Getting my hands on a new iPad mini always feels a little bit like a happy reunion. I use an iPad Pro all the time, so I haven’t handled an iPad mini since I gave back the 2021 model three years ago.… | Continue reading
This week we recommend some TV shows, differentiate between types of vaporware, and break down the new iPad mini and Amazon Kindles. Then, Myke and Jason try to predict exactly what Apple might announce later this month.… | Continue reading
Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.… | Continue reading
My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Strings of data breaches and other cybersecurity failures have forced greater investment in vulnerability management. The SEC now requires companies to report on how their managers and board of directors deal with vulner … | Continue reading
Apple’s Ricky Mondello recaps how the company’s password generation system tries to come up with easy to type—but still very secure—passwords: To make these passwords easier to type on suboptimal keyboard layouts like my colleague’s game controller, where the mode switching might … | Continue reading
Apple TV+ comes to Prime Video, and the Diamond bankruptcy continues to disrupt the entire economy of sports. [Downstream+ listeners get: ESPN Flagship, Paramount and the NFL, the future of sports rights, and in praise of narrowcasting.]… | Continue reading
My first Apple Pay transaction, in 2014. It’s hard to believe Apple Pay launched a decade ago, and only slightly less hard to believe that we’ve reached the point that I can link to my decade-old story about using Apple Pay for the first time at my local Whole Foods: “Oh, you’re … | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this story by Rachel Karten about how, amid widespread outrage about a disastrous software update from Sonos, the company’s Social Media Program Lead was doing it right: KeithFromSonos is a Sonos employee who is very active in the r/Sonos subreddit and has someho … | Continue reading
The two previous Kindle Oasis models, in happier times. Amazon announced a bunch of brand-new Kindle models Wednesday, including a refreshed Paperwhite and a new color model, both of which I’ve ordered and will review soon.… | Continue reading
A harrowing tale of survival and Rock Band.… | Continue reading
Our experiences with Passkeys and thoughts on their upcoming portability, opinions on Threads showing online status by default, views on Amazon’s new Kindle lineup including the color model, and our preferred methods and platforms for consuming news.… | Continue reading
AirPods 4 with ANC (left) are great if you can’t bear AirPods Pro 2 (right), but are inferior in every other way. It’s hard to believe it’s been eight years since AirPods first arrived on the scene.… | Continue reading
I suppose it’s telling that the most interesting and surprising thing about the just-announced 7th-generation iPad mini is the processor Apple put inside. For fans of the iPad mini who were hoping that after three years there would be some substantial upgrades, this announcement … | Continue reading
The FIDO Alliance, which oversees the specifications for passkeys, has released a draft standard for the import and export of those cryptographic keys: FIDO Alliance’s draft specifications – Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP) and Credential Exchange Format (CXF) – define a standa … | Continue reading
If you had a square on your bingo card for a new iPad mini during an October Apple event, well, partial credit: the company today unveiled the seventh-generation of the diminutive tablet, adding the A17 Pro processor and support for the Apple Pencil Pro.… | Continue reading
What AirPods Adaptive mode is for, Apple’s first immersive narrative film, tricky executive retention efforts, the Vision products roadmap, Apple TV+ goes to Amazon channels, and the trouble with iPhone 16 Camera Control.… | Continue reading
There’s a line in Titanic that any IT or security professional can relate to. The ship’s architect explains that he wanted to include enough lifeboats for all the passengers, “but it was felt the deck would look too cluttered.”… | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.… | Continue reading
It was a busy summer at the Snell house. Our roof predated our purchase of our house, and we’ve been in this house 25 years, so… yeah.… | Continue reading
I just watched “Submerged,” the new immersive short film directed by “All Quiet on the Western Front” director Edward Berger, on the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the first scripted, narrative-driven piece of immersive video on the platform, and after the failure of Apple’s MLS video hi … | Continue reading
We’re getting closer to the end, presumably, of the most static design era in the iPhone’s history. While Apple continues to iterate on the specs of its most important product, the iPhone 16 product line is visually part of a generation that dates back four years to the iPhone 12 … | Continue reading
On Wednesday Amazon and Apple announced that Apple TV+ will be available inside Prime Video as an add-on subscription: Later this month, Apple TV+ will be available via Prime Video in the U.S. … | Continue reading
Walgreens is not a sponsor of this episode.… | Continue reading
