Among the highlights on the Club MacStories Discord: After Apple confirmed they were removing support for Home Screen web apps in the EU, members had a lot to say about it. It’s a great way to catch up and understand what’s going on. Haphazard had a fantastic tip for sorting selected files into a new...
Vision Pro Overload, Private Relay Speeds, and Deciding to Stick with Fantastical
Among the highlights on the Club MacStories Discord: The visionOS channel has been extremely busy with people’s first impressions, new apps, and much more. T.G. Cid knows what the best accessory for the Vision Pro is. zacattac wanted Fantastical alternatives. Have Private Relay turned on? It might be reducing your Internet speeds. Lachlan had an...
Apple’s New AI Image Editing Research Paper Is An Intriguing Peek Behind the Curtain
Members’ First Impressions of the Vision Pro
We’ve all read and seen the various first impressions of YouTubers and reviewers online, so we thought we’d ask some of our Club MacStories members to share their first impressions of Apple’s new spatial computing platform. TG Sid: People keep asking me what my favorite thing in the Vision Pro is or what I’ve done...
Creating an Automatic Sync Between Arc for Mac and Arc Search on iOS
This week has been big for The Browser Company and their Arc browser. On Monday, they launched their new mobile browser for iOS, Arc Search. Federico reviewed the app on MacStories and really liked it despite some key missing features. Then on Thursday, they announced their big plans for the next stage of Arc’s development,...
Vision Pro Day, a great Kickstarter, and a Must-have Shortcut
Among the highlights on the Club MacStories Discord: How long until sunset? Omzig42 went on a journey to find out. Folks were excited about the Kickstarter launch for The Iconfactory’s ‘Project Tapestry,’ with many backing the project. Play developer Marcos Tanaka shared a shortcut from Jarrod Blundy that allows you to import all your channel...
The Browser Company Announces Act II for Arc: ‘The Browser That Browses For You’
Today, The Browser Company announced a selection of new features coming to their Arc browser for Mac as part of what they are billing ’Act II’ of their increasingly popular app. There are four features in total, centered around the theme of ‘the browser that browses for you.’
For those unfamiliar, Arc started as a Mac browser built around the Chromium code base with eye-catching features like tabs listed down the side, Split View, built-in ‘easels’ and notes, and the ability to adjust the visual look of webpages. Arc is now targeting what CEO Josh Miller has called ‘a post-Google Internet’ by implementing AI within the browsing experience, amongst other strategies.
Current ‘Arc Max’ AI features like ‘Ask On Page,’ which answers questions about the contents of webpages, and ‘5 Second Previews’, which summarises a webpage at the other end of a link, have all proved to be hits with users.
It’s no secret I’m a fan of Arc. I would even call their ‘Shared Quotes’ feature my favorite ‘little’ feature in any browser right now. The Browser Company has big ambitions for 2024, including an imminent launch on Windows, and Miller had this to say about Arc’s next step:
“Here is our vision. It’s really simple. You tell Arc what to do, and Arc will go and do it for you.”
It’s a very broad statement, but with the new features announced today, the context of what he is saying comes more into focus. Two of these new features are available today, with the other two coming soon. Let’s take a look at them in detail.
Building the Vision Pro, a Familiar Name, and Some Chat About the EU
The last 24 hours have been very busy on the Club MacStories Discord due to the huge EU App Store announcement. As well as the reaction to that news there were some other great highlights this week: Lachlan posted a link to a fascinating thread about the manufacturing process for the Vision Pro shown in...
Getting Nostalgic About the Mac
In 1996, my Dad got a surprise: he’d been overpaying his taxes for the last year or so and was due a considerable rebate. He decided this windfall would best be spent buying a home computer. This decision would define the rest of my life. It sounds like hyperbole, but it’s true. After buying countless...