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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),

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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

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

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

A few months ago, I decided that it was time for me to start a personal blog. I have been writing for MacStories for almost three years now, but I’ve never had “a place” to share my personal thoughts that wouldn’t fit in 140 characters or less. So as I was pondering the decision of

https://vimeo.com/191969564 A major update to iA Writer, the popular Markdown text editor for iOS and macOS, has been released earlier today. I didn’t have enough time to test the beta of version 4.0, but I’m intrigued by the idea of file transclusion – effectively, a way to structure documents with content blocks based on local

The expansion notes for the upcoming Legion expansion are now available.

W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

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John Voorhees, writing on Club MacStories (subscription required): Nearly three years ago, I wrote AppleScript: Shortcuts Bridge or Crutch?, questioning whether accessing AppleScript via Shortcuts …

Fantastical for iOS help.

Learn how to tweak iA Writer’s settings to suit your needs.

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Jony Ive’s Philosophy of Design

Websites that change randomly, that mirror the real world, or even follow the moon and the sun, plus my all-time favourite website design.

How to write thoughtful HTML, new-to-me features of CSS, and some quirks and relics I found while building my personal web archive.

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Why Markdown?

How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.

To help me keep track of interesting links, I created a static website that keeps all my data locally. Why do I care about bookmarks, and how does my new site work?

To even the most indifferent of observers, this can hardly seem the appropriate time to launch a literary review. College libraries struggle to make room for…

In the Finder on your Mac, tag files and folders with color or text to make them easier to find, group, and sort.

Based on information shared with 9to5Mac, here are five features that have flown under the radar and that might be announced on Monday.

You're handed a SQL server which has some data, but you don't know anything about the schema. What do you do?