I’m an avid user of Apple’s Notes app: it’s where I keep all my random jottings, from ideas for books to thoughts for podcasts I’m recording, and pretty much everything in between. In general, I’m pretty happy with the built-in iCloud syncing that m…
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Lees meerClayton Ashley of Polygon can help explain why you’re hearing sea shanties in your head now. And if you’re not hearing them now, you will be hearing them as soon as you click through: Just like the crew of a ship would join each other in song to …
Lees meerI’ve been a fan of tiny Mac laptops for many years. From the 12-inch PowerBook G4 to the iBook to the 11-inch MacBook Air, I’ve always opted for the smallest laptop I could get my hands on. And yet, with the discontinuation of the 12-inch MacBook, t…
Lees meerMacRumors’s Joe Rossignol: MacRumors reader David Chu today alerted us that the hidden “Items” tab in the Find My app can be enabled on iOS 14.3 and later by typing in the link findmy://items into Safari and tapping on “Open” in the prompt that a…
Lees meerThe “big announcement” teased yesterday is an expansion of Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, which the company founded last year after the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others sparked mass protests: These forward-looki…
Lees meerI had a sneaking suspicion that my post about using BBEdit to process text might tempt Dr. Drang to write a nerdy follow-up post or two, and it did: One of the cleverest things Jason does, which I think he undersells, is nibble away at the datase…
Lees meerIt’s January and the avalanche of 2021 Apple product rumors has already begun. But we also take time to reflect about the first decade of the Mac App Store, have a difficult discussion about when tech companies should deplatform those planning polit…
Lees meerI think we can all agree that there are times when the current reality could be a little…better. For several years, Apple has talked up the potential of the augmented reality space, and more recently, there have been rumors that the company is getti…
Lees meerVia The Verge, a statement from Apple PR regarding its removal of the “free speech” trumpeting Twitter clone Parler from the App Store: “We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on …
Lees meerMike Masonic of TechDirt about social-media moderation and why Trump’s stream needed to be shut down: The regular rules could never apply to Trump because Trump is not a regular person. And, no, not even comparisons to foreign leaders are apt, be…
Lees meerInput reports that Apple has put right-wing social media site Parler on notice: In an email sent by Apple to Parler this morning (Pacific Time) and obtained by _Input, _the company provided numerous examples of Parler users explicitly calling for…
Lees meerStephen Hackett is spending this entire year chronicling the 20th anniversary of 2001. It was, to be fair, a huge year for Apple. First stop? Macworld Expo San Francisco: This Macworld keynote is jam-packed with stuff that would really change App…
Lees meerA lot of people are baffled when I explain that I do most of my writing on the Mac inside Bare Bones Software’s BBEdit, which is a text editor that’s loaded with features for software and web developers. BBEdit has been my primary writing tool for m…
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Lees meerThere’s an iOS music utility I’ve been loving for a while now, and when I praised it during the 2020 Upgradies I realized I’d never written about it. It’s Longplay, a $3 app by Adrian Schönig. What it does is incredibly simple: It shows you the albu…
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Lees meerJust as I wrapped up a series I worked on most of last year about the most notable Macs of all time, I received a comment on Twitter about a specific peculiarity about my list that I’d never considered. “It’s super interesting to me that only one In…
Lees meerI first wrote about HazeOver when Mojave’s Dark Mode debuted. It’s a utility that can change the appearance of your background windows, so in Dark Mode it’ll squelch any windows that are too bright. With the arrival of Big Sur, of course, there are …
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