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This is so tempting. I can’t imagine Apple will make a “headless” laptop, but they should. Luke Miani (who runs a great YouTube channel I’ve been following for a while) has created the sort of beautiful monstrosity I would absolutely consider for my own workflow: he was able to …
Funnily enough, the Apple Event has me reconsidering a new iPad at all. Maybe my 2020 iPad Pro gets passed to my wife, and I swap out for a MacBook Air/macOS instead (plus iPad mini). Two sticking points: (1) No cellular option (still!) on Mac, and (2) the MacBook Air config I’d want is …
🆕📝 The Most Popular Mac Isn’t the MacBook Air. Wait, What?
🆕📝 Happy 40th, Mac A birthday message to the good ol' Macintosh as it completes its 4th decade. 🥳
🆕📝 Happy 40th, Mac A birthday message to the good ol' Macintosh as it completes its 4th decade. 🥳
🆕📝 Mac Reincarnation Diary: The Plan Pays Off TL;DR: The fresh install of macOS in July went well, it’s (somewhat) faster now, and I’ve got a checklist you can follow to see how I personalize my Mac.
The Mac has been on Apple silicon for 10% of its lifetime already. 🤯 The first Apple Silicon Macs were unveiled four years ago today. BasicAppleGuy https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/113459514055530825
🔗 My Complete 2023 Six Colors Report Card Replies 2023 marked the end of the transition to Apple silicon. It may have taken longer than Apple anticipated, but it’s hard to argue with the results. Macs are running faster, cooler and longer than they ever could with Intel inside. All it cost was …
🔗 Joe Rossignol: ‘Satechi’s New Mac Mini Hub Solves the Power Button Problem’ macrumors.com With the extra frontside ports and built-in external storage for backups, I continue to think these made-specially-for-Mac-mini stand things are a great investment.
🔗 The Back Page: Getting the carbon out (Dan Moren / sixcolors.com 🔒) Regardless, we’ve made great strides in the last year, introducing a carbon-neutral version of the Apple Watch Series 10; releasing our first carbon-neutral Mac, the new Mac mini; and eliminating spaghetti carbonara at Caffe …
🔗 Contextual Computing with Vision Pro: My Writing Cabin // MacSparky When I’m not writing, I don’t go to Yosemite to watch a visionOS movie, or check email, or play with some other aspect of visionOS. My brain is already figuring out that Yosemite Valley equals writing. My Mac is far away, back …
Okay, this is pretty wild. Apparently macOS remains completely usable with Sidecar, even when in the iPadOS app switcher UI! Smallest Mac screen you’ve ever seen?
🔗 The Great iMac Realignment – 512 Pixels // Stephen Hackett Apple said it was the first Mac designed from the ground up for Apple silicon, and it showed. I adore the design of this machine: I think the 24-inch iMac will go down in history as one of the most special computers Apple has ever …
🔗 M4 Pro Chip Benchmark Results Reveal an Extremely Impressive Performance Feat // macrumors.com What this means is that you can now purchase a Mac mini with a 14-core M4 Pro for $1,599 in the U.S. and get similar to faster peak performance than a Mac Studio with the 24-core M2 Ultra, a …
🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#158] Stepping into a 2004 time machine, fun sound stuff, an unfathomable amount of money, wowza robots, a pretty camera, and two home projects that make me want a new Mac mini.
🔗 Inside Apple’s Massive Push to Transform the Mac Into a Gaming Paradise — inverse.com // Raymond Wong From what I can tell, the company does seem genuinely serious this time about getting new games simultaneously (or very shortly after launch date) released on Mac alongside PC and …
🔗 Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpapers (Mac Edition) — Basic Apple Guy Do that for each band, and I’d be done in a few minutes. Wrong! Because each thread is its layer, the total number of layers in this project quickly grew to over 63,000 (63,158, to be exact), which hammered the Mac’s …
Mac Week Day 2: It’s Mac mini’s turn with its third-ever redesign! Now it looks even more like Mac Studio’s little brother, with some serious performance to match. 🧵
I’m pretty psyched about the new M4 MacBook Air! It’s very likely my next computer—my first MacBook Air ever! It’s missing just two things that I was hoping for: a nano-texture display option and the C1 cellular modem. The modem was a longshot, but it would’ve …
🔗 Bloomberg: Apple ‘investigating’ bringing cellular to the Mac for the first time (Chance Miller / 9to5mac.com) Apple is expected to debut the first version of its cellular modem next year in the iPhone SE 4, the iPhone 17 Air, and the base model iPad. The following year, it will …
🔗 Federico Viticci’s self-made Mac convertible — sixcolors.com // Jason Snell Some people will call this a silly stunt, but the truth is that for years Federico has been exploring (and pushing) the edges of Apple’s platforms so the rest of us don’t have to. He’s an ergonomic astronaut, floating …
Did I miss the Mac Pro reviews? I don’t think I saw any alongside the 15” Air and Mac Studio ones dropping. But here we are, after they’re available for customers to buy.
