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Indigo: A Clever Mashup of Bluesky and Mastodon in One Timeline

Last week, Soapbox Software (Ben McCarthy and Aaron Vegh) released Indigo, an iPhone, iPad, and Mac app that offers a unique take on social media, allowing you to log into both Bluesky and Mastodon in a single app. In the increasingly fractured social media landscape we live in, it's a fantastic idea. Instead of bouncing

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Introducing Apple Frames 4: A Revamped Shortcut, Support for Frame Colors, Proportional Scaling, and the Apple Frames CLI for Developers

Well, it's been a minute. Today, I'm very happy to introduce Apple Frames 4, a major update to my shortcut for framing screenshots taken on Apple devices with official Apple product bezels. Apple Frames 4 is a complete rethinking of the shortcut that is noticeably faster, updated to support all the latest Apple devices, and

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Apple Releases Watch Band, Watch Face, and Wallpapers to Celebrate Pride Month

Apple has released its annual Pride Collection, including a new Apple Watch Pride Edition Sport Loop band, watch face, and iPhone and iPad wallpapers celebrating LGBTQ+ communities. The commemorative Sport Loop uses 11 colors of nylon thread that blend the colors together in a unique way. As Apple's press release puts it: The intricate weaving

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LunarWall: Shuffle Moon Photos from Artemis II On Your Lock Screen or Mac Desktop

I've been staring at my Lock Screen and macOS desktop a lot this week. Not because of John's iMessage notifications or the weird handhelds we share in the NPC group thread – because of the Moon. Specifically, because of photos taken by Orion as it swung within 4,067 miles of the lunar surface during the

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OpenAI’s New Codex App Has the Best ‘Computer Use’ Feature I’ve Ever Tested

OpenAI rolled out their updated Codex app for Mac yesterday and, among other things, they shipped a native computer use tool for macOS that lets Codex interact with multiple Mac apps in the background using parallel cursors that do not bring apps to the foreground when agents are interacting with them. The feature that OpenAI

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Hour by Hour: Reverse Engineering Your Schedule

Hour by Hour is a clever new approach to scheduling your time from Joe Humfrey of Selkie Design that took me a little while to get used to, but has really grown on me. The app was inspired by travel planning and the age-old question, "When should I leave for the airport?" You've probably been

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Podcast Rewind: Everything Apps, the RG Rotate, Pet Tech, TV Heists, and an Interview with Simon Pittman

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories' family of podcasts: AppStories This week, we return to a topic that's an old favorite: the Everything App in honor of OpenAI's announcement that they are building a Super App. On AppStories+, Federico consolidates the tools and services he uses. NPC: Next Portable Console This week, the SN Operator

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Technology Podcast · Updated Weekly · A seasonal interview show where you get to know the guest through the technology they care about most. Hosted by Jonathan Reed.

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How Can Everybody Hate Their Weather App When There Are So Many Great Choices?

Twitter clients may have been a design playground in the early days of the App Store, but it's weather apps that have carried the torch. That's because the developers of weather apps have to simultaneously contend with a vast amount of data and a wide variety of user preferences. Last week, for The New Yorker,

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Google Releases Gemini for Mac

Google released a native Mac app for its Gemini chatbot today. The app, which can be launched from your Applications folder, Dock, the menu bar, or a global hotkey, will be familiar to anyone who has used Gemini in a browser. The chatbot supports Gemini 3 in Fast and Thinking modes, as well as Pro

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MacStories Weekly: Issue 511

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Podcast Rewind: App Gaps Filled, GameCubes Emulated, Quick Reads Released, Holidays Bridged, and Craig Hockenberry Interviewed

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories' family of podcasts: AppStories This week, John and Federico cover Apple's executive transition, follow up on OpenAI's super app, share the apps they're looking for, and give each other suggestions on how to fill their app gaps. On AppStories+, we round up the tools we've built for ourselves that

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Claude Mythos Preview Will Only Secure Part of the Internet

Yesterday, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose model that it says is exceptionally good at finding security vulnerabilities in code. In fact, the model is so good that Anthropic has decided not to release Mythos Preview to the general public. Instead, it's being released to a select group of companies that control OSes

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Podcast Rewind: Text Editors, the Pocket Taco, Photo Backups, an Apple Frames Preview, and an Interview with Evan Ratliff

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories' family of podcasts: AppStories This week, John and Federico revisit the state of text editors on Apple platforms and how they use them. On AppStories+, John and Federico dig deeper into their writing workflows and the apps they're using to write. NPC: Next Portable Console This week, Brendon reports

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MacStories Weekly: Issue 508

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