The Christmas classic movie “A Charlie Brown Christmas” will be free to watch on the Apple TV service on this weekend of December 13 and 14. The classic cartoon follows a child who is upset about the commercialization of Christmas, and features the entire Snoopy gang. It’s a family favorite, and many people have fond … Read More
If you ever wished your Mac could feel a bit more seasonal and festive for the holidays and Christmas, you might just appreciate a fun app called Snowy. Snowy brings falling snow, twinkling Christmas lights, and some holiday ambiance, directly to your Mac desktop. You can have dangling twinkling Christmas lights hanging from your menu … Read More
Apple has launched their official 2025 holiday advertisement for the season. This years commercial comes in at 2 minutes and features two friends taking a snowy hike, one of whom drops their iPhone into the snow, which is soon picked up by a forest creature, who proceeds to gather even more forest creatures to use … Read More
Festivitas is a fun app that brings some holiday spirit directly to your iPhone or Mac, by allowing you to add some animated holiday lights to your Home Screen or desktop. And if you’re using it on a Mac, you can even make it snow, or add Christmas lights to your Dock too. Deck the … Read More
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a holiday season classic, and Apple is making it free to watch on their Apple TV service for a weekend in the middle of November. Specifically, on Saturday November 15, and Sunday November 16, 2025, you’ll be able to tune in and enjoy the Thanksgiving Charlie Brown special for free … Read More
Kohler, the faucet and toilet brand, is expanding into the tech market in a rather innovative and unusual way; by launching Dekoda, a $600 iPhone-connected toilet camera that monitors your waste for various health metrics. Dekoda apparently can monitor your hydration levels and provide other information about your gut health, as well as detect signs … Read More
The United States Mint will feature Steve Jobs on a commemorative $1 coin next year, as apart of the 2026 American Innovation Coin Program, according to a press release from the US Mint.
Gamers and Mario enthusiasts in particular are sure to get a kick out of Super Mario Brothers Remastered, a fan-made unofficial remake of the original Nintendo Super Mario Bros game that includes new levels, new options and game modes, new characters, a level editor, physics improvements, and more. Super Mario Bros Remastered is not meant … Read More
Windows 95 was made widely available to the general public 30 years ago this week, on August 24, 1995. 30 years! It might not seem too thrilling today, but Windows 95 was a pretty big deal back in the day, being the first half-decent (ie: Mac-like) GUI to arrive on PC and a huge leap … Read More
The Commodore 64 has been reborn from the dusty bins of nostalgia, with a slightly modernized twist. Retro computing enthusiasts and longtime computer users may recall the Commodore 64 as a fun way to tinker with tech, play games, and do some coding, and with the new Commodore 64 project you get all of that … Read More
VintageApple has long been a fantastic collection of retro Apple and Mac materials, including old magazines, catalogs, and user guides, and now they have added a whopper collection of over 150 vintage Mac programming books available for free.
Have you ever thought that your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air trackpad could be used as a precise digital weighing scale? Maybe, maybe not, but one enterprising developer thought of exactly that idea, and has built a fun little app that transforms your trackpad into an accurate scale. This neat little apps functionality is achieved … Read More
Many people enjoy ambient background sounds of nature while working, studying, cooking, projects, meditating, focusing, amongst many other activities, and if you’re in that camp you’ll likely appreciate a fun little site called tree.fm. The tree.fm site allows you to listen to sounds of forests from around the world, and you can skip and shuffle … Read More
If you’re heading out to watch fireworks this July 4th, you might want to capture the moments with some great photos or videos of fireworks. With just a few simple tips, you’ll be snapping great fireworks photos and smooth videos with just your trusty iPhone.
If you’ve been a reader of OSXDaily for a while you almost certainly have seen us mention some of the fun web apps that allow you to run full fledged versions of operating systems in your web browser, from Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8, or Mac OS 7, to even Windows 1.0. Many of … Read More
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. Sure you might even have an old dusty Mac laying around in a closet that … Read More
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 interface on your Mac? You can do all of that and more with a free app called Mousescape for … Read More
Ultra longtime Mac users may recall a fun Classic Mac OS application that placed a set of googly eyes into the Mac menu bar, and those eyes would follow your cursor around as you used the Mac. While the old Classic Mac OS days are long gone (sigh), you can still have a bit of … Read More
