Apple recently asked me to share some of my favorite productivity-inspired Shortcuts for Mac. That resulted in today’s feature in the Mac App Store. I thought it came out great. If you dig this, there’s a whole lot more in the Shortcuts for Mac Field Guide.
I’ve spent time with the new System Settings in the macOS Ventura betas. I like the idea of it, but the execution needs work. Here’s a video explaining further…
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Rob Krecak joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about the psychology behind email, the importance of communication norms, and tips from his experiences helping organizations move to a 4-day work week.
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As the iOS 16 betas have continued to march out of Cupertino, I increasingly see third-party app betas add support for the new feature. While I don’t want to disclose anyone’s secret betas, I can tell you that adding third-party widgets is a level-up improvement for the lock screen. Any app developers that want to share glanceable information should be looking into it.
However, I also don’t think any of us will really understand the utility of the new lock screen until we have always-on screens. As it is, when I glance at my iPhone on my desk (even on a charger), the screen is nearly always dark. There is a widely circulated rumor that the iPhone 14 Pro will remedy that with an always-on-screen. At that point, lock screen widgets get a lot more useful.
Today we got iOS 16 beta 6 (along with watchOS beta 6). At this point in the beta process, the updates are way more about bug fixes and way less about new features. You’ll also note that this is the point in the game where the iPhone will pull ahead of iPad and Mac in terms of priority. The entire world expects new iPhones next month and that’s half of Apple’s annual revenue. You can’t blame them for focusing in on that now.
Chris Christensen is a web developer, writer, and traveler with roots in 90s Apple. This week on Mac Power Users, he joins Stephen and me to discuss his work, navigating the world, and a lot more.
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Yesterday I dropped the latest Lab Report podcast. If you’re not signed up for the Labs Podcast, you can do that here. Also, this week Endor Studios went vertical! Framing is largely done, and it suddenly all feels very real. I published a video this morning showing you the update…
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In this episode of Automators, Rose and I explain some of our favorite small automation tools and how they work.
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I’ve been kicking the tires on the new Siri voice-to-text dictation in the new Apple device betas. I’m impressed…
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