Since 2019, the Relay FM Community has raised over $2.2M for St. Jude. With your support this year, we’ll be one step closer to that day when no child dies from cancer. One cure closer. One c… | Continue reading
Fascinating piece from Scharon Harding at Ars Technica about the latest organization objecting to right to repair legislation—a movement that Apple just last month changed its stance on, and has now come out in support of: Today, 404 Media reported on a letter sent on August 10 … | Continue reading
Who’s ready for some collective outrage? I’ve asked Ernesto, my incomparable penguin valet1, to fire up the Semi-Perpetual Rage Machine that we keep in the basement for just such an eventuality.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusiv … | Continue reading
The key to automation is figuring out what problems it can solve to make your life easier. For example: the problem where one of your podcast co-hosts1 has to regularly text you because you’ve forgotten to put your audio file in the shared Dropbox folder.… | Continue reading
Adrian Schönig has released Longplay 2.0, a new version of his excellent iOS app for exploring and playing entire albums: Longplay 1.0 was released in August 2020.… | Continue reading
The iPhone XR led the way for the iPhone 11. For the first few years of the iPhone’s existence, Apple introduced a single new model every year. In that time, total iPhone sales shot up from n… | Continue reading
Great, inexpensive gadgets; worthy subscriptions and those we’ve canceled; Apple’s September event; and our future USB-C charging prospects.… | Continue reading
Tyler Vigen was curious: This pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 just west of the Minneapolis Airport. It connects Bloomington to Richfield. I drive under it often and I wondered: why is it there? It&… | Continue reading
Apple’s iPhone event is on the calendar. We continue to discuss our beta impressions and also tackle which comedians we’d be.… | Continue reading
John Gruber, writing about how the anticipated switch to USB-C on the iPhone 15 will be received: I think there’s going to be a backlash that most USB-C proponents don’t see coming, premised on accusations that this switch is a money grab from Apple to get people to replace all … | Continue reading
Jason Snell, come on down. You’re the next contestent on The Talk Show. Special topics: John Warnock and Adobe, Disney and Apple, the iMac’s 25th anniversary, and more.… | Continue reading
With a busy fall looming, Mac analyst Stephen Hackett joins the show to give Jason’s computing setup a check-up. And some iPhone rumors suggest the Color Czar may be leaving a lump of Space Black coal in Myke’s stocking this year.… | Continue reading
Rumors this week indicate that not only will the cables that come with the iPhone 15s have different connectors, they’ll be different in between, too! We’re also hearing from totally reliable sources that the Vision Pro is way cool, and Apple is supporting a bill that could let y … | Continue reading
Every time any of us packs a bag, we are making some very specific tech-focused decisions. It starts with what devices we need (or can live without) and cascades into charging bricks and cords and anything else that will keep us powered up and not feeling regret about having left … | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Getting OS updates installed on end user devices should be easy, but of course it isn’t. Forcing restarts without user approval will l… | Continue reading
The CNN streaming era re-begins—and we’re still trying to figure out how TV news adapts to the streaming era. Also: Netflix makes a franchise bet on Zach Snyder, but is it shooting itself in the foot?… | Continue reading
Following up on Dan’s Macworld column, Stephen Hackett weighs the pros and cons of making a new, larger iMac alongside the 24-inch model introduced with the M1 iMac: I, for one, would like to see a larger iMac make it out into the world, complete with a Pro-level SoC, like the M … | Continue reading
Interesting feature on the Apple Developer site(!) talking to developers who have been through Apple’s developer labs for the Vision Pro. Developers interviewed include Michael Simmons of Flexibits, Ben Guerrette of Pixite, and friend of the site “Underscore” David Smith: Smith … | Continue reading
Exciting USB C rumors, Apple Music and clothes for your stick shift.… | Continue reading
Our hardware upgrade cycles, what an Apple foldable would bring, UI decisions that bother us, and what piece of tech we would use our magic wands on.… | Continue reading
People are reminiscing about 25 years of the iMac, which is fine and all, but I’m doing to do something a little different. I’m reminiscing about 21 years of Apple’s Shake.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, a … | Continue reading
Stripping silent passages in Adobe Audition leaves blank areas between the spoken clips on each track. Jason has used a feature in Logic Pro and Ferrite Recording Studio to remove silence from podcast recording tracks for years now.… | Continue reading
The iMac turns 25, Relay turns 10 (next year in London), print magazines apparently still exist, and listeners have questions about why Apple would ever want to buy Disney.… | Continue reading
Getting OS updates installed on end user devices should be easy. After all, it’s one of the simplest yet most impactful ways that every employee can practice good security. On top of that, e… | Continue reading
Change is coming and you will like it whether you like it or not. The iMac has a big anniversary and Apple dons a big rubber suit and crushes Tokyo.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.. | Continue reading
