Over the last Christmas holidays, I saw a Toot on Mastodon from Rui Carmo saying that Apple Photos had dreadful exporting and archiving features. He thought there was a better way and so wrote a Mac command line tool, using Swift, to address what he saw as the shortcomings. Reading the instructions on GitHub, it […]
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ETENWOLF Zephyr S3 Air Compressor
A few years ago I thought it might be a good idea to get a home air compressor. I had two problems to solve: Inflate my car tyres while they are cold (the target pressure in the manual assumes cold tyres) Maintain my bike tyres at their recommended high pressures (65 PSI on the mountain […]
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MacBook Neo – Can It Replace an iPad mini?
When rumours began circling about a new low-end MacBook, many commentators pointed back to the unique 12” MacBook from 2015. I owned one of those. It was underpowered and that single USB-C port was frustrating, but the form factor was sublime. At only 992 grams, it was over 20% lighter than today’s lightest Mac — […]
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Elapsed Time Adder is Live in the App Store!
Have you ever needed to add (or subtract) elapsed time? You may not need to do this on the daily, but when you do, you might turn to a spreadsheet to do this task for you. Spreadsheets aren’t designed to calculate elapsed time; they only work with clock time. And that’s why I developed and […]
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Turbo Fan from JisuLife
We’re off to Spain, Portugal, and Ireland soon, and we’re very excited. But one thing we’re not excited about is the heat dome that seems to have just settled over Europe this summer. On my best day, I am pretty intolerant beyond a fairly narrow temperature band. When in my car, I constantly raise and […]
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ChatGPT with CarPlay — by Jill McKinley
The Question Siri Couldn’t Answer I was in a small town called Two Rivers with a friend, driving around, when we wondered out loud: what are the actual two rivers that give the town its name? I asked Siri, and she had no idea. It offered up Two Rivers bowling, Two Rivers pizza, and a […]
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Security Bits — 2 August 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. At least one TV maker is (belatedly) cracking down on residential proxies: LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps — krebsonsecurity.com/… Another notable age-verification development: 🇺🇸 New York Rolls Out Final Rules […]
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Virtual ][ — an Apple ][ Emulator App for Modern Macs
Last week, I regaled you with tales of excitement running VisiCalc in a browser-based emulator for the Apple II. This was great fun. This week I was on the Clockwise podcast, and my question to the other participants was whether they enjoy dusting off super old technologies and playing with them. Jason Snell told us […]
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Why I Left Fantastical and Todoist for Structured
For years, my entire life ran on Fantastical for calendars and Todoist for tasks. Let me be clear up front: there’s nothing wrong with either app. They’re both excellent, and if they work for you, they’re a great direction to go. This isn’t a takedown. This is a story about outgrowing a system that was […]
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Renaming Scanned Files Using Numbers — George from Tulsa
George from Tulsa here to share a couple of Mac file management tips I use every day. In Allison’s honor, here’s the problem to be solved. There are now four of us in my work group. We download, create, and edit lots of files, then store them on a Synology NAS with zillions of others […]
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