Video Processor. I’ve been experimenting with different automations and command line utilities to handle audio and video transcripts lately. In particular, I’ve been working with Simon Willison’s LLM command line utility as a way to interact with cloud-based large language models … | Continue reading
DEVONthink is a difficult app to review because its flexibility means it can serve a wide variety of purposes. I’ve been using it for the past few weeks as an archive and research companion that houses thousands of plain text files, but the app is capable of effectively replacing … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I take listeners on a tour of the wide variety of automations they’ve been working on so far this year, including shortcuts, Claude projects, and Zapier zaps. This episode is sponsor … | Continue reading
Source: Twenty Thousand Hertz. The Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast’s latest episode celebrates the 40th anniversary of Apple’s accessibility efforts. Through a series of interviews with Apple’s Sarah Herrlinger, Ron Huang, Deidre Caldbeck, and Erick Treski, host Dallas Taylor explo … | Continue reading
Categories in Mail for macOS. Today, Apple released iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, and watchOS 11.4. These releases represent an eclectic mix of new and updated features along with smaller changes scattered across each of the OSes. One of the biggest … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Niléane insists she’s not bringing another task manager, Chris has a new e-ink toy he loves, and the whole crew finds interesting ways to add some more text expansion to their lives. MacStories Unwind Thi … | Continue reading
Earlier today, Nintendo held its last Direct for the original Nintendo Switch. Next week, Nintendo will share more about the Switch 2 during another Direct. In addition to the many games showcased during today’s event was a new iOS and Android app called Nintendo Today. The app i … | Continue reading
It’s been a couple of months since I updated my desk setup. In that time, I’ve concentrated on two areas: video recording and handheld gaming. I wasn’t happy with the Elgato Facecam Pro 4K camera, so I switched to the iPhone 16e. The Facecam Pro is a great webcam, but the footage … | Continue reading
In the wake of last week’s jaw-dropping Severance season two finale, Apple has released a behind-the-scenes video and a Newsroom story showcasing the ways the Mac was used to edit the show. Both feature Severance’s editors discussing the process – creative and technical – behind … | Continue reading
Marcos Tanaka kicked off his App Store career with a real banger when he released MusicHarbor, an app for following the work of your favorite music artists on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. We awarded MusicHarbor App of the Year in 2020, and since then, it has been steadily updated, … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories In this special interview episode, Federico and I welcome Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman to discuss his 16-year journey covering Apple. Mark shares how he started as a teenage app developer before joining 9to5Mac … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories In this special interview episode, Federico and I welcome Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman to discuss his 16-year journey covering Apple. Mark shares how he started as a teenage app developer before joining 9to5Mac … | Continue reading
A lot has changed in my professional life over the past year. As of today, I am working fully from home on three separate long-running projects, and now more than ever, the web browser has become central for all three. Since the M2 MacBook Air is my only computer, I found myself … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. WWDC25 will be held from June 9 - 13 this year and include an in-person experience on June 9 that will provide developers the opportunity to watch the keynote at Apple Park, meet with Apple team members, and take part in special activities. Space will be limited, a … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. Apple has announced a partnership with DJ software and hardware platforms to integrate Apple Music’s catalog into their offerings. The new program, called DJ with Apple Music, expands on an integration that was already in place for Algoriddim’s djay Pro app adding … | Continue reading
It’s been quite a while since I did a full review of Agile Tortoise’s Terminology, an extensible dictionary and reference tool for the iPhone and iPad. It’s hard to believe the app has been around for 15 years now, but with today’s release of version 5.0, Greg Pierce has introduc … | Continue reading
Speaking of opening up iOS to more types of applications, I enjoyed this story by Victoria Song, writing at The Verge about the new EU-mandated interoperability requirements that include, among other things, smartwatches: This is a big reason why it’s a good thing that the Europe … | Continue reading
This is an interesting idea by Parker Ortolani: what if Apple allowed users to change their default assistant from Siri to something else? I do not want to harp on the Siri situation, but I do have one suggestion that I think Apple should listen to. Because I suspect it is going … | Continue reading
Bryan Irace has an interesting take on the new generation of developer tools that have lowered the barrier to entry for new developers (and sometimes not even developers) when it comes to creating apps: Recent criticism of Apple’s AI efforts has been juicy to say the least, but t … | Continue reading
In a surprise announcement this morning, Apple announced that the AirPods Max that support USB-C will be getting an update next month that adds support for lossless and ultra‑low latency audio over the cable. According to the press release: With the included USB-C cable, users ca … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Darth Chris makes an appearance, Niléane has an exclusive first look at…checks notes… the iPhone 16 Pro, Matt insists on talking about MacWhisper even more, and the crew actually all followed the rules in … | Continue reading
Less than two weeks ago, Apple announced that it was delaying the launch of a more personalized Siri. Today, Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg, says the company is shuffling leadership of the project, too. According to Gurman: Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has lost confiden … | Continue reading
One of the best indicators of how sticky a cross-device utility will be in my setup is how quickly I install it everywhere. For Sindre Sorhus’ Scratchpad, the answer was “very sticky.” The simple text utility works on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro (via iPad c … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I explore a collection of Shortcuts helper utilities that extend functionality beyond the built-in system actions, sharing how these apps address gaps in Apple’s Shortcuts implementa … | Continue reading
