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From LA to Lagos — We talk to London DJ duo Coldcut about their new project, which features a cast of rising (and already established) musical talent from…

Despite criminal comparisons and bruised fingers, a community of hobbyist lockpickers is thriving online.

The Times' resident white savior has his heart in the right place. But his work falls short over and over again.

Email newsletters may be ready for a comeback. The fact is that despite the communications mechanism being old-school, publishers can put in less effort to get more views in an inbox than on a blog. AOL exec Bob Pittman has bet big on email newsletters, funding a number of media startups built around the form of communication. Philip Kaplan (a.k.a. Pud), the founder of FuckedCompany, AdBrite and Blippy, has created his own email newsletter platform called TinyLetter. TinyLetter is a dead simple way to create email newsletters. You pick out a name for your newsletter, and TinyLetter will create a URL to send to contacts via email, Facebook, Twitter and more so they can sign-up. You can then write your newsletter, customize your newsletters by design, add subscribers, read replies from subscribers and track old newsletters. You can also turn on the option to charge per month for your newsletter.

I'm still haunted by the mystery of my hometown's banana peel pile. What strange things can you just not shake?

Nostalgia is a powerful balm for difficult times – and replaying skate videos is the one thing lifting my spirits amidst our current reality.

Crank up a notch on your news reading and take control of what news sources that you want to satisfy your news craving. In this podcast Thomas Domville gives us a walkthrough ‎of NetNewsWire: RSS Reader for iOS, a free and open source RSS reader. It’s fast, stable, and accessible. NetNewsWire shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites — and keeps track of what you’ve read.

My previous post on some useful file renaming in Finder, Forklift, and Path Finder gave me a mental nudge to write up and share with you all some automations for getting some content into files from Safari. More specifically ways to generate links and snapshots of web pages and store them away in the current folder. This time however, rather than using Shortcuts, the tool of choice is Keyboard Maestro.

For the past two years since my girlfriend and I moved into our new apartment, my desk has been in a constant state of flux. Those who have been reading MacStories for a while know why. There were two reasons: I couldn’t figure out how to use my iPad Pro for everything I do, specifically

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Creating custom styles for Marked 2 is pretty easy… if you know CSS. I’ve started work on building an actual templating system, but it hasn’t come to fruition yet. In the meantime…

7 years ago I wrote about a script I was using to generate changelogs for Marked. Since then I’ve continued updating the script to work with just about all of my projects, from Xcode projects…

Homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS, and for good reason. However personally, I believe that Nix is more powerful.Video Links:- Nix Website...

It started when I was playing with LaunchBar search templates. I tried the man page search and it opened a nice window in Terminal. But I didn’t want to open Terminal when iTerm was already…

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

Here we go again with my yearly roundup of my favorite stuff. I’m going to do this year in a few parts. This one will be all Mac apps, and it will the longest because Mac apps are my favorite.

With the release of iOS 16 in 2022, Apple removed the volume slider from the iPhone Lock Screen except while...

We swear we just took down the tree and there?s still a stray bit of tinsel on the bannisters. And yet, here we are again. This holiday season has crept up on us like a naughty elf, and we?re in no way prepared. Thank goodness someone is. We reached out to editors at some of […]

Learn more about Figurative releases, including new features, compatibility, and bug fixes for every version.

"SmartLess" with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett is a podcast that connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity. A nice surprise: in each episode of SmartLess, one of the hosts reveals his mystery guest to the other two. What ensues is a genuinely improvised and authentic conversation filled with laughter and newfound knowledge to feed the SmartLess mind. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to new episodes ad-free and a whole week early.

In this ever-mad world of wristwear, a new era of freedom (and tiny watches) is reshaping the culture of timepieces. To bring some order to our horological habits, Dimepiece’s Brynn Wallner peers into the zeitgeist to find a fresh collection of commandments to embrace.

00:54:18 - How does an ad-based streamer compete with subscription-based models like Netflix, Hulu, Max, and all the rest? By charging nothing. At least that’s…

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

WWDC 2020 brought Mac Catalyst into sharper focus than ever before. Introduced as an unnamed ‘sneak peek’ in 2018, Mac Catalyst offered the promise of a simple and efficient way for iPad developers to bring their apps to 100 million Mac users. The reality was that it can be hard to transition an app from

It’s finally here. A swing of the pendulum. A reemergence of fun in visual design.

Yesterday at Apple’s biggest developer event of the year, the company shared details on a project that was teased last WWDC, and has been the subject of endless speculation ever since. Codenamed Marzipan, but announced as Catalyst, the project promises a new, easier way for developers to bring iPad apps to the Mac. [aside pre_title=”Supported

‌ Developer adoption of new macOS features is often a little slower than it is on iOS and iPadOS. However, that hasn’t been the case with Big Sur widgets. Apple wisely took the same SwiftUI-based system used for creating widgets on the iPhone and iPad and implemented it on the Mac, providing a relatively simple