I’d both love and hate an M4 MacBook Air announced tomorrow. Love because I’m pretty sure that’s going to be my next computer as I slim down to a MacBook Air/iPad mini/iPhone setup. Hate because I was expecting it in the spring and need time to save up! 😂 Going for the hat trick …
Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac: ‘Satechi M4 Mac mini stand and hub supports up to 4TB extra storage’ A Satechi M4 Mac mini stand and hub promises to let owners of the new ultra-compact desktop Mac add up to 4TB of fast SSD storage, together with an SD card slot and three USB-A ports. These …
🆕📝 Mac Reincarnation Diary: I’m A Little Worried
Oh how I wish I could order a few of these, they look so good! 🤩 In December, Apple Park Visitor Center launched a new range of white and black t-shirts inspired by vintage Apple designs. Some popular picks from previous seasons have also returned. My two favorites, “Hello Screen” and “Macintosh …
🆕📝 MacPaw’s aiming to out-Siri Siri with third-party-enabled Eney macOS assistant I don't doubt MacPaw's experience and solid reputation for working well with third-party developers through Setapp will give them a leg up here.
🔗 Inside An Apple Lab That Makes Custom Chips For iPhone And Mac - CNBC In November, CNBC became the first journalists to film inside an Apple chip lab, where it tests its latest M3 chips that replaced Intel processors in all new Macs. We also got a rare chance to talk with Apple’s head of …
I’ve had my M4 MacBook Air for all of a couple of hours, and I already love it. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m setting up as new and haven’t loaded it down with years of data and apps yet, but it feels notably faster than my M1 Mac mini. 😍 (I have to say, though, I already …
Hmm. Today’s Logic Pro update keeps the pricing and purchase of the Mac app and the iPad app separate. The Mac app still costs $199 upfront, and the iPad is still a subscription of $4.99/month or $49/year. I kind of thought that they would merge them into one subscription plan, but apparently not …
MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts to Get Things Done | Matt Langford A few weeks ago, I decided (finally) to embrace some custom keyboard shortcuts on my Mac. I’ve tinkered a bit over that time, but I’ve landed in a place where I’m happy with the results. I’m going to detail every custom keyboard shortcut …
Holy smokes, this privacy video from Apple in China is something else. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them have a person embody the Apple brand before. Even in the Mac vs. PC ads, the guy was a Mac, not Apple itself. Entertaining though, and seems bold to put out in notoriously un-private China.
@gregmorris I’ve enjoyed Spark for years (I still prefer and use their classic version on Mac.)
Just had my M1 Mac mini crash on me. First time ever. It was startling. 💻 😳
🆕📝 Scott Yu-Jan’s Macintosh Studio You may have heard of Viticci's MacPad, but how about a desktop version with...an iPad mini? This thing looks awesome!
@cliff538 Amazing, thank you so much! I was looking in the Mac App Store’s settings, not in System Settings.
🔗 Macintosh 40th anniversary: Remembering my own love affair with the original Mac — 9to5mac.com // Ben Lovejoy It smiled at you as it started-up. You didn’t have directory listings, you had images of folders. You didn’t type the name of an application or file to open it, you used this strange …
Is it just me, or will the Mac App Store not let you use Touch ID to purchase an app?
Is this the most expensive that you’ve ever been able to price out a Mac mini? $4699 for the works.
Uh-oh. I tried the wide/ultra-wide Mac Virtual Display through visionOS, and now my regular 28-inch monitor looks small. 😬
James Thomson reveals the secrets — and his role — in how the Mac OS Dock came to be. Make sure to read to the very end! 🔗 tla.systems
I’m starting a “nuke and pave” (erase and restore to factory settings and set up as new) of my Mac mini. Wish me luck. 🤞
Find My Gains Option to Share Lost Item Location With an ‘Airline or Trusted Person’ in iOS 18.2 // Juli Clover // macrumors.com Choosing the Share Item Location option creates a link that allows someone to see the location of a lost item when they open the link. The link can be …
Not sure if this is useful, but it is at least interesting (to me): You can view the contents of your clipboard on macOS by going to Finder → Edit → Show Clipboard (Via macmost.com)
Currently turning off basically all notifications on my Mac. I really only need notifications in one place: my phone. Dunno why it took this long for me to realize.
🆕📝 These Are Not the Consoles You’re Looking For Maybe the “gaming console”-capable A17 Pro is as destined to upgrade the Apple TV’s gaming cred as it is the Mac’s.
That you can scroll away from the search field in the Mac’s Music app is profoundly weird. The whole thing needs a major rethinking and probably a modern rewrite.
I’m about a third of the way through the “John Siracusa Windowing Method” video and, so far, even though it’s not how I use my Mac, I’m on board. 👍
With the M3 Ultra Mac Pro out the door and the final Intel version no longer for sale, Apple had no qualms in taking off the gloves and calling out Intel by name in their comparisons left and right.
