Paste: The Clipboard Management Utility Gets An Elegant New Design on the Mac - MacStories
Ivory for Mac Review: Tapbots' Superb Mastodon Client Comes to Apple Desktops and Laptops - MacStories
Soulver 3 for Mac: The MacStories Review
The strength of Soulver lies in its flexibility. Full-fledged spreadsheet apps like Numbers and Excel have their place. However, day-to-day life requires calculations that don’t demand that level of horsepower and benefit from contextualizing numbers with text. It’s the kind of math that happens in notebooks and on the back of envelopes. By combining elements
lsregister: a valuable undocumented command for LaunchServices
Repairing LaunchServices database, rebuilding it from scratch, and controlling individual app entries – all using this undocumented command.
The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS - Waxy.org
I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?
open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
Curious bugs in Help Viewer and Stage Manager
Not only do Help windows work differently on Intel and Apple silicon Macs, but on the latter they can bring Stage Manager to a grinding halt.
Launching Camo 2
Camo 2 takes all the magic of Camo, improves on it, and brings it to any webcam, built-in camera, connected pro camera or action camera to give them next-gen capabilities.
Michael Tsai - Blog - NetNewsWire 6.0 for Mac
321: Elegantly Extensible
Brett and Jeff fend for themselves as the conversation turns to microdosing, extensible software, Electron woes, and technology past and present.
Using Keyboard Shortcuts in Fantastical | Flexibits
Apple’s Convergence
During much of this pandemic, I’ve been using Fitness+ for yoga and strength training. Those workouts typically involve my iPad, Apple Watch, and usually my AirPods. While this use-case may s…
NetNewsWire Review: The Mac RSS Client, Rebooted with a Solid Foundation for the Future
After Google Reader disappeared, a lot of people drifted away from RSS readers. For many, social networks like Twitter filled the void, leading some observers to declare the death of RSS. However, a funny thing happened in the aftermath of Google Reader’s demise. New sync services arose, and RSS readers flourished on iOS, where competition
Multitasking on a Mac shouldn’t be so hard
How many commands and third-party apps does this take?
macOS Ventura review: A work in progress
In recent years we’ve had some macOS releases that were disruptive, in the worst way. Whether it was bugs or incompatibilities or broken features, nothing makes the excitement of a new OS upd…
macOS Ventura: The MacStories Review
macOS Ventura is a hard release to pin down. I’ve been running it for months, and it’s been running well for all my everyday work and personal tasks. Features like Continuity Camera, iCloud Shared Photo Library, and the many system app updates have, on the whole, been stable, worked as advertised, and helped me do
MacOS: converting a man page to markdown
Converting a man page to markdown is a three step process: installing a tool that can convert the source of a man page to markdown finding the location of the man page source doing the actual conve…
Apple’s use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS
High Caffeine Content
A Single Flaw Broke Every Layer of Security in MacOS
An injection flaw allowed a researcher to access all files on a Mac. Apple issued a fix, but some machines may still be vulnerable.
About Xcode Gestures and Keyboard Shortcuts
Lists keyboard shortcuts for Xcode 4.
macOS Ventura: The MacStories Preview
With the release of the macOS Ventura public beta today, macOS takes another step down the path to syncing up its platforms that began four years ago. Where once the Mac hung out doing its own thing with scant regard for where iOS, and later, iPadOS was heading, today the Mac feels like part of
Sets Verses Stacks
When I spitballed [a lexicon for Stage Manager][], I hadn’t yet actually played with the feature. One would think not having actually used a feature would prevent someone from giving feedback…
A Lexical Path Toward a Paradigm
I am [still not in love][] with the name “Stage Manager” because it mixes metaphors and is easily confused with “[Center Stage][]”. My opinion is evidenced by the many [gaff…
Warp: A Simple, Keyboard-Driven Mac Utility for Saving Window Setups
One of the cornerstone features coming to macOS Ventura this fall is Stage Manager, which lets you create sets of multiple apps, decluttering your desktop without a lot of fiddling. In my limited use so far, I’m optimistic about Stage Manager’s future as a way to manage apps, but it’s not for everyone, which is
Readdle’s powerful Calendars app is now on the Mac
Free to use with a $19.99 per year subscription for Pro features.
Apple’s macOS Ventura leaves trusty 2015 MacBook Pro behind
Apple is no longer giving major updates to Macs pre-2017.
The Macintosh Desktop Experience: A Pre-WWDC 2022 macOS Check-In
macOS Ventura: The MacStories Overview
At this morning’s WWDC keynote presentation, SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi took the stage to announce the latest update to Apple’s desktop operating system: macOS Ventura. Ventura introduces a host of improvements, with many going hand-in-hand with their iOS and iPadOS 16 counterparts. A new windowing mode is perhaps the most intriguing addition, but
Remotion - Blog
Why Remotion is a native macOS app (not Electron)
Bike: An Elegant Outliner For Mac-Focused Workflows
Bike is a brand new Mac-only outlining app from Hog Bay Software that executes the fundamentals of outlining flawlessly. The outline creation and editing workflows are polished, and the keyboard-focused navigation makes moving around a large outline effortless. The app’s feature set is limited by design. That focus is part of what makes Bike such