rush of blood in their ears, and eventually a faint ringing that turns out to be the firing of their own nerves.

Jun 2, 2026

Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness

Jun 2, 2026

In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines compatible with the same software — and the architecture proved so robust that modern enterprise mainframes today are still running sections of binary code written more than sixty years ago

Jun 2, 2026

In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the disaster was traced back to a stolen piece of Canadian pipeline software — and years later, it was revealed the CIA had intentionally allowed the KGB to steal the code, after subtly altering the software’s logic to trigger a catastrophic pressure surge months down the line.

Jun 2, 2026

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Jun 2, 2026

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