What’s the deal with the Dealmaster? | Continue reading
I’m a big believer in user automation. Not everyone is a programmer, but most of us perform repetitive tasks on our devices that can be eliminated by a judicious application of automation. Wh… | Continue reading
Dear Tim, It is my deepest pleasure to report the satisfactory conclusion of Phase One of Operation PETARD. When you came to me last summer and gave me the goal of publicly humiliating a purveyor o… | Continue reading
TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino: Apple is adding two new voices to Siri’s English offerings, and eliminating the default ‘female voice’ selection in the latest beta version of iOS. This means … | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format. Free for all developers, WWDC21 will offer unique in… | Continue reading
We’re celebrating 20 years of OS X with a discussion of how we use our Macs today and what we might upgrade later this year! Also, the future of Apple events, the future of movie theaters, an… | Continue reading
At last, the Soviets. We loved this whole episode, from the pointed conversation about Laika to the docking system designed out of coasters. Who makes Houston’s best borscht? Who cares! Let’s have … | Continue reading
This week, Six Colors is brought to you by Kandji. Kandji is building the future of Apple enterprise management. The use of Apple devices in the enterprise is growing rapidly. Drawing on decades of… | Continue reading
I’ve been a Mac user for about 30 years. And hard as it is for me to believe, the vast majority of that time has been spent with the modern macOS (or OS X, or Mac OS X, if we’re getting historical)… | 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
HomePod screen dreaming, OS X reminiscing. | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett joins Jason to wrap up the series and discuss all the Macs that didn’t make the list. | Continue reading
Like this story, this image was uploaded to Six Colors using a shortcut. This week Apple (hopefully temporarily?) broke the sharing of Shortcuts. I rely on Shortcuts when I’m working on my iP… | Continue reading
If I close my eyes, I can picture the classic Mac OS laid out before me. I can imagine every menu, every mouse gesture, the sound of the Mac SE chime, even depressing the reset switch after a hard … | Continue reading
Truly a Blockbuster episode. | Continue reading
Speaking of OS X history, here’s James Thomson on Twitter: It’s really a weird experience rewatching Steve introducing the Dock for the first time, as it was my code that was running here. To… | Continue reading
It’s officially spring now, which is when the internet’s fancy turns to rumors of 2021’s first Apple announcements. Over the last few years, Apple has generally released at least some new products … | Continue reading
Smart speakers with displays, how (and if) we use Apple’s productivity software, whether we have temperature and humidity sensors in our homes, and does anyone even care about AirTags anymore… | Continue reading
So many pages on this operating system over the years. Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Mac OS X. I wrote a bit about it in my Macworld column this week, and also put together a litt… | Continue reading
To understand the desperation Apple felt in the mid-to-late 1990s, look no further than to one particular t-shirt. On the front was a 3-D rendered numeral eight. On the back, the words “Hands-On Ex… | Continue reading
Mac OS X has been through a lot in 20-plus years. As someone who was sitting in the front row at Macworld Expo when then-CEO Gil Amelio brought Steve Jobs on stage to celebrate Apple’s purchase of … | Continue reading
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to reminisce over 20 years of Mac OS X. I mean OS X. Sorry, MacOS. Also: HomePod, AppleTV, and Intel’s awkward new ad campaign. | Continue reading
Wake up Elvis and get The Band back together—we’re here to take a load for free and talk about the latest episode of “For All Mankind.” We cover Tracy’s rough introduction to Jamestown, Gordo’s poo… | Continue reading
A few years back, Apple implemented a new browser extension framework, with the goal of making the system more secure. However, when the company eventually discontinued its old system, some popular… | Continue reading
The future of the iPad Pro, the end of the 21.5-inch iMac, what the HomePod mini means for Apple’s home strategy, and Jason explains the NFL. | Continue reading
Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. … | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the HomePod mini contains a dormant temperature/humidity sensor: The sensor, measuring 1.5 by 1.5 millimeters, is buried in the bottom edge of the HomePod… | Continue reading
This is staggering. “Bolle,” from Germany, drew and built a functional Mac SE/30 logic board. And with this work done, people in this message-board thread are beginning to speculate abo… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kandji for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kandji is building the future of Apple device management. Drawing on decades of experience in Apple IT, the founders of Kandji saw the need … | Continue reading
Mac apps rule, leakers drool. | Continue reading
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, and iMac G3. | Continue reading
I don’t envy software developers who work on image editors—it must be tough when your biggest competitor has basically become a generic term for the whole category. But I’ve never been … | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this review of Panic’s code editor Nova by Alex Guyot of MacStories. Nova is a remarkable Mac-only app that I’m looking forward to using with all updates to the Six Col… | Continue reading
Zac Hall of 9to5 Mac has some questions about the discontinuation of the HomePod: Remember when Mac users had similar concerns about pro machines in Apple’s lineup? Apple rightfully held a roundtab… | Continue reading
The HomePod is no longer on the range. | Continue reading
I use Twitter a lot, and have for a long time. But I recently discovered that there’s a feature of Twitter that most people don’t use–and it’s one that I’ve been using… | Continue reading
Gamification of tasks, vertical tabs, Apple’s smart home ambitions, and sleep hacks. | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that new iPad Pro models are on the way as early as April, with some interesting new features: The company is planning a refresh to its iPad Pro line, adding a… | Continue reading
Google VP of Product Management, Sameer Samat: Starting on July 1, 2021 we are reducing the service fee Google Play receives when a developer sells digital goods or services to 15% for the first $1… | Continue reading
The Internet’s Dr. Drang points out a weird interface change in Big Sur: The M1 MacBook Air is the only machine I have running Big Sur, and for the first few days I kept wondering why certain… | Continue reading
Dan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica: FaceTime users are getting bombarded with group calls from numbers they’ve never seen before, often as many as 20 times in short succession during late hours of… | Continue reading
Myke’s on a quest for new TV speakers as we ponder the misfire of Apple’s high-end speaker and the potential fate of Apple’s high-end headphones. Jason runs with his Apple Watch, … | Continue reading
This week, Six Colors is brought to you by Kandji. Kandji is building the future of Apple enterprise management. The use of Apple devices in the enterprise is growing rapidly. Drawing on decades of… | Continue reading
In an unexpected move, Apple revealed late Friday that the full-sized version of its HomePod smart speaker would be discontinued. This came a couple of days after the Space Gray model had already b… | Continue reading
The original HomePod has been discontinued. Matthew Panzarino has the death notice: After 4 years on the market, Apple has discontinued its original HomePod. It says that it will continue to produc… | Continue reading
My podcast app of choice, Overcast, was recently updated and now features a brand-new Apple Watch app. According to Overcast developer Marco Arment, not a lot of Overcast users use the watch app, b… | Continue reading
Wayyyy back before multitasking was even a glimmer in the iPad’s eye, there was the Share sheet. First introduced in iOS 8, the Share sheet was the first way to easily move information betwee… | Continue reading
If this episode wears out or breaks, we’ll replace it free of charge, no questions asked. | Continue reading