Good tip from “DifferentDan” on the Realmac customer forum, posted back in November:
I saw on macOS Tahoe 26.1, Apple finally added an option in the
Column View settings to automatically right size all columns
individually and that setting would persist, but I don’t real...
Nvidia will become TSMC’s largest customer this year, according to
analyst estimates and Huang himself. Apple is believed to
currently be TSMC’s largest customer, mostly to manufacture
A-series chips for iPhones and M-series chips for PCs and servers.
The positional swap will mark a fundamental shift in the
semiconductor industry, reflecting Nvidia’s growing importance
amid the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out. [...]
Ben Bajarin, principal analyst at Creative Strategies, said he
projects Nvidia to generate $33 billion in TSMC revenue this
year, or about 22% of the chip foundry’s total. Apple, by
comparison, is projected to generate about $27 billion, or about
18% of TSMC’s revenue.
Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks.
WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your backend requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh.
Apple offers a Share Item Location feature in the Find My
app that allows you to temporarily share the location of an
AirTag-equipped item with others, including employees at
participating airlines. This way, if you put an AirTag inside your
bags, the airline can better help you find them in the event they
are lost or delayed at the airport. [...] Below, we have listed
most of the airlines that support the feature.
Apple’s announcement claims that 36 airlines support it today, and 15 more are coming soon.
Apple Newsroom:
Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip — the same chip
found in the iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3,
and Apple Watch Series 11 — powers the new AirTag, making it
easier to locate than ever before. Using haptic, visual, and audio
f...
I’ve been meaning since last month to link to Apple’s lists of the top iPhone apps in the U.S. for 2025. Here’s the list of the top 20 free iPhone apps:
ChatGPT
Threads
Google
TikTok — Videos, Shop & LIVE
WhatsApp Messenger
Instagram
YouTube
Google Maps
Gmail — Email b...
Yours truly back in 2009, hitting upon the same themes from the item I just posted about TextEdit vs. Apple Notes:
This, I think, explains the relative popularity of Mac OS X’s
included Stickies application. For years, Stickies’s popularity
confounded me. Why would anyon...
Perhaps at the opposite end of the complexity and novelty spectrum from Federico Viticci’s intro to Clawdbot is this piece by Kyle Chayka, writing at The New Yorker, from October:
Amid the accelerating automation of our computers — and the
proliferation of assistants and...
Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories:
If this intro just gave you whiplash, imagine my reaction when I
first started playing around with Clawdbot, the incredible
open-source project by Peter Steinberger (a name
that should be familiar to longtime MacStories readers)
t...
My thanks to Meh for sponsoring last week at DF. Meh puts up a new deal every day, and they do it with panache. As they say, “It’s actual, real, weird shit you didn’t know existed for half the price you would’ve guessed.”
Don’t tell any of my other sponsors, but Meh is my f...
A few weeks ago there were a rash of stories claiming that iOS 26 is seeing bizarrely low adoption rates from iPhone users. The methodology behind these numbers is broken and the numbers are totally wrong. Those false numbers are so low, so jarringly different from previous ...
The main reason I’m sticking with MacOS 15 Sequoia, refusing to install 26 Tahoe, is that there are so many severe UI regressions in Tahoe. The noisy, distracting, inconsistent icons prefixing menu item commands, ruining the Mac’s signature menu bar system. Indiscriminate tr...
Ken Case, on The Omni Group blog:
The features noted above already make for a great upgrade. But as
I mentioned last year, one of the interesting problems
we’ve been pondering is how best to link to documents in native
apps. We’ve spent some time refining our solution to...
Free Mac utility by Zendit Oy:
A macOS app that enhances control over Elgato lights, offering
features beyond the standard Elgato Control Center software.
Features:
Automatically turn lights on and off based on camera activity
Turn lights off when locking your Mac
Syn...
For weeks — maybe months, time has been hard to judge this past
year — Trump has been telling us that he’s worked out deals with
pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices by several hundred
percent. Commentators and comedians have pointed out that you
can’t reduce prices more than 100% and pretty much left it at
that, suggesting that Trump’s impossible numbers are due to
ignorance.