Just as I was linking to Eric Migicovsky’s post about the disadvantages third-party smartwatch makers face when trying to integrate with the iPhone, the European Commission (EC) released a pair of related specification decisions regarding Apple’s Digital Markets Act compliance. T … | Continue reading
It’s been over a year and a half since the debut of Callsheet, the app from Casey Liss for looking up information about films and TV shows, and the app has grown a lot in that time. From new app icon variations to more fine-grained spoiler settings to actors’ heights and ages, Ca … | Continue reading
It’s been just shy of one year since the U.S. Department of Justice and 15 states sued Apple for antitrust violations. It’s not clear what will become of that lawsuit given the change of administrations, but as it stands today, it’s still an active case. One of the things that is … | Continue reading
I loved this post by David Smith on his decision to remain optimistic about Apple’s rumored iOS 19 redesign despite, well, you know, everything: Optimism isn’t enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a feeling, optimism is a choice. I have much less of the enthusiastic feelings these days abou … | Continue reading
Fello AI is a native macOS app that unifies today’s top AI models into one streamlined chat client. Instead of juggling multiple subscriptions and clunky web tools, you can now access models like ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Pro, Grok, LLaMA, or Perplexity all from a … | Continue reading
As I read Sebastiaan de With’s review of the iPhone 16e’s camera, I found myself chuckling when I got to this part: You can speculate what the ‘e’ in ‘16e’ stands for, but in my head it stands for ‘essential’. Some things that I consider particularly essential to the iPhone are a … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane takes the challenge to the next level. MacStories Unwind This week John is tricked by Daylight Savings, Federico and he reflect on how to avoid … | Continue reading
JSAUX’s 16” FlipGo Pro Dual Portable Monitor is the sort of gadget that I expect most people will look at and either understand immediately or dismiss, which makes it the kind of hardware I love. I have a fascination with portable displays borne of too many hours sitting at a des … | Continue reading
Apple has officialy renewed its hit comedy series Ted Lasso for a fourth season on Apple TV+ with series star and executive producer Jason Sudeikis returning. Sudeikis even offered a small hint of what viewers can expect: As we all continue to live in a world where so many factor … | Continue reading
Earlier today, the GSM Association approved new RCS specifications that enable end-to-end encryption when using RCS to send messages. According to a post by Tom Van Pelt, the GSMA’s Technical Director: Most notably, the new specifications define how to apply MLS within the contex … | Continue reading
In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, I’ve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps I’m using – the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences – aren’t native iPad apps. They’re web apps. Before I cont … | Continue reading
Last June at WWDC, Apple announced Swift Assist, a way to generate Swift code using natural language prompts. However, as Tim Hardwick writes for MacRumors, Swift Assist hasn’t been heard from since then: Unlike Apple Intelligence, Swift Assist never appeared in beta. Apple hasn’ … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I share our self-imposed tech deadlines for the hardware and software they use. This episode is sponsored by: Memberful – Easy-to-Use Reliable Membership Software NPC: Next Portable … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. I’ve been thinking about Apple’s position in AI a lot this week, and I keep coming back to this idea: if Apple is making the best consumer-grade computers for AI right now, but Apple Intelligence is failing third-party developers with a lack of AI-related APIs, sho … | Continue reading
Apple revealed a new Immersive Video title for the Vision Pro. As announced at SXSW today, Vision Pro users will be treated to a live performance of three Metallica songs: “Whiplash,” “One,” and “Enter Sandman” on March 14th. According to Metallica’s press release: This project m … | Continue reading
Speaking of the new Mac Studio and Apple making the best computers for AI: this is a terrific overview by Max Weinbach about the new M3 Ultra chip and its real-world performance with various on-device LLMs: The Mac I’ve been using for the past few days is the Mac Studio with M3 U … | Continue reading
For all the criticism (mine included) surrounding Apple’s delay of various Apple Intelligence features, I found this different perspective by Ben Thompson fascinating and worth considering: What that means in practical terms is that Apple just shipped the best consumer-grade AI c … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. For the past 10 days, I’ve been testing the iPhone 16e – but not in the way I typically test new hardware. You see, I didn’t buy the iPhone 16e to make calls, send email, surf the web, post to social media, or anything else, really. Instead, I got it for one thing: … | Continue reading
DEVONthink 3 is the all-in-one solution to organizing and retrieving documents across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. By supporting numerous file formats, it’s the perfect solution to bring your work together in one powerful hub. What sets DEVONthink apart is its many information retriev … | Continue reading
Simon Willison, one of the more authoritative independent voices in the LLM space right now, published a good theory on what may have happened with Apple’s delay of Apple Intelligence’s Siri personalization features: I have a hunch that this delay might relate to security. These … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Niléane has entered her keyboard era, Chris has a consumer warning as well as a really good macropad, and then we find the best games on the Mac. MacStories Unwind This week, a little Cajun cooking, behin … | Continue reading
Apple released a statement to John Gruber of Daring Fireball today announcing that it is delaying a “more personalized Siri.” According to Apple’s Jacqueline Roy: Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Sir … | Continue reading
Tapbots, the makers of Mastodon client Ivory, announced today that they are working on a Bluesky client. The app, which will be called Phoenix, is planned for release this summer. There aren’t a lot of details yet, but Tapbots’ history of making top-notch social media apps stretc … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I examine the widening gap between consumer and enterprise apps, asking what happened to prosumer and small business app market. This episode is sponsored by: Incogni – Take your per … | Continue reading