This week Six Colors is sponsored by Boom 3D, immersive audio for everything you listen to on your Mac (or PC). Boom 3D offers an enhanced audio experience with all kinds of media like movies, musi… | Continue reading
Apple has released a quick update for iOS 15: iOS 15.0.1 includes bug fixes for your iPhone including an issue where some users could not unlock iPhone 13 models with Apple Watch. In addition, it f… | Continue reading
iWork updates and new iPhones. | Continue reading
Brandon Katz of The Observer has a good overview of Apple TV’s current subscriber base, how Apple’s strategy of focusing on building a high-quality catalog of originals is going, and wh… | Continue reading
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Team, At Apple, our values are strong. We care about the environment, we look out for workers across our supply chain, and we pride ourselves on creating a welc… | Continue reading
I’m happy to announce Downstream, a new fortnightly podcast I’m co-hosting with Julia Alexander about the future of streaming media. Tech and entertainment companies are vying for our a… | Continue reading
Is Amazon’s new Astro robot cute or menacing? What are our biggest family tech support challenges? How do we revisit our photos? And what do we use for video chatting? | Continue reading
Keynote will let you place live camera (left) and device screen capture (right, Mac only) on slides as standard objects. You’ll need to bring your own device frames, though. On Tuesday Apple … | Continue reading
Myke and Jason review the iPhone 13 and iPad mini, settle on their preferred iPhones, and wonder if Apple should appoint a Color Czar. | Continue reading
Boom 3D for macOS and Windows offers an enhanced audio experience with all kinds of media–movies, music, games, and more. A zero-distortion volume boost, and instant enhancement of ordinary s… | Continue reading
It was 20 years ago that I reviewed Mac OS X 10.1 for Macworld. I remember writing this article under the redwood tree in my backyard–the same place I wrote my iPad mini review earlier this w… | Continue reading
Dan’s waiting for a new iPhone. Jason’s got four, and an iPad mini. We wrote a lot of words this week, so many words that we no longer understand words. | Continue reading
The cameras, they get better every year. When it comes to iPhone upgrades, Apple is incremental. So are iPhone reviews. Those of us who review iPhones are, for understandable reasons, focused on wh… | Continue reading
For power users and people who like to tweak their devices, the arrival of Safari Extensions in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 is a huge step forward. Dan has already written about Safari Keyword Search, whi… | Continue reading
iOS 15 and a surprising amount of discussion about Gandalf. | Continue reading
What size iPad we prefer, our assessment of Apple Arcade two years in, the new iOS 15/iPadOS 15 features we love, and our most recent Apple purchases. | Continue reading
In 2020, Apple sold an iPhone Leather Wallet that attached via MagSafe and held three credit cards. I bought one and have used it for a year, and I like it! But this year, Apple has revised the wal… | Continue reading
Why does the iPad mini exist? Let me count the ways. It’s for kids, people with small hands and good eyesight, people who want a pocketable(-ish) iOS device that doesn’t compromise on f… | Continue reading
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite line is a little more appealing on the outside. The ebook giant has released two new model of its most popular… | Continue reading
Earlier this year, I lauded the return of one of my favorite Safari extensions, Arne Martin Aurlien’s Safari Keyword Search. Now that extension has been updated to version 2.0 and is embarkin… | Continue reading
iOS 15 is here and Myke and Jason share their opinions about new features! Also we’ve got a lot of Apple Event follow-up, and now that Ted Lasso has won eight Emmy Awards, it’s time to … | Continue reading
[This story contains material from the forthcoming update to my book “Take Control of Photos, Second Edition.” If you’d like a deep dive into every feature in the Photos app for M… | Continue reading
Widgets can be placed anywhere, not just in the left column. And I’ve reduced my home screen to a single page thanks to the addition of App Library. I’ve spent the last three months usi… | Continue reading
What is there to say about an operating system fifteen years after release? Fifteen years after the classic Mac OS was released, it was just two years away from its successor, Mac OS X, coming on t… | Continue reading
