1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (523+ words) On the security notes page for iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7, Apple added this text: Note: We enabled the availability of iOS 18.7.7 for more devices on April 1, 2026, so users with Automatic Updates turned on can automatically receive important security protections from web…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (230+ words) BusyCal 2026.1.3 and BusyContacts 2026.1.3tidbits.com Busy Apps has released BusyCal 2026.1.3 and BusyContacts 2026.1.3, adding support for AI-powered scheduling via the Claude Desktop Extension to BusyCal. The calendar app expands AppleScript support with more flexible event, task, and mixed-item queries, and adds the…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (769+ words) Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS. He has written numerous books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. His innovations include the creation of…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (533+ words) In honor of Apple's 50th anniversary, The Verge has come up with a fun, though inherently flawed, approach to identifying the best 50 Apple products. They write: For any one person, ranking 50 items can be a long and tedious process. For a…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (154+ words) Modern CSV 2.4tidbits.com Gallium Digital has released Modern CSV 2.4, with a few new features and improvements to the CSV manipulation app. The update now includes Copy Cells to Markdown and Copy Cells to HTML commands; adds Rename Folder and Reveal…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (602+ words) As is usually the case, a handful of features appear across several of Apple's operating systems: A few of the changes most likely to impact users in iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 received little or no mention'Julie Clover of MacRumors identified some…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1621+ words) So I can use a smart playlist to collect holiday music: And you can just as easily create a smart playlists containing songs that don't contain these tags if you want to explicitly omit them at other times. Any just…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1876+ words) That good help is hard to find isn't a new problem, and Apple has tried to solve it before. What is new is the opportunity to approach it differently. In this article, I argue that Apple Intelligence and Siri could…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (335+ words) Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS. He has written numerous books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. His innovations include the creation of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (593+ words) The proliferation of DarkSword suggests a market where exploit brokers sell such tools to multiple buyers. Even worse, the Russian hackers left the complete, unobfuscated DarkSword code'including helpful comments explaining each component'available on the compromised sites, where it could have…...