Over the last decade or so, Apple has been hard at work in simplifying the user interfaces that power its myriad platforms. I've welcomed most of that work, but it's hard to deny that we've all lost some things along the way. Today, we look at a UI element that started life in iTunes, but [...]

A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

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Overzealous security measures are ruining the simplicity of the macOS experience.

Sometime in June or July of 2023, a friend asked me whether or not, as someone who writes, I'm worried about large language models like C...

I recently moved into a new house and have finally been able to begin looking more seriously at my home automation options. I have invested some time and resources into using Home Assistant as my underlying automation control platform. I had run it several years ago and had given up on it due to a lack of stability, but these days it is a much more reliable and capable product. In my experimentation to date, I found I had a bit of friction in testing my automations, and so I set to work on finding something to help make things easier. The result was something I have subsequently found to be massively convenient.

Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa thinks the future of farming will be all-electric and powered by AI, and it starts with the company’s MK-V tractor.

Media literacy is all about building critical thinking skills and learning to ask questions.

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Here’s everything you need to know about iPhone, straight from Apple. This definitive guide helps you get started using iPhone and discover all the amazing things it can do.

Learn about the new features in Pages on iPad.

Just a week after releasing iOS 17, Apple has seeded the first beta of iOS 17.1 to developers. iOS 17.1 adds some features that Apple promised were...

macOS Sonoma is an update that feels small–but in all the best ways. Upgrading it won’t change how you look at your Mac, at least not at first. This means that if you’re desperate…

The Trending Shortcuts section has returned to RoutineHub! This provides the Apple user community with an excellent opportunity to once again discover and make use of the most popular and useful shortcuts. To celebrate a bit, today we'll include some of the wonderful shortcuts that are appearing this week in

The Butter Sessions affiliate talks improvisation, learning on the fly and inspiration through relocation.

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An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

Apple Podcasts significantly expanded its Apple Music and Apple News podcast channels late yesterday and introduced podcasts for subscribers to a variety of third-party apps. In all, Apple says there are over 60 new shows comprised of over 2,500 episodes. The Apple Music channel new features 42 shows, a significant increase from the handful that

It’s September 28 today, and if we ignore the fact that the root word for September is actually a word that means “seven” then we can comfortably accept that September is the ninth month, which means that, numerically, using the American month/day notation, today is 9/28! And 9/28 are the same numbers as 928, which […]

I got my iPhone 15 Pro Max last week, and I’m loving the possibilities opened by the Action button combined with the Shortcuts app. But as I was playing around with different ideas for the Action button, I had a thought: Wouldn’t it be great if instead of just one shortcut, I could toggle between

What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …

Vivaldi, the company created by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, is introducing an iOS version of its browser today.