David Smith has been poking around the visionOS SDK and chronicling his efforts on his website. His latest experiment was to take the weather forecast part of Widgetsmith and adapt it to visionOS. We’ve seen a lot of developers post screenshots of w…
Lees meerJason Tate, in his always-excellent Liner Notes newsletter1, has written about the practical value of Threads’ built-in social graph and how it differs from signing up for Mastodon or Bluesky: This is a key (and likely killer) feature for onboarding…
Lees meerApple itself is hailing watchOS 10 as the largest software update since the introduction of the Apple Watch. I’m not sure I quite agree with that characterization, but it’s certainly the biggest update we’ve seen in many years. The tenth iteration o…
Lees meerNever before have the iPhone, iPad, and Mac been as interconnected as they are today. It wasn’t that long ago that the iPhone was, well, the iPhone, the iPad was essentially a big iPhone, and the Mac was off doing its own thing. Now, the iPad has it…
Lees meeriOS and iPadOS 17. Apple is releasing the first public betas of iOS and iPadOS 17 today, and I’ll cut right to the chase: I’ve been using both of them on my primary devices since WWDC, and I’m very satisfied with the new features and improvements I’…
Lees meerToday, Shiny Frog launched Bear 2.0, a ground-up rewrite of its popular note-taking app that has been years in the making. The new version has been rebuilt with a custom text editing engine and introduces a long list of features, including: Tables S…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we explore the web apps and services we use and how we use them. Sponsored by: Zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now with Zocdoc. Sign up for free. Subscribe here. On AppStories+, we share our first impressions of Meta’s …
Lees meerFifteen years ago, the App Store opened its doors with 500 apps. Today, the number of apps has swelled to exceed more than 1.5 million. OmniFocus for iPhone. Of those first-day apps, a few are still around, including OmniFocus. Today, Ken Case, The …
Lees meerAmazon’s Prime Day begins tomorrow and with the Internet in a buying mood, Matt Corey gathered indie developers to organize an App Store sale that runs from Tuesday, July 11 - 12. Corey, the maker of Bills to Budget and Signals, has put together a c…
Lees meerIt seems like every company is scrambling to stake their claim in the AI goldrush–check out the CEO of Kroger promising to bring LLMs into the dairy aisle. And front line workers are following suit–experimenting with AI so they can work faster and d…
Lees meer0:0023:02 This week on MacStories Unwind, I explain America’s birthday to Federico and we veer into man-made lakes and nuclear power plants before recommending some of the many iPhone chargers we’ve been trying lately. The Fourth of July Where to Wa…
Lees meerChronicling is a brand-new event tracking app for iOS and iPadOS by Rebecca Owen. The App Store is full of apps for tracking everything from the very specific, like caffeine consumption, to apps like Chronicling that can be used to track nearly anyt…
Lees meerLast night, by the time I called it quits and went to bed Threads, Meta’s new social network, had hit 2 million users in 2 hours. As I write this, Meta’s Adam Mosseri says the count has now surpassed 10 million in 7 hours, which exceeds Mastodon’s u…
Lees meerThe App Store is full of apps for tracking the media you enjoy, and at least for TV shows and movies, many use Trakt.tv as a data source and tracking service and Just Watch to list where you can watch something. That results in a degree of sameness …
Lees meerRunning Threader via Back Tap on Twitter and Mastodon. Instagram just rolled out Threads, the company’s new text-based social network that’s been advertised over the past few weeks as an alternative to Twitter. I’m trying out Threads (you can find m…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we conclude our look back at our pre-WWDC OS wishes for iOS 17, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17 and look at which came true. Sponsored by: Notion – Do your most efficient work with Notion Projects. Try it free today. Subscribe here.…
Lees meerQuinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs has an excellent video about the trouble with gaming on the Mac. The video’s title says it all: “Macs Can Game. But Apple Can’t.” As Nelson explains, it’s not the hardware or the software that’s holding the platform back.…
Lees meerSketch, explore and share endless ideas with Concepts’ infinite canvas for iPad. Used by creators for visual thinking, note taking, team communication and design, Concepts goes beyond a digital sketchbook. Since everything you draw is a flexible vec…
Lees meerWith millions of people facing a long, smokey summer here in the US, I thought it would be a good time to recommend Paku, an iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch app for tracking the air quality where you live. Paku on the Mac. Paku combines Apple’s M…
Lees meer0:0026:33 It’s summertime, so it’s time to talk about our favorite American and Italian frozen treats, plus Platonic on Apple TV+ and Vengeance on Netflix. Ice Cream Gelato Ellie May’s Dang Good Ice Cream Frozen Custard Dairy Queen Blizzard Cornetto…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we revisit our pre-WWDC OS wishes, including visionOS, macOS, and iPadOS, and look at which came true. Sponsored by: CleanMyMac X: Your Mac. As good as new. Get 5% off today. DetailsPro: Design with SwiftUI, no coding requir…
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