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
The last time we had an AR experience, our thoughts on social media services paying for news links in Canada, the current state of smartphone innovation, and whether we think AI “hallucinations” are a deal-breaker for the future of generative AI.… | Continue reading
Hilarious mistakes were made.… | Continue reading
The view from the top.Recently, the podcasters of The Incomparable got together in person and one of the things we did was exactly what you’d expect podcasters to do—we made podcasts.… | Continue reading
ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports that Apple may be about to jump into College Football: Sources: The primary deal presented to Pac-12 executives/ADs today was an primarily Apple streaming deal. The… | Continue reading
Every year I start my annual ritual of installing the tvOS beta on the secondary Apple TV. Not the one in the living room—I’m not crazy—but the one in my office.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and communit … | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of news in the technology arena this week. Elon Musk changed the name of Twitter to a single letter.1 Samsung announced some new foldable phones.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and comm … | Continue reading
This week we wonder if Apple will profess further mastery of the Periodic Table with this fall’s iPhone Pro release, and if Lionel Messi will conquer the world with Apple’s help. And fo… | Continue reading
Apple continues its ongoing war with unsightly blank spaces, and that may end up costing us all a little more. The App Store follies continue as Apple is caught in its own game of tower defense.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusiv … | Continue reading
Screen Sharing is my friend.I love beta season. New software brings new features to discover and explore. It’s like living in the future. The one thing I don’t like, however, is incompatibility.… | Continue reading
I just updated my perennial “The right Mac laptop to buy for a student” story today. It’s funny how that story has evolved since I first posted it. In 2017 the answer was “W… | Continue reading
Anže Tomić’s article makes us consider Apple’s focus on trackpads and lack of language localization. Also: Apple platform software advantages, and trying to outsmart ourselves with user automations.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to excl … | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. As a native Safari extension, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – letting you experience a faster, cleaner and more secure experience across all your devices.… | Continue reading
Did Netflix lure the rest of the streaming industry into quicksand? We explore the difference between being an entertainment retailer and wholesaler. Then it’s time to talk about the man, the legend, the human topic: Disney’s Bob Iger.… | Continue reading
The current state of our social media presences, tech tips for navigating medical situations, spatial apps we’d like to see for Apple Vision Pro, and how we deal with mis-delivered packages.… | Continue reading
Maybe social media was a bad idea.… | Continue reading
I bought my first Mac ever this year. I was born in 1983 in Slovenia1. My first contact with computers was at about 10 years old with the ZX Spectrum my mom’s cousin had.… | Continue reading
Myke’s summer is a lot less fun due to his concerns about a bill advancing in the UK Parliament that could potentially drive some Apple services out of the country. Also we try to understand … | Continue reading
Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. It’s easy to setup, blocks all YouTube ads, … | Continue reading
Two sketchy reports were heaved over the transom this week, one about Apple Maps and the other about AI. But what’s even more sketchy is the British government’s excuses for making communications apps less secure.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get … | 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
Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on large-language model AI technology: Apple Inc. is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools… but the company has yet to devise a clear strategy for releasing the technology to consumers.… | Continue reading
The sites, apps, and services we use for research; how our university tech setups influenced our lives; the navigation apps we use; and our favorite features from Apple’s OS betas.… | Continue reading
A few of our favorite things about the public betas.… | Continue reading