On Tuesday, Apple released its first developer beta of the next macOS cycle: Big Sur version 11.3. (I’m still getting used to typing “11” after all these years.) First, the warnin… | Continue reading
There’s a lot to prefer about how macOS handles sound compared to iOS. On the Mac, more than one app can play audio at one time, and the audio just plays—on iOS, only one app is supposed to play au… | Continue reading
It came from AppleScript?! The big benefit of this site’s move to WordPress was the ability to post our members-only articles to the site. The result has been an influx of new members, for wh… | Continue reading
2020 was bad, but for Apple it was sort of… good? We take a last look back at the year with Apple’s record financial quarter and the annual Six Colors Apple Report Card. | Continue reading
On Monday Apple released macOS Big Sur 11.2, featuring improvements to Bluetooth reliability, some assorted bug fixes, and a bunch of stealth feature changes, like closing the hole in the wall that… | Continue reading
As I wrote just this week in Macworld, Apple has used a number of strategies to encourage users to switch to its products, among them, the “ice water in hell” approach of adapting some … | Continue reading
The more things change, the more things stay the same. For the past several years, the comic strip Doonesbury has been in re-runs for its weekday strips; this past week’s series, hailing from… | Continue reading
If you get unexpected, puzzling, or even downright befuddling results when searching your Mac, rebuilding the Spotlight index might help. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Spotl… | Continue reading
Good and bad grades, record results, and both the Home app and Facebook are bad. | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful… | Continue reading
Really interesting (albeit highly technical) look from Google security researcher Samuel Groß at a new iMessage protection scheme that Apple introduced in iOS 14: As can be seen, the majority of th… | Continue reading
On Thursday–which is apparently Data Privacy Day at Apple–Tim Cook gave a speech at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection 2021 conference. In it, he made some very pointed commen… | Continue reading
It was another record holiday quarter for Apple, followed by the traditional executive chat with financial analysts. Amid the avalanche of numbers and words, there are always things that jump out a… | Continue reading
Timn Chaten reached out to me because I posted a screenshot of me editing (vertically!) a complicated podcast project in Ferrite Recording Studio. So I appeared on his podcast to discuss working fr… | Continue reading
We all saw it coming. Despite a global pandemic and economic and political unrest, the indefatigable Apple money machine would continue to chug away. Traditionally, the last three months of the cal… | Continue reading
Apple’s latest record financial results were released on Wednesday. Here we’ll be posting our usual transcript of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s and CFO Luca Maestri’s statements on a… | Continue reading
On Wednesday, Apple announced its financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2021, covering the holiday quarter of calendar-year 2020. This is traditionally Apple’s largest quarter eve… | Continue reading
Like cleaning two chalkboard erasers. | Continue reading
Twitter’s new crowdsourced fact-checking feature, Apple’s new companion audio for taking walks, our tech pet peeves, and the future of unions in Silicon Valley. | Continue reading
HomeKit came late to macOS, and the Home app–imported from iOS–isn’t very good. Among its failings is a lack of presence in the menu bar, an inability to bind devices to keyboard … | Continue reading
Zack Whittaker at Tech Crunch: Apple has released iOS 14.4 with security fixes for three vulnerabilities, said to be under active attack by hackers. The technology giant said in its security update… | Continue reading
Apple: Apple today announced Dan Riccio will transition to a new role focusing on a new project and reporting to CEO Tim Cook, building on more than two decades of innovation, service, and leadersh… | Continue reading
This week Myke and Jason discuss Apple’s rumored VR headset, a smaller MacBook Air, Fitness+ walks with celebrities, and why more movies and sports are making the move to streaming outlets. | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today unveiled Time to Walk, an inspiring new audio walking experience on Apple Watch for Fitness+ subscribers, created to encourage users to walk more often and reap the bene… | Continue reading
The gentle sounds of rain, and cats, and hard drives. | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It runs as a native Safari co… | Continue reading
Lights on, nobody home Back in the early days of the pandemic, the Drobo 5D disk array attached to my Mac mini died–and with it went my access to all my archival podcast and video files (incl… | Continue reading
The better place. | Continue reading
Our top-two streaming media services, our thoughts on MagSafe returning to the Mac, gadgets we think still need work, and what we use instead of Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp. | Continue reading
Audio producer James Shield, who works on the daily news podcast of the Times and the Sunday Times (of London), details how he’s using digital tools to make it easier to cover breaking news: … | Continue reading
A half-sized Mac Pro? No more Touch Bar? MagSafe is coming back? A consumer Apple display? This week Jason and Myke are partying like it’s 2015 as they analyze all the reports about new Macs … | Continue reading
Wish you could browse the web quickly, smoothly, and anonymously with no advertising? Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient, high performance ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. As a native Saf… | Continue reading
Apple’s no stranger to introducing and popularizing new technologies. The original iMac wasn’t the first to use USB, but it drove adoption of the standard. Multitouch displays existed b… | Continue reading
Library Extension helps you find library books, but it doesn’t work on Safari–yet. At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensio… | Continue reading
If you like to be surprised about what new products Apple is planning, you might want to avert your eyes. On Friday there were two major reports about Apple’s forthcoming Mac plans. First off… | Continue reading
Apple has tidied up the Apple TV+ website, according to Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac: As of today’s overhaul, the new TV+ website homepage features the same featured header that you see in the Apple TV… | Continue reading
I’m an avid user of Apple’s Notes app: it’s where I keep all my random jottings, from ideas for books to thoughts for podcasts I’m recording, and pretty much everything in b… | Continue reading
A pirate’s life–and little laptops–for us. Also, AirTags stalkers and Fitness+ possibilities. | Continue reading
The one where Lex walks out. | Continue reading
Yet another leak of Apple’s tracking fobs, who should moderate online content, good password hygiene, and Spotify’s podcast listeners. | Continue reading
Clayton Ashley of Polygon can help explain why you’re hearing sea shanties in your head now. And if you’re not hearing them now, you will be hearing them as soon as you click through: J… | Continue reading
I’ve been a fan of tiny Mac laptops for many years. From the 12-inch PowerBook G4 to the iBook to the 11-inch MacBook Air, I’ve always opted for the smallest laptop I could get my hands on. And yet… | Continue reading
MacRumors’s Joe Rossignol: MacRumors reader David Chu today alerted us that the hidden “Items” tab in the Find My app can be enabled on iOS 14.3 and later by typing in the link fi… | Continue reading
The “big announcement” teased yesterday is an expansion of Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, which the company founded last year after the killings of George Floyd, Br… | Continue reading
I had a sneaking suspicion that my post about using BBEdit to process text might tempt Dr. Drang to write a nerdy follow-up post or two, and it did: One of the cleverest things Jason does, which I … | Continue reading
In some ways, Fitness+ couldn’t have come at a better time. At one point or another, we’ve all probably made that New Year’s resolution to work out more, and with the pandemic for… | Continue reading
The avalanche of 2021 Apple product rumors has arrived, the Mac App Store turns 10, tech platforms show some of their users the door, and Jason provides Intel Mac buying advice to a friend, or is i… | Continue reading
I think we can all agree that there are times when the current reality could be a little…better. For several years, Apple has talked up the potential of the augmented reality space, and more … | Continue reading