Category: Apps

Apple Support:

Here’s what to expect:

• Music that you’ve imported or purchased will be in the new Apple Music app. The iTunes Store will still be available to buy music on Mac, iOS, PC, and Apple TV.
• iPhone, iPad, and iPod backup, restore, and syncing will move to Finder.
• Movies and TV shows that you purchased or rented from iTunes will be in the new Apple TV app.
• Use the Apple TV app for Mac for future movie and TV purchases or rentals.
• Podcasts that you subscribed to or added to iTunes will now be in the new Apple Podcasts app.
• Audiobooks that you purchased from iTunes will now be in the updated Apple Books app.
• Use Apple Books for Mac for future audiobook purchases.
• iTunes Gift Cards and iTunes credits will be maintained and can be used with the new apps and the App Store.

While I am sure some people will miss iTunes, I’m excited by this new direction.

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Allen Pike has put together a wonderful blog post looking at various iTunes errors over the years:

Once upon a time, Apple debuted an application for playing music.

Yes, an application. That’s what we called apps back when dinosaurs roamed the Mac. And one of the most-loved applications back in that ancient era was for playing your MP3s. It was called iTunes.

I think this one is my favorite:

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My macOS app launcher of choice has gotten a really nice update. Instant upgrade for me.

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After I uploaded a video about my podcasting setup, I got several questions about how I use Audio Hijack, so I’ve put together a little screen recording of just that:

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I got an amazing tweet today:

Made something real geeky today, partly inspired by a blog post from 9 years ago on @512px. It’s a Markdown editor disguised as Word 5.1 for Macintosh System 7. Write like it’s 1992! https://t.co/y7eGn49kuJ pic.twitter.com/9TiND4soeM

— Raphael ???? (@lowercasename) May 28, 2019

The post in question is titled Markdown is the new Word 5.1 and was written by my buddy Kevin Lipe back in 2011, and was the site’s first link on Daring Fireball, I believe.

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After months of teasing, Casey Liss has shipped Vignette, a new iPhone app for keeping your contact images updated easily.

Here’s a bit from his blog post announcing the app, about why he wrote it:

As with all ideas, it starts with a question:

Could I get new pictures for all my contacts on my iPhone off Gravatar?

That was early February. I was just goofing off, and just seeing if I could make that work at all.

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David Sparks has launched his new Field Guide, a video course all about Keyboard Maestro.

Keyboard Maestro is one of those applications that can really make a Mac sing, but it can be a bit intimidating at first. In this course, David walks through its features in an easily-digestible way. I haven’t used Keyboard Maestro in years, and walked away with a much better understanding of this app and how it can make using macOS more efficient. In fact, I’ve installed it and have already created several macros that are helping me work more quickly. If you’re using a Mac as your main computer, this is $24 you will not regret spending.

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2019 has brought a lot of changes to my workload. I joined Mac Power Users, which radically changed how my work week looks, bringing to an end to a couple of projects and requiring changes to others.

I knew that to make informed decisions about my time as an indie, I needed data. Your gut will always be wrong about how you think you spend your time, but raw numbers don’t lie.

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Steven Troughton-Smith has spent some time testing one route to get from x86 to ARM for Mac apps:

Of course, the specter of macOS on ARM has been in the public psyche for many years now, and many have pondered whether Bitcode will make this transition more straightforward. The commonly held belief is that Bitcode is not suited to massive architectural changes like moving between Intel and ARM.

I was unconvinced, so I decided to test the theory!

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Dave Mark, writing at The Loop:

Interesting difference between the Mac and iOS is the ability to download and run a Mac app without any involvement from Apple. While you can sideload an iOS app using Apple’s Mobile Device Management, Test Flight, or by building the app yourself, none of those offer the freedom the Mac brings.

Will Marzipan change that, even a bit? Will I be able to download a Marzipan app from a developer’s site and just run it on my Mac? Or will Marzipan restrict apps to the Mac App Store?

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I love how short this article is:

Starting on Dec 15th 2017, you won’t be able to log in into the Message app or iChat app with your AOL account.

For more information, contact AOL.

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A thoughtful examination of what bringing iPad apps to the Mac may mean for developers and users.

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