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Update regarding ldstephens - March 27, 2025
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Link Post - I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me
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On - Using ChatGPT for tech support
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Uses
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This makes my fucking blood boil!
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More thoughts on the M4 MacBook Air
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Apple ID phishing alert
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Quoting Barry Hess
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Quoting - 16 March 2025 11:13 AM
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PSA - Amazon will log all Echo voice commands starting March 28
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Thinking about the M4 MacBook Air
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Quoting Zsolt Benke
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Why write when no one’s reading?
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Platforms own you, not vice versa
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Prickly peril
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Kindle Paperwhite’s annoying flashes
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Quoting Tracy Durnell
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Ditching my Feedbin subscription
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Re - No, The People Didn’t Vote For This
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How I use AI for writing and coding
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“Unplatform” a guidebook for escaping social media
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On Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
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I don’t care about your politics
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Re - How I find interesting blogs
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Re - Life's Simple Pleasures
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Re - On personal websites and social web
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my morning walks with my dog Trixie
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Write Like You Talk
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Who am I responsible to here?
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15 blogging rules
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Blogging - Eliminating Distractions
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Blogging Challenges - Are They Really Worth It?
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RSS Versus Bookmarks
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Advice on Blogging
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Social Media
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iPhone content capture update
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GoodLinks to iA Writer Custom Actions
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Trying something new with content capture on iPhone
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Google's AI Search Update shakes up indie bloggers and creators
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Update: My iPhone Home Screen One Page Does It All
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Reflecting on the iPad Event
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My iPhone Home Screen: One Page Does It All
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Perspectives on indie blog monetization
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So you’re monetizing your blog
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Sports fans: Apple launched a new, free app for scores, stats, and more
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Amazon Faces Class Action For Enshittifying Prime Video
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Another and another and another look at Obsidian
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Good Enough Computing
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Can't quit Alfred? Me neither! But I use these Raycast extensions
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iPad Pro rant: the clipboard saga that tests my patience daily
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Google Play App Store- Malware Infected Apps Removed, but still available on third-party app stores
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New iPads and M3 MacBook Air set for release at the end of March
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Opinion: Other iOS App Stores and Payments
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12 Months with the iPad Mini
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How to see the Today View in Apple's Reminders sorted by Lists
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Conquer the clipboard in iPadOS: My system for always-on copying
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An OLED iPad Pro will be worth every extra penny–if it delivers this one feature ➡️
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Apple's Vision Pro - Who actually gives a shit?
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Why I chose NetNewsWire over Reeder for RSS
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Hertz dumps EVs, including Teslas, for gas cars ➡️
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My Drafts + Day One journaling workflow
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🔗 Is the iPhone empire about to crumble? DOJ holds the shovel.
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Facebook's Link History - You Can’t Escape the Zucker-net
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Omnivore 1.40 upgrade: article title and link included with highlight export
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From Floppies to iPhones: My 40-Year Love Affair with Technology (and It's Not Over Yet!)
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Exploring Apple's Journal Suggestions in the Day One app
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Quick Tip: View your recent Alfred query history
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2023 in photos - The Atlantic
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Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
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File over app
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Web Finds December 9, 2023
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Here's where people buy their iPhones, iPad, and Macs
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My iPad Pro is a dedicated writing device
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Omnivore: A free read-it-later app for highlighting, note-taking, and text-to-speech
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Why I abandoned Drafts and returned to text files for managing my information repository
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Took another look at Obsidian
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My default apps - 2024 version
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Apple sacks Goldman Sachs
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App-solutely wishy-washy
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Turn your iPad into a reference monitor for your MacBook
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How to Use Fastmail's Auto-Purge Folders
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Apple Notes gets a productivity boost in iOS and iPadOS 17
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Six-digit code scams
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Waking up to your iPhone passcode screen after an apparent restart overnight?
