Stephen and I have been running iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11, so you don’t have to. This week on Mac Power Users, we discuss some of the new features coming to Apple’s platforms later this year.
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Here’s the June Deep Dive video where we discussed the 2024 beta software features announced at the WWDC keynote on June 10, 2024… This is a post for the Early Access MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
In this week’s episode: Apple’s Pay Later feature has been discontinued, Microsoft’s Recall postponed again over privacy concerns, my thoughts about “Thin and Light”, and I show you how a Stream Deck and Apple Mail can dance together.
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In this week’s episode: Apple’s Pay Later feature has been discontinued, Microsoft’s Recall postponed again over privacy concerns, my thoughts about “Thin and Light”, and I show you how a Stream Deck and Apple Mail can dance together.… This is a post for the Early Access MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
Here’s the video from the May 2024 Deep Dive on tech stacks, which are defined loosely as “What are the apps we use to get our most important work done?”… This is a post for the Early Access MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
Mike and I read Rapt by Winifred Gallagher and on this episode of Focused, we discuss how to protect your attention and cultivate a focused life.
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Apple made some changes to the Settings in iOS 18. In this video I show you how it looks now and share some thoughts on its current state.
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In today’s short video, I take a first look at Apple’s new Passwords application. You will notice an app that sports a familiar user interface, and is easy to use.… This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
WWDC24 brought updates across Apple’s platforms and was used to announce the company’s move into the AI era. Stephen and I use this episode of Mac Power Users to highlight what’s new.
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My experiments with Perplexity continue. This alternate search app takes a different approach to getting answers from the Internet. Rather than giving you a list of links to read, it reads the Internet and tries to give you an answer with footnotes going back to the links it reads. I think it’s a good idea, and Perplexity was early to this game. Google is now following suit to less effect, but I’m sure they’ll continue to work on it.
I recently got an email from Perplexity about a new feature called Perplexity Pages, where you can give it a prompt, and it will build a web page about a subject of interest to you. Just as an experiment, I had it create a page on woodworking hand planes. I fed it a few headings, and then it generated this page. The page uses the Perplexity method of giving you information with footnotes to the websites it’s reading. I fed it a few additional topics, and it generated more content. Then, I pressed “publish” with no further edits. The whole experiment took me five minutes to create.
The speed at which these web pages can be created is both impressive and, in a way, unsettling. If we can generate web pages this quickly, it’s only a matter of time before we face significant challenges in distinguishing reliable information from the vast sea of content on the Internet. In any case, I invite you to explore my five-minute hand plane website.