Alastair Byrne

Hello, and thank you for checking out VoiceNews. Last year, our resident ninja and voice tech expert @alexandre_nicol3 was contacted by a blind person who couldn’t access the local news in her community, and wanted an Alexa flash briefing that would let her listen to news from her town’s news sites. While making this, he realised that there was an opportunity to help any news site who want to...

This project came about because we kept getting emails from companies saying something along the lines of “We’ve updated our terms of use. Click here to see the new version”. This was very annoying, as most of these emails would, at best, include a summary of the changes, but most often not give any indication of what changed, leaving you to hope there’s an archived version you can compare the...

Tiny, fast, and laser-focused, Text Compare is a native macOS app that does exactly, and only, what it says on the tin. No bloat, no extraneous features. Text Compare respects your time, attention and privacy. No annoying badges, notifications or startup items. App Sandboxing guarantees that it can't make or receive network requests, or read files on your Mac. It also has full support for...

macOS Big Sur uses default font smoothing settings that make your fonts blurrier, bolder and mess with carefully designed character shapes. As of Big Sur, there is now also no way to change this through System Preferences. This annoyed us, so we made a tiny app that lets you easily choose what level of font smoothing you would like, or disable it altogether, even for people who are not...