Over the past couple years, Apple’s been rolling out its “Detailed City Experience” in Maps to cities across the world and finally, at long last, those improved maps and better landmarks have come to my hometown of Boston, as first noted by Frank McShan on Twitter.… | Continue reading
I love Continuity Camera, the feature introduced in macOS Ventura that lets you use an iPhone as a Mac webcam. Unfortunately, the creation of a systemwide feature often results in a third-party app being trampled, and that was the fate of Reincubate’s Camo Studio, which lets you… … | Continue reading
How we display and enjoy our digital photographs, celebrating Digital Cleanup Day by revealing the messiest areas of our digital lives, software we don’t like but have to use, and our thoughts on replacing aging tech.… | Continue reading
Dramatic AI readings.… | Continue reading
Did Apple’s designers want the company to give up on its dreams of augmented reality and just wait it out for a few years? We ponder that baffling report and try to make sense of conflicting rumors about the arrival of the new MacBook Air.… | Continue reading
After three days of research on the subject, Adam Engst of TidBITS has provided a detailed explanation of what’s happening with cloud-storage providers on macOS Ventura: My understanding is that Box, Google, and Microsoft have migrated their Mac users to the File Provider approa … | Continue reading
Here’s an uncomfortable fact: at most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’re doing something wrong.… | Continue reading
Technology marches ever forward, even if it does stumble drunkenly from side to side, as it sometimes does. This week Apple contemplates its AI strategy, sets a ship date for its classical music app, and makes plans for new Macs.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become … | Continue reading
Track a game from the Scores screen (left) and it will appear on the lock screen (center) and in the Dynamic Island (right).Major League Baseball’s venerable MLB app was updated this week to add support for iOS 16’s Live Activities API.… | Continue reading
I switched from a regular Amazon Echo to a screen-bearing Echo Show back in 2017. As a kitchen appliance, it essentially existed to answer basic queries, set timers, and play music. If I’m be… | Continue reading
Nineteen months after Apple bought classic-music app Primephonic and promised a new dedicated app in 2022, and three months after the end of 2022, Apple is poised to finally deliver the app that classical music fans have been waiting for.… | Continue reading
Apple sent me the new iPhone. Well, “new.” It’s the same old iPhone 14 but in yellow. And it came with a purple case. Anyway, to celebrate the color yellow I did a livestream: Yellow is not a bad color.… | Continue reading
Whether we use spatial audio, the oldest tech in our setups, our smart TV situations, and what our Twitter experience is currently like.… | Continue reading
Buckle up, this one goes long.… | Continue reading
Jason returns from New Zealand as a better wizard, just in time for Zaz to announce new “Lord of the Rings” films. Has it been done, or can you not keep a good Hobbit down? Also, Netfli… | Continue reading
Callum Bains, writing for PCGamer, recounts the disastrous launch of a SimCity reboot in 2013 and how it spelled the end for the storied franchise: When SimCity launched on March 6, it required players to maintain an active online connection to the game’s servers.… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a new yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, adding even more color choices to the lineup this spring. […] The new yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus will be available to pre-order this Friday, March 10, with availability starting Tuesday, Ma … | Continue reading
Kia ora! Jason’s back from vacation to discuss Apple’s continued quest to optimize its iPhone product revenue and the reason why M3 Macs might be closer (and more interesting) than we thought.… | Continue reading
Jay Weinberg, E Street Drummer Max Weinberg’s kid, about that moment when Bruce Springsteen asked him to drum with the band while his dad was off in L.A. doing The Tonight Show With Conan O&#… | Continue reading
George Joseph at UX Collective with a fascinating, hilarious, frustrating, and sweet story about what happens when the government paperwork gets your name wrong: A few years later I met another Fnu.… | Continue reading
PowerBook G5, by Dana Sibera.Marcin Wichary, whose amazing Shift Happens kickstarter is wrapping up in a few days, posted an excellent newsletter item honoring Dana Sibera, who posts extremely strange Apple hardware photos to the Internet: These “mock-ups that mock” all feel gre … | Continue reading
The folks at AppleVis have used the Six Colors Report Card as inspiration for their own survey: We are thrilled to unveil our inaugural Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card, which provides valuable insights into the experiences and opinions of visually impaired community membe … | Continue reading
Right now, “Zero Trust” is in serious danger of becoming an empty buzzword. The problem isn’t just that marketers have slapped the Zero Trust label on everything short of breakfast cereal–it’s that for all the hype, we don’t seem to be getting any safer.… | Continue reading
