The EU’s Digital Markets Act requires Apple to allow third parties to offer web browsers with their own browser engines. However, more than a year later, there are no browsers built with Chromium, Gecko, or any other engine in the EU. At a recent EU…
Lees meerIf you run a business, a side hustle, a podcast, or just want to stay in touch with a community, you know how important great email marketing can be. That’s where Direct Mail comes in — a native macOS app that makes it incredibly easy to design, sen…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone https://youtu.be/lnt7SMgiCjwVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Comfort Zone, Episode 57: Is This Podcast Real? (https://youtu.be/lnt7SMgiCjw) Everyone exp…
Lees meerSource: Console Variations. Retro Dodo, linking to the website Console Variations, has a story about the time Nintendo produced variants of the Game Boy Color that matched the iMac G3. All that seemingly remains of these color-matched Game Boys is t…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John reflect on their preparations for the fall review season, how dealing with design changes is different from new features, and some of the tools th…
Lees meerApple announced today that later this month, Sabih Khan is taking over for Jeff Williams as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. According to Apple’s press release, Williams will continue to oversee the company’s design team, Apple Watch, and heal…
Lees meerSource: 8BitDo. I never expected my game controller obsession to pay automation dividends, but it did last week in the form of the tiny 16-button 8BitDo Micro. For the past week, I’ve used the Micro to dictate on my Mac, interact with AI chatbots, a…
Lees meerOur setups. It’s time for another update to the MacStories Setups page, where you’ll find all the gear and apps that Federico and I use for work and play. With Prime Day upon us, it’s a great time to revisit our setups and see what’s on sale. Plus, …
Lees meerYou’re sure to see a lot of Prime Day roundups around the web today, but ours is a little different. Although there are a lot of great deals during Prime Day, we gather ours from among the hardware we’ve actually tried and can recommend to readers. …
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Niléane is out on assignment, so Chris and Matt hold down the fort, discussing what “pro” tools look like, the most pro Thunderbolt dock you can buy, and how they automated …
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico records entirely on his iPad Pro using the new local capture feature in iPadOS 26. He and John discuss how this system feature changes remote podcasting, t…
Lees meerGovernments have largely been ineffective in regulating the unfettered scraping of the web by AI companies. Now, Cloudflare is taking a different approach, tackling the problem from a commercial angle with a beta program that charges AI bots each ti…
Lees meerSource: Apple. It’s been 10 years since Apple Music launched the summer following Apple’s acquisition of Beats. To mark the anniversary, Apple has made several announcements. First of all, the company will soon open a 15,000 square foot multi-use ca…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Niléane hosts the next installment of the Our Tech Stories series, Chris has an iPad keyboard case with a kickstand, and everyone attempts to replace a cherished app with so…
Lees meerTo avoid additional fines, Apple is making several new changes to App Store rules in the EU. Today’s changes are a result of an April ruling by the European Commission that levied a €500 million fine against the company and ordered that it “…remove …
Lees meerEarlier today, I updated my AirPods 4’s firmware to the beta version, which Apple released yesterday. I was curious to play around with the software update for two reasons: AirPods are getting support for automatically pausing media playback when yo…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John reflect on where the iPad fits within their workflows after the announcement of iPadOS 26. Then, on AppStories+, they explore the potential for an…
Lees meerGood post by Parker Ortolani, analyzing the pros and cons of a potential Perplexity acquisition by Apple: According to Mark Gurman, Apple executives are in the early stages of mulling an acquisition of Perplexity. My initial reaction was “that would…
Lees meerApple’s ‘Use Model’ action in Shortcuts. I mentioned this on AppStories during the week of WWDC: I think Apple’s new ‘Use Model’ action in Shortcuts for iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26, which lets you prompt either the local or cloud-based Apple Foundation mode…
Lees meerNow this is what I call follow-up: six years after I linked to Jason Snell’s first experiments with podcasting on the iPad Pro (which later became part of a chapter of my Beyond the Tablet story from 2019), I get to link to Snell’s first impressions…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Chris is back in his element in the iPadOS 26 world, Matt just wants to play some games, and Niléane oversees the hardest challenge in ages. This episode is sponsored by: Ec…
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