We asked ChatGPT to write a sponsorship post for MindNode, and this was the result: “Looking for a powerful and intuitive mind mapping app that will help you organize your thoughts and ideas on your Mac and iOS devices? Look no further than MindNode! MindNode is a versatile and e … | Continue reading
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We are back with another edition of Automation April. Last year’s kickoff event was a big success. We published a wide variety of automation stories, released special podcast episodes, held online automation events, and capped off the month with a Shortcuts contest. But best of a … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we revisit RSS to talk about how syncing services and apps have changed and share how our use of RSS has evolved. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Kolide – Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It’s Zero Trust tailor-made f … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 360 MarkEdit, an open-source, extensible Markdown editor from the maker of Taio Federico’s newfound appreciation for Safari for iOS Pl … | Continue reading
Source: 8BitDo 8BitDo, a popular maker of game controllers, announced today that six of its products now officially support Apple hardware: 8BitDo Ultimate Controller 2.4g 8BitDo Pro 2 8BitDo SN30 Pro + 8BitDo Pro 8BitDo SN30 Pro for Android 8Bitdo Lite SE The controller firmware … | Continue reading
Two pieces of mobile gaming news caught my eye this morning. The first was an interview that Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, gave to the Financial Times. The annual Game Developer Conference began today, and Spencer wants developers to know that Microsoft intends to publis … | Continue reading
Right now, “Zero Trust” is in serious danger of becoming an empty buzzword. The problem isn’t just that marketers have slapped the Zero Trust label on everything short of breakfast cereal–it’s that for all the hype, we don’t seem to be getting any safer. At the heart of Zero Trus … | Continue reading
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Jason Snell, in an excellent column for Macworld: Sometimes I look back at all the effort Apple has made with the iPad Pro and wonder if it was worth it. All the additions of Mac-ish features have added complexity that’s probably lost on most users of iPadOS, and the power users … | Continue reading
Brian Chen, Nico Grant, and Karen Weise of The New York Times set out to explain why voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant seem primitive by comparison to ChatGPT. According to ex-Apple, Amazon, and Google engineers and employees, the difference is grounded in t … | Continue reading
Tripsy is more than just an app for storing details about your upcoming trips. It does that and does it well, but it’s also a great way to revisit old trips and get inspired about places you want to visit in the future. We’ve covered Tripsy before, so for more on what the app can … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we answer listener questions about apps, automation, podcasting, tattoos, and more. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Kolide – Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It’s Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta. Book a demo today. Sq … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 359 Arc by The Browser Company. Federico is experimenting with Readwise Reader as his RSS client and explains what’s worked well and w … | Continue reading
Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced at the 95th Annual Academy Awards ceremony that it had picked The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse for Best Animated Short Film. The Apple TV+ film, which also recently won a BAFTA Film Award and four Anni … | Continue reading
Here’s an uncomfortable fact: at most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’re doing something wrong. Kolide’s new report, The State of Sensitive Data, shines a light on an area of security t … | Continue reading
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Source: App Store. On March 28th, Apple will launch Apple Music Classical, a free app that’s already available for pre-order that will offer a catalog of over 5 million classical recordings to Apple Music subscribers at no additional cost. The app, which will be iPhone-only at la … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we cover the increasing competition among web browsers and the emerging features we find most useful. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Kolide – Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It’s Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta. Boo … | Continue reading
Source: david-smith.org. 100 million of anything is a lot, and 100 million downloads on the App Store are rare. Rarer still, and perhaps unprecedented, is 100 million downloads of an app made by one person. When it comes to apps, I can’t think of a single app made by an indie dev … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. A new spring iPhone color has become an annual tradition for Apple. Today, the company announced that a pale yellow model is joining the midnight, starlight, (PRODUCT)RED, blue, and purple versions of the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. Apple also said that its Emerg … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Outlook, its email and calendar app, is now free on the Mac App Store and doesn’t require a Microsoft 365 subscription, which has been the case for a long time on iOS and iPadOS. That’s great news for Mac users. Outlook has been optimized for A … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 358 Ascend MacStories Recommends: Ascend Running the Apple Frames shortcut from the Command Line and enabling its new Passthrough Mode … | Continue reading
Right now, “Zero Trust” is in serious danger of becoming an empty buzzword. The problem isn’t just that marketers have slapped the Zero Trust label on everything short of breakfast cereal–it’s that for all the hype, we don’t seem to be getting any safer. At the heart of Zero Trus … | Continue reading