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Bartender to Hidden Bar: A Simpler Solution for macOS Sonoma
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Two sneaky ways to get an alias email address for your Gmail email address
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Reclaim iCloud storage by deleting iCloud backups for devices that you no longer possess
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Apple Mail's missing Snooze - Setting the record straight
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Why I Made the Switch from Apple Reminders to GoodTask
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xSearch: A Safari extension for improved searching on iPhone and iPad
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How to change font size for individual apps on iPhone and iPad
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Does your older iPhone's battery need replacing?
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I do not want analytics to influence my writing
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The 2024 iPad Pro: a pass for me
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WordPress.com introduces the 100-Year plan at $38,000
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Biden takes on big pharma with Medicare drug price negotiations
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The iPad conundrum revisited again
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Everything you need to know about Apple Notes
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Twitter/ X block button is out, harassment is in. How to delete your Twitter/X history
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A Magic Mouse transformed my iPad use
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The Opioid Crisis: A Sackler Family Affair
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I'm done with Medium, it’s losing its soul
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How Devonthink found the files Finder couldn't
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Apple Private Relay breaking some websites in Safari
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What do those orange, green, and blue indicator dots on our iPhone mean?
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Pocket Mac app is shutting down, but there's a great Mac alternative Instapaper
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Elon Musk walks away with @x, leaves owner high and dry
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Shortcuts in Slide Over: A must-have for iPad power users
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Instapaper 8.4 launched last week
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How to Open Links with Ease in iPadOS
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PGA Tour and Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Merge: Money Talks, Golf Integrity Walks
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My Everyday Essentials: Alfred, Drafts, and PopClip - The Backbone of My Workflow
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How to set up and view an Apple Card Savings account
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Some new drugs sell themselves with impressive safety and efficacy data. For others, well, there are television commercials.
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Fiddling with my setup and automations
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T2 a legitimate Twitter rival?
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Where I sell my used Apple devices
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Reeder app, please fix me
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Bring back personal blogging
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How to create Custom Actions in Goodlinks
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A shoutout to 7 years of Fastmail the perfect Gmail replacement
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How many computers do I need?
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PSA: Cybercriminals stole LastPass customer password vaults
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Using TikTok? Read this, it will alarm you!
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The iOS and iPadOS apps I'm using 2023 version
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The Mac apps I'm using 2023 version
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I dumped Twitter for Nitter
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How to follow a Mastodon account with RSS
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How secure is Mastodon as a Twitter replacement?
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ChatGPT, what the fuck is it?
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How to show File Extensions on iPad and iPhone
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Apple Weather is no Dark Sky
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🔗 What is the iPad?
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RSS Reading
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Launching and Hiding Apps in macOS with Hotkeys
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iCreep
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ForecastAdvisor
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A few quick thoughts on iOS 16
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A couple of thoughts on the Netflix ad-supported plan
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Ads on your iPhone
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Everything Apple announced yesterday in 11 minutes
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iPhone 14 or iOS 16? What gets me most excited
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My thoughts on the Fed’s rate increases
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Managing streaming tv services
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Update What’s up at ldstephens blog
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How to import Reminders todos into Things 3 without deleting the todos in Reminders
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The backbone of my Mac – Alfred 5
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Re-thinking digital data management
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Instapaper finally gets a badly needed update
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What I’ll use in place of Instapaper
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How to create a reminder in the Reminders app from macOS Mail
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Chrome 97 lets you erase all data and information a website stored on your visit
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Open letter to the developer(s) of Instapaper
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🖇 Search Safari open tabs from Alfred
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A Big Thank You
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🖇 Surprising no one, survey finds Facebook/Meta is the worst company of 2021
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My favorite iOS apps for 2022
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Uninstalling “Grammarly for Mac” app breaks “Check Spelling While Typing”
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My favorite Mac Apps for 2022
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The trouble with BBEdit for new users
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🖇 The ‘Zelle Fraud’ Scam: How it Works, How to Fight Back
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🖇 Verizon opting iPhone users into data collection and tracking
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Grammarly now has a desktop app for Mac
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Goodbye 1Password
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macOS Safari has a disappearing extensions bug
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Mac Migration Assistant broke Alfred file search on my new M1 iMac
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Resisting the temptation of a new M1 Mac
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Apple CarPlay uses cellular data
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Using a keyboard shortcut to trigger PopClip
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👎 Nope
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Viticci slams non-professional reviewers
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Where the hell is the Escape key on the iPad Magic Keyboard?
