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Archives for February 2025

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Turn iMessage into the Nintendo DS’ PictoChat.

Idrees Hassan has created a free iOS app called PicoChat that recreates the Nintendo DS’ messaging experience in iMessage, as spotted by Overkill.

You can type out messages on a tiny keyboard or make drawings to send to your contacts, complete with a simulated stylus that appears onscreen as you doodle. The app generates a PictoChat-themed image of your message you can send to others, giving them a similar experience without installing the app.

Two screenshots of Idress Hassan’s PicoChat iMessage app.
Hassan previously created an e-reader app for the Panic Playdate called Playbook.
Image: Idrees Hassan
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Slack is kinda down.

If you use Slack for things like “sending messages,” an outage tracker shows a known issue since around 10:30AM ET. Some people have reported being unable to access Slack via desktop apps at all, while others aren’t getting updates from all of their channels.

There’s still no ETA for when things should go back to normal.

ChatGPT is a terrible, fascinating, and thrilling to-do list app

Inside this chatbot is an assistant that can remember and do stuff for you. Sometimes.

David Pierce
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“Tapestry looks cool.”

That’s apparently how Tumblr started its email to timeline app Tapestry that eventually led to a grant, according to a Tapestry blog post we saw via TechCrunch.

Thanks to the grant, the Tapestry team will start work on native macOS support.