If this whole gross spectrum of behavior seems familiar to you, it’s probably because AI shares a certain DNA with crypto, NFTs, and the blockchain in that they are all trendy, usually touted by people you wouldn’t want to be stuck in an elevator with and, in a weird coincidence, all happen to …
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #567: ‘That’s Not How Capitalism Works’ Mini-er Mac minis, Apple vs. Patreon, notifications habits, Rivian adding Apple Music instead of CarPlay, go-to travel snacks, and origin story tech interactions.
In which Apple isn’t quite the price hog it’s thought to be. That leaves the Mac Studio. The [best Ultra model comes] with the RAM and storage spec I want, but it is $5,000. With a display, it will be over a thousand dollars above my inflation-adjusted target. But hang on, because the …
Would you look at that? Space Black didn’t completely replace Space Gray in the MacBook Pro lineup. The plain M3 14-inch model comes in Silver/Space Gray. Space Black is only for the true professional chip Macs.
Collaborative playlists in Apple Music are here. We’ve been waiting almost 10 years (a full quarter of the Mac’s life) for this, but I’m just glad it’s finally available. This was a fun intro video by the Apple Music Radio team.
Aw hell yeah! Can’t wait! In addition to playing videos in-app, the macOS app will also get the ability to play in a new separate window. Play 2.0 is going to be great! Marcos Tanaka https://mastodon.social/@mactanaka/111347096421229757
🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#162] 3D-printable Mac mini designs, gift-wrapping tips for odd-shaped items, a hilarious video, a reminder about disability and design, stunning Earth photography, Doom running on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, and a case that boosts AirTag battery life.
Man, I thought Drafts made it easy to blast off posts at the speed of thought. But I have to admit that MarsEdit’s micropost window is unrivaled on the Mac. Hotkeys for launching and posting, and now it even has image support (with alt text!). This is dangerous.
🔗 Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs - The Verge // Tom Warren Microsoft has created a Windows App for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Windows, and web browsers. The app essentially takes the previous Windows 365 app and turns it into a central hub for streaming a copy of Windows from a …
So far, my attempt to use my ‘Publish Quote’ shortcut on the Mac has resulted in: Two updated shortcuts A brand-new shortcut A started-then-scraped shortcut A purchased domain name One published quote And now I’m inching toward releasing a huge update to ‘Publish …
Touch Bar Fully Discontinued on New MacBooks After Seven Years - MacRumors Just over seven years after it was introduced, the Touch Bar has now been fully discontinued on all new MacBooks sold by Apple, marking the end of an era for a hardware feature that was loved by some users and derided by …
I’m weirdly getting an error page when trying to access Instagram on my Mac in Safari. It made me think that Make.com’s access had been cut off, but, no, it’s browser-wide even going to the base instagram.com domain. FireFox login worked just fine. 🤷♂️
I wonder if I’ll be able to control my upstairs Mac mini with the Vision Pro while downstairs on my couch if I have a keyboard/trackpad there. If so, and if the latency isn’t horrendous, I see that being a huge portability upgrade for my desktop. cc: @gruber@mastodon.social …
Heyo! Supercharge is now available to install via Setapp. It’s chock full of great little tweaks for your Mac. Does anyone else reinstall apps they’ve already purchased when they show up on Setapp? I like that the developer gets a little more money from me. 😁 Congrats …
I gotta say, I’m excited for Apple’s Writing Tools when Apple Intelligence rolls out later this year. I’ll probably rely on the Proofread option more than anything. I use Grammarly now, but it’s so distracting and I don’t enjoy it. But at the moment, my only …
It’s been 1784 days and Apple still won’t sell a compact keyboard with black keys. I’m done waiting. I’ve got an orange one in my eBay cart. If something better doesn’t come with the Mac mini this week, I’m pulling the trigger. Lightning and white keys be …
Stephen Hackett made a keen observation in his (just superbly titled) blog post about Apple ending its butterfly keyboard repair program: ‘The Eeeend d of an Eraa’ It’s wild to think about how much about this generation of MacBook Pros has been erased from the product line. The …
@MacPsych Nice work!
