Productivity Making A Custom Floating Scriptable Button Panel Using A Mac Accessibility Feature Jeremy White at WIRED posted a handy tip the other day. iOS contains an Accessibility feature that replaces the iPhone’s stock Springboard launcher with a simple grid of big app icons. Assistive Access was introduced in iOS 17. It strips out widgets and custom icon layouts in favor of
Yellowtext Is This A Nerd Which I See Before Me? Here's one of my favorite tee shirts. It's one of the all-stars of my regular laundry rotation. It's got authenticity and smart, classic style. It's also black, which hides stains very well. The color hides my gut less successfully, but better
WWDC Did Apple tease the iPholde during the WWDC keynote? Good afternoon, fellow sensation-seekers! I've got a couple of WWDC pieces here on the workbench alongside the big breakdown to come (either "the large examination of the keynote and other announcements, which will require some fact-checking and Deeper Thought" or "my mental and
WWDC WWDC 2026: Filling In The Puzzle (Preview) My “games” metaphor for WWDC is a jigsaw puzzle, not the traditional bingo card or the modern hotness of a draft. I’m interested in how Apple’s announcements this year will fill in parts of the big picture that I can only really guess at right now. I hope
WWDC Featured WWDC: It’s Showtime! The WWDC keynote is happening less than 24 hours after the Tony Awards. I like this kind of synchronicity. It implies a nonzero chance that God (or whatever) agrees with me that these annual developer keynotes should be viewed through the lens of Showbiz. Historically, the fates of many nominated
Commotion Of Links Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending June 2, 2026 It's the week of calm before WWDC. If I had a wicker chair in need of recaning, this would be a good time to tackle that project. Actually, I do. But I don't know how to recane a chair. I checked out a couple of YouTube
Apple Featured The time David Letterman licked my iPad (Saying goodbye to Late Show on CBS) I haven’t seen the final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. I couldn’t watch it when it aired because at this point I’ve forgotten how live television even works. I do have a dim recollection of having once agreed to schedule my life around being
Apple History Unsung Moments in Apple History: The Lisa 1 appears on “The New Odd Couple” I haven’t written anything about Apple’s 50th Anniversary yet. I kind of had my hands full with getting this site finished. Besides, there’s still plenty of time for all of that. Apple’s going to be 50 years old for a whole year, after all. If I
Tim Cook Tim Cook visited Good Morning America and said things Well. That was annoying. Good Morning America aired a short interview with Tim Cook on Tuesday. It’s a network morning show, and it was only five and a half minutes long. So I didn't expect questions such as “As you look back upon fifty years of Apple
Commotion Of Links Your Commotion of Apple Links for the week ending March 10, 2026 You guessed it: this week is heavy with the fallout from Ringmaster Tim's Cavalcade Of Hardware. Actually, it was Ringmaster Heir-Apparent John…a detail that didn't go unnoticed. There's also a Robert DeNiro clip. This inclusion is 100% justified. Even if it weren&
