1,000 hours of nonogame
I hit a pretty fun milestone in nonogame today: 1000 hours played. No, not by me, but by the community
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A beautiful read-later service for articles that matter.
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Quick Reviews
MacStories Best New App of 2025
Review the things you love and share them to social media.
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nonogame
Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser.
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Birchfeed
Rock solid RSS syncing for the reader app you already use.
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Chapterize
Professional podcast chapters, made while you listen.
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Quick Subtitles
Fast, private, on-device transcription to text or SRT.
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Quick Notes
Voice to text with Apple's on-device language models.
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Yearly Run Goals
Yearly distance goals for running, cycling, and more.
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Weave
Typefully on iOS: threads, scheduling, publish everywhere.
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Best-o-Masto
Catch up without getting sucked in. Mastodon, efficiently.
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Blog
Chris Lawley's iPadOS 27 walkthrough
Am I biased? Sure. This is still the best overview of what's new in iPadOS this year for normal people.
The OS 27 updates
Apple has just started rolling out OS 27 across all their devices, and I think they're good updates
Quick Reads now saves multi-page websites
As of today, Quick Reads now attempts to save all pages of the multi-page articles you save to the
How to release TV shows in 2026
I found this report from Luminate media to be fascinating. It's called "Release Strategies for Music & TV" and it's a guide for music and TV producers how how to find success in the oversaturated media landscape we find ourselves in today. A few specific things stand out to
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A new retro handheld has my attention
Daryl Baxter: Retroid Pocket Nova review: the best 4:3 retro handheld
The latest handheld by Retroid answers something that its users have been asking for - give us a handheld as powerful as the Pocket, but with a 4:3 display. That's what the Retroid Pocket Nova essentially is
This looks rad. There&
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Apple's C2 modem is in the iPhone 18 Pro Max (except in America)
Joe Rossignol: Apple Says iPhone 18 Pro Max Sold in U.S. Differs in One Way
Apple now says the iPhone 18 Pro has a C2 modem worldwide, while the iPhone 18 Pro Max uses the chip in every country except for the U.S.
What a weird one.