Don’t get me wrong. Trump’s ignorance is nearly limitless — but
only nearly. I’ve always thought that he knew the right way to
calculate a price drop; he did it the wrong way so he could quote
a bigger number. And that came out in yesterday’s speech.
Trump sophistry + math pedantry = Daring Fireball catnip.
Jeff Johnson:
Finder has four view modes, represented by the four consecutive
toolbar icons in the screenshot below, if you can even call that
free-floating monstrosity a toolbar anymore: Icons, List, Columns,
and Gallery. My preference is columns view, which I’ve been u...
Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac:
When you use Walmart Pay, it’s incredibly easy for Walmart to
build that customer profile on you. When you use Scan and Go, all
of that same information is handed over.
When you use Apple Pay or other payment methods, it’s much harder
...
Violet Jira, reporting for NOTUS:
The White House communications team posted a digitally altered
photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota social
justice activist, on Thursday that makes it appear that she was
weeping during her arrest by federal agents.
The image is ...
Aaron “Homeboy” Tilley and Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas, and with a miserly gift-link policy):
But there are also potential risks to making Federighi head of AI.
Giving oversight of AI to him reflects Apple’s cautious approach
to the technolog...
Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas):
Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an
AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker,
microphones and wireless charging, according to people with direct
knowledge ...
Mark Gurman, reporting at Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. has expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to
include design work, solidifying his status as a leading contender
to eventually succeed Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook.
Cook, who has led Apple since 2011 and turned...
Bridger Beal-Cvetko and Daniel Woodruff, reporting for KSL News:
SB138, sponsored by Cullimore, R-Sandy, would make Android, the
world’s most popular mobile device operating system, an official
state symbol, joining the ranks of the official state cooking pot
(the dutch oven), the official state crustacean (the brine
shrimp), and the official state mushroom (the porcini).
“Someday, everybody with an iPhone will realize that the
technology is better on Android,” Cullimore told reporters during
a media availability on Wednesday, the second day of the
legislative session.
But, he added, “I’m the only one in my family — all my kids, my
wife, they all have iPhones — but I’m holding strong.” [...]
“I don’t expect this to really get out of committee,” he said.
Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire, in a post that pairs perfectly with Om Malik’s re: velocity bestowing authority:
The new Democratic argument isn’t about restoring guardrails. It’s
about moving fast — and using power unapologetically — to undo
what Trump has do...
Om Malik:
That’s why we get all our information as memes. The meme has
become the metastory, the layer where meaning is carried. You
don’t need to read the thing; you just need the gist, compressed
and passed along in a sentence, an image, or a joke. It has taken
the rol...
The Wall Street Journal (gift link; News+ link):
When President Trump arrived in the snow-covered Swiss Alps on
Wednesday afternoon, European leaders were panicking that his
efforts to acquire Greenland would trigger a trans-Atlantic
conflagration. By the time the sun se...
Margaret Killjoy, in a thread on Bluesky (via Kottke):
I came to Minneapolis to report on what’s going on, and one of the
main questions I showed up with is “just what is the scale of the
resistance?” After all, we’re all used to the news calling
Portland a “war zone” or...
Everything sucks. The whole world’s going to shit, especially our part of it, and it can feel like anything fun or silly is sticking your head in the sand.
And yet. It doesn’t help to just be miserable. If you’re going to last, you’ve got to find your little moments of joy,...
Mark Gurman, at Bloomberg (gift link):
Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the
digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence
chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race
dominated by OpenAI and Google. [...]
T...
John Higgins, The Verge (gift link):
As of today, Sony already relies on different manufacturing
partners to create its TV lineup. While display panel
manufacturers never reveal who they sell panels to, Sony is likely
already using panels for its LCD TVs from TCL China S...
Jess Weatherbed, at The Verge:
Sony has announced plans to spin off its TV hardware
business, shifting it to a new joint venture with TCL. The two
companies have signed a non-binding agreement for Sony’s home
entertainment business, with TCL set to hold a 51 percent stak...
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