Like a lot of people, I’ve curated a long playlist of my favorite songs in Apple Music since it was called iTunes and just got a fancy new “brushed metal” interface. On this playlist is “Down With ...

Despite its problems, one thing I love about Reddit is all the strange and funny reasons why a subreddit, and thus a new community, can be created. Someone cracks a joke or floats an idea in a comment ...

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 ...

When Safari detects content on a page in a language other than your default, it will offer a translation option. Click it, and the page will reload with the content translated. The Mac’s menu allows ...

Mastodon 2.8 rolled out recently and it brought some great new features like polls, a follow/followers relationship manager, and featured profile hashtags. Featured profile hashtags allow you to ...

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 ...

Threads in Slack are a great way to keep a conversation in a channel, yet not flood the main stream of conversation. But once you jump into a thread, you are immediately subscribed to notifications ...

Over the last couple years, I’ve grown to enjoy using AnyList and my Apple Watch for grocery shopping and other errands. This setup offers a few nice conveniences like sharing lists with Jessi, a ...

Mastodon is a relatively new social media service, but I’ve grown to like it quite a bit. Of course, any new service these days will need good apps if it’s going to get anywhere. Thankfully, the iOS ...

Citymapper for iPhone is a great transit app that supports bus, rail, ride share, biking, and even walking. Sometimes, at the bottom of all the transit options for directions you request, it also ...

If you’ve ever wanted to tinker with that Great App Idea with something more than doodling tools, check out ProtoSketch for iPad and iPhone. It’s a design app for everything from sketching to logos, ...

A couple months into the major iOS 11 App Store redesign, it’s become a daily “thing to check” for me. The stream of content on the Today tab is consistently interesting, even if I don’t want every ...