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iPadOS 15 multitasking and keyboard shortcuts
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🔗 Link Post: From TextExpander to Keyboard Maestro again
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NetNewsWire 6 vs Reeder 5 iCloud sync
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🔗 Link Post: Getting over the post-pandemic fear of crowds
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Apple isn’t backing down from its hybrid work model, according to internal note
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What will happen to PDFpen after the Nitro purchase?
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🔗 Link Post: Daring Fireball: Annotating Apple’s Anti-Sideloading White Paper
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iPad
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RSS reader NetNewsWire 6 is out for iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync
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The one thing Apple Notes is missing
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🔗 Link Post: Think Globally: The iPad’s new universal keyboard shortcuts
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Journaling app Day One is now part of Automattic
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🔗 Link Post: An Apt Analogy
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Reeder 5 iCloud feeds sync revisited
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I didn’t get my one wish for iPadOS 15
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Trying new apps
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PSA: What Is Amazon Sidewalk and Why Should I Disable It Before June 8?
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🔗 Link Post: iOS 14.6 Battery Life Draining Issues? 8 Tips to Help
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An update on Goodlinks my read-it-later app
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My one wish for iPadOS 15
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Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet
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MacBook Butterfly keyboard suit gets class action status
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New from Bitwarden: Send
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Did the Bitwarden Safari web extension disappear on your Mac?
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Independent bloggers are questioning where they publish their content?
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New in NetNewsWire 6: Syncing Via BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS
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New in NetNewsWire 6- Twitter Search Feeds
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Thoughts on Notion app
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4 New things I learned today about my Mac’s Dock
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You can transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
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LastPass Free is changing and users aren’t going to be happy
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iMessage BlastDoor security
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Many of Apple's privacy labels are false
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Snowing, A Lot!
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Google apps will stop certain tracking to avoid the iOS Allow Tracking prompt
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Firefox 85 adds supercookie protection. What about Safari?
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A keyboard shortcut for a markdown link in Drafts Keyboard Maestro
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Hold off buying the current M1 MacBook Air
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No Switching!
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What coming to the MacBook line in 2021
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Mac security explained
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Notes and more to Devonthink
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Maestral: An open-source Dropbox client for Mac
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Adobe Ends Flash Player Support, Recommends Uninstalling Immediately
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ldstephens for 2021
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My 2021 Essential iOS Apps
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My 2021 Essential Mac Apps
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Apple doubles down on iOS App Tracking Transparency
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Toggle Control Center with a keyboard shortcut in Big Sur
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Instapaper Mac app falls short
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Thoughts on Reeder 5 and iCloud feed sync
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Back to a MacBook
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Apple Silicon MacBooks
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UPDATE: iOS 14 has Zuckerberg/Facebook running scared
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Epic and Apple
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My thoughts on Ulysses 20 Revision Mode
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Getting to know John Gruber the writer
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Copied clipboard manager app is back
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How to get the trackpad to ignore touches while typing
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Encryption as we know it is in jeopardy
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iOS and iPadOS 13.6 silently opted me into Automatic OS Updates
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I shattered my iPhone screen
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Bitwarden for Mac browser extension exposing passwords in clipboard managers
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Results of one of the largest password re-use studies ever
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GoodLinks for read-it-later
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FoodNoms food tracking app
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Sling TV holding prices while YouTube TV raises prices
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No charging brick? You’ve got to be kidding!
