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Continue reading →Help Relay Reach $5 Million for St. Jude
The Relay for St. Jude 2026 fundraiser is underway. Hooray! Since 2019, the Relay community has raised more than $4.8 million for St. Jude. This year, we’re within reach of the $5 million mark. The case is simple. You give money and they use…
Continue reading →Hazel Turns 20
Hazel turns twenty this weekend. I’m a fan. People ask if I’m still using Hazel in the age of AI, and the answer is absolutely yes. Hazel still does a lot of great file management on your device without burning tokens or sacrificing your…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 865: Harvard Professor Teddy Svoronos on AI in the Classroom
Teddy Svoronos returns to the Mac Power Users. Teddy explains how he uses tech to teach at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the challenges of teaching in the age of A.I. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Ecamm: Powerful live…
Listen & read notes →The Approaching Star Trek moment
Growing up and watching Star Trek, one thing that made it feel futuristic to me was the interaction with the “computer.” You didn’t see Captain Picard updating software or managing user interfaces. Instead, he just said something out into the air, and then the…
Continue reading →This Week in the Labs — September 4, 2026
This week in the labs, we covered the usual assortment of geeky topics and we’re all looking forward to the iPhone event next week. Below you’ll find the week’s new videos and podcasts, a few of the conversations happening in the member community, and…
Continue reading →For Those of Us Particular About the Things on Our Desks…
Last week Apple updated the Magic Keyboard, replacing text key labels with glyphs, which is kind of nice. I have a similar keyboard on my laptop, and I like it. However, I was hoping they would fix a different injustice that’s been around for…
Continue reading →How Far Are We from “Her”?
I can’t help but feel one of the most AI-adjacent movies right now is Her. This 2013 movie featured Joaquin Phoenix falling in love with his personalized AI. The actual hardware was an earpiece, something like an AirPod, but it was constantly in your…
Continue reading →MindNode Ships MCP Support
I’ve made no mystery of the fact that I think the way we interact with productivity apps is changing. I was happy to see my favorite mind mapping app, MindNode, get MCP support today. It’s Mac-only and well done, giving the user read-only or…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 864: Marked Safe from Buying M5 Ultra
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I do the math on Apple’s new M6 Mac mini and M5 Mac Studio, revisit launchers, Tailscale, and a few of my analogue bits. We also share some the tech we’ve most recently been playing…
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