For years, automation on the Mac has been an onion of sorts. Automator and its ability to create Quick Actions, Folder Actions and even Applications has given Mac users the ability to create workfl… | Continue reading
Last month I wrote about how I’ve been building automations on iOS that were hard to replicate on macOS, and why that led me to believe the Mac needed to adopt Shortcuts: The more I use Short… | Continue reading
Coherence X4 allows you to turn any website into a chromium-powered app on your Mac. Simply pick a site, enter a name, and pick an icon, and Coherence will turn the app into an isolated application… | Continue reading
There was a time when Apple rolled out the next versions of its operating systems and the story went like this: The iPhone and iPad added a bunch of new features, and the Mac got a few of its own a… | Continue reading
Myke and Jason break down the WWDC 2021 keynote, which brought Apple’s various devices together in some surprising ways. Were the changes to iPadOS exciting or disappointing? Are we excited a… | Continue reading
Speaking to Fast Company’s Michael Grothaus, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi detailed a little more about the privacy-related announcements Apple made at i… | Continue reading
While Apple’s keynote focuses largely on the company’s consumer audience, the Platforms State of the Union is where things start to get technical, really targeting the core WWDC audienc… | Continue reading
Even with a nearly two-hour keynote, Apple didn’t have time to discuss all the new features coming to its platforms in the next major updates. So I’ve gone through and pulled out an eve… | Continue reading
With just hours to go before the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off, I find myself wondering if Apple—a company that has long maintained an unparalleled mastery of sto… | Continue reading
Anticipation on the precipice of WWDC week. | Continue reading
If you ask a bunch of people in Apple community if WWDC is a hardware event or not, you’ll get a bunch of different answers, but I think most people consider WWDC to be a software event mostl… | Continue reading
Will new MacBook Pros be announced at WWDC next week? Your guess is as good as mine. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t mind thrilling developers with new power laptops, since they are so often th… | Continue reading
Apple says it’s adjusting how AirTags deal with privacy implications, in a statement provided to CNET’s Ian Sherr: The tech giant said Thursday it’s begun sending out updates to i… | Continue reading
Twitter: Starting today, we will be rolling out our first iteration of Twitter Blue in Australia and Canada. Our hope with this initial phase is to gain a deeper understanding of what will make you… | Continue reading
Our hopes and dreams for Apple’s WWDC, feelings on the iPad’s Center Stage feature, ephemeral social media feelings, and who we’re rooting for in the Apple Design Awards. | Continue reading
Conservation of Internet quality: Moltz’s connection is getting better, Dan’s is getting worse. | Continue reading
Back to school. (Shutterstock) For the last six years, we’ve compiled a report card covering how Apple’s been doing across numerous categories of interest to users and developers. It… | Continue reading
It’s time for our sixth annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! Is this the year iPadOS gets all the love? Will there be Mac hardware? Can Myke and Jason figure… | Continue reading
It could have been so much worse. It’s not often that you see the CEO of the world’s biggest company on the witness stand of a trial brought by the maker of a game that features a naked… | Continue reading
Speaking of John Gruber, he wrote about Markdown links today: I know inline links [like this]( are overwhelming more popular with Markdown users, but I personally much prefer the reference style fo… | Continue reading
Via Daring Fireball comes this Engadget story about TV-maker Vizio’s finances: Issuing its first public earnings report earlier today, the company revealed that in the first three months of 2… | Continue reading
Clicky remotes, Apple TV apps, and iPad anxiety. | Continue reading
If you, like me, are generally uninterested in loving photo tours of new Apple retail locations, make an exception for Federico Viticci’s story about Apple’s new store in Rome: The uniq… | Continue reading
New iPadOS features we think Apple will announce, the remote controls we use regularly, our digital — and physical — wallets, and recent acquisitions that have brought us joy. | Continue reading
Tim Cook pleads ignorance and Lex finds a new exercise rig. | Continue reading
Amazon: Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and MGM today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire MGM for a purchase price of $8.45 billion. MGM has ne… | Continue reading
I love Flexibits’s Fantastical 3, which I use across all my devices. But I have to admit I never really warmed to Cardhop, the company’s contact-management app. Still, I’m open to… | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett and I had the same idea — namely to celebrate the return of colorful iMacs by comparing the original colorful iMacs to the new models. This is a delightful video, and it’… | Continue reading
Joe Rosensteel, podcast host, VFX artist, and Apple TV connoisseur, has an excellent and in-depth look at the recently revised Apple TV 4K, including the new Siri Remote: I can confidently say that… | Continue reading
Jason reviews the new iPad Pro, Myke reviews the new 24-inch iMac, and the future of Apple silicon might be coming into focus. | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple unveiled the lineup for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, including keynote and Platforms State of the Union timing, and shared more information on how develo… | Continue reading
An iPad Pro attached to a Pro Display XDR, in an Apple promotional video. For a few years now, it’s seemed like the iPad has been on the precipice of a huge change. It can drive external disp… | Continue reading
Jason unboxes a new Apple TV 4K–but nobody can see it because it’s a podcast. Oh, and iMac and iPad Pro thoughts. | Continue reading
Pok Pok Playroom, the new software toy for young kids (ages two to six) from an eponymous studio spun out of game studio Snowman, has arrived. I’ve had a chance to play with it, as has John V… | Continue reading
9to5Mac’s Filipe Espósito reports that iOS 14.7 will bring a feature long-awaited by me and many other HomePod owners: With this new version of iOS, users will be able to set timers on the Ho… | Continue reading
Lossless and spatial audio on Apple Music, improved Pixel photography for people of color, Google’s AI dermatology tool, and moving from voice to video calls. | Continue reading
You think you know people, then you find out where they put their Dock. | Continue reading
Recoloring Numbers chart bars in Affinity Designer. If you haven’t noticed, I leaned into the name of this site by color-coding all Six Colors charts by Apple product category. iPhones are bl… | Continue reading
It’s probably safe to say that the iPad Pro is a product in transition. Sales of iPads have returned to the heights of its heady early days, and the low-end iPad and the mid-range iPad Air re… | Continue reading
Mark Gurman’s latest piece at Bloomberg lays down a pretty thorough look at what is likely coming down Apple’s Mac pipeline: Redesigned MacBook Pros are expected to debut as soon as ear… | Continue reading
Jason’s been using an orange 24-inch iMac for the last week and we’ve got his review. Also, Apple Music goes for high quality and spatial audio, WarnerMedia is on the move again, and Je… | Continue reading
The original Bondi Blue iMac was a computer designed to draw attention, in an era where ugly beige-box PCs were designed to fade into the background as much as possible. And for a few years, the or… | Continue reading
Lengthy article in the New York Times by Jack Nicas, Raymond Zhong and Daisuke Wakabayashi about Apple’s relationship with the Chinese government: Behind the scenes, Apple has constructed a b… | Continue reading
As expected, Apple has announced that it will be upgrading its Apple Music streaming service with better audio quality. The improvements comes in two forms: Spatial Audio with Support for Dolby Atm… | Continue reading
Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac: Apple Music has started teasing a special announcement coming soon, on the main Browse tab in the Music application. The teaser comes as Apple is rumored to announce a new… | Continue reading
I’m used to having an Apple product to covet. It’s a little weird right now, having just been through an Apple event, and having WWDC around the corner that there’s nothing that I… | Continue reading
Broadband in America, and hiring Bob From Down The Hall. | Continue reading
Special appearance by Lex Friedman. | Continue reading