Apple Support: Learn how to move songs from MUSICMATCH into your iTunes for Windows Library. When you first start iTunes, you are given the option to search for music to add to the iTunes library. If you did not select this option, follow the steps below to add music to iTunes. T … | Continue reading
TextExpander’s customizable and shareable snippets of text allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly — all you have to do is type a short abbreviation and TextExpander does the rest of the work for you. Here’s How It Works: … | Continue reading
On April 28, 2003, Apple made a pair of announcements. The first was a new generation of iPod that featured completely solid-state controls and introduced the 30-pin Dock Connector.1 The other would change the company forever: the iTunes Music Store. Here’s a bit from the press r … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Stephen explains his recent truck accident and absence from the podcast, Myke has a bunch of app suggestions for Federico and they all have questions about Tim Cook’s Apple Watch usage. On the Pro version of the show — which is both ad-free and longer — we … | Continue reading
Apple Support: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Intermittent and/or solid failure during reading and writing to the external drive. CAUSE: The pins on the logic board punch holes in the mylar covering on the RFI shield on the back of the logic board. When they penetrate the covering they sho … | Continue reading
In the run-up to WWDC 2023, reporting about Apple’s forthcoming AR/VR headset have really begun to heat up. In this week’s Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman wrote a bit about how Apple may pitch the device to customers and developers. Forgive the long block-quote, but I think it’s … | Continue reading
Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. Unite 4 includes dozens of new features, including support for native notifications … | Continue reading
On this week’s feedback episode of Mac Power Users, David and I revisit our revisit of Contacts, talk about the differences between Obsidian and Craft, answer questions about version control and get philosophical about modern Apple. | Continue reading
I’ve been verified on Twitter for years, and at the time it happened, I was pretty excited about it. It felt like a badge of honor as someone who works in media. Today, I honestly couldn’t care less about it going away, and that makes me a little sad for what Twitter has become. | Continue reading
Apple Support: Safari 4 may unexpectedly quit if “Glims for Safari” by MacHangout is installed. Uninstall “Glims for Safari” as described on this website. That MacHangout URL is long gone, but the Wayback Machine grabbed it, and the page included a link to an uninstaller. I had n … | Continue reading
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Whether you’re in the harbor or at high sea, you need to know where you are or where you’re sailing. If you have all the maps, books, and documents. DEVONthink for Mac and DEVONthink To Go for iOS will not let you down on your mission and help you navigate the “seven seas of info … | Continue reading
Adam Tow is a long-time Apple user whose passions include development, photography and the Newton. This week on MPU, he talks with David and I about his various projects and the tools he uses to make them a reality. | Continue reading
Mark Gurman, in a fresh report for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is ramping up testing of fresh Macs with processors on par with the current M2 chip, making headway on key new machines that could help reverse a sales decline. The Mac maker has begun testing the new machines with third-pa … | Continue reading
While I’m linking to the transcript of the interview, but you should totally take the time to listen to it. It’s just wild. The part about content moderation on Substack is particularly troubling: Nilay: Wow. I mean, I just want to be clear, if somebody shows up on Substack and s … | Continue reading
Make Something Wonderful, the new book by The Steve Jobs Archive is really something special if you’re an Apple nerd. The best reading experience is on the web, but it’s available in a bunch of digital formats as well. (Personally, I snagged the .epub and made a PDF out of it for … | Continue reading
I came across this link to an article on The Guardian via Justin Blanton’s blog, and got a kick out of it. Emma Beddington wrote back in October: There’s a new buzz on TikTok – well, not a buzz exactly. It’s more of a hum, maybe waves crashing, a purring fan or steady, heavy rain … | Continue reading
This week on the podcast: Stephen, Myke and Federico discuss the success of S-GPT, the future of Apple’s display business and the next iPhone’s buttons. They also roast Steve Jobs’ office. | Continue reading
David Folkenflik: NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter’s decision to first label the network “state-affiliated me … | Continue reading
Apple Support: If you are running the Moire Screen Saver,you may encounter an incompatibility issue when the screen saver engages. While entering records in a ClarisWorks Database, if the Moire screen saver engages, the Edit Menu commands sometimes change to what they would be in … | Continue reading
Amanda Silberling at TechCrunch: Numerous Twitter users are reporting a bug in which Circle tweets — which are supposed to reach a select group, like an Instagram Close Friends story — are surfacing on the algorithmically-generated For You timeline. That means that your supposedl … | Continue reading
MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs. The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to Twitter.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just pre … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: Contacts and calendars are a constant for almost everyone. This week, the guys revisit their setups, discuss alternatives to Apple’s first-party apps and more. | Continue reading