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Three finger swipe to undo
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Hey controversy from a user perspective
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Apple Watch calls 911 after man fainted
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Security Update 2020-003 for Mojave brings back the Catalina update reminder
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Weight management
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Going iPad first
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My thoughts on Apple & Google’s COVID-19 contact tracing
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The realities of COVID-19 in my own backyard
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Apple is concerned over the COVID-19 situation and the possibility of lower consumer demand to upgrade their iPhones
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How Rob lost control of his bank accounts to a phone scammer
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A couple of newsworthy items
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Quick thoughts on using a Trackpad with iPadOS 13.4
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I’m looking forward to Tuesday
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Apple responds to COVID-19 by closing all stores outside of China
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An iPad with a mouse and trackpad?
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Ulysses continues to have iCloud sync issues
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Raindrop.io for bookmarks
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Spotlight on iPad
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Duke Cannon Bloody Knuckles Hand Repair
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Goodbye Ulysses
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The new Fantastical 3 offers a free version
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Bear notes app iCloud sync
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My 2020 Must-Have Mac, iPhone, and iPad Apps
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Drafts for Mac now supports actions
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Moving away from iCloud continued
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Transition to subscription done right Enpass password manager
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Store Ulysses files in Dropbox instead of iCloud
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My choice for a Safari 13 content blocker on Mac
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Back to Dropbox after a short stint with iCloud Drive
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I’m done with Apples Notes
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iOS 13, iPadOS, and watchOS 6
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TunnelBear VPN security and privacy
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Fastmail now lets you snooze emails
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Hide Unhide the MacOS Catalina Upgrade Prompt
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Recommended iOS 13, iPadOS, and macOS Catalina reviews
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Switched to Pocket from Instapaper
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iOS 13 Reminders app incompatible with macOS 10.14 and earlier
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Drafts 5 special subscription offer
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Some thoughts on Apple’s Event September 10, 2019
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Brave browser not remembering per site Shield settings
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FYI Apple pushes back at Google report about iOS security
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS server issue
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Brave browser
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Update Alfred or Keyboard Maestro or both
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Alfred or Keyboard Maestro or both
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Sell Your Mac Experience
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Rain Design mStand for my MacBook Pro
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Selling my iMac
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1Password 6 will stop working with Safari 13
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Jon Gruber on Jony Ive leaving Apple
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2018 and newer MacBook Pro and MacBook Air now included in Apple Keyboard Service Program
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No more subscription apps
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Apple listening
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Alfred 4 Is Here
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The MacSparky Keyboard Maestro Field Guide
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Opinion TV advertising of prescription drugs should be banned
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Step count in the Health app not matching the step count in the Activity app
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Why I now have an Apple Watch Series 4
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Marked 2 update includes improved Bear integration
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App Update issue in the Mojave Mac App Store
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Brett Terpstra and nvUltra
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Apple Now Providing Free Data Migration for Mac
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Upgrading my older non-retina iMac to Mojave
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Moom for Mac window management
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iCloud Drive or Dropbox
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Day One encryption
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Getting the link for an Apple Mail Message
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How I fast charge my iPhone
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What you need to know about the tech giants Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple
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Gmail design update for iOS is rolling out soon in the App Store
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Local programming for cord cutters
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Watch out for Apple Phone Phishing Scams
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Apple products are getting more expensive
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My 2019 Must-Have iOS Apps for iPhone and iPad
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My 2019 Must-Have Mac Apps
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Setting up an iPad for an elderly user before gifting
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Conserve your MacBook’s battery with this keyboard setting
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How to View Folder Sizes on Mac Using Finder
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Magic Mouse randomly losing connection
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Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 privacy-first DNS service is now available as an iOS app
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Exactly my thoughts regarding the iPad
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iOS 12 keyboard trackpad on iPhone or iPad
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Watch Apple’s Full Video of the October iPad Pro and Mac Event
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WordPress.com counting my views in stats
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iCloud sync issues on my MacBook
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How to close other tabs in Safari on Mac
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Ulysses Share Extension now on Mac
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Facebook gets hacked again. 50 Million users personal information put at risk.
