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Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.1 and iOS 18.1
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Joanna Stern: Apple will launch iOS 18.1 next week, bringing its much anticipated generative-AI tools to the iPhone 15 Pro models and the new iPhone 16 lineup. It will be available for most newer iPads and Macs, too.If you’re expecting AI fireworks, prepare for AI…sparklers. Back in June, at the company’s annual developers conference, executives […]
Postbox Discontinued
Adam Engst (Hacker News, MacRumors Forum): Sad news. The longstanding email client Postbox has been acquired and shut down by eM Client, described by the announcement as “a leading email platform for Windows and macOS that combines email, calendars, tasks, contacts, notes, and chat into a single, easy-to-use application.”[…]On the other side of the equation, […]
TouchArcade Is Shutting Down
Jared Nelson (Hacker News): Many of you who have followed TouchArcade for a long time are well aware that we’ve had financial troubles for many years now, and to be frank I think it’s a miracle that we’ve been able to last as long as we have. The truth of the matter is that a […]
The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting
AppleScript support with popular Mac calendar apps is surprisingly limited. With Apple Mail, it’s easy to write a script that operates on the selected e-mail messages, and I’ve written many such scripts. I’d like to do this same with calendar events. For example, sometimes I want to make the same change to one of the […]
Qbix Calendar Apps and the Mac App Store
A reader shared a story about the confusing and unfortunate situation with Qbix’s calendar apps on the Mac App Store. There are two separate apps: Calendars (which used to be called Calendar 2, previously discussed) and Calendar Plus. Calendar Plus hasn’t been updated in 10 years but is still for sale as a $9.99 up-front […]
Alphabet in Motion
Swiss Miss,
Kelli Anderson is a magician. Alphabet in Motion is an ABC Pop-up Book on how about letters get their shapes. Mad respect for this work of art which took Kelli 5 years to create. Let’s support her.
The Universe in Verse
My dear friend Maria Popova of has a new book out and it’s a thing of beauty. Both content and design wise. Definitely gifting this during this holiday season.
iPhone 16 Adds JPEG XL
Jeremy Gray (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple and its various software iterations have supported JPEG XL for at least a year, including in Finder, Preview, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Photos, Mail, Safari, and more. Adobe has also supported the format for a while, including in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic.Despite JPEG XL supporting reversible JPEG […]