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Sponsor: DEVONthink of DEVONtechnologies⇢
Whether you’re in the harbor or at high sea, you need to know where you are or where you’re sailing. If you have all the maps, books, and documents. DEVONthink for Mac and DEVONthink To Go for iOS will not let you down on your mission and help you navigate the “seven seas of information.”
Sailor jokes aside… DEVONthink helps you get organized in your office, home office, or on the go. It keeps all your documents, snippets, and bookmarks in one place. Organize them however you need and let DEVONthink’s unique AI assist you all the way with filing and finding. And if that wasn’t enough, smart rules and flexible reminders let you delegate all the boring, repeating daily tasks to DEVONthink too. On iOS, use Shortcuts actions to integrate DEVONthink To Go with your other apps.
Mac Power Users 688: Workflows with Adam Tow⇢
Adam Tow is a long-time Apple user whose passions include development, photography and the Newton. This week on MPU, he talks with David and me about his various projects and the tools he uses to make them a reality.
The New MacBook Air Inches Forward⇢
Mark Gurman, in a fresh report for Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. is ramping up testing of fresh Macs with processors on par with the current M2 chip, making headway on key new machines that could help reverse a sales decline.
The Mac maker has begun testing the new machines with third-party apps from the App Store to validate their compatibility, according to developer logs shared with Bloomberg News. That’s a necessary step in the run-up to the launch of a new device.
Substack CEO Chris Best Totally Blew It on Decoder⇢
While I’m linking to the transcript of the interview, you should totally take the time to listen to it. It’s just wild. The part about content moderation on Substack is particularly troubling.
Nilay: Wow. I mean, I just want to be clear, if somebody shows up on Substack and says “all brown people are animals and they shouldn’t be allowed in America,” you’re going to censor that. That’s just flatly against your terms of service.
eBay is Full of ‘Make Something Wonderful’ Hard Copies
Make Something Wonderful, the new book by The Steve Jobs Archive is really something special if you’re an Apple nerd. The best reading experience is on the web, but it’s available in a bunch of digital formats as well.
(Personally, I snagged the .epub for my Apple history library that I store in DEVONthink.)
The holy grail, it would seem, is the physical edition of the book, which has been given to employees at both Apple and Disney.
The Good News of Brown Noise⇢
I came across this link to an article on The Guardian via Justin Blanton’s blog, and got a kick out of it. Emma Beddington wrote back in October:
There’s a new buzz on TikTok – well, not a buzz exactly. It’s more of a hum, maybe waves crashing, a purring fan or steady, heavy rain. To me, it sounds like an empty aeroplane, cruising peacefully at altitude. It’s brown noise, a close cousin of the better-known white noise, and TikTok users, particularly the platform’s ADHD community, are all over it: there are 85.3m views for the #brownnoise hashtag.
Connected 445: Do You Have a Trumpet on the Floor?⇢
Stephen, Myke and Federico discuss the success of S-GPT, the future of Apple’s display business and the next iPhone’s buttons. They also roast Steve Jobs’ office.
NPR Leaves Twitter⇢
NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter’s decision to first label the network “state-affiliated media,” the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries.
The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio network off guard. When queried by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn, Twitter owner Elon Musk asked how NPR functioned. Musk allowed that he might have gotten it wrong.
Kbase Article of the Week: ClarisWorks: Edit Menu Commands Affected by Moire Screen Saver⇢
If you are running the Moire Screen Saver,you may encounter an incompatibility issue when the screen saver engages. While entering records in a ClarisWorks Database, if the Moire screen saver engages, the Edit Menu commands sometimes change to what they would be in Layout mode. While in this situation, the keyboard commands for “Layout” or “Browse” do not work. They must be selected from the Menu. Choosing Layout and then Browse from the Layout menu usually returns the proper Browse Edit Menu, but sometimes the file must be Closed and reopened to access the “New Record” command. This issue most often occurs after a short pause ,a minute or so, when entering data. Allowing or forcing the “Moire” screen saver to engage always produces the issue.
Twitter Circle Tweets Surfacing on For You Timeline⇢
Amanda Silberling at TechCrunch:
Numerous Twitter users are reporting a bug in which Circle tweets — which are supposed to reach a select group, like an Instagram Close Friends story — are surfacing on the algorithmically-generated For You timeline. That means that your supposedly private posts might breach containment to reach an unintended audience, which could quickly spark some uncomfortable situations.
I observed this bug when a tweet from someone I follow appeared on my For You timeline, but the retweet button was disabled, despite the person’s account being public. When I clicked on the tweet, it disappeared. I asked the tweeter if that post was intended for their Circle — which I am not in — and they confirmed this was the case.
Sponsor: MarsEdit 5⇢
MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs.
The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to Twitter.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just press a configurable global keyboard shortcut, write out your latest thoughts, and instantly publish to your blog.
MarsEdit supports editing posts in rich or plain text, and the latest update is especially great for Markdown fans. Now when you’re writing Markdown in plain text mode, MarsEdit applies live, beautiful syntax highlighting to make it easier to focus separately on the content and style of your posts.