MacUpdater is the easiest way to keep all your apps up-to-date effortlessly!MacUpdater automatically scans your apps and lets you know when there are updates available. In most cases, MacUpdater can even download and install the update for you with a si... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that’s primed for the holiday season, we discuss the deals we took advantage of on the recent shopstravaganza holiday. Lex has a beef about Apple Card, John’s got some questions about Apple Arcade, and Da... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show where the bells, the bells are ringing, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Aleen Simms and James Thomson to discuss our favorite tech gifts, given and received; our guesses for the future of the HomePod; what we do... | Continue reading
[This post is adapted from an item from the November Six Colors members-only newsletter. Become a subscriber today to support the site and get access to our monthly newsletter, a members-only podcast, and more.]When I was a kid, I loved, loved the Sea... | Continue reading
This week we get caught up on Apple services (Apple Pay, Apple News+, Apple Arcade), Jason gives Myke a tour of CarPlay in iOS 13, and we feed the tech podcast ecosystem with discussions of office lighting and weather stations.... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show where we’re not above crass commercialism, we take a trip down technology memory lane to our formative years with computers, then discuss the continuation of everything sad for Apple this month, and finally try... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s talking turkey, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Carolina Milanesi and Kevin Clark to discuss the California DMV selling personal data; our thoughts on Loom, a video sharing service for business; our... | Continue reading
You probably don’t need me to remind you of the importance of backing up your data, but for those who’ve made the jump to macOS Catalina, life has gotten a little bit easier now that Shirt Pocket’s SuperDuper! is officially compatible wi... | Continue reading
This week we discuss Tim Cook’s political high-wire act, Apple’s attempts to reduce bugs in future iOS releases, and Jason’s wishes for iOS 14. Finally, just in time for the holidays, Myke at the Movies returns with 1988’s “D... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show featuring the man of a thousand voices, it’s all about Apple’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad November. The president visits an Apple factory (and lies about it), Apple shuts down a developer known... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that’s only half an hour, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Rosemary Orchard and Florence Ion to discuss our note-taking and information snippet solutions, Apple’s expansion in Austin, our exposur... | Continue reading
A week later, we’re pondering the 16-inch MacBook Pro and what it means about how Apple listens to customers and criticism. We also look into the future to wonder where Apple will take touchscreen devices and whether we’re uncomfortable about ... | Continue reading
Recently a friend of mine complained that he was having trouble with iOS not recognizing his daughter’s name. It’s not a particularly unusual name, but it’s just not in Apple’s built-in dictionary, and so the system kept changing i... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that has either two or three hosts depending on the week, Dan and John talk about Apple’s brand spanking new 16-inch MacBook Pro and what it bodes for the rest of the company’s laptop lineups. Then itR... | Continue reading
The butterfly keyboard era is over! Apple is releasing a new 16-inch MacBook Pro this week, featuring a Magic Keyboard, upgraded audio, the biggest battery allowed by law, and a lot more. Jason has an exclusive interview with Apple’s MacBook Pro pro... | Continue reading
Here it is, the new generation of Mac laptop.On Wednesday Apple announced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro, with a completely redesigned keyboard, bigger display, increased battery life, ninth-generation Intel processors, upgraded graphics processors, expand... | Continue reading
I’ve long been a proponent of using the iPad for podcasting, whether recording or editing them. When the new Apple Pencil came out a year ago, I integrated it into my iPad editing workflow. I can edit podcasts with the Apple Pencil at a pretty imp... | Continue reading
I badly want to love AirPods Pro. Put simply, Apple’s new wireless earbuds are chock full of amazing features: they’re lightweight, they have impressive noise cancellation, and they make switching between devices easy. There’s just o... | Continue reading
The original AirPods were a revelation, even for a person like me, who had written off Apple’s ability to create good headphones years before. The combination of being truly wireless, sounding pretty good, and being easy to use turned the AirPods in... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s fallen back but never fallen behind, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Christa Mrgan and Jeff Carlson to discuss the nerdy technical tasks we find ourselves undertaking, how we handle software updates... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that now reviews TV shows, we discuss all of Apple’s fine new streaming offerings, with the operative word being “fine.” Then Dan has thoughts on the AirPods Pro, John’s in the market for Home... | Continue reading
Apple TV+ has finally arrived, and we discuss Apple’s first round of new shows—as well as an unimpressive performance from the TV app itself. We’ve also got reviews of the new AirPods Pro, and Apple’s latest financial results revea... | Continue reading
Sometimes in technology you think of an idea that everybody needs—one of those things that you can’t believe nobody has built. And sometimes you just think of something that you really need. Not infrequently, my wife asks me to pick her up fro... | Continue reading
