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I’ve had the phrase “money can’t buy happiness” on the brain a lot lately with things going on in my life. My first instinct when I hear that quote is to make the quip “whoever said that surely never had financial anxiety in their life”. I think over the years, that sentiment has been rather […]
Read More The economy of happinessI was scrolling through the Mac App Store this morning and I saw a great piece they had about how gaming on Mac is better than ever. This year, Apple introduced several improvements to their devices, including Game Mode, which reduces background activity to enhance performance, and personalized spatial audio support in games for a […]
Read More Does Apple Know Its Vision For Gaming on Mac?Apple’s latest iOS update is out today and with it comes some new customization options for the Home Screen on your iOS device. For the first time ever, Apple is allowing its users to change the icon size, as well as tint them. Here’s how to use the new features: Activate Jiggle Mode On your […]
Read More How to Tint Your App Icons in IOS 18 | Home Screen Customization TutorialCan you believe it’s already September? It feels like just yesterday we were coming into 2024 and now the exit is already coming up ahead. To say this year has been rough would be an understatement. Some of you already know the story, but for those who don’t I’ll keep it as brief as possible. […]
Read More My Story, The Plan, and How You Can Support My WorkHey all! It’s Friday the 13th, but it’s also iPhone 16 pre-order day! I hope everyone had a smooth experience this morning. I got up around 7:30 in the morning, had a chance to take a look at the Apple Store’s “We’ll be open soon” graphic, and got ready for whatever was about to transpire. I had pre-saved my device of […]
Read More My iPhone 16 Pre-Order ExperienceLast night I was listening to the latest episode of Connected when I heard the following exchange that had me jumping up and down in agreement: …I’ll just jump in and say, Apple should not be selling a phone with a 60Hz screen at this point. That phone should be 90.That should be 90. Like,… […]
Read More Why Doesn’t the iPhone 16 Have an Always On DisplayAt their recent Glowtime event, Apple announced that iOS 18 would be hitting devices on September 16th, 2024…but maybe you’re the tech support of your family and friends. Maybe you’re itching to start tinting your Home Screen icons. Heck, maybe you’re just really impatient and you want the fun new features now! Whatever your reason, […]
Read More How to Install iOS 18 TodayIt’s September, which means it’s new iPhone season. Apple has once again unveiled a slew of new hardware, along with some software updates for existing products, that have me pretty excited. Coming fresh out of the event, here are the five things that I’m most looking forward to from today’s event. 5. AirPods Pro 2 […]
Read More My 5 Favorite Announcements from Apple’s “Glowtime” EventI have a confession to make: after years of using Overcast as my podcast player of choice, I’ve made the switch back to Apple’s Podcasts (for the time being). There were two reasons I made this change: The first was the addition of podcast transcriptions in iOS 17.4. That’s a feature that I have long […]
Read More Rethinking My Podcast AppHey all, it’s been a while since I’ve written here, life’s still crazy but I’m still starting to get back into some kind of swing of things. I’ve been working a part time job with a team that I really enjoy and one day I know I’m going to be back where I was before […]
Read More iPhone Pre-order UpdateI was scrolling through my RSS feed when I came across an article from Matt Birchler over at Birchtree where he addressed the argument to add touch to macOS. This past week, this has been a topic that’s been on my mind a lot, due to a few videos and articles I’ve seen talking about […]
Read More 🔗 macOS Isn’t as Small As You ThinkWelcome back to another blog recap! I sucked this week, I really did, but I’m hopeful the coming week will better. I really can’t publicly get into specifics, but things from last week bled into this week and will most likely impact the coming week as well. It’s a lot, but I’ll get through it […]
Read More Weekly Recap (Beta) #03Last week I wrote about how I’d been getting back into listening to vinyl and shared a few ways to scrobble the records you play to your last.fm profile. At the time, I briefly wrote about a site called Vinyl Scrobbler where I said this: Vinyl Scrobbler has you create an account and adds records […]
Read More This Shortcut Makes Using Vinyl Scrobbler a DreamWelcome back to the second weekly blog recap, as I work on getting all set up with hosting for an official news letter. This week was a bit of an interesting week. I’ve had a lot going on in my personal life and I’ve been hurting a bit in terms of energy so this week […]
Read More Weekly Recap (Beta) #02Why does the iPad not show battery health in Settings: Battery? Source: John Gruber (@gruber@mastodon.social) I saw this toot from John Gruber on Mastodon the other day and it really got me thinking: all of Apple’s devices do show battery health except for the iPad and that’s the one I want to know the most. […]
Read More 🔗 Why does the iPad not show battery health in SettingsA few days ago, I was scrolling though Mastodon when I happened upon the following toot from Matt Birchler: For those wondering, I lasted a day before I went to our record storage area and pulled out my favorites to listen to on my record player. Just in that first day, I threw on Dark […]
Read More The Joy of Vinyl and a Few Ways to Scrobble ItYesterday was a wonderful day: Apple pushed out an update to audioOS that finally activated the temperature and humidity sensor that’s laid dormant in HomePod mini since launch. This sensor will also be in the full-sized HomePod (2nd Generation) the releases on February 3rd. I’ve been really excited about this software update, as I have […]
Read More Quickly Get a Room’s Temperature and Humidity Using HomePod and ShortcutsRecently in the tech community, there’s been a lot of conversation around OpenAI’s Whisper engine, used to take audio recordings and transcribe them to text with a fairly high level of accuracy. Outside of that, there’s been dialog about AI that’s both good and bad. But Whisper has been fascinating to watch, as people have […]
Read More Thinking About Text-to-Speech AI on MacI’ve written before about my love of third-party Apple Music client Marvis Pro and I recently found a way to take further advantage of the customizability of the app that I love so much. One of the iOS features that Marvis allows you take advantage of is Live Activities. Currently, the app supports two styles: […]
Read More Using Marvis Pro’s Live Activities for an Even Better Apple Music Experience👋 Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a great weekend. Welcome to the first installment of what will eventually become my weekly newsletter. I’m currently in the process of figuring out hosting (more on that below) but for now, every Sunday I’ll be putting up one of these blog recap posts. To see all of […]
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Dan Stransky 