How we prepare our tech for emergencies, the headphones we like best, our file organization systems, and outfitting our home theaters for spooky season.… | Continue reading
We discusss how Apple is so influential that even its simplest moves can make or break companies and industries. Also: Apple plans a big Halloween week, and there’s an immersive thriller coming to Vision Pro.… | Continue reading
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.… | Continue reading
Nick Heer comments on a spectacularly weird New York Times story titled “Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?,” which is actually about how Apple has ratcheted up contacts-sharing security in iOS 18: What I do not understand is granting Bier’s objections the imprimatur of a New York … | Continue reading
Sometimes there are bugs that happen and hit wide swaths of devices causing serious problems for users, and other times a teeny tiny thing breaks and it only affects a handful of people.… | Continue reading
Brian Williams will bring live news to Prime Video, but what’s the future of streaming news? Also: More cable bundles include streaming services; Amazon programs a night of game shows; Netflix’s coming compensation crunch; and a Diamond/MLB update.… | Continue reading
Our preferred devices for listening to music out loud, recent frustrating tech-related customer service experiences, current social media habits, and examples of technology that have recently impressed us.… | Continue reading
From The Verge’s Victoria Song, a fascinating and disturbing project that turns Meta’s smart glasses into a system for immediately doxxing people: In the demo, you can see Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the other student behind the project, use the glasses to identify several classma … | Continue reading
Lex and Moltz will wait for AR contact lenses. Dan wants off this ride.… | Continue reading
It’s rare that I find a new app that immediately becomes part of my workflow, but it’s just as rare that an app as useful as Croissant comes out.… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke break down Meta’s preview of its Orion AR glasses project and what it says (or doesn’t say) about the future of Apple’s Vision product line.… | Continue reading
Meta’s Orion prototype. (Image: Meta) The game is to create a wearable, augmented-reality device that takes everything that’s great about a smartphone and overlays it on your vision, making the entire world a smartphone canvas.… | Continue reading
My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. 1Password wants you to understand the details about how laws like GDPR can affect your business.… | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin reporting on the latest guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology about good passwords: A section devoted to passwords injects a large helping of badly needed common sense practices that challenge common policies. … | Continue reading
Pour one out for the venerable Apple-focused website iMore, which is ceasing publication: Dig out your old iPod and fire up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing sad news. … | Continue reading
I’m happy to announce that the latest edition of my ebook about Apple’s Photos app, Take Control of Photos, Fourth Edition is now available. This new edition covers the new stuff added by Apple this year, which turned out to be a lot—especially on the iOS and iPadOS side.… | Continue reading
Some interesting news regarding Masimo, the company that is locked in disputes with Apple over its patents for blood oxygen sensors that has led to that feature being removed from the Apple Watch in the U.S.:… | Continue reading
We have the new phones. And we have thoughts on the new phones.… | Continue reading
Which Apple Watch faces we use, our feelings on Apple tying the new iPhone to AI features, where we get our phone wallpapers, and how we’re using the Action button.… | Continue reading
When the EU enacted GDPR in 2018, executives and security professionals waited anxiously to see how the law would be enforced. And then they kept waiting…and waiting…but the Great European Privacy Crackdown never came.… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke share their first thoughts about the iPhone 16 Pro and Apple Watch Series 10, live and in person!… | Continue reading
My thanks to StopTheMadness Pro for sponsoring Six Colors this week. (Big week!) StopTheMadnessPro is a major upgrade to the beloved Safari extension StopTheMadness that stops website annoyances and privacy violations.… | Continue reading
As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in the green room at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, getting ready to start this year’s 12-hour podcast telethon in support of St.… | Continue reading
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Mediterranean, the European Commission and the DMA are back: Today, the European Commission has started two specification proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets … | Continue reading
The Verge’s Victoria Song writes the only black Apple Watch Ultra 2 review you need: This is the Apple Watch Batman would buy. Never mind that it’s a mini brick on my wrists. … | Continue reading