With the latest visonOS 2.2 beta 2, Apple has enabled the Wide and Ultrawide Mac virtual display. It’s impressive. Here are my initial tests on the Ultrawide display.… This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
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The Lab Report for November 15, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: A new Vision Pro-focused immersive video is out, big updates to two of Apple’s Pro Apps, the top 100 Apple Music albums collected in a coffee table book, and Sparky shares his Apple Watch band purchase story.
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A First Look at Image Playground
In this video I kick the tires on Apple’s Image Playground feature (from 18.2 beta) and I get some strange results in the process.
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Fastmail Rules How-To
I’ve been experimenting with having Fastmail apply server-side rules to my incoming emails. This video explains how easy they are to set up and how powerful they can be.… This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
The Lab Report for November 8, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Apple is set to acquire popular image and graphics design software company Pixelmator, we’ve got accessories for colored iMac, and you can now search with ChatGPT.
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Trying Out ChatGPT Search
ChatGPT is getting in on the search engine racket. In this video, I share early tests and my impressions of ChatGPT Search.
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Solving a Kernel Panic with the Help of ChatGPT
I recently had a strange beta-related kernel panic on my Mac Studio. I was having trouble diagnosing the problem until I brought ChatGPT in to help. Here’s how I did it.
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The Lab Report for November 1, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: The new M4-powered Mac computers are here! You can get on the Apple Intelligence waitlist, Anthropic’s Claude now has a Mac app, and Oliver Burkeman’s latest book, one chapter per day.
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Mail Sorting with Apple Intelligence
With the release of iOS 18.2 Beta 1, we’re getting our first look at Apple Intelligence-based inbox sorting in Mail. In this video I share how it work and my initial impressions.
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Testing NotebookLM
Here are some of my early tests using NotebookLM, Google’s new tool that lets me create an AI-assisted podcast based on the data I feed it. … This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?