Ben Lovejoy: ‘Future iPhones could get multiple Action buttons; iPad and Mac too’ An Apple patent has revealed that future iPhones could effectively get multiple Action buttons, as all three buttons on the left side of the phone become user-configurable. Yes, please! Let’s …
👀 Amazon’s got the M2 MacBook Air with the new 16GB RAM and 256GB storage standard at $200 off (down to $799). That’s quite the deal. (Via MacRumors)
John Gruber loves his nano-texture display: As a don’t-know-how-I-lived-without-it fan of the nano-texture Studio Display, I’m glad to see a nano-texture option available for the M4 iMacs. (It’s a $200 upgrade.) Fingers crossed that they offer a nano-texture option for the M4 …
🆕📝 MacLife Magazine’s Ink Runs Dry
Apple sends out gift boxes with AirPods Max and snacks to promote M3 Mac event — 9to5Mac: Apple is sending out special gift boxes to select influencers, such as Lamarr Wilson. The boxes include a pair of AirPods Maxheadphones and some “sweet and spooky” snacks and drinks to consume while watching …
Weirdly enough, I think I’d be more likely to move my whole blogging experience to Micro.blog from Blot if @danielpunkass@mastodon.social’s MarsEdit came to iOS. Text files synced with Dropbox are my whole blogging UI with Blot, but that basically means 1Writer & iA Writer are my blogging …
Another banger from Jason Snell: ‘The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model’ But over time, the inevitable happened: Apple used the exclusivity of the App Store and its total control over the platform to extract money through rent-seeking and to bar businesses from …
Dan Moren’s The Back Page column this month, ‘Tim Cook’s busy schedule’, is worth the Six Colors membership price all on its own: 4:30pm: Afternoon stroll to close rings and use iPhone 16 Pro to track down AirTag that Phil Schiller hides daily on Apple Park campus. …
@macavatar @ttscoff Oooh that’s super cool. Thank you!
🔗 Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year: Accessibility Reader is a new systemwide reading mode designed to make text easier to read for users with a wide range of disabilities, such as dyslexia or low vision. Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, …
Let’s try this again! I just updated my ‘📣 Publish Quote’ shortcut to version 2.1: Fixed a couple of bugs related to variables incorrectly converting between text and URLs (thanks @pratik and @ericmwalk!) Cleaned up the final actions by reusing the text-to-publish variable so it’s more …
David Pierce: ‘Twos is a handy to-do list app with exactly the right amount of AI’ AI turns Twos into not just my to-do list but the jumping-off point for all my tasks. Since the app works across platforms — it’s fundamentally a web app, but there are versions for Android and iOS, …
Ryan Christoffel, at 9to5Mac, on Pat Gelsinger’s ouster at Intel and how Apple has avoided repercussions with its move to Apple silicon four years ago: However, even though Apple can’t actually take much responsibility for its former partner’s decline, this story is a big win for Apple …
🔗 The Future of My Computing // P. I. Moore In 2007 I made my official — and what I thought would be permanent — switch to the Mac platform when I got my 24-inch iMac, and Windows became my new legacy OS. It felt somewhat weird but also cathartic to use a system that I didn’t have to mess around …
🔗 When Was the Last Time Tech Blew Your Mind? // Kev Quirk The first time I sent an email was really cool. The performance and battery life of my M1 Mac was (is) very impressive; far better than any laptop I’ve ever had before. But I’m not talking about impressive. I’m talking …
@jonathan.macstories.net It’s not the point of the article (I’m pretty psyched to check out Alcove when I get a MacBook) but it was fun to scroll by this and see my site’s logo! 🫶
Wes Davis at The Verge tallies up his Apple product usage, comparing to Tim Cook’s routine: Final count: 15 devices, nine services, 26 apps, and eight accessories. Describing all of that made me feel like I’ve stared into the abyss only to find it staring back at me. But it still leaves out …
A thought I’ve had more than once lately: If I had to replace my iPad Pro (which I use mostly as a laptop in the Magic Keyboard case), would I replace it with another iPad or with a MacBook Air instead? The power of macOS in that superlight design sure is appealing. overcast.fm/+QN1qX9sO…
@macmanx @maique Thanks for the shoutout! I’m sure it can be adapted if you know how to hook up Claude’s API 🙂
🔗 Reliving that Snow Leopard Magic - MacStories // Stephen Hackett Enthusiasts of all types always have that one special obsession. For muscle car people, maybe it’s one particular year of Ford Mustang. Photographers always have a favorite lens, while baseball players may have a favored bat or …
Hmm. Micro posts? Microposts? Micro-posts? And what’s its mirror?! Macro-posts? Essays? Stories? Long posts? I’m a guy who likes a style guide, and I can’t decide. Send help!
So, uh, I just realized that I’ve sat down for dinner to eat my Factor meal while wearing my Mack Weldon slippers and Cortex Subtle Sweater. 🙈 I’m a good @relay@relayfm.social podcast boy?
🆕📝 Marcos Tanaka’s Play 2.0 @mactanaka@mastodon.social continues to knock it out of the park with Play.
🆕📝 Macs at WWDC Mean the Entire M2 Laptop Lineup Is Part of the Back to School Promo for Students
🔗 Apple to Launch Standalone ‘Passwords’ App in iOS 18 and macOS 15 // Juli Clover // macrumors.com The app includes logins and passwords for websites, Wi-Fi network passwords, and Passkeys, a feature that uses Face ID or Touch ID to log into websites instead of a password. Data from …
Does anyone else get a strange visceral satisfaction from using something up? The last bit of orange juice from the bottle. The final squirt of toothpaste from the tube. The last few noodles of macaroni from the box. There’s something pleasing about being able to get rid of the container.
I so grateful to have received two pairs of Mack Weldon slippers for Christmas a few years ago. So when my original pair went missing this week — and were, frankly, getting a bit ratty anyway — I could just pull out a fresh pair! They’re so cozy.
