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When Apple Music debuted last summer I switched to it from Spotify. I wasn’t on Spotify all that long, but I did have a few playlists I wanted to take with me, including a big one with all the songs I had favorited. At the time, I found a script that logged into both services,

For the better part of this year, I’ve been using both Spotify and Apple Music. In my opinion, each service does a few things exceptionally well, but, unfortunately, I can’t have all of them in a single music app. Spotify’s discovery tools for both old and new songs are simply unparalleled in the industry: Discover

Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications

[Keba] not only asked Answeres.HackaDay.com, but also sent us an email as follows. “Can you make a basic guide to designing a good Command Line User Interface?” Wouldn’t you know …

Susan Meiselas’s “Carnival Strippers” disabuse the viewer of any fantasies we might have about sex work.

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Today, I’m pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of Apple Frames, my shortcut to put screenshots taken on various Apple devices inside physical frames for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Apple Frames 3.0 is a major update that involved a complete re-architecture of the shortcut to improve its performance and reliability on

She looked so happy using a voting machine

Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...

The automatic audio post production webservice, using signal processing and machine learning techniques.

A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Back in September I first reviewed Grazing, an alternative web browser for the iPad that came out a few weeks after I complained about the average alternative browser for the iPad lacking the ideas, feature set or implementation to properly compete with Safari. Lots of things have changed since then, both with iOS Safari and

Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Kathryn Minshew, founder of online jobs marketplace The Muse, has basically been on a nationwide tour for the past month. Traveling from her home in New York’s East Village, she’s turned up in Aspen, Colo.; the Catskills, N.Y.; Dana Point, Calif.; and Boston. Though some of the travel was just ...

It’s far too limited for how much it costs.

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store-based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that you can extrapolate from it the very reasons Apple has remained such a […]

David Sparks and I teased it on Automators back in episode 17, and now the app is here: Timery, the Toggl app we all wish Toggl had made! the

Google lets you easily compare search results and it's fantastic.

Apple's Magic Keyboard for iPad Air is nice, but imperfect and expensive. Here's an iPad keyboard case alternative at a friendlier price.

More details emerged about the upcoming DaVinci Resolve app for iPad Pro. The video editing powerhouse will be free, with a premium option.

Starting today you can share your custom made preset with anybody anywhere with just a simple link.

Dedicated forums mean conversations can’t be interrupted.

We will begin to introduce several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot in 2023 to continue delivering responsible innovation and true happiness at the keyboard.