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AI-chatbot software for complex requirements

DaVinci Resolve is an all in one professional level video editing app that includes color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production. DaVinci Resolve is available for macO…

Today, I’m happy to introduce something I’ve been working on for the past couple of months: Apple Frames – my shortcut to put screenshots captured on Apple devices inside physical device frames – is getting a major upgrade to version 3.1 today. In addition to offering support for more devices that I missed in version

The architect of the Wu-Tang Clan and his young cast discuss their new 10-part Hulu show, ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’

When Twitter shut down third-party clients in January, it not only left out in the cold the users of those apps, but the developers too. Many of those apps were significant sources of revenue for t…

With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon

With iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1 comes support for Web Push for Home Screen web apps, Badging API, Manifest ID, and more.

Learn about the new features in Shortcuts for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Get complete step-by-step instructions and information on all the features in Shortcuts: Shortcuts User Guide

Twenty-five years ago, Mozilla rose from the open source ashes of Netscape. Here’s how it plans to survive 25 more years.

Resize Video to Target Size is a shortcut available on Routinehub that allows you to re-encode video files to a specific size using ffmpeg on MacOS.

Apple has released betas of iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with new features and its version of new emoji approved by the Unicode Consortium last summer. Some of the biggest changes coming to iOS and iPadOS later this spring will be to Safari. Many of the biggest user-facing features relate to web apps. Apple has supported

Documents has been at your service for 10 years. Year on year, we have introduced new capabilities to transform our users lives, from quick sharing and smart suggestions for improved workflows, to VPN and PDF capabilities.

Transparency, disclosure, and publication-level guidelines

Working with links in the fediverse can be tricky – here's how to use Shortcuts' Get Components of URL action to quickly isolate any instance or account handle you come across on Mastodon.

Fantasy football conjures not the sporting life of the jock, but the mental life of his boss.

Soon I will die in the course of performing my duties. Perhaps I am dead already.

Columbia's first and only community radio station is celebrating 50 years. A commemorative book is in the works and needs photos and stories.

Apple on Thursday released multiple new betas to developers, including iOS 16.4 beta 1 and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1. As we’ve already seen, the latest beta software for iPhone and iPad comes with some interesting changes. Among them, the Apple Music interface has been slightly tweaked, but there are still no signs of Apple Classical […]

Tedium is slowly working on its glossary over the next year, taking time to develop definitions its subject matter. Today’s starting point? Software.

Bunch is an amazing little automation tool for controlling work environments on your Mac.

It’s February 2nd, the day we first launched Write.as in 2015! A lot has happened this past year, both on the web and with the small team...

Your For You feed might look a little different.

Standards-based interoperability makes a comeback, sort of.

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time…

Five radio stations—Dublin Digital Radio (ddr.), Rádio Quântica, Oroko, Skylab and Threads—provide some tips on how to do it yourself.

Elon Musk partially reversed his API policy.

What if we took social media a little less seriously -- even the "better" solutions like the #fediverse? What if we didn't worry about "changing the world" with some new startup idea, and instead improved life for a few people? What if we just made cool shit online that could help pay our bills and then we do something new when that gets old? What if we forgot the 1990s-2020s delusion that the information superhighway was go...

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....

I’ve been following with great interest this series of articles by John Gruber (and Matt Birchler’s related story) about the chasm between iOS and Android apps. I have some thoughts since expanding my app knowledge beyond iOS and iPadOS is one of my goals for 2023. About a month ago, during my holiday break, I