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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.

Learn how to trigger actions from other apps using URLs.

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.

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

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.

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

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)

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.

Introducing a process that uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce beautiful, film-like natural photos. Meet Halide 2.15, with Process Zero.

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

John: 2024 was a big year for apps, but it was also different from most. More often than not, app innovation is driven by new Apple APIs; that wasn’t the case this year. Instead, it was other trends that shaped the apps we love. Artificial intelligence played a big role, with some apps adopting it

To create a custom Gem to meet your goals, provide info about your request and requirements. On this page, learn how to:

A 22-inch creative pen display.

This article presents commonly used programming fonts with examples of each font in ClearType and non-ClearType.

Raindrop.io automatically creates copies of all web-pages and files in your collection. That way, even if an item changes or is taken offline, you will be able to open the version that you have saved in Raindrop.io.

1) (noun) Sound supposedly made by mating arctic foxes. 2) (acronym) (or more backronym) YIFF or Y. I. F. F. - "Young Incredibly Fuckable Furry" 3) (proper name) YIFF sound server. Program for Linux to help handle audio. 4) (noun) More or less (usually more) sexual act. Commonly used by furries, usually denotes standard intercourse but may denote any kind of sexual behaviour between any type and number of parties (imaginary anthro creatures, humans, animals, even inanimate objects like plushies). Antonym: Yerf. 5) (verb) Like in meaning 4, "to yiff". 6) Furry (or otherwise) artwork depicting yiff as in meaning 4. 7) Expression of joy (by furries) 8) Non-invasive question about sexual feelings/will to mate. Note in all sexual meanings this has a very specific emotional background: It's neither considered vulgar (like "fuck" or technical (like "have intercourse") or emotion-less (like "make love"). It's playful, considering the act like something fun, nice, pleasant and not very important - without any special obligations attached to it. "Let's yiff" has about the same emotional background as "Let's play". See also yiffy

Excursions through breakneck singeli, kaleidoscopic deep house and psychedelic dance-not-dance music: here are our ten favourite mixes of the year.

Learn tools and ways to look up word definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and more from the Linux command line.

I thought that would be easy, but they are difficult to spot