Andrew McKee

AUG.02.2025 - #35 Mini phone on my wishlist, DIY typewriters, Fantastic watches, and sprucing up your songs for the summer!

Read more on Denim, and other fun features in the latest issue of my newsletter, clicks ‘n clacks!

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A smartphone screen showcasing the Demin Playlist Cover Maker app. It displays a "Gallery" page with summer-themed playlist covers. The section "Summer’s In! ☀️" shows vibrant covers including a pink flamingo pool float titled "Pool Party" and a colorful abstract titled "Heat Wave." Below, the "Seas the Day! 🌴" section features covers like a red-and-white beach umbrella titled "Beach Songs" and a bright yellow background with watermelon slices labeled "Summer BBQ." The bottom navigation bar highlights the "Gallery" tab, next to a "My Covers" tab. The design is clean with white background and black text.

During my switchover from Spotify to Apple Music, one of the most useful (and most stunning) apps I discovered was Denim—a playlist cover creation tool. Made by @ashwinsrihari.bsky.social, Demin transformed my dull default Apple covers into eye-catching, themed artwork!

Great read, I was also making the switch to Apple Music recently! Love the tips for transferring—I was personally using SongShift to switch over

very cool! definitely fits the retrofuturism vibe—their other watches are 👌

Credits to the Clockology community on Reddit and Telegram where I pulled some templates and inspo from to create these!

A close-up image of a person's wrist wearing a modern smartwatch with a rectangular face and a black strap. The watch face design features a unique retro-inspired graphic resembling an old radio dial with a needle indicator and three round knobs at the bottom. The background is softly blurred, highlighting the watch and wrist in sharp focus.

A close-up image of a person's wrist wearing a modern smartwatch with a rectangular face and a black strap. The watch face design features a unique, dark, retro-inspired graphic resembling an old radio dial with a needle indicator and two round knobs at the bottom. The background is softly blurred, highlighting the watch and wrist in sharp focus.

I had a lot of fun this week rediscovering Clockology and designing some of my own watch faces. Here are a few modelled after the watches seen in the new Fantastic Four movie—since I missed the FF X Fossil drop a few weeks ago 😢

JUL.26.2025 - #34 Apps reborn, agentic alternatives, time-altering keycaps, and playing cards that aren't afraid to go for a swim

Read more about Folio here in my latest newsletter issue:

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Link to Folio:

savewithfolio.com

For those of you who are missing Pocket since it shut down—Folio is a fantastic alternative. Made by Nick Chapman (previously worked on Pocket), Folio is a modern spiritual successor to Mozilla’s read-it-later app loaded with some wonderful upgrades and easy-to-use features!

Check it out below:

CannonKeys Summer Sale CannonKeys Summer Sale is coming July 29th at 3:00PM ET, and will be here for 48 hours only!

CannonKeys's huge Summer Sale is live for the next 48 hours!!

Some pretty sweet and steep discounts on awesome keebs and some fun mystery packs to purchase.

Check it out here - cannonkeys.com/collections/...

[new blog post] How I Do Support and Community

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thank you!!!

JUL.19.2025 - #33 Super sales, fancy mice, transforming Toronto, and a fidget-able desk companion

Check out the full issue linked here:

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Only a few days ago the newest issue of c ‘n c was released! I may be biased, but oh boy there are some fantastic features this time around:

→ @kinopio.club by @pketh.org
→ Indie App Sales by @matt1corey.bsky.social
→ and a shiny retro keyset by pbt.fans

(just to name a few)

JUL.12.2025 - #32 Vintage Macs, clicky controllers, translucent keys, yummy food and big keyboard sales!

This feature was one of my faves from last weeks jam-packed issue of clicks ‘n clacks!

Discover other goodies, cool keebs, and app discoveries here: newsletter.clicksnclacks.com/p/jul-12-202...

Frame of preference A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

If you haven’t yet read it, @aresluna.org's newest essay, Frame of preference, detailing the deep history/design of the Mac control panel, is exceptional and I highly recommend checking it out—a longer read with some amazing emulation by @persistent.info's Infinite Mac

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

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Thank you for the shoutout Ross—glad you are enjoying the newsletter!! (also lots of great apps and recos in this write up 👍)

JUL.05.2025 - #31 Two extraordinary keyboards, vacation woes, summertime sales, VHS vibes, and hyper-fast cars

Read the full issue featuring Epoch (and more) here:

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Looking forward to picking up Epoch dark from yuzukeycaps.com for my upcoming QK Alice Duo build. This modern retro set by @mvkb.com is my fave clack from the newsletter this week, it’s awesome to see all the amazing keysets created in Yuzu—they’ve come a long way since I featured them in Issue 01!

JUL.05.2025 - #31 Two extraordinary keyboards, vacation woes, summertime sales, VHS vibes, and hyper-fast cars

Read more about Fullpack in Issue No 31 of clicks 'n clacks here:

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This week I’ve been exploring using Fullpack—made by signerlabs.com —it’s a powerful, local, private and fast luggage/packing companion app powered by Apple’s VisionKit! Lots of fun experimenting with scanning items and building outfits for future trips (my fave feature) ✈️ 🧳

JUN.28.2025 - #30 Incredible app updates, domed switch innovations, heatwaves, and one very noisy keyboard

Wanted to highlight @getsequel.app, and it’s 2.5 update, which was featured in Issue 30 of my newsletter! It’s long been my favourite tracking app, the new update brings some fancy new features 🆕 and speedy upgrades ⚡!! Read more in the issue here:

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JUN.21.2025 - #29 Coffee rituals, the new age of comics, a cyberpunky proto-board, and gaming faster than you can think

Discover out more about Octave, along with other nifty weekly finds, in No. 29 of clicks ‘n clacks!!

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Fun app find this week is Octave—a free coffee pour-over teaching tool with a whole lot of personality 😼 ☕. Made by @laziestbarista.bsky.social, Octave’s got a cool retro interface and helps you build a better brew each time. I’m not a big pour-over guy, but I think this is a great place to start.

JUN.14.2025 - #28 Wholesome creations, my new daily apps, Apple's big news, and an iconic keyboard

Read more about Play, and some equally-amazing finds, in Issue No. 28 of clicks ‘n clacks!!

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Multiple Apple devices, including an iPad and three iPhones, display different screens for the app “Play” against a purple background. The iPad shows a paused video titled "Severance – Inside the Grand Central Terminal Pop-Up | Apple TV+." The iPhones display settings menus, a channels inbox with video thumbnails and titles, and a tag editing interface with a colourful palette for tag customization.

I’ve mentioned before in my ramblings that I never had a good solution for saving/bookmarking videos but I’ve found the missing piece! Play by @mactanaka.bsky.social is helping me watch-it-later, follow creators, search, tag, and filter any video I stumble upon! Couldn’t recommend it highly enough.

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JUN.07.2025 - #27 Colourful cameras, a sea of gaming news, your personal typing test drill sergeant, and a clack with no keyboard?

Issue No. 27 of clicks ‘n clacks was chock-full of amazing features—from @andy.works colourful camera app, to an intriguing keyboard-less device from byok.io, and a shiny light meter from lit-systems.com —it’s got it all!!

Check out the full issue here:
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MAY.31.2025 - #26 Keyboard innovations, indie games, god-like keycaps, and digging into the retro archive!

I wrote a little more about Puzzmo here if you want to check it out:

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