Bartender 6 is out, and if you have a MacBook with a notch, the headline feature is Top Shelf. The idea: that camera notch at the top of your MacBook display is real estate that Apple has never done much with. Bartender Pro turns…
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The Productivity Apps That Don’t Speak Agent Will Lose
Spark Mail shipped a Mac CLI and agent skill hooks last week. Read-only email access is free. Write actions (send, move, archive) are behind the Pro subscription. Readdle also published open-source automation recipes and persona hooks for anyone building on top of it. I…
Continue reading →Apple Recognizes 50 Developer Community Leaders
Apple launched a new page on the developer site last week honoring 50 community leaders who help the Apple developer community through teaching, content creation, events, and accessibility advocacy. WWDC 2026 starts June 8, and the timing feels intentional. It’s a nice gesture. I…
Continue reading →The Six Colors 2025 Annual Report Card
Jason Snell published his annual Apple report card today. I always enjoy participating. Notable drops this year were the Mac and Apple OS quality. Both of those are entirely attributable to the new Mac user interface. There were no notable improvements. Certainly worth the…
Continue reading →OmniOutliner 6 Now Available on TestFlight
I still remember walking into a Micro Center store sometime in the early 2000s and getting drawn to the OmniOutliner box. Back then, you bought software in a box, and this box was gorgeous with screenshots of what we would later call a Mac-assed…
Continue reading →Capsule Medication Tracking
Snailed It Development, a clever development team including my friend and former Automators co-host Rosemary Orchard, just released their bespoke medication tracking app, Capsule. It’s got Rose’s fingerprints all over it with multiple options and automations. Definitely worth checking out.
Continue reading →Quip: AI + Clipboard Manager
I’m always intrigued by tools that rethink the way we work, especially when they take on an existing app category with some fresh ideas. That’s why I’m happy to see the launch of Quip, a smart clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Clipboard apps…
Continue reading →Alfred Field Guide Launch Discount
The Alfred Field Guide has landed! Your Mac at the Speed of Thought. There’s just a few days left on the Alfred Field Guide Launch discount. If you’d like to get the discount, now’s the time. Enroll Now!“ALFREDLAUNCH” for 10% Off What you’ll master…
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Has Apple Lost Its North Star?
Despite the name of his blog, Hypercritical, I’ve always appreciated the measured tone John Siracusa takes when it comes to criticizing Apple. From the outside, it’s always easy to oversimplify analysis of what’s going on in a trillion-dollar company, and John doesn’t do that.…
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