🔗 Macintosh 40th anniversary: Watch live as team members convene — 9to5mac.com // Ben Lovejoy Macintosh 40th anniversary celebrations continue tomorrow with a live event bringing together many key members of the original project team. This oughta be great! Can’t wait to watch.
Congrats to @robb@social.lol and @johnvoorhees@macstories.net on bringing Ruminate to MacStories. It’s a super fun show with the best artwork, and even better hosts. 😁 🍕 Ruminate is Joining to MacStories https://rknight.me/blog/ruminate-is-joining-to-macstories/ Mine and John's podcast …
TIL how a sewing machine works, and how to install my own replacement car headlight! Accomplished, I feel.
Holy smokes, @macstories@macstories.net is 15 years old today. Been reading for almost that entire time. Federico and team have built quite the empire over there at macstories.net, and the quality has only improved over that time. Happy 15th birthday @macstories 🎂☺️ My dream job. Here's to the …
I’m apparently not the only one waffling. Jason Snell, sixcolors.com: But… this also means I would need to travel with a 14-inch MacBook Pro. They are great, don’t get me wrong, but I’m a refugee 11-inch MacBook Air user now accepting life with a 13-inch MacBook Air. Do I want to travel with a …
This is going to be a game-changer! Making a playlist means not only can I enjoy continuous play instead of swapping back and forth between YouTube and Play, but a playlist can also be downloaded to a device for offline watching. Kudos to @mactanaka@mastodon.social for pulling this off!
The Macalope: If sideloading is allowed in iOS 17, someone will pay for it—and it won’t be Apple Now, before you get all excited or hot and bothered or relentlessly stung by bees, remember that this is Apple we’re talking about here. The company has a strict policy of giving a millimeter when …
John Gruber: Not only is using Apple Intelligence for automation more accessible (in every sense) than writing a programming script or creating a Shortcut, it’s also something we’re all much more likely to do for a one-time task. I often create scripts, shortcuts, and macros to automate tasks …
Hey @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net and @johnvoorhees@mastodon.macstories.net, I’m putting together a Shortcuts library on my site and wondered if you’d mind if I reused some wording from the MacStories Shortcuts Archive? It’s been a huge inspiration, and I liked how you did the …
Damn, navigating iPadOS with a mouse is so good! macOS + iPadOS with Universal Control is a powerhouse.
The day was August 25, 2023 when the Apple empire made its move against the @MacStories@MacStories.net rebels, and none of us noticed: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/apple-stories/
🔗 One Task Minded // gregmorris.co.uk // Greg Morris That not to say your iPad can’t do much more, and you’re thinking how stupid I am for not having Stage Manager float windows all over my screen, so I can edit videos and listen to background music. I think it’s remarkable that a tablet, albeit …
Spaces constantly rearranging themselves on macOS is a blight, and I finally thought to check if there’s a setting. Finally, sanity. 😮💨
After handling a friend’s 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro this weekend, I’m settled on holding out for an M4 MacBook Air. It was just beyond the size and weight that I’d want for a “take everywhere” computer. 🤞 for a nano-texture option and not too long of a wait!
🔗 Apple Launched the MacBook Pro 19 Years Ago Today: What a beauty, still to this day.
I’m kinda bummed that @macstories@macstories.net isn’t doing the Shortcuts competition for Automation April this year. 🙁 I missed the deadline last year, and vowed to get them in on time this round. I had some pretty cool stuff saved up for it too!
Not sure if this a MacStories Mastodon server issue (cc: @alex@macstories.net) or a Micro.blog one (cc: @help) but I feel like I need to follow both these accounts to see everything. Also, not sure which account to @ in order to reach their mentions. Any ideas?
@SimonWoods I’ve had one for years and years too, and it turned my one-port MacBook into a non-issue.
Holy smokes, they actually did it. They finally killed the Touch Bar. No more 13-inch MacBook Pro.
I just released version 1.0 of my ‘Create Task with Drafts Notes’ shortcut, inspired by @viticci@macstories.net and @johnvoorhees@macstories.net on AppStories: Use Apple Shortcuts to automatically create both a Things to-do and a Drafts note with links back to each other. Get it here from the …
🕜 As I was making some changes to my site tonight, I was bummed that Dropbox (where its files are synced) didn’t have more than a 30-day version history and I needed to reference back farther. Then I remembered I have Time Machine always running and found what I needed in a flash. 👍
I totally missed the 2-minute sketch at the end of today’s MacBook Pro video. So worth watching. 😆
‘Next iPad Mini Still Not Expected Before Late 2024 at the Earliest’ I can’t be the only one struggling to parse this MacRumors headline, right? 🙃
@jarrod Featuring @vr_aimi@threads.net, @finnvoorhees, @joachimesque, @99percentinvisible@threads.net, @mkbhd, @macstories, @dirtbag_diaries@threads.net, and @al_humphreys@threads.net.
