Links Digest – September 2025

Sep 28, 2025 #

Apple's guide to customizing the iPhone Lock Screen doesn’t cover Touch ID devices or those without Face ID enabled, but you can still edit it by unlocking the phone, swiping down to bring back the Lock Screen, and then entering edit mode.
Access clipboard history in Windows via Win+V and macOS Tahoe via Cmd+Space, Cmd+4
Xreveal: "Windows based application similar to AnyDVD that removes restrictions of DVD, and Blu-ray media automatically in the background."

Set iPhone speaker as default for calls: Despite its appearance, the speaker icon labeled "Audio" doesn’t enable the speaker when tapped during a call; it merely opens audio output options. To default to speaker, head to Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Call Audio Routing and select Speaker.
Get live captions of spoken audio on Mac: Great for Japanese or any language study. Uncannily accurate subtitles for YouTube videos.

Pierre Sernet's "One", aka "Guerrilla Tea": photos of tea ceremonies in unexpected environments with diverse guests around the world
Modern-day Baisao, who has equipped his yacht and campervan with a tearoom, and traveled more than 30,000 kilometers across the country to serve Japanese tea.
Gerta Ital: "Even after their enlightenment all the great Masters have lived very simple, strictly ascetic lives."

TooLongLink: Convert YouTube videos into text with relevant images, skipping filler and clickbait.
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
Microsoft MarkItDown: FOSS tool for converting PDFs, Office docs, images, audio, YouTube URLs, and more into clean Markdown.

Fix scroll direction in macOS UTM VM (when Trackpad is missing in System Settings): defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

Shotomatic: Scriptable screen capture via timed intervals and keypress simulation. Subscription (one-time purchase option reinstated on Sep 15), macOS.
zpaqfranz: Deduplicating archiver with snapshot versioning and paranoid-level data verification. FOSS, Win/*nix.

❧ 2025-09-30