I plan to spend the rest of my career at Automattic because this is exactly the attitude I want to be surrounded by. Building a More Open Internet – Initial Charge Cheers.* *We’re hiring

via Tools & Toys: This is essentially macOS’ Spotlight feature but on iPadOS. It does most of the same things too, and if you use a keyboard with your iPad, you can even invoke it with the same shortcut that longtime Mac users know and love — CMD+Space — no matter what you’re doing or…

This holiday weekend is Wirecutter’s busiest and most profitable time of the year, and many of us were scheduled to work a combined total of hundreds of hours of overtime. This fund will go towards the lost income we will incur through this strike, which our members rely on to pay their bills, travel home…

Just think how much more versatile the HomePod could be with an audio input in addition to AirPlay. The HomePod Mini Experiment — MacSparky I have a studio pair that sits on my desk for podcasts and YouTube videos during the day, which are usually AirPlayed from my iPad. I wish I could use them…

The latest wizardry from Pixelmator Pro, courtesy of A Better Computer. This app just gets better and better. Learn more: https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2021/11/23/major-update-adds-ai-powered-background-removal-to-pixelmator-pro/

I’ve been meaning to add to the discussion found in these two posts: https://initialcharge.net/2021/10/ginter-note-apps/ https://birchtree.me/blog/no-one-note-taker-for-me/ I may get around to publishing my series of using multiple apps to split how my mind functions — for example, using Reminders.app for personal things and Todoist for work-related tasks. I just don’t like to mix the two. Same…

run your shourtcuts from alfred! lukdiekm/alfred-shortcuts Yes, please.

The Nuke Button Deleting your data from your Mac has always involved multiple restarts and visits to the system recovery tools. Now you just go to the System Preferences menu and choose “Erase All Content and Settings…” to get started. Deleting your data from your Mac is now as easy as it is on your…

Brave is building for the future and, if they keep it up, I don’t think it’ll be too long before many of us switch our default again. Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser – Initial Charge Brave Search is actually pretty good. I’ve been testing Brave, DuckDuckGo, and…