This week we wonder what the Apple headset will look like, hope that Apple will improve the Apple Watch’s battery life, and sigh loudly again at Twitter.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.. | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide offers a more nuanced approach to setting and enforcing sensitive data policies. At most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’ … | Continue reading
Dan is joined by special guest Guy English to discuss iPhone passcode security, App Store refunds for third-party Twitter clients, and the rising costs of grain.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and communit … | Continue reading
This episode features our regional accents.… | Continue reading
How we decide which companies get our data, how we manage our personal music collections, our thoughts on iPhone and Apple ID security, and the last time we felt like a clueless technophobe.… | Continue reading
When Twitter shut down third-party clients in January, it not only left out in the cold the users of those apps, but the developers too. Many of those apps were significant sources of revenue for the teams behind them, and that income was cut off capriciously, without any warning … | Continue reading
Apple is a notoriously secretive company. A company so secretive that, in the past, when information has leaked out, it has stridently told its employees that it’s doubling down on its already secret secrecy but secretly it’s quadrupled down on its secrecy.… This story is for Six … | Continue reading
Myke is joined by Casey Liss to discuss Mark Gurman’s report on Apple’s ‘Moonshot’ efforts. Also, what is that ‘ComputeModule’, how thick with the Pro Max camera bump be, and how does Casey fair in a brand new segment?… | Continue reading
Here’s an uncomfortable fact: at most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’re doing something wrong.… | Continue reading
Is the Apple Watch about to become as scarce as woke liberal elites at Elon Musk’s birthday party? Meanwhile rumors about the iPhone 15 and the Apple headset are heating up, hopefully not like the devices themselves.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to … | Continue reading
With Jason off on assignment, Dan recruits his Clockwise co-host Mikah Sargent to talk about reports of Apple’s latest medical device and how the company uses machine learning.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcast … | Continue reading
Man versus machine.… | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple is working on a “moonshot” project for continuous non-invasive blood glucose testing, and that it’s looking promising: Apple is taking a different approach, using a chip technology known as silicon photonics and a measurement process calle … | Continue reading
Look, I’ve been hoping that at some point, the rocky transition from iTunes to the Music app would be over and we’d all look back on it and say, “Wow, I can’t believe that was so brief.”… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive storie … | Continue reading
Susan Wojcicki steps down as YouTube CEO, what will her legacy be? Ant-Man performs well at the box office, but do reviews indicate ‘Marvel Fatigue’? And guest-host Myke Hurley quizzes Julia on why he has to wait for shows to premiere in the UK.… | Continue reading
With Jason on vacation, Myke is joined by David Smith. They discuss a potential delay for Apple’s headset and what that may mean for WWDC. Also, David’s AI-powered podcast transcription website, and the introduction of ‘Ask Underscore’.… | Continue reading
If you’re already using two-factor authentication on your Twitter, account, great! But with the company’s announcement Friday evening1 that it would be discontinuing two-factor authentication via SMS for all but its paying Twitter Blue subscribers, you may suddenly find yourself … | Continue reading
The Air might be getting bigger up here, this Mastodon deal keeps getting better and better, and the Apple headset get kicked down the road (disclaimer: kicking an Apple headset down the road will void your warranty).… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to … | Continue reading
Microsoft Edge for Windows running in Coherence mode on my Mac Studio.Parallels announced on Thursday that Microsoft has officially approved running Windows 11 for ARM processors on M1 and M2 Macs via the Parallels Desktop app for Mac.… | Continue reading
Keith Broni at the Emojipedia blog: New emoji designs have arrived on iOS as part of the first iOS 16.4 beta, including the shaking face, two pushing hands, and the much-requested plain pink heart emoji.… | Continue reading
How we’d add AI technology to our tasks, our non-starter factors for buying an electric car, the device screen sizes we think Apple should consider, and how we’re using climate data to automate our smart homes.… | Continue reading
15 times 100 gives you a new MacBook Air.… | Continue reading
Jason has released the 2022 Apple Report Card, and now it’s time for him and Myke to once again share their grades for Apple for the year gone by. Also, Tim and Eddy go to the Super Bowl, and… | Continue reading
The new, second-generation HomePod is a funny product. So many of us assumed that the original model was discontinued because it was a sales flop, but here it is: reincarnated, and not as some sort of Hollywood-style reboot, but more like a faithful remake of the original, right … | Continue reading
Apple looks to the future as two of its rivals make AI announcements, rumors swirl of an even more expensive iPhone, and the company would like some games for the Mac, please.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts … | Continue reading