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Customizing App Icons on a Mac in 2023
The age of wildly personalizing the look of macOS might be over, but customizing app icons is still fun, and the phenomenon is more popular than ever since the advent of Home Screen widgets and custom...
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Three Ways to Use BetterTouchTool to Enhance Window Management with a Trackpad
BetterTouchTool is an essential tool that can help anyone streamline their workflows, but I think it really shines when it helps me solve some of my everyday frustrations. I mainly use a Magic...
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Bartender 5 Is the Essential Menu Bar Upgrade for macOS Sonoma
The last time Bartender received a major update was back in 2021. Bartender 4 brought many new powerful features to help declutter the menu bar, particularly on the new MacBook models with a notch,...
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Is Apple’s Translate App Still Getting Lost in Translation?
Apple first introduced the Translate app in iOS 14. Although it was a welcomed addition to the language translation space, I stopped using it a couple of months after its release. Many languages were...
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Vivaldi for iOS Is Not Delivering on Its Promise Just Yet
Third-party web browsers on iOS and iPadOS have been in a peculiar state for some time. While it has been possible since iOS 14 to set a third-party browser as the default for opening web links, Apple...
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Using Shortcuts to Display the Temperature from My Outdoor Sensor in the Menu...
I have always enjoyed having the current temperature in the menu bar on my Mac. Even though macOS Sonoma now supports adding a Weather widget of your choice directly to the desktop, I still prefer how...
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I Tried to Run Cities: Skylines 2 on My M2 MacBook Air via Apple’s Game...
I have always been a huge fan of city-building games. The first video game I ever played was SimCity 3000, on my uncle’s bulky PC running Windows 2000. I then went on to play SimCity 4 throughout...
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Quiche Browser Is a Beautiful and Modular Web Browser for iOS
As part of my ongoing experiment with third-party web browsers for the iPhone, I recently stumbled upon a new indie browser for iOS, which I was instantly drawn to thanks to its adorable name. Quiche...
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Bezel: The Best Way to Screen Capture Your iPhone From a Mac
I have recently been working on a personal web project that involves a lot of testing on my iPhone. While I would usually just have my iPhone to the side on my desk to test my changes in real-time and...
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Apple’s Journal App: Journaling for All?
I’ve been keeping a journal in Day One since at least 2015, and I’ve got to say, the practice has become very engrained in my otherwise chaotic daily routine. Whenever I get asked about journaling, I...
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Globetrotter: Your Photos and Memories on a World Map
Every time I open the Memories tab in Apple’s Photos app, I feel disappointed. The memories it surfaces always seem to rehash the same events in my life, and they never really achieve to put my photos...
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The Continuity Camera and ‘Unlock With Apple Watch’ Conspiracy
Continuity Camera is amazing. Since it was introduced in macOS Ventura, I’ve been using the feature almost daily. Continuity Camera is a native feature on macOS that lets you use an iPhone as your...
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Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 17.3 with Collaborative Playlists, Stolen...
Update: This story previously listed paying with Apple Pay as one of the actions protected with Stolen Device Protection on. Apple has since clarified in a Support document that paying with Apple Pay...
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feeeed: Embracing Feed Diversity and Personal News Curation
With The Iconfactory launching Project Tapestry this week, I was reminded of an indie app that I first started testing a few months ago. feeeed – that’s with four ‘e’s – by Nate Parrott is a feed...
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Wallpaper Frenzy: A Roundup of My Favorite Wallpaper Apps, Tools, and Artists...
Wallpapers have always been a reflection of my often chaotic energy. I can sometimes spend months, or even years, without ever changing my wallpaper, and I can spend that same amount of time just...
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Looks Like Rain: Visualizing the Weather on a Color-Coded Timeline
I’m always excited when a new weather app is released, especially when it’s a weather app that looks different from most of its counterparts. Looks Like Rain by Thinkbits is beautifully designed, and...
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Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 17.4 with Major Safari and App Store Changes in...
Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.4, the fourth major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories. iOS 17.4 is a significant release, bringing...
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Tapbots Releases Ivory 1.9 with Quote Posts
Today, Tapbots released version 1.9 of their award-winning Mastodon client Ivory for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The update brings the long-awaited ability to quote posts, and to view quoted posts inline...
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Three Tips to Combine BetterTouchTool and Raycast for Simpler Keyboard Shortcuts
Raycast is one of my favorite Mac utilities of all time. When I recommend Raycast to someone, I usually like to say that it’s a Swiss Army knife for your Mac. It is an app launcher, a shortcut...
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Vivaldi for iOS Updated with Colorful Themes and Ability to Force Dark Mode
When I first reviewed Vivaldi for iOS back in October, I was disappointed by the small number of customization features that were available in the app at launch. This was especially remarkable since...
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RoamPod: Exploring the Untapped Potential of a Portable HomePod mini
A couple of months ago, my partner and I were contemplating purchasing a Bluetooth speaker for the bathroom. We both like to listen to podcasts and music while in the shower, and using our iPhones at...
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Transit Is Still the Best-Designed Transit App on the iPhone in 2024
I like trains. I like them so much that, despite being 27 years old now, I still don’t have a driving license. I travel by train and use public transit exclusively to get around in my daily life. The...
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Single-Space Challenge: Trying to Manage My macOS Windows All in One Virtual...
A couple of weeks ago, in a members-only special episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast, John Siracusa went in-depth on his window management techniques on the Mac. This was absolutely fascinating to...
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