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OS 27 Developer Beta 3 Enables New ‘Pace’ and ‘Expressivity’ Sliders for Siri’s New Voices

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its ...

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★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’

Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.

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Markdown Now Has a Uniform Type Identifer (UTI) in Apple’s Version 27 OSes

The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type ...

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Backblaze Versus Dropbox

There’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding Backblaze — an online backup service whose simple pitch is that it...

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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’

Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is ...

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ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps

A banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time. ATP memberships are just $8/month or $88/year, and the members-only episodes alon...

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Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, Has Been Retired

Maestral developer Sam Schott, on the Maestral website: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work...

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Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld

Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs h...

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Day One Journal

My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in 2011 and has been the stalwart of journaling apps on Mac an...

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From the DF Archive: ‘Electron and the Decline of Native Apps’

Yours truly, back in 2018: I don’t share the depth of their pessimism regarding native apps, but Electron is without question a scourge. I think the Mac will...

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Fantastical 4.1.15 Adds Calendar Mirroring

Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal) so that events from one automatically show up on the othe...

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★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job

Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hamm...