Recording a podcast on the road in 2019. At MacStories, John Voorhees pushes the ball forward regarding podcasting on the iPad: I wanted a solution that worked equally well when I’m sitting at my M… | Continue reading
Rolling Stone TV Critic Alan Sepinwall rightfully calls out the terrible interfaces of most streaming services: The part of the streaming shell game that I’ve never been able to fully understand — … | Continue reading
This week, on the 30 minute tech show that usually has a clever introduction line, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Sawyer Blatz and Allison Sheridan to discuss watching video podcasts, o… | Continue reading
This week we talk about the betas we’re using and streaming services before we get to our anti-picks. | Continue reading
I wrote my first story about Apple in 1993, meaning I’ve been covering Apple for 60 percent of its existence. Lately, I’ve realized that beyond a few major milestones, most people don’t really reme… | Continue reading
So much baseball, so much data! There was baseball on my television last night. Maybe there will be baseball on my television tonight, too. Who knows? While I’m not counting on Major League B… | Continue reading
Apple’s Lisa P. Jackson, in a Medium post, announces the company’s environmental goals for the next decade: By 2030, Apple will be 100% carbon neutral. Our comprehensive carbon footprin… | Continue reading
This was a thoughtful piece from David Sparks that touches a lot of issues involving people who are working from home–which is a lot of us, these days. Even if you’re not working for yo… | Continue reading
Apple’s big design changes in macOS Big Sur aren’t limited to visuals. The system’s alert sounds have changed, too. What better way to run down those changes than on a podcast dur… | Continue reading
Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It allows you to experience a cleaner, faster web – without ads. As a native Safari content blockin… | Continue reading
Apple’s in a strange position vis-a-vis many of its biggest rivals. While the company has in the past counted many of the most prominent tech companies in the world—IBM, Microsoft, Intel—as rivals,… | Continue reading
Sobering story from Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz in the New York Times about one of the impediments to coronavirus response and tracking: the fax machine. Dr. Mark Escott, the interim health … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. Today is World Emoji Day, and Apple has revealed some of its forthcoming Emoji designs to Emojipedia: (Image courtesy Emojipedia.) Ninja, Boomerang, Piñata and B… | Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about this chart since it appeared in Apple’s WWDC keynote last month. On one level, it’s a meaningless bit of marketing fluff. There are no labels. The vast br… | Continue reading
For someone who makes their living writing words, I spend a surprising amount of time in spreadsheets. Sometimes that’s because it’s the best way to organize information (my nerdy quiz show Inconce… | Continue reading
That’s some powerful Kool-Aid. Apple’s uneasy competitor/partner relationships, the many eras of Apple, and Dan recommends a WordPress plug-in. | Continue reading
Writing at Vice’s Motherboard, Joseph Cox has dug into the hack of high profile Twitter accounts yesterday, including Apple’s: The accounts were taken over using an internal tool at Twi… | Continue reading
A timely little story by Hansen Hsu from the Computer History Museum about a previous Apple chip transition: Apple did this the very first time in the early 1990s, with the move from Motorola 68000… | Continue reading
Yes, you should keep your password secret and secure as much as possible. That said, almost all of us have people in our lives who we’d like to share a login with, whether it’s a partne… | Continue reading
When there’s not much Apple news, we give you our picks. So many picks. | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that does its quarterly results half way through the show, Dan and Mikah are joined by John Voorhees and Kelly Guimont to discuss the era of peak streaming services… | Continue reading
This week Myke and Jason discuss John Gruber’s essay about Apple’s App Store priorities and then assemble a list of apps that are missing key operating-system features. There’s al… | Continue reading
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It’s public beta season, and we’re stalking the purple elephant. | Continue reading
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Any time there is a big set of UI changes in macOS, I like to see what Apple has done in System Preferences. As you can see, the differences between Catalina and Big Sur’s versions of the app… | Continue reading
This is a great time for sitting at home and watching things so let’s talk about what’s on the telly. (Brought to you by our new | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that knows how to Tik Tok, Dan and guest host Jason Snell are joined by special guests Ant Pruitt and Kathy Campbell to discuss how staying home has impacted o… | Continue reading
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Legendary cartoonist Gary Larson is back, and it’s all due to | Continue reading
Apple’s services are in the spotlight, as Apple TV+ adds material, Apple News gets kicked to the curb by the New York Times, and Apple Arcade grapples with finding the right kind of games to … | Continue reading
There’s never been a more exciting time to be a Mac user. And I say that as someone who’s been one for nearly 30 years now, ever since my dad brought home a Macintosh LC in 1991. I lived through th… | Continue reading
macOS Big Sur is a big software change. Will the hardware follow? This week on Upgrade, Myke Hurley and I had some fun envisioning what features Apple might have been waiting to add to Macs until t… | Continue reading
David Sparks comments on the rumors that the new iPhones won’t ship with power adapters in their boxes: If I were Apple, I’d be looking at ways to ship the phone without a charger or cord, bu… | Continue reading
The long, slow side into summer betas. Jason’s working on a bunch of projects behind the scenes. The long and short of long and short operating-system reviews. And Dan dares to ask AT&T f… | Continue reading
Thanks so much for coming to WWDC, everybody. Even though this year’s conference is being held virtually, we still found it a delight to have our huge and wonderful developer community all here. No… | Continue reading
Apple emailed customers of its Apple Card to let them know that it’s now added a web-based interface for managing the credit card: We’ve added the ability to access and manage Apple Card onli… | Continue reading
This week we have a fabulous deal for our listeners: more us! Have a listen for more information. | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show where our information is never second-hand, Dan and guest host Jason Snell welcome Brianna Wu and Matthew Cassinelli to discuss our strategy for adopting Apple… | Continue reading
URLs make the world go round. In their simplest form, of course, they load web pages. But there’s hidden complexity beneath the humble URL. As many people who build web pages already know, th… | Continue reading
The 2010s were kind of a rough era for the Mac. Apple was busily improving the iPhone and iPad, while Mac models spent years between updates. There was a real question about whether the Mac was bei… | Continue reading
YouTube TV is raising its price to $65/month, up 30 percent from its previous $50/month level. In a blog post, YouTube TV’s Christian Oestlien wrote: We don’t take these decisions lightly, an… | Continue reading
Earlier this month, the entire Six Colors web infrastructure cut over from Movable Type to WordPress. You might not have noticed. That’s because I have spent the past few months learning the … | Continue reading
Thomas Reed at Malwarebytes reports on some new Mac ransomware and how it works: A Twitter user going by the handle @beatsballert messaged me yesterday after learning of an apparently malicious Lit… | Continue reading