MacStories Weekly: Issue 468
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Apple’s new Accessibility Reader can customize text across apps — and in real life
Apple is launching Accessibility Reader, a new feature that lets users with disabilities change the text’s font, color, and spacing on any app across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro.
How to: Make a mk7 6MT Suck Less
Ever since I bought my mk7 I have been in love. I am not new to MT VW's, or MT 2.0 TSI engines for that matter, but there was something about this 6MT that really seemed "off" in it's stock configuration. Searching online showed quite a common pattern: it just sucks. Some claim they can live...
The News Manual - Glossary
Denise Robinson
Dinkus - Wikipedia
Journalism glossary - jobs in journalism, news and resources for journalists
Glossary of terms used in journalism - words, phrases, acronyms
Tutorial: Clutch Delay Valve Removal. (Manual Cars)
This is just a quick guide on how to remove the restriction in the standard Golf R/GTI clutch setup. The restrictor ring is found inside the bleeder block located under the air intake setup. As standard this causes a fluid restriction through the unit which is there to dampen clutch engagement an...
DeepSeeking the Truth | JS Tan
Panic about the rise of DeepSeek says more about Silicon Valley than it does about the reality of innovation in China.
https://unapologetic.io/posts/2014/01/28/javascript-bookmarklet-builder-on-ios
The One Thing Keeping us Stuck when it’s Time to Let Go.
When we hear the term “let go,” we don’t always entirely comprehend it, as it isn’t always as simple as "mind over matter" and just releasing what we feel...
Prompt | Drafts Script Reference
Documentation for Drafts Script Reference
Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols
How the Stream Deck rose from the ashes of a legendary keyboard
Art Lebedev’s expensive Optimus keyboards seemed like a footnote in tech blogging history until a small German company saw the potential for a new generation of content creators.
Operation D-DAY: One Second of War - 3D First-Person Shooter
A brutally realistic 3D first-person shooter where survival is measured in seconds. No glory, no second chances—just the harsh truth of war's first heartbeat.
OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t
How TCP/IP eclipsed the Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for computer networking
How to disappear completely
The promise of the internet is that it would last forever. But that has proven to be largely untrue, as huge swaths of the web are vanishing, quickly and at random.
Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie
Gen Z and millennials have become the unlikely heroes to revive the slow-fading phone market in the US, according to Counterpoint Research.
2025 24 Hours of Le Mans – Presentation of the LMGT3 category
Twenty-four cars are set to line up in the LMGT3 category at the 93rd 24 Hours of Le Mans (11-15 June). Nine iconic marques — Aston Martin, BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Ford, Lexus, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG and Porsche — will compete through private teams. Here is an overview of the 15 LMGT3 teams entered in the race.
Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.
Patch Notes 0604
To New Eden Capsuleers,
EVE Echoes will undergo maintenance on 6/4/2025 at 08:00 (UTC+0) and will take approximately 120 minutes to complete. During this time, players will be unable to log in to the game. We kindly ask for your understanding and patience during the maintenance.
Rui Carmo
IA Writer Now iOS 4.2-ready - MacStories
I’ve been waiting for this update: when IA Writer first came out, I couldn’t use it. I was already running iOS 4.2 beta on my iPad, and the app had a few bugs with the new operating system. The focus mode wasn’t working (and that feature is possibly the most important one in the app),
2025 24 Hours of Le Mans - Wikipedia
Before VAIO: The Forgotten Machines
The Line That Built Sony’s First Real PC
iA Writer for iPad and Mac Updated with iCloud - MacStories
Sometimes you kids ask me about what writing app is shown off in my iPad screenshots or photos. More often than not it’s iA Writer, and it’s an awesome little thing. If you can’t live without iA Writer, you should start checking both the iOS and Mac App Stores for an available update that includes
iA Writer 5.3 Adds Multiwindow Support, Dark Mode, Content Block Improvements - MacStories
iA Writer, my favorite text editor for iPhone and iPad (which I’ve previously covered in detail here and here), has received a major update to version 5.3 this week, adding support for key iOS and iPadOS 13 features and bringing a welcome improvement to one of its most powerful advanced functionalities. First up is integration
iA Writer 5.4 Adds New Export Options, Local Backups, and Hashtag Suggestions - MacStories
Over the holidays, the iA Writer team released version 5.4 of its iOS, iPadOS, and Mac apps, which added improved export options. The iOS and iPadOS apps also gained local backups and hashtag suggestions. The new export feature adds the ability to share, export, print, and copy from the app’s Library using context menus. On
Michael Tsai - Blog - The Automation Gap
iA Writer Launches on the Mac App Store - MacStories
Fans of the well focused Writer for iPad can now find their favorite editor on the Mac App Store. Writer for the Mac has no settings, with your only available options to write in a window or full screen mode. Unlike Byword, there is no support for a dark or light interface, however, Writer does