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RSS and read-it-later services are near and dear to my heart. We gave coverage to both of these topics last year on the Mac Power Users (MPU 550: The World of RSS) (MPU 554: Read-it-later Services). I remain a believer in the RSS format and use it daily. Looking at my toolset for managing RSS,... Continue reading →

Her music makes me feel that I’m still part of the world I left behind.

From 2009: Judith Thurman on the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who was many things before—and after—her career as a pilot was cut short.

My recent walk distance data, charted via a Charty shortcut. When I started Six Colors, I had to start making all my charts for myself. Apple financial charts, product-testing charts, and any other…

It’s not the first time Reddit’s data hoarding community has saved content that is about to be purged from the internet, but this archive carries some risk.

Reeder 4 has long been a staple RSS reader app for iOS and Mac – the latest version brings some welcome fixes, new features, and sets the app on a good path for the future.

From Mapping Embarrassment To Navigation Leader

The official site of the Dark Noise app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

When someone called out lack of accessibility, they got ableist responses. This post has a collection of those responses and an explanation of why they're problematic.

The official announcement of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max during Apple's September keynote brought many surprises, with one of the standout features being the introduction of an innovative Action button, signifying a significant shift in design and functionality for the iPhone. The Action Button For many

Hello everyone, Hope you're having a great week. This one will be a busy one for me as I'm travelling to Paris, France to speak about accessible maps at Swift Connection. If you'll be there, too, come say hi! As always, don't hesitate to reach out with any suggestions for

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Apple’s Weather app is packing more data than ever before on iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma. The thing about weather is that beyond the basics, everyone cares about different things, and some people care about it all. With Apple’s latest version of Weather, there’s more weather to nerd out on than ever before.

I’m a big fan of Flipboard’s magazine feature, which was introduced earlier this year with version 2.0 of the app. By leveraging Flipboard’s existing presentation style – capable of re-formatting web articles, videos, and photos with a beautiful print-like layout – magazines allow anyone to put together a collection of interesting links that others can

In just a little more than a year, Agile Tortoise’s Drafts has gone from being a quick notepad for small bits of text to a full-featured solution for launching apps, using web services, and chaining multiple apps together – always with a focus on text. With version 2.5, released in January, developer Greg Pierce expanded

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Apply any custom entitlements, including private internal Apple entitlements, to an app bundle IPA, and sideload the IPA on to your iPhone or iPad. This can be used to allow any app access outside the app sandbox container, or to access iPhone functionality otherwise restricted like CarPlay.

Today, Federico published his iOS and iPadOS 17 review. As in past years, we’re releasing a wide variety of perks exclusively for Club MacStories members throughout the week, including an eBook version of the review, a special ‘making of’ edition of MacStories Weekly, a behind-the-scenes AppStories+ segment, and two new Club-exclusive Obsidian plugins. a.button {

Have we figured out how to separate the repugnant from the merely unlucky?