My thanks to Daylite, the award-winning CRM and productivity app made for Mac-based small businesses, for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Daylite seamlessly integrates with Apple devices–not… | Continue reading
A new home is a blank slate: an opportunity to start over, to hopefully do things better this time—and probably, ultimately, to end up with the same mess as always. But in this era of smart home te… | Continue reading
Dan bought a new iPhone. Jason wants to buy a new Apple Watch. An iPad pricing conundrum. And to those who dream of a unified Apple color system, keep watching the starlight. | Continue reading
AppleInsider reports that Geekbench users are uploading scores for the iPhone 13 that show a 10 percent increase over the iPhone 12 in single-core performance, and a 21 percent increase in multi-co… | Continue reading
Dylan Patel, in a post with a laughably doom-and-gloom headline that nevertheless makes some interesting points about Apple’s chipmaking division and the A15 processor: It appears Apple has n… | Continue reading
We’re feeling blue. By which we mean the blue shade of the new iPhones. | Continue reading
The last time we used the full capabilities of the iPhone’s video camera, the Apple products we still want to see this year, whether we’re tempted by the Apple Watch Series 7, and all t… | Continue reading
Good morning! (Photo: Apple) Dan’s got the quick reactions to Tuesday’s Apple event covered, but I had a few notes left on the cutting-room floor that I wanted to get out before shiftin… | Continue reading
As a subscriber to the iPhone Upgrade Program for lo these many years, I’ve been glad to see that Apple has streamlined the process year after year. What once required you to go into a store … | Continue reading
Apple announced new iPhones, Apple Watches and iPads on Tuesday, and this is our quick reaction to the news. What color is the saddest rainbow? Why was Joz locked out of Apple Park one night? Why i… | Continue reading
Sure seems like Apple’s got the whole “slickly produced video” thing down to a science, doesn’t it? As expected, today’s event saw the wraps taken off the new iPhone 1… | Continue reading
Apple released a bunch of software updates Monday to counteract dangerous security vulnerabilities in its operating systems. Ivan Krstic, head of Apple Security Engineering and Architecture wrote: … | Continue reading
This week, Six Colors is being sponsored by Daylite, the award-winning CRM and productivity app made for Mac-based small businesses. Daylite is the only CRM and productivity app that seamlessly int… | Continue reading
If you can read only one legal analysis about the ruling in the Epic-Apple lawsuit, let it be John Voorhees’s at MacStories: While the decision is undeniably a win for Apple in many respects,… | Continue reading
It’s another emergency draft! In this bonus episode, Jason and Myke predict what will happen at Tuesday’s Apple media event. What form will the new iPhones take? Will a new Apple Watch make a… | Continue reading
On Friday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued her judgment and counter-judgment on Epic Games’s lawsuit against Apple. The result largely favors Apple, to the extent that Apple released a st… | Continue reading
Breaking Apple legal news, and what we’re excited about for next week’s Apple event. | Continue reading
Marvel has revamped its Unlimited app, and The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg has the details. One big part of the push are “Infinity Comics”, which are designed vertically, to be scrol… | Continue reading
What will Apple announce next week? I guess we’ll find out next week, because we don’t know. | Continue reading
Daniel A. Gross, writing for The New Yorker: The high prices of e-book rights could become untenable for libraries in the long run, according to several librarians and advocates I spoke to—librarie… | Continue reading
How we’d upgrade our tech setups if we had the space, the tech parts of our emergency preparedness plans, our thoughts on cashierless “just walk out” stores, and whether we would … | Continue reading
Tim Cook reportedly wants to usher in one more new product category before retiring. Here, he can be seen practicing hailing a driverless cab. (Or just greeting a keynote audience. Your call.) For … | Continue reading
It’s official: Apple’s next product-launch event will come on Tuesday, September 14 at 10 a.m. Pacific. Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak announced it on Twitter and the emailed invita… | Continue reading
As Jason and Myke wait for the announcement of an iPhone launch event, they discuss Apple’s curious set of incremental changes to App Store policies, what those changes mean, and how they inf… | Continue reading