@jimmitchell Oh! @ismh86 just mentioned a few macOS utilities for Reminders that’s he’s been using since switching to it on the latest episode of @mpu. These might help: Reminder MenuBar InstaRemind
🔗 Most Popular Computer Operating Systems 1985 - 2024 // Captain Gizmo // youtube.com Whoa. It wasn’t until 2020 that macOS market share eclipsed that of Windows 7. I would have pegged it sooner.
It’s pretty cool to see this credit card design used on the website of the bank launching with Tap to Pay on iPhone in Ukraine. Looks like an Apple-commissioned photo to me. (Via MacRumors)
🆕📝 MacStories Unwind’s Best Music of 2024 🎵 I made a playlist and a Raindrop collection with all the featured albums!
A 128GB 7th-gen iPad mini (with A17 Pro) for $400 is a heck of a deal. I continue to adore the Mini’s size and that it doesn’t compromise on power. (Via MacRumors)
I just updated my ‘Get URL to Run Shortcut’ shortcut to version 1.2: Added option to create a bookmarklet that runs the selected shortcut with the current webpage URL as its input Fixed the Rich Text option on macOS Added it to the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library Get it here from the HeyDingus …
@ibmacin @mako Same here! I adored my 12” MacBook, despite its lack of power and battery life. Put an M4 chip in that chassis (it fits in an iPad!) and let’s go!
Alright @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net, you got a good snort out of me. That would have been something else! www.relay.fm/connected… ⏯️
Did macOS lose the animated Memoji option on the lock/login screen? My little guy used to shake his head at me when I typed my password wrong, and be overall more fun to interact with. If not, how do I turn that back on??
🔗 Iconic Flint Center undergoes demolition five years after closing (Stephanie Lam / mercurynews.com) An iconic performing arts theater where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the first Macintosh computer in 1984 is being reduced to rubble, five years after the college district that owns the …
🔗 The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already // V. Song But I also have an M1 MacBook Air that I use for work. Recently, jumping back and forth between the two, I’ve come to appreciate the wedge more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but I find it easier …
😋 Certainly these are the best flavors of chips that I’ve tried in quite a while. All Mixed Up takes the top spot. cc: @ruminate@macstories.net
I flipped my desk setup to put my iPad on the right side. Everything was going great until I realized that my macOS Dock is also on the right. Now I’m dragging through the Dock to get to the iPad and I don’t think I can abide. Even though I like my phone charger and drink coaster on …
🆕📝 macOS Sonoma Web Apps Save Me From Constant Discord Updates Inspiration hit in the middle of another project, so of course I spent the last hour on this quick tip blog post. I hope you like it, Discord nerds. 😉 Now to try to claw my way back to focus.
🔗 Multi-layered calendars — julian.digital // Julian Lehr Calendars, on the other hand, cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow …
Amazon ditched plastic mailers in one US fulfillment center - The Verge Amazon is fulfilling a small part of its promise to switch from using plastic bubble mailers and air pillows to all recyclable paper packaging for its shipments. The company announced that it has outfitted one facility in …
🔗 AI Is Strip Mining the Web — club.macstories.net Think about what it would be like for that to be the default view in Arc. It’s not a MacStories.net webpage. It’s an auto-generated page that’s an answer to a question. It’s also a page that’s so far removed from the notion of browsing the web …
I just discovered that the ability to hide the window of an app you’ve set to open automatically upon login was removed from macOS some time ago. Boo! Luckily, third-party developers come to the rescue! This app was an easy $1 spent as it restores that functionality and adds other advanced …
🔗 GoodLinks Adds Even Deeper Shortcuts Integration […] - MacStories // Federico Viticci [T]his shortcut gets the current article you’re reading in GoodLinks and extracts different properties from it, such as the title of the story, its author, and URL. Using another action, GoodLinked can see if …
🚨 Woot has an awesome sale right now on Apple Watch Solo and Braided Loop bands. I just bought one of each for a total of $50 — half the normal cost of a Braided Loop! 🤯 Act fact, some sizes are selling out. MacRumors' article has direct links to all the colors.
@Mtt Great stuff, thanks for sharing! I set up Color Picker (oh hey, @sindresorhus), and am noodling on Hidden Bar, Stats, and Screen Pal. Setting up this MacBook Air from scratch has given me the opportunity to rethink my tools.
🔗 Apple’s Extended Return Policy Now in Effect for 2024 Holiday Season // Joe Rossignol // macrumors.com If there are any Apple products that you wanted to do an extended trial of, now’s the time! Their holiday return period is very generous, with no questions asked.
Hey @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net any ideas why Apple Frames would leave the background transparent (preferred) for a group of three screenshots, but add a white background for pair of them? 🤔 Example in this post.
