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Clips is a clipboard, keyboard, and widget and one of my favorite new utilities for iOS 8. Put simply, it’s a way for you to copy multiple things to a scratchpad for pasting elsewhere. But my favorite ...

A long time ago, I had an app called Favs that collected everything I liked/hearted/bookmarked/whatevered across a ton of services (it was sadly abandoned). We’re ...

I just published issue 54 of the Finer Tech Newsletter. If you haven’t given it a try yet, it’s a twice-monthly handful of quick tips to help you get more out of your apps and Apple devices, served ...

Apple’s third attempt at a watchOS is currently in developer beta, so the usual disclaimers apply: stuff might change, features might be added or removed, nothing is finalized, blah blah blah. For ...

A big reason I often stick with Apple stuff is that the entire tech industry is racing to see who can treat us with the least respect. The latest challenger is Sonos with its new “give us your data or ...

I’ve met some Mac users who want to be able to send iMessages without having the actual Messages app and all its tempting distractions open. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to do this from the Social ...

I think we can do better. “Slop” evokes a tepid cylinder of condensed cream of mushroom soup, glumly wibbling in a chipped bowl. When I think of GenAI, I picture something closer to tropical insects ...

Messaging is easily one of, if not the most important things we do with our mobile devices. The industry for messaging apps is huge, and smack dab in the middle is iMessage and its vessel, Messages, ...

If you go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode and touch one of your registered fingers to the Home button, that page will highlight the finger’s entry there. This is useful if you’ve forgotten which ...

One of my nebulous personal goals is to read more on my iPads besides tech blogs and doomscrolling. Yes, that includes books and I am currently in the middle of The Fall of Hyperion on Apple Books ...

I wear my Apple Watch seven days a week, but recently realized that I do so for different reasons throughout the week. These days, it’s with me at least as much as, if not more than, my iPhone, so I ...