The first time I tried Matter, I immediately deleted it. In those days, the app pushed you hard to use its social features. I returned to the app after you could set your saved queue of articles as the default tab, and that time, the app stuck. I liked the reading experience a lot, but...

[[john]] MacRumors reports that Philips Hue added three new decorative smart lights designed to hang from a pendant fixture. The company is also adding a new white ambiance version of its candle bulb and gradient lightstrips designed for use behind computer displays as accent lighting. (Link) Eve is adding to its Matter-enabled device lineup with...

[[john]] Steam’s iOS app has always been pretty awful, but Valve announced an update is coming, which is currently in beta and looks like a big improvement. (Link) Sony teased a new game controller this week called the DualSense Edge, a customizable, high-performance version of its standard PS5 controller that combines features found in other...

I like Apple’s large Calendar complication, which I use with a Modular watch face. I don’t have a packed schedule, though, so that means I see the No More Events Today message often. It’s a nice feeling to not have any more appointments for the day, but I’d rather not waste that prime screen space...

Pommie Pommie is a Pomodoro timer app from Geoff Hackworth that was just updated with some handy Shortcuts actions. On the Mac, Pommie sits in your menu bar. From there, you can manage timers and breaks from your work, and if you have the separate iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS app, hand off timers to those...

At first, running AppleScript inside a Mac shortcut was fun. It opened up solutions to automation problems that weren’t possible with Shortcuts’ actions alone. That, in turn, has made Shortcuts for Mac more powerful and useful than the iOS and iPadOS versions in many ways, which is great, right? Right? Well, yes and no. Here’s...