The Liquid Glass interface of macOS Tahoe 26 can provide some accessibility and legibility challenges for some Mac users, and one of the recurring complaints is the heavy usage of transparency and translucency can lead to text overlapping other text throughout the operating system. Whether it’s a sidebar, menu, messages, or window, having text atop ... Read More| OS X Daily
Now that macOS Tahoe 26 is out, you might be interested in making a bootable installer drive for the latest MacOS release. Bootable installers drives are super useful as they can be used to easily perform clean system installs, install or update multiple Macs to Tahoe without having to download the installer/update multiple times, and ... Read More| OS X Daily
The Liquid Glass interface appearance is a fairly significant change in macOS Tahoe, bringing a lot of transparency, translucency, and shininess to the Mac interface appearance. While some users enjoy the new look, other Mac users may find it distracting, cumbersome, or difficult to read and interact with, and perhaps even conducive to causing eye ... Read More| OS X Daily
The Mac command line tool tart continues to offer one of the simplest and fastest ways to setup a new virtual machine, and setting up a Tahoe VM is no exception. Whether you’re a developer, tinkerer, tester, or just someone who wants to give the latest MacOS Tahoe 26 operating system a trial run without ... Read More| OS X Daily
Homebrew is a powerful command line package manager that allows you to easily install, update, and manage popular command line programs and tools, as well as traditional graphical apps with cask (and third party tools like Applite help you manage cask through the GUI too). It’s a popular tool with advanced Mac users and those ... Read More| OS X Daily
While the most obvious change to macOS Tahoe 26 is the newly rounded and translucent Liquid Glass interface appearance, there are also a variety of neat new features and customization options that you’re sure to appreciate easily well. Let’s review some of the most useful tips for macOS Tahoe that you’ll want to check out, ... Read More| OS X Daily
If you’re a Mac user who watches system resource use by keeping an eye on Activity Monitor, htop, top, or any other monitor of deeper system processes, you may have seen a process called “com.github.squirrel” and wondered what it is, and perhaps even wondered if it’s bad. Is it dangerous or malware? github.squirrel has a ... Read More| OS X Daily
Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.7.1 and MacOS Sonoma 14.8.1 as security patch releases for Mac users who are not yet running the Tahoe operating system, of which MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1 was just rel…| OS X Daily
Some Mac users who have updated to macOS Tahoe 26 feel like the new operating system runs slower than their prior MacOS installation did. Reports online suggest there can be general sluggishness and lagging performance, sometimes with frame rate drops and stuttering animations on the screen, or even when typing. Other users in various forums ... Read More| OS X Daily
macOS Tahoe 26 adds some new features, but it also has taken a prominent popular feature away on the Mac, and that is the removal of the dedicated LaunchPad app from macOS Tahoe. LaunchPad is the simple app launcher that is kind of iOS-like and has been on the Mac for a longtime, visible in ... Read More| OS X Daily
If you’re anything like me, you’re typically excited about new operating systems being released, but also approach with a little hesitation. After diving right into iOS 26 on iPhone, I regretted it for various reasons including some Liquid Glass annoyances, sluggishness, and battery drain (though my opinions are rapidly evolving, more on that separately!), and ... Read More| OS X Daily
Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.7 and MacOS Sonoma 14.8 for Mac users who are not yet interested in upgrading to MacOS Tahoe 26. While MacOS Tahoe 26 is generating the majority of attention for Mac users at the moment, a significant number of people will continue to use the MacOS Sequoia and Sonoma releases ... Read More| OS X Daily
MacOS Tahoe 26 has been officially launched by Apple to all Mac users with compatible hardware. The new operating system for Mac includes some notable visual changes and a variety of new features, which is sure to generate considerable interest. MacOS Tahoe 26 is labeled that way but The most significant new obvious change to ... Read More| OS X Daily
Apple has released MacOS Tahoe 26 as a release candidate build (build number 25A5353) for users participating in the developer beta and public beta programs. The RC (release candidate) build for Ta…| OS X Daily
Hello, All of You There!!! This post will discuss whether we should upgrade to the Mac OS Ventura devices managed using Intune. As we all know, Apple released| How to Manage Devices Community Blog Modern Device Management Guides
The MacOS Tahoe 25 Public Beta program has begun, bringing the beta operating system to all interested Mac users. If you’re curious about installing and running the MacOS Tahoe 26 public beta…| OS X Daily
MacOS Sonoma and MacOS Ventura users will find security centric software updates available for their Macs, versioned as MacOS Sonoma 14.7.7 and MacOS Ventura 13.7.7. Additionally, Safari 18.6 is av…| OS X Daily
Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.6 as a software update for Mac users. The primary focus of MacOS Sequoia 15.6 is bug fixes and security updates, and no major changes or features are expected. A…| OS X Daily
Apple has started the MacOS Tahoe 26 Public Beta program, available for all interested users to explore. The first MacOS Tahoe 26 public beta build arrives a few days after the release of developer…| OS X Daily
