Executive Director Leslie Berlin has sent email to Steve Jobs Archive subscribers containing a 1984 photograph of Jobs, captivated by the sight of a Mac in the wild within a month of its launch.Read original article | Continue reading
Center Cam puts a tiny webcam on a thin gooseneck stalk such that you can position it right over another person’s video window, ensuring that watching them makes it seem that you’re looking them in the eye. If only it weren’t so sensitive to light. | Continue reading
Keyboard shortcut and emoji cheat sheet utility now fully supports macOS 13 Ventura. (€19.99 new, free update, 4.7 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Maintenance release for the virtualization software. ($99.99 standard edition, free update, macOS 10.14.6+) | Continue reading
Introduces the Power Query Editor feature in Excel. ($149.99 new for one-time purchase, $99.99/$69.99 annual subscription options, free update, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Brings improvements and bug fixes to the Swiss Army knife of graphics programs. ($39.95 new, free update, 231 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Maintenance release with improvements and bug fixes for the personal finance management app. ($49.99 new, free update, 118 MB, macOS 10.12+) | Continue reading
SuperDuper 3.2 brings support for macOS 10.14 Mojave, including full disk access and automation prompting. ($27.95 new, free update, 17.1 MB) | Continue reading
After some confusion about why people were being told that his notifications were silenced in Messages, Adam Engst found that the Driving Focus from his iPhone was being incorrectly set on his MacBook Air. | Continue reading
Microsoft has officially blessed Parallels Desktop as a way to run Windows 11 on Arm on Macs with Apple silicon. Can support for VMware Fusion be far behind?Read original article | Continue reading
Image editor addresses a problem with the Save As sheet in macOS 13 Ventura. ($39.99 new, free update, 18.9 MB, macOS 10.14+) | Continue reading
Do you like the idea of using a site-specific browser but have trouble coming up with use cases? We share real-world examples of how Coherence X users create and use site-specific browsers to increase their productivity. | Continue reading
Security patch for Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11) | Continue reading
For those who want more organization flexibility and efficiency than Apple’s Photos app provides, Houdah Software’s Photos Workbench provides a handful of targeted features that make the process faster and easier, all while working with your existing Photos library. | Continue reading
Patches a security vulnerability in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Venerable data repair and recovery tool adds support for macOS 13 Ventura and Macs running Apple M1 and M2 processors. ($119.95 new, free update, macOS 10.8+) | Continue reading
Minor update that is also the last version to support macOS 10.13 High Sierra and 10.14 Mojave. ($35.99/51.99/77.99 annual subscription, free update, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Responding to a nasty WebKit vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild, Apple has released updates to all its current operating systems. We recommend updating soon. | Continue reading
Adds support for personal Microsoft Teams conferences and scheduling Webex meetings in the Personal Room. ($56.99 annual subscription, free update, 63 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Improves linking between documents and fixes bugs when running in macOS 13 Ventura. ($99 new, free update, 135 MB, macOS 10.14+) | Continue reading
Current releases of Mastodon clients look and work essentially like apps for Twitter, with a chronological timeline of posts. Can Mastodon’s open architecture let clients advance beyond the Twitter paradigm? | Continue reading
Jason Snell of Six Colors has released his eighth annual Apple report card, featuring ratings and quotes from a select group of Apple commentators, including many from TidBITS.Read original article | Continue reading
Looking for an Apple-related conference to attend in 2023? Check out our community-driven conference list, and if you know of any that don’t currently appear, please submit them. | Continue reading
If you need to restart your iPhone or iPad, you can now ask Siri to perform that task for you rather than pressing hard-to-remember button combinations. Alas, the feature doesn’t work on other Apple devices that could also use it. | Continue reading
Faced with an ever-worsening stench in his laundry room at Christmas. Adam Engst brings thousands of dollars of Apple gear and recent technologies into play to avoid ripping the entire room apart. | Continue reading
The time and productivity tracking app adds support for importing your iPhone and iPad usage from Screen Time. ($96 annual subscription, free update, 30 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Maintenance release for the Web design and publishing app, which was rebranded to RapidWeaver Classic in mid-2022. ($79.99 annual subscription, free update, 114 MB, macOS 10.14+) | Continue reading
Improves support for recently released MacBook Pro and Mac mini models. ($9.99 new, free update, 29.9 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Maintenance update for the calendar app focused on bug fixes. ($49.99 new, free update, 60.3 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Although Apple’s revenues fell year-over-year for the first time in recent memory, it still managed to accrue $117 billion in revenue while battling supply issues, foreign exchange challenges, and the effects of war and disease around the globe. | Continue reading
The world of Photos project extensions, never a hotbed of competition, just became a little less competitive now that Mimeo has acquired Motif.Read original article | Continue reading
If you're trying to decide which large hard drive model to buy, check out Backblaze's drive stats for 2022, which show the reliability of each drive model the company uses in its data centers.Read original article | Continue reading
Maintenance updates for the three Affinity graphic design apps with a bevy of bug fixes. ($69.99 new for each, free updates, various sizes, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Display brightness control utility adds support for the new M2-series MacBook Pro models. ($23 new, free update, 21.7 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
With centralized, ad-driven social networks in disarray and suffering from misinformation, harassment, and declining users, can the long-simmering Mastodon microblogging system offer a distributed future for conversation and community? | Continue reading
A growing set of services let users on independently operated servers interlink with standard, open-source protocols for microblogging, photo sharing, and dozens of other purposes. Could the Fediverse be a solution to the ugliness of commercial service algorithms designed to driv … | Continue reading
The repercussions of the LastPass breach continue to resonate, with parent company GoTo now admitting that data associated with its services Central, Pro, join.me, Hamachi, and RemotelyAnywhere was also stolen. Change your passwords and look for alternatives. | Continue reading
Maintenance update for the recently upgraded blogging app. ($59.95 new, free update, 20.2 MB, macOS 10.15.4+) | Continue reading
Brings a few new features, improvements, and bug fixes to the calendar app. ($49.99 new, free update, 60.3 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
With the release of HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, Apple has completed its usual cycle of operating system updates. tvOS 16.3 has no changes worth describing, but HomePod Software 16.3 has quite a few improvements. | Continue reading
The latest versions of Apple’s main operating systems add Security Keys for Apple ID, celebrate Black History Month with a new Unity Lock Screen wallpaper and Unity Mosaic Apple Watch face, and fix bugs and security vulnerabilities. | Continue reading
If you’re still using an iPhone or iPad that can’t update to iOS 16, Apple has released security updates for iOS 12 and iOS 15. | Continue reading
Security patches for Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 12 and 11) | Continue reading
Patches security vulnerabilities in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Adjusts the behavior of mouse-wheel and trackpad scrolling while using Control or Command. (Free, 126 MB, macOS 10.12+) | Continue reading
Collects an assortment of improvements and bug fixes for the Gmail-specific email app. (Free during beta, 12 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Amidst nearly 75,000 tech industry layoffs in the last year, Apple alone has avoided cutting headcount. Why? And what does it mean that the other tech giants all reference AI in their letters to employees? | Continue reading
It's official—Twitter has changed its developer agreement to ban third-party apps like Twitterific and Tweetbot. Would the last Twitter app out the door please turn off the lights?Read original article | Continue reading