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I have to be in Hillsboro, Missouri tomorrow morning at 10:30 for the tooth extraction (quite a bit of a drive away), but the ride is rea...

Problem As part of my work advocating for special-needs orphans, I produce a (mostly) weekly podcast highlighting several of the children on our website. Whenever one of the featured children has a…

I’ve had enough thoughts on this idea to span a short book, but I had a moment today where I was just occupied with my thoughts, and I started contemplating using an iPhone 5 again. A quick bit of a context: the iPhone 5 is my favourite phone to

This is a guide related to my app, Text Case. It’s a utility app that lets you transform text into various different formats. You can find all the guides in one place, and Text Case on the App Store. Everyone loves Siri. Well they don’t always, but sometimes

Not long ago, I reviewed an update to a new text transformation utility for iOS by Chris Hannah called Text Case. That update added support for title casing text according to popular style guides including the Chicago Manual of Style that we use here at MacStories. The app can do 13 other text transformations too

If Sunday’s Big Game commercials had any message, it was that corporations have a disconcerting vision for our future.

Death and disease increase after divorce. Journalist Florence Williams, mourning the end of her own marriage, investigates why.

ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files. red is a restricted ed: it can only edit ...

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A small group of verified users are part of the beta test.

The complete manual for the GNU nano text editor.

The new emoji-only URLs rolled out February 1st.

Apple made your phone more private — and created a huge problem for Mark Zuckerberg.

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The only thing that's changed is everything.

...in regards to blog posts. I see so many people feeling "guilty" or "bad" that they didn't post every single day, or missed a day, or m...

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When a good product is tied to a spiraling company

iPad Diaries is a regular series about using the iPad as a primary computer. You can find more installments here and subscribe to the dedicated RSS feed. In my review of iOS 11, I noted that the impact of drag and drop – arguably, the most powerful addition to the iPad – would be best

We use Working Copy every day to collaborate on articles for MacStories and Club MacStories. It’s an excellent tool for working as a group because it lets us easily track edits to documents and stay in sync with the latest version of an article. Ours isn’t the most common use for an iOS Git client

In first trailer, Jordan Peele’s Nope reveals some of its plot.

SUBMISSIONS FOR EAR RAT MAG ISSUE FIVE ARE OPEN. The theme for issue five is:"The 90's" The deadline for submissions is:  March 31st, 2022...

The Metaverse is dead. Well, it is living dead. The corpos propped it up like a weekend at Bernie's that just never ends. You have a cho...

A few years ago, I wrote about the now-dead Dashboard, which was was in macOS for a long, long time: While not as flashy or important as Tiger’s keystone feature, Spotlight, Dashboard still enjoyed a big push from Jobs on stage. A user could tap a keyboard shortcut or visit a hot corner and Dashboard...

Anything beyond simple media consumption or limited writing (like a text or an MPU post) are just too tedious, with too many “pokes at the screen” (as Jobs would say). Text selection Getting the Select | Select all | … thing to pop up, or not to pop up. Saving files. Using Share to, then Print then pinch/spread to create a PDF. It’s just tedious. It’s better with a keyboard and mouse connected, but then it’s a laptop. I have a laptop for laptopping. Maybe it’s just me.