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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
After years of spending every fall hemming and hawing over whether or not I was going to buy a new iPhone, I decided in 2015 to sign up for Apple’s newly unveiled iPhone Upgrade Program. First offe… | Continue reading
AnyList, a popular app and service for creating and sharing lists of all kinds, won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple, and a blog post by co-founder Jeff Hunter explains why: Another sign of… | Continue reading
This week we welcome Apple’s Bob Borchers and Ronak Shah to the show to discuss macOS Big Sur, including all the new features in Safari. There’s also an awful lot of follow-up from the … | Continue reading
The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg reports that New York Times articles will no longer be available in the Apple News app: While Apple has had a tougher time getting publishers (including the Times… | Continue reading
WWDC 2020 has come and gone, and for the first time in the event’s 31-year history, the conference was entirely online. In the Ye Olden Days, developers could get copies of WWDC sessions on V… | Continue reading
The keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference may be one of the biggest events of the company’s year, but it only ever scratches the surface. Not every change or update makes i… | Continue reading
Developer Simo Ahava breaks down exactly what the effect of the new Safari’s Privacy Report on technologies like Google Analytics is: Not really. The fact that google-analytics.com has its ab… | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute podcast that crams an hour of content into just half the time, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jason Snell and Ish ShaBazz to discuss how iOS 14’s App L… | Continue reading
And so WWDC comes to a close for another year. We have to admit: We’ve probably watched more session videos this year than all of the prior years put together. The virtual format has been a real ch… | Continue reading
David Sparks was struck by something that struck me, too: Steven Sinofsky, formerly of Microsoft, had an interesting Twitter thread a few days ago that was complimentary of Apple and its ability to… | Continue reading
It was a huge week. What’s the future of WWDC, in person or online or both? And Macs running Apple silicon and macOS Big Sur open up a world of wild possibilities. | Continue reading
WWDC sessions have a way of getting more technical throughout the week, so for the laypeople among us, it gets a little tougher to pick out those aspects that the general populace might be interest… | Continue reading
The arrow covers the icon you’re thinking of clicking; the iPad’s pointer slides behind the icon, so it’s clear what you’re selecting. If you’ve ever wanted a longform explanation of how Apple buil… | Continue reading
The barrage of informative presentations continued on Wednesday, and among the most pressing question I had while watching them…what’s up with all the tchotchkes? Are they an attempt at… | Continue reading
How is it only Wednesday? It turns out that the WWDC time warp even happens when all of us are at our homes. Anyway, I watched a bunch more WWDC sessions today, and here are some observations from … | Continue reading
Apple’s conception of a table-specific App Clip Code at a restaurant. Our world increasingly expects that we’ll use apps to interact with it, but sometimes we don’t have the apps … | Continue reading
Doing unusual things at Mac startup has long required remembering keyboard shortcuts. Is it Command-Control-P-R or Command-Option-P-R that zaps the PRAM? Is that still even a thing? Is it Command-S… | Continue reading
It was the most important WWDC keynote for the Mac since the arrival of OS X two decades ago. Apple’s announcement on Monday of the Mac’s third-ever processor transition was big enough, but it was … | Continue reading
One of the best things about virtual WWDC is that sessions no longer feel the need to expand their talks to fit into a certain time slot—nor does the number need to reflect available physical space… | Continue reading
We used to have to run from room to room. These days we can sit on the couch and watch whatever WWDC sessions we want. Here are some interesting tidbits gleaned from a collection of sessions that w… | