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If you spend any time in Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps on your Mac, today’s news is worth paying attention to. Adobe just announced a brand-new AI assistant called Firefly — and it works directly with Claude. What Is the Adobe Firefly AI Assistant? Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant is built to work across its entire suite of creative tools — Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and more. Instead of manually clicking through menus and panels, you simply tell it what you want and

Your iPad is already a capable device — but pair it with the right AI tools and it becomes something else entirely. Whether you’re a student juggling coursework, a freelancer managing clients, or someone who just wants to stay organised, AI tools are now intuitive enough for anyone to pick up in minutes. Here are five practical ways to weave AI into your daily iPad workflow — no experience required. 1. Draft Emails and Messages in Seconds Staring at a blank message is one of

Meetings are one of the most expensive line items in any organization's operational budget, and most of them leave behind almost nothing useful. A few people took notes, those notes live in someone's personal folder, the action items that were agreed to verbally get forgotten by the following morning, and the institutional knowledge shared in that conversation simply evaporates. Otter.ai exists to solve that problem, and on macOS it integrates into the meeting workflows your

When Apple announced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, the reaction was a mix of excitement and skepticism. Excitement because Apple was finally making a serious move into AI. Skepticism because, compared to what OpenAI and Anthropic had already shipped, the initial feature set seemed modest. A smarter autocorrect, better photo search, cleaner notifications. Was this really AI? The more you dig into the architecture, the more interesting the story becomes — particularly for en

If you've spent any time in the Mac power user community, you've almost certainly encountered strong opinions about application launchers. For years, Alfred held the crown as the go-to Spotlight replacement for users who wanted more from their Mac. Then Raycast arrived, free and aggressively feature-rich, and the conversation got a lot more interesting. For IT managers evaluating productivity tooling for a Mac fleet, the question isn't really which one is "better" — it's whic

Visual Studio Code has quietly become the de facto standard code editor for most modern development teams, and on macOS it runs exceptionally well. But the editor itself is only part of the story in 2025. The more interesting conversation — and the one IT managers are increasingly being pulled into — is what's happening to VS Code as AI capabilities get layered on top of it. This post covers VS Code as a platform, the AI integrations that are transforming how developers use i

The AI assistant landscape has become crowded fast, and for IT managers trying to make sense of what to evaluate, what to deploy, and what to recommend to leadership, the noise can be overwhelming. Anthropic's Claude stands out from that crowd — not just as a chatbot, but as a platform with multiple access points designed to meet users and developers wherever they work. This post gives you a broad overview of what Claude is, how it's delivered, and where it fits in an enterpr

Managing a fleet of Macs means constantly balancing two competing priorities: keeping your environment secure and standardized while giving users the tools they need to actually get work done. Raycast sits at an interesting intersection of both — and if it's not on your radar yet, it should be. This post breaks down what Raycast is, what it offers out of the box, where AI fits in, and what IT managers specifically need to consider before rolling it out at scale. What Is Rayca