You’ve got to hand it to Apple when it comes to saying the loud part loud and the quiet part quiet. The company has spent the last few years cranking up an enormous services business that’s growing by double digits quarter after quarter an... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show with two and a half hosts, we discuss every aspect of the AirPods Pro, from the stupid name to the intriguing fit and finish. Then it’s a recap of Apple’s financials: spoiler, the company made a lot of mo... | Continue reading
Want some more color on Apple’s latest financial results? Here’s a transcript of the give and take between Tim Cook, Apple CFO Luca Maestri, and a bunch of Wall Street analysts that traditionally follows the release of results. Come for the ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s especially spooooooky, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jason Howell and Jeremy Burge to discuss our systems for getting things done, when we knew we were destined for a life in tech, our fee... | Continue reading
On Wednesday Apple reported the results from its fiscal fourth quarter, with $64 billion in revenue and $13.7 billion in profit, led by a record $12.5 billion in Services. iPhone revenue was down 9% year over year, with Mac down 5% and iPad up 17% and wea... | Continue reading
This week Jason has no power or Internet, so Myke gives him the details about the new AirPods Pro, the first reviews of Apple TV+ shows, iOS 13.2 and a perplexing HomePod software update, and Apple’s rumored reboot of its smart-home initiative. In e... | Continue reading
And so the AirPods join the iMac, MacBook, and iPad in devices that have gone Pro, as Apple announces the latest version of its wireless headphones. Boasting a new design with flexible ear tips, the AirPods Pro add the highly-anticipated Active Noise Ca... | Continue reading
Not sure about how realistic this demo room in my daughter’s dorm is, given that I had that Raiders of the Lost Ark poster on my dorm wall, too.When I went off to college in the fall of 1988 I took an enormous Apple IIe, monitor, and printer with ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast where everything is fine, Dan is joined by special guests Georgia Dow, Kathy Campbell, and Shahid Kamal Ahmad to discuss uses for Apple’s rumored AR glasses, our feelings on big tech working with autocratic g... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech podcast that’s trying to avoid spoilers, Dan shares his surprise genealogy news, James has a TV tale as old as time, and John’s hopes are rising for a new low-cost iPhone next year. Plus, we speculate about Ap... | Continue reading
Everything old is new for Myke, as he tries out his “new” Mac (released in 2017) running a “new” version of macOS (it’s Mojave). With Apple TV+ launching late next week, there’s an enormous collection of Upstream news. ... | Continue reading
[Content warning: Baseball.]ESPN’s 3-D strike zone animation was great.Ever since Fox introduced the status box overlay in NFL games a couple of decades ago, I’ve been paying attention to how televised sports imparts information to viewe... | Continue reading
James Thomson joins Jason to discuss converting an app from iOS to Mac via Catalyst, the prospects for using Catalyst on his most profitable app, and the end of an era as his app DragThing and all other 32-bit Mac apps fade away. We also sort out Apple an... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech podcast that headphones it in, we talk about Apple’s latest movie acquisition, then our Catalina upgrade experiences and what we should be looking for. Plus Dan shares a new pair of headphones that he doesn’t ... | Continue reading
This week, on the tech podcast that can’t go over 30 minutes or it explodes, Dan is joined by cohost emeritus Jason Snell and special guests Casey Liss and Brianna Wu to discuss whether we’re making the jump to macOS Catalina, which hardware a... | Continue reading
macOS Catalina has arrived and Jason’s got his full review, plus we dig into the new multi-screened mobile device announcements from Microsoft (and what they might mean for Apple), and put on our sweaters to talk about Deep Fusion photography. ... | Continue reading
Sometimes software upgrades just fuzz together, all part of a continuum of changes over time. Others are more momentous, when there’s a clean break from what has come before. After a few years of fuzzy updates, macOS Catalina is one of those clean b... | Continue reading
Bare Bones Software released BBEdit 13.0 on Thursday. I spend more time in BBEdit than any other Mac app, as it’s my writing and text munging tool of choice. This update adds a whole bunch of pattern-matching search-and-replace (or grep) features th... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent technology show where we talk about Apple Watches and, uh, watch about Apple talks, we discuss the Apple Watch Series 5, explore the nuances of our favorite watchfaces and bands, examine the barrage of Apple software updates, ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that’s going to back to school, Dan is joined by special guests Anže Tomić and Jean MacDonald, as well as co-host emeritus Jason Snell, to discuss Amazon’s cavalcade of new Alexa devices, ultrawide vs. tel... | Continue reading
Funny how something as basic as inserting a thumbdrive can feel like a colossal victory.The Finder places files and folders at the center of the Mac, but on iOS, apps are at the center. Still, managing documents is a fact of life in many cases, and ov... | Continue reading
Jason finished his iPhone 11 review nearly two weeks after the fact, Myke is back in the Apple Watch game with a new Series 5 model, and we hear from a bunch of Apple Store employees. ... | Continue reading
We all like to remember the huge leaps forward, but much of the progress Apple makes is incremental. Even when the devices come in the same wrapper, new technologies are being added on the inside. That’s especially important to keep in mind in a yea... | Continue reading
This week on the irreverent tech show that carries two phones, we discuss our latest purchases: Dan and James have both gotten only limited use out of the iPhone 11 Pro’s Night Mode so far, but John is really enjoying his Apple Watch’s always-... | Continue reading
Like it or not, email is still a big part of our lives. I feel like I get more email than ever, even if a smaller percentage than ever before is actually meaningful. But even after all these years, I still rely on Apple’s Mail apps on both the Mac... | Continue reading