Honest answers to ‘what is that?’: hold a phone to the aircraft window and the river below gets its name, strap one to a telescope and the stars say where it is pointing, a found feather is matched against a forensics lab’s scans rather than guessed at, and two small Mac utilities show what the system itself thinks a file is.
Mount your phone on a telescope and it tells you where to push
→ astrohelm.app
Five minutes of printing instead of calipers and a lookup table
→ thingiverse.com
Point your phone out the window and the river below gets a name
→ flyovercountry.app
A Linux icon theme where a Dockerfile is a stack of crates and a lock file is a padlock
→ github.com
A federal forensics lab's feather-matching database, no AI required
→ fws.gov
Finds out why Spotlight quietly refuses to index a file
→ eclecticlight.co
Free Mac app for exploring Uniform Type Identifier hierarchies
→ eclecticlight.co