A quick reminder to folks on macOS Sonoma/Sequoia that using Discord as a Safari web app is so much better than their “native” app because it never has to install an update. Granted, I’m not a Discord power user, but I’ve found no downsides, and it never interrupts to …
I don’t feel like it gets said enough anymore, so I’ll say it: Apple got so much right with the foundation of macOS and its UI is a joy to use to this day. I can have so much going on at once and never feel overwhelmed because of the myriad of ways to jump between apps. …
🔗 Konfetti Explorations // Marisabel Munoz // marisabel.nl When, exactly, did reading become about quick digestion instead of deep reflection? When did we stop savoring beautifully crafted sentences, inhaling their ephemeral essence? What happened to the celebration of beautiful prose? When did …
🆕📝 PSA: Best Buy’s Upgrade+ program didn’t even last long enough for users to get a single upgrade, but Upgraded is another option Best Buy is out before upgrading anyone's laptop (LOL), Apple isn't offering their own MacBook Upgrade Program, but maybe Upgraded is good?
My final ‘Scary Fast’ event predictions: 🖥️ M3 iMac 💻 M3 Pro and M3 Max MacBook Pros ⌨️ Accessories get USB-C and at least one surprising new feature 🎮 Gaming focus (callout to Japanese viewers) 🧛 At least one costume is seen 🌔 Everything is filmed at night
Ah yes, August 2024, the perfect time to sit down and read @viticci@macstories.net’s iOS & iPadOS 17 review. Gotta get caught up on all those brand-new features! 😋 (Wonderfully written, as always.)
Matt Birchler: ‘How Flight Simulator helped my flying anxiety (members post)' But from the third person perspective, I was able to see that while landing, the plane is actually going very slow relative to its size. It’s not a perfect analogy, but if you’re an ant in a car, it might feel …
🔗 The Vision Pro isn’t a flop, it’s an ongoing experiment // sixcolors.com This is what happens with early, evolving platforms in categories that basically didn’t exist before. We’re so used to Apple being a well-oiled machine that it’s hard to look at the Vision Pro and not judge it by all the …
😓 I didn’t do so well on those predictions: ✅ M3 iMac ✅ M3 Pro and M3 Max MacBook Pros ❌ Accessories get USB-C and at least one surprising new feature ❌ Gaming focus (callout to Japanese viewers) ❌ At least one costume is seen ✅ Everything is filmed at night
🔗 Apple Released the Original AirPods Eight Years Ago Today (Hartley Charlton / macrumors.com) At the time, wireless headphones were already on the market but had not yet reached true mass popularity. AirPods helped redefine the category through their convenience and seamless integration with …
🔗 It was 23 years from Macintosh to iPhone. It’s been 17 years since the iPhone. // Matt Birchler // birchtree.me It’s not unreasonable to think that we could be on the verge of a breakthrough computing change that changes the world. Is the Vision Pro that product? I don’t know, and I haven’t …
🔗 Everything New in the iOS 17.5 Beta // Juli Clover // macrumors.com There are references to an Apple Pencil“V4” in the iOS 17.5 code, and there are also mentions of a “squeeze” feature that could perhaps add support for completing actions with a squeeze on the new Apple …
As foretold, I just placed an order for an M4 MacBook Air! 😁 I decided to try out Upgraded, the company that does 36-month 0% interest financing with upgrade options after 2 years (similar to the iPhone Upgrade Program), that I mentioned back in December. I’ll let you know how it goes! 🤞
The will-they, won’t-they iPad mystery appears solved. We got a more sane USB-C Apple Pencil for the 10th-gen iPad that offers a slightly reduced feature set at a slightly reduced price, also good for the rest of the USB-C iPad lineup. MacStories has a good summary of the (lengthy) press …
Shoutout to Simple Scan which was the runner-up as Best New App in the MacStories Selects awards. I love this thing and it gets 3(!) spots in my Control Center for super easily scanning documents to the right place in Files. (Also to Shareshot, which framed this screenshot and earned Best Design.)
