Tag: software

  • iOS 18.0 is very nice even on my limited iPhone 12 Pro Max. The Passwords app, Transcripts, Home Screen customizations, Hiking Routes, Safari highlights, Call recording, Notes updates, Math in Notes, Messages updates, Lock Screen customizations… People are saying that this is a lackluster update? Far from it. I think this update is fantastic.

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  • Dear Arc

    As an avid Safari fanatic, I’m reluctant to dive into a new browser backed by any company with a business model I find… elusive. I’ve been giving Arc a spin every few releases since signing up for the beta and each time it has improved a lot. Just yesterday I was chatting with our creative…

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  • Will my next Mac be my last Mac?

    Perhaps you’ve had this experience… you walk into a place of business and see the computer and software they use to do their scheduling, billing, and ordering and you notice they are decades old. But, have you seen how productive they are? More often than not they are so fast that the computer has a…

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  • Montaigne – Blog with Apple Notes

    Montaigne: Build a website, blog, or portfolio using nothing but Apple Notes. Pretty cool.

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  • History Book – an app by Zhenyi Tan

    Zhenyi Tan, announcing History Book: History Book automatically saves the content of your browsing history for searching. And it does it in a privacy-friendly way. Instant buy.

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  • Unmark listed on Awesome Self-Hosted Software list

    Awesome-Selfhosted on GitHub: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Glad to see Unmark listed there. Via this article on Vice via Jeremy Keith. In the 90s and early 2000s I ran everything on my own hardware in my apartment and eventually co-located. This…

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  • Testing inconsistent Web Share Target API data with a Progressive Web App

    One of the latest things I’ve been working on for Unmark is turning the app into a Progressive Web App (PWA). Among other benefits, this affords Unmark the capability of being a “Web Share Target” on Android. (Sadly, only Android for now) A Web Share Target is very similar to a feature you likely use…

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  • The Mac is turning less Pro

    skywhopper, on Hacker News, commenting on a thread relating to Mark Gurman’s scoop on Apple’s (supposed) plan to have apps running on iOS and macOS using the same (or, similar) code bases by 2020: And then the Mac is losing what should be its primary audience through unwanted innovations and otherwise stagnant hardware, and a…

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  • Firefox Reality

    Mozilla: Mozilla has always been on the frontlines of virtual and augmented reality (see our work with WebVR, WebAR and A-Frame), and this is a mixed reality browser that is specifically built to tackle the new opportunities and challenges of browsing the immersive web. Me, in April 2017: The way information is displayed is going to dramatically change within…

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  • PodcastMenu

    PodcastMenu: PodcastMenu is a simple app which puts Overcast on your Mac’s menu bar so you can listen to your favorite podcasts while you work. I use Overcast two or three times per day while driving. But I very rarely listened to podcasts while working. PodcastMenu changes that — allowing me to pick up where…

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  • Less apps is more

    Tim Nahumck: I always try to reduce the number of apps that I use at any given time and cutting the reliance on multiple services when and where possible. This sounds a lot like my repeated attempts to consolidate around Apple’s default applications. I like Tim’s use of Slack as a personal center of information.…

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  • Observations on using the iOS 11 Public Beta

    The iOS 11 Public Beta is the first beta OS I’ve installed from Apple. I did so in part because I want to help improve the OS by providing feedback and analytic data, but also because I wanted to test my aforementioned app that I’m building, and lastly I’ve wanted driving mode since very early…

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  • Transmit 5

    Panic: With one massive update we’ve brought everyone’s favorite file-transferring truck into the future with more speed, more servers, more features, more fixes, a better UI, and even Panic Sync. Everything from the core file transfer engine to the “Get Info” experience was rethought, overhauled, and improved. Hard to believe Transmit 4 is over 7…

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  • Back to Apple, again

    Each year WWDC week gives us new and updated Apple software that is easier to use and more tightly integrated. As a result, each year I find myself wishing that I used Apple software exclusively instead of using third-party applications. Forgive me, but I’m about to quote an entire post that I wrote in June 2014 as to…

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  • Clips

    Apple: Introducing Clips. A new iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, effects, graphics, and more. I’ve been looking for an app like this for a long time. The Verge describes how I think I’ll use this app. My best guess is because the default camera app is still something that’s supposed to…

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  • Thanks to everyone who helped make Barley for WordPress a reality

    Inspired by Shawn Blanc’s post wherein he thanked the people that helped make The Sweet Setup a reality I thought I’d take a few moments to thank everyone that helped make Barley for WordPress, our team’s inline editing plugin for WordPress, a reality. A plugin of this scope has no one author. It takes an…

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  • Single User Utility In a Social System

    Don’t get knocked off your feet by the sheer strength of my agreement with Fred Wilson on Single User Utility In a Social System: One of the most important lessons we took from delicious was the value of single user utility in social systems. It might seem odd that systems designed to leverage interactions between…

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