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Apple released iOS 18.2 in the second week of December, bringing the second round of Apple Intelligence features to iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16...

On your Mac, use the Keyboard Viewer to see where characters in another language are located on your keyboard.

I want to install a dmg file on a remote server. All I have is an ssh access. Since a DMG is a disk image, I tried to mount it, but mount does not seem to recognize its format. file says my dmg f...

Complete aeronautical information about Tonopah Test Range Airport (Tonopah, NV, USA), including location, runways, taxiways, navaids, radio frequencies, FBO information, fuel prices, sunrise and sunset times, aerial photo, airport diagram.

Starting in iOS 17, Apple allows users to create a Personal Voice that when used in conjunction with Live Speech can help users communicate with others by reading text and phrases. Here's how to set it up and how it worked for us.

Drafts 46 has been released: iOS App Store Mac App Store Details below. For a complete history of updates, visit the release notes. 46.0 Text-to-Speech Apple’s operating systems have accessibility features for reading text (iOS - Mac). In this update we’ve added a custom text-to-speech interface in Drafts that allows a little more control for circumstances where you might want to customize the voice used, the rate of speech, or text to read. This is a handy addition to use Drafts as a snip...

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iOS 18.2 includes the first image generation technologies that are coming to Apple Intelligence, including Image Playground. Image Playground is...

If you've ever wanted an obscure emoji that the Unicode Consortium just hasn't gotten around to adding to the emoji lineup, Genmoji in iOS...

iOS 18.1 is the first major update to iOS 18, and it brings a slew of new features including Apple Intelligence, phone call recording, and more, plus...

In Shortcuts, the URL scheme also supports running a shortcut that is saved in your shortcuts collection.

Millions of developers use GitHub every day to manage and store revisions of projects, making it the largest host of source code in...

Depending on your Mac laptop, you can charge your battery with MagSafe 3 or USB-C.

Engineering updates from the Mastodon core team, October 2024. Initial updates post-4.3, a new team member, and lots of community news.

The Shortcuts app is full of hundreds of native actions with customizable parameters and advanced functionality — these are unique capabilities beyond what's possible with the Siri Shortcuts developed by third-party apps.

Learn how to trigger actions from other apps using URLs.

This is a quick experiment with Google Docs, CSVs, MultiMarkdown tables and CSS3 selectors. It’s really hackish, but it’s a start. I wanted to take Google Docs spreadsheet output and turn…

In Ulysses, you can easily create tables in the editor and populate them with data. You can add links, code, markup and more.   Create a Table On Mac To in

In this article you will learn how to use FFmpeg to effortlessly convert mkv to mp4, additionally, you will be acquainted with re-encoding video and audio

Rob Walker article on success of Apple Computer's iPod digital music player, which combines high design and powerful technology; focuses on product's design, both appearance and function, to explain why iPod has become icon; photos (L)

15 years into its life, Reeder is one of the most popular and beloved RSS readers available on Apple’s platforms. You can’t have a discussion about the best way to follow RSS feeds without Reeder coming up as a contender – and believe me, we’ve had many such discussions here at MacStories and on the

10 years ago today, I released GBA4iOS — a passion project my friend Paul Thorsen and I built during our senior year of high school. I’ve reflected many times over the impact GBA4iOS had on my life (many, many, times), but for the 10th anniversary I wanted to try something different.

Today, Lux released an update to Halide, its manual control camera app. The marquee feature is Process Zero, a mode that allows photographers to take images with no algorithmic or AI processing. As Lux’s Ben Sandofsky explains it: Process Zero is a new mode in Halide that skips over the standard iPhone image processing system.

Social media has splintered across multiple services since the decline of Twitter. I’ve always managed a lot of social media accounts between my own and ones for MacStories, but today the situation is worse than ever. There have always been services like Buffer that make it easier to juggle multiple accounts and services, but they