My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide connects device security and Slack together in a clever way–by sending people important, timely, and relevant recommendations a… | Continue reading
I have to search for a lot of movies to watch on my Apple TV because I have a movie podcast. If a movie is located within a service that I’m already paying for, then I’d like to get tha… | Continue reading
Everybody’s got tech problems this week. | Continue reading
How we manage notifications, our thoughts on Crisis Text Line’s data collection, our password management setup, and how we’re feeling about the Wordle acquisition by the New York Times. | Continue reading
Dan and I joined Matthew Cassinelli earlier today to discuss and show off our Podcast Note shortcut and discuss Shortcuts and automation in general. It was a good time, so if you’d like to se… | Continue reading
Speaking of David Letterman, here’s a special episode of The Incomparable from May 2015, when Letterman retired from hosting a late-night talk show. This is not the usual panel discussion. It… | Continue reading
40 years ago, “Late Night With David Letterman” aired its first episode. While unofficial archivist Don Giller has filled his YouTube channel with old clips, as of today there’s a… | Continue reading
Apple made a ton of money and released a ton of betas with new features. Face ID works with masks, Universal Control causes the soul of the Mac pointer to leave its body, the iPad relies on legacy … | Continue reading
Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack. At Kolide, we think end-user… | Continue reading
Deep inside the gleaming white innards of Apple Park, protected by multiple factors of authentication and the most sophisticated technological security known to humanity, lies the most coveted of a… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for once again sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide focuses on honest, user-focused device management and security, with informed consent, opt-in style enrollment, and commit… | Continue reading
Apple makes money, releases betas, does not reveal roadmap. Also: We did a live stream about Apple’s financial results and the audio’s tacked on the end of this episode in case you pref… | Continue reading
Here’s a partial, in-progress transcript of Apple’s conference call following its announcement of its first-quarter 2022 results… Tim Cook: Thank you Tejas and good afternoon. Tod… | Continue reading
Apple’s latest quarterly results are out. And they’re big. It was an all-time revenue record, at $123.9 billion. The company made a record $34.6 billion in profit. Mac revenue also reac… | Continue reading
Apple will announce its FY22 first quarter results later today, followed by its usual conference call webcast at 2 PT, 5 ET. This will be the results from Apple’s holiday quarter just gone by… | Continue reading
When you’re automating something, sometimes you run into a roadblock. On iOS, that roadblock is often impassable, though that happens less often now than back in the day. On macOS, there̵… | Continue reading
Come to the show where we hardly talk about technology and the jokes are bad. | Continue reading
How Apple should address AirTag misuse, the techniques we use for cleaning out our inbox, whether Twitter’s “Close Friends” feature interests us, and our applications for a smart … | Continue reading
Rogue Amoeba has announced that my favorite audio utility, Audio Hijack, is getting a huge update: Perhaps the single most notable change, however, is something making a return from years back: scr… | Continue reading
Netflix’s latest quarterly report makes us wonder: Is it a tech company or an entertainment company? Julia experiences live sports streaming success–and failure. HBO Max takes a victory… | Continue reading
Most of Apple’s software is proprietary. Some of it, though, is based on open-source projects. WebKit, which powers Safari, is an open-source project. Which means that Apple is not the only s… | Continue reading
Myke and Jason discuss the mysteries of Apple’s car project, and express confusion about Apple’s 2022 product release schedule. And at last, France makes a big box-related move. | Continue reading
Kolide provides teams unprecedented ground truth across their Linux, Mac, and Windows devices. Powered by osquery, our honest approach to obtaining device visibility via informed consent, opt-in s… | Continue reading
James Fallows has essentially built an FAQ file about what’s happening between airlines and wireless companies that could have a huge impact on the U.S.: This post is a basic who-what-why pri… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. Kolide believes that the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation is the “average&… | Continue reading
When to repair and when to retire old tech, networking adventures, and green bubbles. | Continue reading
With the advent of Shortcuts on macOS, automation on the Mac has become more accessible than ever. There is no part of our workflows that we can’t automate and thus there is no part of our wo… | Continue reading
The decommissioned weather station, with cloudy solar panel, spiderwebbed shield, and mossy anemometer. It’s rare that a piece of technology lasts so long and serves you so well that it’… | Continue reading
John Paczkowski at Buzzfeed: Apple has tapped a new head of PR: longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet. She’ll replace Stella Low, former communications chief at networking giant Cisco,… | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels thinks Apple should bring back Dashboard: Apple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time. Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing d… | Continue reading
9to5Google: In an email to administrators this morning, Google said it “will now transition all remaining users to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription based on your usage.” A… | Continue reading
Ty Burr, former Boston Globe film critic, writing at his Substack about movies that can’t be found online: The problem, in 9 cases out of 10, is a rights issue. Who owns a movie, particularly… | Continue reading
The streaming services we use regularly, creating or augmenting a tech product, the messaging apps we use, and our NFC experiences. | Continue reading
How much would you pay to drive out of here in an Apple headset today? | Continue reading
If I’ve learned anything about automation, it’s that projects are never really finished. After I wrote about my solution to taking notes during a podcast recording, Dan followed up with… | Continue reading
Using a Stream Deck doesn’t just increase your productivity–it also increases your appetite for custom icons to label all those buttons. Via John Voorhees of MacStories, I found out las… | Continue reading
Apple seems to have a settled on a strategy for handling demands to open up payment processing and external web links, and we’re frustrated by the decision. Following a silly Wall Street Jour… | Continue reading
At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send impo… | Continue reading
My thanks to BZG Apps for sponsoring Six Colors this week. BZG makes Unite 4, which allows you to turn any Website into a Mac app. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can … | Continue reading
Some questions are perennials. This week on Upgrade we answered a question from a listener named Kiran: Assuming that the display quality of an Apple external display is the same as the upcoming iM… | Continue reading
I’m kind of a sucker for menu bar apps. I’m not sure why, but there’s tons of software that I would never just leave running in my Dock, but I’m more than happy to reduce to… | Continue reading
“Shortcuts: Name That Tune” and other puzzles. | Continue reading
What is listening to a podcast if not being haunted by ghosts? | Continue reading
Last week, Jason wrote up his new podcast note workflow, using Keyboard Maestro and an AppleScript script. The end goal was to create a text file that contained notes about things to fix while edit… | Continue reading
The last tech we bought for our home workplaces, the tyranny of choice with subscription service content, non-smartwatch wearables we’d like, and the state of printers in the year 2022. | Continue reading
It’s a new year! Disney has moved another Pixar movie out of theaters and onto Disney+. Why “Don’t Look Up” was the perfect movie for Netflix. “Yellowstone” is a… | Continue reading
Just as a follow up to my post about digital vaccine cards, I was pleased to hear this week that my home state, Massachusetts, is now following in the footsteps of California and offering digital v… | Continue reading
The Korea Times: Apple said it plans to provide an alternative payment system at a reduced service charge compared with the current 30 percent charge, as the tech giant turned in its compliance pla… | Continue reading