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Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads
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iOS Safari content blockers
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Worth reading today - Instagram’s CEO resignations
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How to get Safari Favicons on Mac and iOS
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Updated to iOS 12
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Bear turns off Markdown compatibly mode with today’s update on Mac and iOS
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You may want to try iOS 12 on your current iPhone before buying one of the new ones
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Today’s Apple Keynote in 6 minutes
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Interact with Things 3 using Alfred
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File Quick View with Alfred
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Reeder 3 for macOS and iOS is now Free
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Apple is secretly encouraging paid app developers to switch to subscription
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Newton email for Mac and iOS is shutting down
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Switching between multiple open windows in the same application
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Apple removes apps from their Affiliate Program
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Delete GarageBand hidden folders to save gigabytes of Mac storage
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My cycling tech
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Instapaper breaks away from Pinterest
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Retiring some tech
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After thoughts on Ulysses subscription
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My Mac Menu Bar June 2018
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Podcasts I listen to
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Back into the swing of things
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Ugh! Drafts app for iOS goes subscription
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David Sparks announces the MacSparky iPhone Field Guide
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MWeb markdown editor for Mac and iOS
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Ulysses crashes when opening a .docx file
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#deletefacebook
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The Archive a new notes app for Mac
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Feeds I follow
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Day One app support
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Search Bear notes from Alfred
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iCloud data is stored on Google servers
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Don’t use Facebook’s data tracking Onavo VPN: It’s spying on you!
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Things 3 Updated to version 3.4 with URL linking
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Outlining vs Mind-Mapping
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A keyboard increased the usability of my iPad
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Worth Reading Today
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Things 3 productivity course from Shawn Blanc is now available
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How I use Alfred to launch files and folders on my Mac
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Bear app special searches
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How I use Alfred for text expansion on my Mac
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There’s one thing in Bear app that really bugs me
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How to permanently zoom specific websites in Safari on macOS
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How I'm using Alfred as a clipboard manager on my Mac
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“This Is Serious”: Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral
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Stop apps from downloading on all iOS devices
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How I'm using Alfred on my Mac Part 1
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All the ways I'm using Alfred app on my Mac
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No subscription
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No tracking, no revenue: Apple’s privacy feature costs ad companies millions
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My thoughts after two weeks of Hulu Live TV
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My 2018 Must-Have iOS Apps for iPhone and iPad
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My 2018 Must-Have Mac Apps
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Worst passwords of 2017 still include “123456” and “password”
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Facebook is bad for society and has too much power over its users and their privacy
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Search Safari tabs on Mac
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Using Alfred to trigger common system commands
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How to export Apple Notes as plain text files
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Hide Recent & Suggested Apps from iPad Dock in iOS 11
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How I organize my Mac menu bar apps
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Checking out the new Firefox Quantum browser for Mac
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iPhone X notch remover
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My new favorite podcast
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Thinking about the apps and web services I’ll be using in 2018
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iPad Can it replace my Mac update
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PSA: Granting iPhone camera permissions allows apps to secretly take pictures and videos without you knowing
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Hide the app icon row in the iOS 11 Messages app
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Tip Ulysses Smart Paste
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Things 3 for personal task management
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Addresses in Bear notes link to Maps
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Yoink My favorite drag-and-drop utility for Mac
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Turn off in app rating requests in iOS 11
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Problems upgrading to High Sierra
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Search Safari and Chrome tabs at the same time
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Now you can exclude apps from clipboard history in Keyboard Maestro 8
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My initial thoughts on iOS 11 iPhone
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On its last legs?
