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The team at Rogue Amoeba has spent more than two decades perfecting audio software that just works on the Mac. No matter what your needs are, you can be confident when using their apps.

Start with SoundSource, which puts comprehensive audio control right in your menu bar. Adjust individual app volumes, apply real-time effects, and play audio to the exact device you want.

For recording, you have two excellent options: Piezo offers extremely simple one-click recording of any app or input device, while Audio Hijack provides powerful recording options, along with real-time effects, scheduling, and even built-in local transcription capabilities. Use either to capture everything from Zoom calls to streaming audio.

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This week on the podcast, Tyler McRae joins the program to talk about the role of AI in coding and his work in the world of church AV and technology.

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It’s no secret that the federal government is slashing health initiatives left and right, but this one really got under my skin. Here’s Nina Agrawal for The New York Times:

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, an association of 16 academic centers and children’s hospitals dedicated to trials of novel treatments for pediatric brain cancer, directed its members last week to stop enrolling new patients because it had been informed that the consortium would not be eligible to apply for funding beyond March 2026, said Dr. Ira Dunkel, a pediatric oncologist who is the chair of the group.

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Bad news today for old-school bloggers:

After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated.

Please note that after this date, you will no longer be able to access or export any blog content.

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I am very, very excited about our live show this year. We’ll be live on Friday, September 19 at 12 PM Eastern for 12 hours of nonsense and fundraising.

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This week on the show:

Federico’s back, Myke is back to his old ways, and Stephen is back to thinking he is cool.

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September is around the corner, and that means our campaign to raise money for St. Jude is back!

In 2009, our oldest son Josiah began treatment at St. Jude for a brain tumor. He was just six months old. After 18 rounds of chemotherapy and a half-dozen surgeries, the cancer has not returned, but our family is forever changed.

We learned what it meant to suffer, and how it felt to fear the worst. We learned how to operate on very little sleep, and how to rely on our friends and family for not just support, but even for the basics of everyday life. Those 18 rounds of chemo were hard, but they worked, and as our son has grown, so has our response to the entire ordeal. Slowly, anger and despair faded, being replaced with a desire to give back to the place that saved Josiah’s life.

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The Iconfactory’s app Tot has been a favorite of mine since it first launched. It’s a great way to have a scratchpad — or seven — that sync across devices.

Here’s what I have in Tot right now:

• Yellow: Notes from a phone call I had today.
• Orange: Currently empty.
• Red: Some text I’m working on for a screen in the iOS 26 version of Pedometer++.
• Purple: Some text I’m working on for a screen in the iOS 26 version of Widgetsmith.
• Blue: Currently empty.
• Teal: A bunch of text that will be sent as announcements when we launch Relay’s annual St. Jude campaign.
• Green: A bunch of URLs that come in handy when helping folks out with their Relay memberships.

Version 2 of the app is here, and it makes what was great even better. Craig Hockenberry has a blog post outlining the features, and John Voorhees summed it up well on MacStories:

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New iPhone Season is always exciting!

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Lora Kolodny at CNBC:

When Elon Musk created his artificial intelligence startup xAI in 2023, he incorporated it as a Nevada public benefit corporation, making a formal commitment to positively impact society and to post regular disclosures about progress on its non-financial goals.

The launch of xAI followed Musk’s split with OpenAI, which he helped start eight years earlier as a nonprofit before the AI lab went on to take billions of dollars from Microsoft en route to becoming a massive business.

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As Steve Troughton-Smith points out on Mastodon, we’re getting pretty close to end of this beta cycle:

Historically, since iOS 13, beta 8 has been the last beta of the summer cycle before the release candidate builds. That suggests that today’s seed is as good as it gets before release — this is it, folks, this is iOS 26.

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Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.

As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – delivering a faster, cleaner and more secure web browsing experience.

Magic Lasso Adblock is easy to setup, doubles the speed at which Safari loads and also blocks all YouTube ads; including all:

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