Please welcome our latest long-term sponsor, SaneBox, makers of powerful filtering tools to tame your inbox. Adam Engst looks at Cloudflare’s “pay-per-crawl” proposal for managing AI crawlers and muses about how it could offer a more general alternative to advertising. He also kicks off a Do You Use It? poll about browser tab management to see if tab overload is a problem for TidBITS readers. On a more somber note, John Nemerovski joins us to pay tribute to the late Tim Robertson, publisher of MyMac.com. Finally, we link to Anker’s expanded recall of power banks due to safety concerns. Notable Mac app releases this week include Fantastical 4.0.16 and Cardhop 2.3.7, Mactracker 8.0.1, Mellel 6.4, and Pixelmator Pro 3.7.
Please welcome our latest long-term sponsor, SaneBox, a powerful email filtering service that works within your existing email setup.
How many browser tabs do you keep open? This week’s Do You Use It? poll explores tab management habits and examines how different browsers handle the challenge of tab overload.
John Nemerovski joins us to mark the passing of Tim Robertson, founder and publisher of MyMac.com and a long-time member of the Apple media ecosystem.
As AI threatens traditional publishing business models, Cloudflare proposes a solution that could ensure content creators get paid when AI crawlers ingest their work—and potentially revolutionize how we pay for online content.
Watchlist
Maintenance updates for the bundled calendar and contacts apps. ($56.99 annual subscription new, free update, various sizes, macOS 12+)
Introduces a beta feature for syncing your My Models between Macs using iCloud Drive. (Free, 249.6 MB, macOS 10.14+)
Adds several citation and bibliography enhancements to the word processor. ($69.99 new, free update, 107 MB, macOS 10.13+)
Brings support for Apple Intelligence to the now-Apple-owned image editing app. ($49.99 new, free update, 602.9 MB, macOS 12+)