I just released my ‘ℹ️ Get YouTube Video Info (HeyDingus' Version)’ shortcut version 1.0: This shortcut gets the Channel, Video Title, and URL from a YouTube video and packages them up in a Dictionary action to be used in other shortcuts. I simplified it from the version shared in MacStories …
A buddy asked me about replacing his 2015 15” Intel MacBook Pro with a 14” M3 Pro. I said the massive upgrades in screen quality, processor speed and battery life would make it well worth it. He texted later saying the laptop makes him happy every time he opens it. I’ve rarely felt so …
🔗 The one feature that would make an OLED iPad Pro worth it for me – sixcolors.com // Jason Snell There are some things I just can’t do on my iPad Pro because of limitations in iPad software. Adding optional support for [macOS] would solve that problem in one swift stroke. I’m not saying it will …
On Connected, @viticci@macstories.net made a risky pick: Apple might launch an AI Siri app with multi-modal input and chat history. It got me wondering—what if it’s a Shortcuts revamp? Siri & Shortcuts are deeply linked—doubly so with Apple Intelligence. Wishcasting? Maybe. But Shortcuts …
🔗 watchOS 10.2 Beta Reintroduces Option to Change Apple Watch Faces With a Swipe - MacRumors // Juli Clover Users can now choose to use a swipe gesture to switch the active Apple Watch face by enabling the option in the Apple Watch Settings app. With the feature turned on, swiping left or right …
Ooh La La! This will be extra helpful in apps like Reader and Matter where I like to listen to articles but they can’t parse paywall items. Their Safari web view is logged in, though, so I’ll just bring up Safari Reader and listen to it that way instead. Thanks …
I just updated my Amazon Affiliate Linker shortcut to version 1.5. It’d been buggy lately, but after streamling a bit, now it’s working like a charm: Simplified actions to use a regular expression to match the ASIN, which should also be more accurate. Clarified how the starting URL …
I can’t wait to see more photos of the new “The Observatory” at Apple Park from folks there today. Their architecture is so beautiful and timeless. Hoping we’ll get some analysis from @michaelsteeber@mastodon.social too! I like that we see the campus grow every few years. …
I’m starting a new experiment where I use Ticci Tabs by @refactoredd@mastodon.online to be my dedicated Micro.blog app. There are things that are just better about MB in the browser and having its own dedicated one seems nice. Not sure how long this will last! cc: @viticci@macstories.net
Tim Hardwick, MacRumors: ‘Apple Raises Indonesia Investment Offer to $1B Amid iPhone Ban’ The negotiation stems from Indonesia’s October ban on iPhone 16 sales after authorities determined Apple had not met the country’s requirement for 40% domestic content in smartphones. …
Dropshare Cloud is sunsetting on January 31st, 2024. As an existing Dropshare Cloud customer, you are eligible for special pricing when purchasing a Dropshare for macOS license to use the app with any of the over 27 supported storage providers. Damn. I love Dropshare and have used their cloud …
🎙️ Holy smokes, great tip @viticci@macstories.net! Our PS5 has been plugged into Ethernet for…3+ years and I never knew it was falling back to Wi-Fi. 60 seconds to go through the settings and set up the wired connection and now it’s getting 6x the download speed! Sony should revisit …
🔗 Apple Watch Ultra 3 Will Support Texting via Satellite (Juli Clover / macrumors.com) Apple is hoping that the satellite feature will encourage Apple Watch owners to update to a new Apple Watch Ultra, with the third-generation model set to come out in September 2025. Satellite connectivity …
🔗 iOS 18.2 Lets You Use Natural Language Search in Apple Music and Apple TV (Juli Clover / macrumors.com) In the Apple TV app, you can use casual language search terms to find exactly what you’re looking for, typing in genres, actors, and moods. Searches like “movies about natural …
🔗 iOS 18 Rumor: Notes App to Offer New Voice Memos and Math Features // macrumors.com First, the report claims that iOS 18 will allow iPhone users to record voice memos directly within the Notes app, and these recordings could then be embedded in notes. Audio recordings can already be copy and …
Just thinking about how they’re rendering that interior image at all the correct angles and projecting it out to look natural no matter how you look at it is mind-boggling. First new look at EyeSight for Vision Pro since June 2023? From Apple's Vision Pro guided tour video. …
So Apple has done real emoji Tapback-style reactions... ...for collaborative playlists in iOS 17.3 🙃 Can we have these in iMessage too, please? Federico Viticci :ticciseal: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111573515693496101 Hard to overstate how pointed this feels after all the …
Juli Clover, macrumors.com: Delta today announced that it is partnering with YouTube for a new in-flight Delta Sync entertainment experience. Delta SkyMiles members who log into their accounts will be able to watch their favorite creators, podcasts, and music artists ad-free while on board most …
Between the hint of a Thursday Apple briefing on the Six Colors podcast, and now something special coming next week on AppStories, my ears are perked and curiosity piqued. Any ideas? Next week, AppStories+ and AppStories will be published a little later than usual on Monday, October 2nd around …
🔗 Why I carry two phones? // merecivilian.com No other foldable has this form factor and I really like it. It is almost like it brings everything a lot closer to you and gives you just enough space to be comfortable. Sometimes using the iPhone Pro Max, I feel the phone isn’t the right …
🔗 Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 17.4 with Major Safari and App Store Changes in the EU, Transcripts for Podcasts, New Emoji, and More — macstories.net // Niléane iOS and iPadOS 17.4 include two new shortcut actions. Using data from your device’s sensors, the ‘Get Physical Activity’ action can …
🔗 Maybe I’m Not a Pro Anymore // Brendon Bigley // macstories.net It occurred to me watching today’s presentation that this is the first year where the iPhone’s Pro models feel like they were actually made for professionals. The “extras” Allison is referring to used to be the marquee features of …
Won’t someone think of the Apple Store Geniuses? 🔗 iOS 17.3 Beta Adds New Stolen Device Protection Feature to iPhone - MacRumors // Joe Rossignol For especially sensitive actions, including changing the password of the Apple ID account associated with the iPhone, the feature adds a security delay on top of biometric authentication. In these …