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How to display Favicons in Safari tabs on Mac
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How to show the PopClip menu on a selection
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Equifax breach caused by failure to patch two-month-old bug
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Supported devices for iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra
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The Equifax Breach: What You Should Know
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How I use Alfred for Safari bookmarks
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The mistake I made by re-publishing my blog content to Medium
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My Instapaper workflow
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Here’s how to batch export Ulysses sheets
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iOS RSS Feed Reader
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The Learn Ulysses course is available today
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Blogging on Medium
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Apple reportedly looking to price its next iPhone at $999
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Quickly quit all open applications at once on your Mac Keyboard Maestro
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Wading Through AccuWeather’s Bullshit Response
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Ulysses subscription update
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iOS 11 has a way to quickly disable Touch ID and require a passcode
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styleStealer: add your web design to Marked with a click
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Use Alfred to launch Safari URL in Chrome
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My thoughts on Ulysses moving to a subscription model
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TunnelBear completes industry first public security audit
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Tip How to re-open recently closed tabs in Safari for Mac the easy way
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Launch your favorite Mac apps with keyboard shortcuts using Alfred
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How to view your calendar while creating an event or reminder in Fantastical
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Tip Caffeinate by Dr. Drang
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Web Finds for July 24, 2017
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Open Safari URL in Chrome Keyboard Maestro
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Can iPad replace my laptop?
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1Password responds about local vaults
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1Password takes it on the chin over subscriptions and cloud vaults
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Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing
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Web Finds for July 7, 2017
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Bear vs nvALT and 1Writer for notes
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Did you hear? Google is going to stop scanning your Gmail for ad personalization
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Launch your favorite Mac apps with keyboard shortcuts | Keyboard Maestro
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Web Finds for June 12, 2017
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Recent Items 4.2 for Alfred 3
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Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2017 in 7 Minutes
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Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff
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Keyboard Maestro macro for plain-text pasting anywhere
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I’ve gone paperless
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Apple releases security updates for iPhone and Mac. Update now and be safe online.
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Privacy Tip How to know when your Mac’s webcam or microphone is spying on you.
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My Dilemma With Better Touch Tool
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Backing up Pinboard bookmarks
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Moving read later to Pinboard No more Pocket No more Instapaper
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Keyboard Maestro Macro Getting URLs from Safari
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AppStories
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Tip Search sites with DuckDuckGo !Bangs
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Two years of Fastmail and how it replaced Gmail
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Good news for the future of Mac Pro and iMac
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Choosing a text expansion app for Mac
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The Tools In My Writing Workflow
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My favorite podcast player, Overcast 3.0 gets updated with a refreshed design, queuing, and more
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Apple Said to Debut New iPad Pro Lineup, 128GB iPhone SE, and Red iPhone 7 and 7 Plus at March Event
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Apple Announces WWDC 2017
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Signal Private Messenger Users Advised to Turn Off CallKit Support in Latest iOS Update
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My favorite clipboard manager for iOS and macOS
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WhatsApp is rolling out Two-Step Verification security feature to all users
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Why I chose to buy my new iPhone from Apple instead of Verizon
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Apple Q1 2017 Results: $78.4 Billion Revenue, 78.3 Million iPhones, 13.1 Million iPads Sold
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The “Family Tree Now” Website Knows A Lot About You And It’s Creepy As Hell
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Quick Notes with nvALT and 1Writer
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Apple releases security updates for iOS, macOS, and Safari
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Did you know Facebook is buying sensitive data, about you, from data brokers?
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My Must-Have Mac and iPhone Apps for 2017
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How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
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How to create real Mac Apps in 4 easy steps
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Google’s Pixel Phone and other AI enabled devices are a privacy nightmare
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Uber wants to track your location even when you’re not using the app
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What is your phone telling your rental car?
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How to create real Mac Apps in 4 easy steps with Fluid app for Mac.
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Eero: Making WiFi simpler and stronger
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Quick Tip: 3 ways to free up storage on iPhone
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6 Things you can do with Alfred 3 to boost your productivity on macOS
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Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone
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The rising cost of cracking iPhone security and privacy
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HOLD THE PHONE! AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal
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New Study Suggest: ‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly,
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How to turn on encryption in Facebook Messenger
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WhatsApp to start sharing user data with Facebook