What was PowerPoint before PowerPoint? Slide presentations. Big, fancy, multi-projector, multi-media slide presentations. As Claire L. Evans of the MIT Technology Review reports: Before PowerPoint, and long before digital projectors, 35-millimeter film slides were king.… | Continue reading
One of the great things about having a Mac with built-in biometric authentication is not having to constantly type in your password. It’s particularly nice for those of us that work in Terminal, where you can set up Touch ID to authenticate the sudo command that bestows administr … | Continue reading
Whether we speed up audio and video media, how we’d want Apple to change Disney Parks, our thoughts on new Apple Watch bands, and what we’re hoping to see from Apple’s Shortcuts.… | Continue reading
Apple Watch bands, all the AirTags and our favorite podcasts.… | Continue reading
For years, rumors about Apple and Disney combining seemed ridiculous—but in light of Apple’s transformation and Disney’s difficulties, suddenly it seems a lot more possible. Myke and Jason examine Disney’s business and try to imagine what portions of it Apple would actually want. … | Continue reading
A really great and nuanced piece by the New York Times‘s David Streitfeld on the legal case over the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library, which it launched during the early days of the pandemic: Libraries have traditionally been sanctuaries for culture that could not a … | Continue reading
Nothing like mixing a Mac feature from 2002 with one from 2021.In my quest to improve my Apple analyst-call transcripts by using OpenAI’s Whisper technology, I’ve ended up in a position where I need to create an automation on my Mac that runs when an item is placed in a folder.… | Continue reading
Apple scores a victory against Epic. Does it want to celebrate by going to Disneyland? And buying it? Also, keep this under your hat, but Apple is rumored to be shipping new phones next month.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive … | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. AI is a hot topic in lots of businesses, but most companies still haven’t come up with policies to manage AI usage—and employees are potentially handing over all sorts of sensitive data to tools that may or may not be … | Continue reading
Disney alters the deal—pray they don’t alter it further. But is Disney suffering from franchise fatigue, and is aggressively bunding Hulu with Disney+ the solution? Also: Jason’s sad about Apple’s failed college football deal.… | Continue reading
On a Safari page where Reader is available (right), tell Siri to “read this.” Within Accessibility settings (left, center), you can enable Speak Screen or Speak Selection, choose from a expanded number of voices, and adjust their speed and pitch.… | Continue reading
Does the AI really want this content?… | Continue reading
Apple’s new music discovery station, how we take notes when problem solving, our use of voice assistants, and whether Apple’s support is as good as it used to be.… | Continue reading
Speaking of Disney, Zombies, Run! developer Adrian Hon went to the immersive Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel/roleplaying game in advance of it closing next month and wrote a detailed description of the experience.… | Continue reading
Kim Masters and Alex Weprin, writing in The Hollywood Reporter: A few weeks before Bob Iger sat down for that CNBC interview in which he said Disney’s linear TV networks, like ABC and FX, “may not be core” to the company’s business, a veteran Hollywood executive mused to The Hol … | Continue reading
What do a classic Charles Laughton film and ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ have in common?I would be remiss in my duties if I didn’t mention that my pal Casey Liss has launched his new app, Callsheet.… | Continue reading
A few years back, I recommended an app called NightOwl, which allows you to toggle your Mac between dark and light mode on a schedule. While I used it for a while, it eventually got supplanted by built-in macOS features.… | Continue reading
After recent reports that Apple was close to striking its first TV deal for American Colletge Football, the whole deal collapsed like a house of cards last week. According to numerous reports like … | Continue reading
Jason has the painful details about Apple’s comeback bid for college football TV rights that fell just short of the goal line. We also discuss what Apple’s rich-but-middling quarterly results say about the importance of this fall’s iPhone launch.… | Continue reading
It seems like every company is scrambling to stake their claim in the AI goldrush–check out the CEO of Kroger promising to bring LLMs into the dairy aisle. And front line workers are following suit… | Continue reading
The rumor mill giveth again, as more updated devices are on the horizon—some in zeitgeisty colors. Apple’s down quarter, meanwhile, won’t stop the company from being the best dang technology company it can be.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get acc … | Continue reading
Every three months after releasing its corporate earnings, Apple’s CEO and CFO get on the phone and chat with financial analysts. By which we mean, they read from prepared statements and then take a couple questions each from a group of handpicked analysts.… | Continue reading
Apple announced its results for its fiscal third quarter on Thursday. As expected, it was a down quarter—though at a 1% drop over the year-ago quarter, it’s a better result than the previous quarter, which was down 3% year-over-year.… | Continue reading