Apple has issued macOS Tahoe 26 beta 4 to users enrolled in the Apple Developer beta testing program for system software. The public beta is not yet available, but it’s said that an accompany…| OS X Daily
The Playstation 4 remains a wildly popular gaming console, and now if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux machine, you can play quite a few Playstation 4 games on a fantastic free PS4 emulator cal…| OS X Daily
While MacOS automatically manages the cooling fans on your Mac, there are some particular situations where MacOS is not necessarily the most efficient. Advanced users might find it advantageous to …| OS X Daily
What sparked my long-form article on Liquid Glass, and all the criticism I’ve posted on Mastodon since the WWDC25 keynote is just that the Liquid Glass redesign made me angry. Yes, there are better things to get angry about in the world right now, and I want you to know that I’m very angry about them all. In the past, technology used to be my coping space. A place for a knowledge worker like me to nerd about his tools and related passions — user interfaces, UI/UX design, typography, etc...| Riccardo Mori
Discussing icon design, and commenting on some passages of Apple's Adopting Liquid Glass document.| Riccardo Mori
MacOS Tahoe 26 features the all new Liquid Glass interface, brings the Phone app to the Mac, big Spotlight changes with actions, new Apple Intelligence features, a new Games app, backgrounds are ad…| OS X Daily
MacOS Tahoe 26 is here, and right from the start you can see the difference with the all new Liquid Glass interface appearance and styling, with it’s heavy use of translucency, shiny icons an…| OS X Daily
Apple announced the next major version of MacOS, called MacOS Tahoe, versioned as MacOS 26, at WWDC 2026, and now the first beta version is available to download. For Mac users who are enrolled in …| OS X Daily
Apple has announced MacOS Tahoe, versioned as macOS 26, jumping 11 versions ahead from the current versioning of MacOS 15. This versioning number change is congruent with the new year-based version…| OS X Daily
Inattention to details is one of the reasons UIs are getting worse.| Riccardo Mori
Spotlight is the powerful search engine built into MacOS that allows you to quickly find any file or data on your Mac disk drives. Part of what makes Spotlight so fast is that it uses caches and te…| OS X Daily
Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2 may have been released all the way back in 2002, but thanks to the InfiniteMac project, you can also run Mac OS X Jaguar on your modern Mac right now with just a web browser. S…| OS X Daily
Notifications arrive on the Mac as banners appearing in the top right corner of your display, but have you ever wished your could change the location of those notification banners and alerts? Maybe…| OS X Daily
Have you ever downloaded an app to your Mac and been unable to open it? Typically if this happens you’ll get some kind of alarming message, stating something to the effect of “App Not O…| OS X Daily
Have you ever wanted to customize the cursor in MacOS? Perhaps you want to use a Windows-style white cursor on your Mac, or a grey 3d looking Linux style cursor, or even cursors from the Wii interf…| OS X Daily
Auto-clickers are sort of niche software, typically associated with repetitive tasks with data entry, gaming, or software testing, but have gained some broader popularity with many people working f…| OS X Daily
As usual, Michael Tsai assembles a remarkable roundup of opinions and reactions after John Gruber’s recent piece Something is rotten in the State of Cupertino, where he finally criticises Apple for essentially over-over-promising and under-under-underdelivering on Apple Intelligence, especially regarding the announced improvements to Siri. What I find involuntarily funny in this specific wave of criticism is that for some of these people this has been the straw that broke the camel’s back...| Riccardo Mori
Apple Intelligence is an intriguing and powerful set of AI features available on the latest models of Mac, iPhone, and iPad with modern versions of system software. These AI features are tied to Ch…| OS X Daily
Applite is a powerful free and open source MacOS application for streamlining the installation, updating, and management of third party apps using the Homebrew cask feature, without ever having to …| OS X Daily
The popular AirTags trackers can be shared with others, and if someone has shared an AirTag with you then you’ll likely want to accept the invitation to track that object, belonging, pets, lu…| OS X Daily
Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 update for Mac users running the Sequoia operating system. The new software update includes bug fixes and security enhancements, making it recommended for al…| OS X Daily
The ChatGPT app for Mac is a fantastic AI tool and LLM that makes for a great addition to many Mac users workflows, whether you’re extremely tech savvy, or just a novice. One thing that some …| OS X Daily
Mac users now have another Artificial Intelligence assistant option available to them natively, thanks to the new Perplexity app for Mac. Perplexity offers a free AI-powered answer engine that uses…| OS X Daily
MacOS Sequoia, versioned as macOS 15, is an exciting new operating system for Mac users. MacOS Sequoia includes a variety of intriguing new features that could make you even more productive while u…| OS X Daily
Llama is a powerful large language model (LLM) developed by Meta (yes, the same Meta that is Facebook), that is able to process and generate human-like text. It’s quite similar to ChatGPT, bu…| OS X Daily
If you feel like you have spent a significant amount of your time updating system software on your Apple devices lately, you’re in for a treat; another round of system software updates! This …| OS X Daily
