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With the rise in AI tools showing no sign of slowing, it can be easy to find yourself bouncing between tools and services in a typical day. Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company, aims to change that, by letting you chat with your tabs and get the answers you need within one application.

After announcing there would be no further development of their first browser, Arc, Dia has been growing in popularity, especially since it started including some of the features that made Arc popular - such as the vertical sidebar. In this video, Lee walks you through how to make the most of the Dia interface, before diving into how you can use Chat, Skills and Memory to browse the web and make the whole experience more efficient.

As a follow-up to last week's show, Lee looks at some updates to the Music and Podcasts apps on iOS and iPadOS that may have gone unnoticed.

Both applications have received a lot of attention and in this video, Lee shows you how to use the Music app to look at upcoming concerts in your area, as well use some of the new features, like AutoMix transitions and Offline Lyrics. You also see how the Podcasts application can auto-generate chapters as well as discover video podcasts.

SoundSource is a menu bar app from the fine folks at Rogue Amoeba. This powerful utility gives you fast access to system devices, allowing you to control the settings for your Mac's output, input, and sound effect audio devices right from your menu bar.

You can apply per-application audio adjustments like changing the volume of any app relative to others as well as sending individual apps to different audio outputs.

SoundSource also lets you apply audio effects everywhere. You can make any app's audio sound great with simple built-in effects as well as support for Audio Units plugins. Join Allison as she takes you through its features and benefits.

iOS and iPadOS 26 were released in September 2025 and since then, we've had four 'dot' releases that brought with them new features. In this Tip video, Lee looks at some of the features you may have missed, starting with tweaks to Liquid Glass you can make through to a much requested change to Reminders. With an old iPadOS multitasking feature coming back as well, there's a fair amount in here worth checking out.

RSS is great for keeping up with your favorite sites and authors, but most RSS readers treat your feeds as a to-do list. Current offers a different approach: there are no badges or unread counts to manufacture guilt as you try to work your way to Inbox Zero.

With Current, new articles make their way in at the top and drop off at the bottom. You step in wherever you like, read what catches your attention, and get out when you're done. In this episode, Mike takes you on a tour of Current and its fresh approach, based on a river's flow. Discover a calmer way to consume your RSS feeds.

Few applications on macOS are as understated, yet valuable as PopClip by Pilotmoon Software. Lee uses it countless times each day and when he recently carried out a clean install of his MacBook Pro, it was one of the first utilities to get reinstalled.

With PopClip, you select text and carry out any of a large number of actions, right inline. We have covered this utility a few times at ScreenCastsONLINE and with many news extensions now available, Lee walks you through four that he uses regularity. PopClip is available as a standalone purchase from the Pilotmoon site, as well as in the Setapp subscription bundle.

Last week, Lee started a dive into MailMaven, the feature-packed email application by the team at SmallCubed. In the second of this two-part series, he walks you through how to set up all 8 (that's not a typo - 8!) different types of tags that can be applied to your messages.

You also learn how to configure Smart Mailboxes, as well as send encrypted emails to your recipients. Lee wraps up by showing you how to set up simple signatures, including some fun, dynamic ones.

There is so much to love about MailMaven, and we hope you enjoy this video.

These days, so many of us have subscriptions in our life. If you are watching this video, then you probably have one to ScreenCastsONLINE! Before long however, they can build up and that's where Subscription Day comes in. It's an excellent application to help you look at your all of your subscriptions in one place. With both a macOS and iOS version, it lets you add subscriptions both manually and via an import process that's magic-like! This lets you gauge how much is being spent on a monthly and annual basis, so you can make better decisions as to what to keep and to lose.

In this video, Lee walks you, end-to-end, through the process of adding your current subscriptions into the application, then shows you how useful Subscription Day's reports feature is.

There was a time when Apple Mail was a really user-friendly email client that offered a variety of customisation options to help keep you on top of your Inboxes. This, was down to the word that the software company SmallCubed put in to its suite of plug-ins, called MailSuite.

Now, years later, they are back with their own email application that is turning heads with its user-friendly approach, called MailMaven. Taking all of the best features of MailSuite, MailMaven tries to do the impossible and make email fun again or, at least, bearable.

In the first of a two-part series, Lee first sets up MailMaven, then gives you a tour of the interface. He then looks at how MailMaven helps you process messages quickly using a variety of shortcuts. You also learn how to configure Inbox, Outbox and Keystroke Rules to ensure the right messages are in the right place at the right time.

Converting media files to different formats is an occupational requirement for many of us, whether it's audio, video or image files and there are lots of tools out there to choose from. Permute is, without a doubt, one of the best, due to its speed and range of options.

It also offers some optional add-ins that expand its functionality even more. Perhaps you want to create a video file using a static image alongside an audio file, or how about a text file you'd like to convert into speech? Permute is here to help.

In this video, Lee walks you through simple conversions, batch conversions, configuring groups, stitching videos using modules, and more.

