David Smith shares a trick for eliminating the city label from the Apple Watch’s GMT watch face. (Link) Inspired by Stephen Hackett’s high-resolution collection of Mac OS 9 wallpapers, Arun Venkatesan created a set of static and dynamic wallpapers based on the Finder icon using colors similar to the new M1 iMacs. (Link) John has...
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In This Issue
Muse, a 1Blocker 4.0 giveaway, a tip for routing audio outputs on your Mac with SoundSource, Federico shares how he migrated thousands of email messages from Hey back to Gmail,plus the usual App Debuts, Links, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming podcast episodes....
Interesting Links
Spotify has launched a podcast subscription program to compete with Apple’s that won’t cost podcasters anything for the first two years and charge a 5% fee thereafter. (Link) Engadget spent two weeks with Spotify’s Car Thing hardware and came away impressed with its utility for owners of older cars that don’t have built-in entertainment systems....
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