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The ‘Shortcut Result’ variable, used as an image variable in a shortcut that calls Apple Frames. I just released a small update to Apple Frames 3.1, which came out earlier this week, with a new output command: &passthrough. With this output command for the Apple Frames API, you’l … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we compare notes on the Apple Watch Ultra, including what makes it special and what frustrates us, and share the apps we’re using regularly. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Kolide – Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It … | Continue reading
Usually, when a big company shuts down an API, they give customers time to prepare. It’s the right thing to do regardless of what any terms of service say. That’s not how things went down with Twitter. Instead, as I wrote in January, Twitter eliminated access to its API for many … | Continue reading
Source: david-smith.org David Smith announced the release of Pedometer++ 5.0 today, and it looks like a big one. Smith says 5.0 has been rewritten from the ground up using SwiftUI and includes: Dynamic Type support Workout tracking, which was previously Watch-only, is now availab … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. Today, Apple introduced new analytics for app developers designed to reveal how their apps are performing compared to peer apps. The developer site says that: With data from the entire catalog of apps on the App Store, peer group benchmarks provide accurate, releva … | Continue reading
Apple Frames 3.1 comes with a lightweight Apple Frames API to extend its automation capabilities. Today, I’m happy to introduce something I’ve been working on for the past couple of months: Apple Frames – my shortcut to put screenshots captured on Apple devices inside physical de … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 357 Federico takes a lighter approach to Focus Modes and his Apple Watch Ultra I share my iPhone Home Screen for the first time in yea … | Continue reading
Here’s an uncomfortable fact: at most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’re doing something wrong. Kolide’s new report, The State of Sensitive Data, shines a light on an area of security t … | Continue reading
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Gentler Streak, the fitness app for the Apple Watch and iPhone that takes a holistic approach to training and recovery, has been updated to version 3.0 to incorporate additional health metrics, so users can get a broader picture of their overall wellbeing. I’ve had less than a da … | Continue reading
Angry Birds was a defining game of the first decade of the App Store, so fans and game preservationists applauded Rovio in 2021 when it announced that it was rebuilding the 2012 version of the game and relaunching it on the App Store and Android as Angry Birds Classic. The game w … | Continue reading
I’ve seen the future of Mac gaming, and it’s not Metal 3 or Apple silicon. It’s a PC sitting in a Dallas data center with an NVIDIA 4080 GPU. That’s the data center my Mac connects to when I log into GeForce NOW Ultimate, the top tier of NVIDIA’s videogame streaming service. NVID … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we conclude our mini-series on artificial intelligence with a conversation about the apps we’ve used that include AI features. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Things – Now with Deep Shortcuts Integration Issuu – Get started with Issuu today for FR … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 356 Apps to make controlling HomeKit devices easier A Sofa giveaway Using Twitter advanced search with Inoreader to create RSS feeds o … | Continue reading
SaneBox is the all-in-one solution to email overload, so you can spend less time managing email and more time on what matters. It works with any email client or service, and any device - literally anywhere you check your email. Oh, and there’s nothing to download or install. It j … | Continue reading
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Source: Apple. Apple has released betas of iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with new features and its version of new emoji approved by the Unicode Consortium last summer. Some of the biggest changes coming to iOS and iPadOS later this spring will be to Safari. Many of the biggest user-facing … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Primate Labs released Geekbench 6, the suite of benchmarking tools for Apple and other vendors’ hardware. According to the company: Geekbench tests have always been grounded in real-world use cases and use modern. With Geekbench 6, we’ve taken this to the next level by … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we begin a new series on the impact of artificial intelligence on apps and the world around us. This week’s episode sets the stage with a look at chatbots, image-generation tools, and issues and opportunities they raise. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsore … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 355 I reviewed MassReplaceIt, a text replacement utility for Mac Federico combines two Sonos Roam speakers, MusicHarbor, and Spotify, … | Continue reading
Backblaze offers unlimited computer backup for Macs and PCs for just $7 a month. Backblaze will backup your music, photos, videos, drawings, projects, and all the other data you have, so it’s safe and secure. If you need to restore a file, that’s simple too. You can restore files … | Continue reading
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Today, 1Password announced that it’s moving to a passkey-based system for unlocking its password manager app. Using a password manager like 1Password already means not having to remember passwords for every site and service you use because it locks your passwords behind a single, … | Continue reading