Tower 15:
This update introduces Automatic Branch Management, making it easier than ever to keep your repository tidy and clutter-free. We’ve also added significant improvements to the “History” view for better visualization of your work 😎
Tower 16:
Tower 16 for Mac is now in beta, and it introduces AI Commits, allowing you to generate commit messages and descriptions with the help of AI directly from your favorite Git client.
Every year there are lots of new features, but it still seems to me that they’re ignoring the basics:
Why can you not search the contents of files/changes?
When I drag and drop a file that’s in one my repositories into Tower, why does it offer to create a new repository instead of showing me that file’s history?
When viewing a file’s history, why is there no way to see the full commit message without copying the SHA-1, switching to a different view, pasting it into the search field, and changing the menu to search by Commit Hashes? This should just take one click or perhaps a hover.
Mario Guzmán:
Tower v15.0 got a new liquid glass icon but unfortunately, like some Apple-made icons early in the beta season, it looks blurry in the Dock.
Previously:
Update (2026-05-05): Bruno Brito:
The commit message body field can now be kept always visible — toggle this in Preferences.
Yay!
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Nick Heer (Mac Power Users Talk):
Apple’s next iCloud tier is a generous 6 TB, but it costs another $324 per year. I could buy a new 6 TB hard disk annually for that kind of money. […] A better solution is to recognize I do not need instant access to all 95,000 photos in my library, but iCloud has no room for this kind of nuance. The iCloud syncing preference is either on or off for the entire library.
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So: the next best thing is to create a separate Photos library — one that will remain unsynced with iCloud. Photos makes this pretty easy by launching while holding the Option (⌥) key. But how does one move images from one library to the other? Photos is a single-window application — you cannot even open different images in new windows, let alone run separate libraries in separate windows. This should be possible, but it is not.
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As a workaround, Apple allows you to import images from one Photos library into another — but not if the source library is synced with iCloud. You therefore need to turn off iCloud sync before proceeding, at which point you may discover that iCloud is not as dependable as you might have expected.
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I have this library stored locally and backed up, or at least I though I did. I thought I could trust iCloud to be an extra layer of insurance. What I am now realizing is that iCloud may, in fact, be a liability. The simple fact is that I have no idea the state my photos library is currently in: which photos I have in full resolution locally, which ones are low-resolution with iCloud originals, and which ones have possibly been lost.
Colin Devroe:
I’m finally moving away from maticulously organizing my own library and just letting photos do it and using iCloud Photo Library. I’m syncing 170,000+ items. And it says “synced” when clearly it is not finished.
Previously:
Update (2026-04-30): Nick Heer:
The first problem is that it is very easy to get images into an iCloud-stored photo library, but extremely difficult to extract them. This issue is compounded by a lack of transparency and data verification. The second problem is that it is necessary to commit to a lifetime of storage if one uses a third-party cloud option.
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My dispute with this is not about third-party storage per se. Rather, it is how shoddy an experience it is to move photos out of iCloud and, also, my inability to verify that everything is as safe and secure as it should be.
But I was pointed to two pieces of software I can use that made my life easier and got me onto more stable footing. The first is Parachute Backup (MacOS 15 or later), which created a backup of my entire iCloud photo library and, soon, will also be backing up everything else I have in iCloud, for good measure.
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The other piece of software to which I owe my newfound sense of calm is PowerPhotos. Despite being hands-down the most frequent software recommendation from readers, it never came up in my earlier searches. I guess I was not using the correct keywords. In any case, it is an excellent application. Because I did the full Parachute backup, I felt comfortable with PowerPhotos modifying my library and generally doing its thing. It lets me easily drag photos from my primary iCloud-connected library to my archive, and its duplicate image finder is way better than the one in Photos.
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Doug Brown (Slashdot):
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.
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The “secret ROM image” text in particular seemed like it could be related to the picture shown above. I decided to dive deeper to see if I could figure out why the SCSI Manager contained these strings, in the hopes that I could solve the mystery. Would this be the clue I needed in order to figure out how to instruct the Power Mac G3 to display this picture?
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When you open the newly-formatted RAM disk, you should see a file named “The Team”[…]
Howard Oakley:
This mythical animal from the Mac bestiary has been tucked away as an Easter egg in the Emoji & Symbols viewer for many years. Type the letters clarus or moof (the sound it makes) into the search box of that viewer to see the two emoji figures of a dog and a cow, although neither of them resembles Clarus in appearance, as shown in the Page Setup window in recent macOS.
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More inaccessible, but apparently present for even longer, is a PNG image showing marijuana leaves embedded inside the Chess app.
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According to a recent report in MacWorld, the colour-matched wallpapers provided for MacBook Neos spell out MAC.
Previously:
Update (2026-04-27): Jake Zien:
It’s not just the Neo wallpapers, they’ve been doing this for years on iPad, MacBook, iMac, Studio Display. Actually quite telling about the Neo’s positioning and importance within Apple that it says “Mac” instead of “Neo.”
Update (2026-04-28): Howard Oakley:
When I wrote that the Minimise Easter egg was defunct in macOS Tahoe, I was delighted to be corrected, thank you, as it’s still alive and flourishing.
In fact this had been documented just over a year ago by John Gruber on his Daring Fireball blog. I’ve added information from the macOS defaults site, and played around with this in a macOS 26.4.1 virtual machine.
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