This machine has been on my “white whale” list for collecting for a long time. This video is a great look at the Lisa: | Continue reading
This week on the podcast, we go deep on AI: Federico has released S-GPT, a Shortcut that brings the power of ChatGPT down to your devices and data. Myke and Stephen talk to him about the project and what’s next in Automation April after dealing with some follow-up. Each week, we … | Continue reading
Kris Holt, writing at Engadget: Twitter has added a label to the main account of NPR to designate the public broadcaster as “US state-affiliated media.” Until now, such labels have typically been reserved for state-run organizations such as RT and Sputnik in Russia and China’s Xi … | Continue reading
Federico Viticci has created something wild: It’s the inaugural week of the second annual edition of Automation April, and to celebrate the occasion, I’ve been working on something special: today, I’m introducing S-GPT, an advanced conversational shortcut for ChatGPT that bridges … | Continue reading
Dark Noise is — by far — the best white noise app out there for the Apple ecosystem. Today’s release of 3.0 keeps that streak alive with a new business model. The app is now free with in-app purchase. John Voorhees has more at MacStories: If you previously purchased Dark Noise, w … | Continue reading
Tim Hardwick at MacRumors, writing two days too late for this to be an April Fools joke: Apple has designs on a future AirPods case featuring a built-in touchscreen display that would enable users to control audio sources and interact with apps associated with the connected devic … | Continue reading
MacStories’ John Voorhees: We’re very excited to announce the second annual Automation April Shortcuts Contest, which, along with all of Automation April is dedicated to the memory of Alex Hay, the developer of Toolbox Pro and other apps. As we had hoped when we introduced Automa … | Continue reading
Rachel Kraft and Dan Huot, writing for NASA: NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration … | Continue reading
Apple Support: If you have an active MobileMe account when you move to iCloud, you’ll be able to keep your @me.com or @mac.com email address and move your MobileMe Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, as well as your Bookmarks, to the new service. This article provides important inform … | Continue reading
TextExpander’s customizable and shareable snippets of text allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly — all you have to do is type a short abbreviation and TextExpander does the rest of the work for you. Here’s How It Works: … | Continue reading
This video is hilarious, and I’m very happy to see my state of Tennessee do so well. | Continue reading
Much of our content consumption is now digital, from books and newspapers to shows and movies. This week on MPU, David and I talk through the services they enjoy and the apps they use when it’s time to put our feet up. | Continue reading
When it first went up, Issues were apparently open on the repo. There were some very funny things in there that have now been deleted, but as of this writing, this one remains, as does one requesting a printed version of the repository. | Continue reading
Jonathan Gitlin, writing at Ars about a huge mistake GM is about to make: In surprising car news today, we’ve learned that General Motors is planning to drop support for both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from new electric vehicles it plans to launch in the next few years. The d … | Continue reading
Sara Fischer: The White House will not pay to have its staff’s official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by Axios. Official White House staffers rely on their verified accounts to inform the public on behalf … | Continue reading
This week’s Connected is JAM PACKED with stuff: WWDC 2023 was announced about 60 seconds after the guys started recording. After booking their travel, Myke, Federico and Stephen regroup to discuss a possible iPhone Action Button, how people use Shazam, iOS 16.4 and more. They als … | Continue reading
Like last year, Apple will have a small group of folks in person at Apple Park. | Continue reading
Cabel Sasser: We all know that Apple has nice built-in password management in macOS and iOS. But very, very few people know that Apple’s passwords can also: Autofill any 2FA verification codes, which you easily can add by scanning QR codes! Keep a “Notes” field where you can add … | Continue reading
Apple: With the Apple Music Classical app, you can access the world’s largest classical music catalog.1 Search by composer, work, conductor, and more to quickly find any recording. Explore composers, periods, instruments, and more through curated playlists and composer biographie … | Continue reading
Nancy Atkinson: With the James Webb Space Telescope’s ability to detect and study the atmospheres of distant planets orbiting other stars, exoplanet enthusiasts have been anticipating JWST’s first data on some of the worlds in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system. This is the system wher … | Continue reading
If you use audio on your Mac, in any way at all, SoundSource is for you. SoundSource lives in your menu bar, and gives you superior control over all your audio. Per-application control: Change the volume of any app relative to others, and play individual apps to different audio d … | Continue reading
I recently found a screenshot of the App Store running on iOS 5 hanging out in my Dropbox1 and I had things came to mind. iBooks wasn’t part of a clean iOS install until iOS 8. Apple pushing its services with annoying notifications isn’t anything new. We need more brown UI elemen … | Continue reading