Lee is a nerd that has to work with spreadsheets a lot in his professional life and over the years has had to learn some of the more advanced functionality that Numbers can provide. So in this show, he's decided to share some of that with you and look at some functions that may have previously seemed quite daunting.

If you want to know how XLOOKUP can make pulling references from other tables a breeze, how functions like SUMIF and COUNTIF can add another dimension to your summaries, then this is the video for you. You also learn how to use nested functions, validate data entry, and format text automatically with functions like PROPER and TRIM. Lee had a lot of fun recording this one and certainly hopes you enjoy learning new tricks in Numbers.

After setting up an iPad for a family friend recently, Lee realised there were lots of settings that he was going in and either validating or, more often than not, changing from the defaults to suit their needs. This got him into thinking that there are lots of behaviours in iPadOS that people take as the norm, when actually there are some useful changes to be made.

In this video, Lee walks you through some of the first things he checks through when setting up a new device that may not be immediately obvious and some can really improve your overall experience.

Note that this is not a comprehensive list of all settings that should be checked! Simply a list of some that can potentially go undiscovered, or yield a significant impact when changed.

OmniOutliner has long been the standard to which other outlining applications aspire and the release of version 6 doesn't change that fact at all. It's as feature-rich as ever with the attention to detail that is expected from the Omni Group. In this video, Lee walks through the basics of outlining from the ground up, so there is no requirement to watch a previous video.

You learn how to use some of the new features that version 6 brings, such as Connected Folders, OmniLinks and using the Apple Foundation Model for leveraging Apple Intelligence.

When Lee covered BetterTouchTool in Shows 1543 and 1547, he intimated that he wasn't done and would be releasing some tip videos in the future covering more nuanced features within the app. Well, it didn't take long for the first one to land and it could prove to be a game-changer for you. Floating Menus aren't talked about much however they pack a lot of power and you can configure them to display clickable triggers anywhere on the screen.

In this video, Lee walks you through two of his favourite setups. The first one is a small menu button that sits in the corner of your screen however when you hover over it, it expands to reveal 16 clickable buttons. The second showcases how you can configure different floating menus for different applications and this can really take your efficiency to another level.

It's been several years since we last covered MailMate or SaneBox. But recently, Mike has been using both to create email automation more powerful than most modern AI-infused email clients.

Now that MailMate can run on macOS 26 Tahoe, it's time we shine the spotlight once more on this Markdown-based software. In this video, Mike shows you how perfectly suited it is for making the most out of your SaneBox subscription.

In show 1528, Lee introduced you to the new Folder Automation feature in macOS Tahoe that allows you to run Siri Shortcuts when File, Folder or System events are triggered.

This week, he's thrilled to show you two more shortcuts that can help keep your files organised. The first will allow you to rename files in a format of your choosing, and the second one will allow you to create backups of your most important files with the click of a button. He also shows you how to get macOS to automatically create backups of specific files each time you save them - great for version control and getting you out of trouble.

In Show 1543, Lee covered the basics of getting started with BetterTouchTool, the automation tool for macOS that lets you customise your interactions with both the OS, and your favourite applications, to ensure you can do what you need quickly and efficiently.

In this second part of the video, Lee builds on this knowledge by showing you how to use Drawing Gestures, Mouse Triggers, configure the trackpad to manage your desktop windows, as well as understand Trigger Conditions and Automated Triggers so ensure you have full control over your device.

Combined with the first video, this should give you more than enough to have your Mac singing and dancing to your tune.

After growing increasingly frustrated at some limitations with using the Safari browser, Lee was advised to use an extension called StopTheMadness Pro, which aims to streamline your experience by eradicating some of the pain points that can be placed on you by websites. If you grow weary of not being able to select text and use your clipboard, or worry about where those shortened URLs are actually taking you, then StopTheMadness Pro is well worth checking out and in this video, Lee walks you through some of the key features he's found useful in his time with it so far. That includes installing this Safari extension onto other browsers, such as Chrome!

When it comes to editing photos most photographers forget an important part of the process and that's adding metadata to their photos! The process of adding metadata can often be application specific and adding in one application like Apple's Photos App does not carry that metadata over to other applications. Writing the metadata to the file itself before it is used in any application is the best way to go and that is where HoudahGeo 7 comes in. In this screencast Todd will cover all the features and options in HoudahGeo 7's well thought out workflow for adding metadata to your photos of Load, Process, and Output. Hopefully you will see how HoudahGeo 7 might fit into your own photo editing workflow.

The iOS Files app was introduced in 2017 and it's fair to say that it doesn't sit front and centre of the iOS experience in the same way that Finder does for macOS. That's not to say it doesn't have it uses. In fact, if you spend just a little time with it, you'll see that it's a really handy way to access files across multiple applications on your device.

In this video, Lee walks you through, end-to-end to give you a solid grounding in the foundations of the app.