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Tag: tahoe

Widgets be gone

Right, so you’ve just upgraded to macOS 26 and suddenly your screen looks like it’s been vandalised by a toddler with a sticker book. Admittedly not as bad as the above graphic, but still an annoying bunch of about 4 widgets in the top left hand corner. Weather in places you don’t live, stock updates …

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Apple – stop taking drugs!

I’ve long believed that the people who design computer software are the same people who design the taps in restrooms. You know the ones: you simply want to wash your hands but instead of turning on a tap, you’re forced to perform a series of cryptic hand gestures in front of a brushed-steel monolith, only …

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You have more than one clipboard*

*If you’ve updated to Tahoe. Remember the 80s? Big hair, shoulder pads, and a single, solitary clipboard on the MacPlus. If you wanted to move three things, you did it three times. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. It was a digital dark age, a barbaric wasteland of inefficiency and that was the state of …

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New Mail app has one problem

macOS Tahoe is, in almost every respect, a triumph and a well-overdue boost to any Mac, especially those built with an Apple silicon chip. One of the nicest-looking applications has to be Apple Mail. It’s still as understated but as powerful as ever, and while it doesn’t get a lot of the Liquid Glass interface …

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