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If you’re like me, you’ve got tons of cards either crammed into your wallet or stuffed into a drawer. Store loyalty cards, library cards, membership cards … the list goes on and on. Most of mine are stashed in my dresser, which means I don’t have them on hand when I actually need them.
While it’s always been easy to add certain cards to your Apple Wallet, a new feature in iOS 27 lets you create your own digital versions so you’re not reliant on a store or institution to make its cards compatible. It even works with tickets.
Here’s how to use this handy new iOS 27 feature. Try it out and slim down your old wallet.
Also in this edition of The Weekender:
The first iOS 27.3 beta brings some great new features, including one that could take Siri AI over the top.
Did you hear the one about the guy who turned a $20 iMac G4 into a gorgeous DIY HomeView? He even made the necessary files available for free, in case you want to give it a try.
Apple’s earnings calls are typically boring, but the incredible numbers the company puts up, quarter after quarter, prove truly mind-blowing.
We discussed iOS 27.3, Apple’s crazy earnings, the HomeView hack and more on this week’s episode of the Cult of Mac podcast. Watch, listen, subscribe, etc.
If you happened to pick up one of those sexy new touchscreen MacBook Pros (or any of the other recently released Macs), here’s how to set it up the right way.
Our crack team reviewed some great products this week, including the ear-pleasing new HomePod mini, an over-the-top 160-watt charger and a 4K wireless video adapter that “makes HDMI cables rubbish.”
And finally, don’t miss Cult of Mac Deals’ latest offerings, including 1TB of lifetime cloud storage, three years of piano lessons for just $60, and software that lets you download TV shows and movies from your favorite streaming services.
Enjoy your weekend!
— Lewis Wallace, managing editor
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The voice-to-text app that built its own speech model
Most dictation apps are a wrapper around someone else's speech model. Wispr Flow trained its own.
It's called Canto, and it was built for the way people actually talk to AI: thinking out loud, changing direction mid-sentence, half-whispering in an open office.
Wispr tested it on 10 hours of real dictations from more than 2,300 speakers. Canto had the lowest word error rate of every model tested, including models from Google, OpenAI, AssemblyAI and Deepgram. That means your prompts to ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor come through the way you said them.
Talk naturally in any app and Wispr Flow types clean, formatted text, 4x faster than typing.
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