Apple Intelligence doesn’t always wow me, but the new AI playlist feature in Apple Music is one I’m actually reaching for…
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Hubble USB Doctor
Hubble USB Doctor is a $10 Mac app that maps every USB device on your system and flags anything running slower than it should. Mine turned up a few rate-limited backup drives and a Stream Deck hub chain I didn’t actually need. Worth $10 for an afternoon of cleanup.
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Lab Report — April 17, 2026
The Artemis II crew returned from humanity’s farthest journey since 1972, with iPhone 17 Pro Max selfies taken 270,000 miles from Earth. Apple Business Platform launched in 200+ countries, iOS 26.5 public beta 2 landed, and high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configs went completely out of stock.
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Lab Report — April 10, 2026
This week the Studio Display XDR became the first Apple display cleared by the FDA for diagnostic radiology — a genuinely big deal in the medical world.
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Testing Day One’s New AI Feature
Day One just launched an AI journaling feature. The privacy story is solid….
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A Look at Dropzone 5
Dropzone, one of my favorite Mac utilities, just got a big update to version 5. If you’re not familiar with it, Dropzone lives in your menu bar and gives you a spot to temporarily park files, folders, and media while you work…
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Lab Report — April 3, 2026
Apple turned 50 this week, and there’s a lot to talk about. Tim Cook rang the NASDAQ bell, shared rare prototypes with the Wall Street Journal, and Paul McCartney played Apple Park…
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Apple Maps Tricks
Apple Maps has been quietly accumulating useful features over the last few years and most people are only using a fraction of what’s there…
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Fantastical Urgent Alarms
Fantastical now supports Apple’s AlarmKit, the persistent alarm feature that arrived with iOS 26. You can set urgent alarms on individual calendar events, and they’ll ring through even when your iPhone is silenced or in a Focus mode…
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The Lab Report for March 27, 2026
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