[[john]] Hot on the heels of our AV Club Town Hall discussing Glass Onion, Netflix released a director’s commentary track for the whodunit movie. (Link) Victoria Song offers tips on automating your personal finances to make keeping on top of your bills and other financial responsibilities less painful. (Link) Mac launcher app Raycast is beta...
Artificial Intelligence and Apps (Part 2)
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AppStories Episode 317 - Artificial Intelligence and Apps (Part 2)
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This week, Federico and John conclude their mini-series on artificial intelligence with a conversation about the apps they’ve used that include AI features.
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Links and Show Notes
Apps and AI
- Notion AI
- Readwide Reader’s Ghostreader
- Ice Cubes
- Using ChatGPT to Help Write SwiftUI Code in Streaks
- Playlist AI
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App Debuts
[[federico]] Ivory Tapbots’ excellent Mastodon client was updated to version 1.1 earlier this week, and you can now edit posts in Ivory if your server supports the feature. Not only does Ivory support editing an existing post, but it also shows you if a post has been edited by the author along with a button...
HomeKit Apps for Easy Access to Scenes and Devices
After a long hiatus, I’m digging back into HomeKit. We’ve settled into our new home, and I’m in the process of repurposing older HomeKit devices and buying some new items that will fit better with our new setup. For more on my projects, check out this week’s episode of MacStories Unplugged. That process has me...
Accessing the Battery Health on an iPad, What Happens When Your iPhone or iPad Updates, Mona Themes, and a GPT Shortcut
Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: [[john]] A cool trick for finding the battery health of your iPad. Rod explains what’s going on when you update your iPhone or iPad and you see the ‘preparing update’ message. [[federico]] Over in the app-theming channel, members have been posting some great themes...
Adding the Average Indoor Temperature to My Mac’s Menu Bar
A few days ago, I was listening to Mac Power Users. Stephen and David were walking through their Mac Docks, menu bars, and startup folders, covering a wide variety of excellent apps. That got me thinking about my menu bar, which I hadn’t changed in a while. Looking at the apps lined up in the...
Artificial Intelligence and Apps (Part 1)
AppStories Episode 316 - Artificial Intelligence and Apps (Part 1)
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This week, Federico and John begin a new series on the impact of artificial intelligence on apps and the world around us. This week’s episode sets the stage with a look at chatbots, image generation tools, and issues and opportunities they raise.
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Links and Show Notes
Artificial Intelligence
- ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web | The New Yorker
- 7 problems facing Bing, Bard, and the future of AI search
- This is how Microsoft will compensate websites Bing and ChatGPT steals information from
- CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy
- ChatGPT jailbreak forces it to break its own rules
- Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content
- Replace Grammarly Premium with OpenAI ChatGPT
- CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
- Elon’s Crumbling Empire + Generative A.I. Goes to Court
- How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work
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HomePods Versus Sonos and App Theming
Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: [[john]] OneMorningStar kicked off a lively debate about the merits of HomePods versus Sonos soundbars We’ve got a new App Theming channel in the Discord community where members have been sharing themes for Mona, Spring, Drafts, Obsidian, and more. Want to join the Club...
App Debuts
[[john]] Halide Halide was updated this week with Neural Telephoto, which gives non-Pro iPhones that don’t have a telephoto lens a software-based telephoto solution that’s better than simply cropping the image. Cropping to simulate zooming into a scene causes blurriness and jaggy edges in photos. With Neural Telephoto, Halide sharpens the photo and smooths out...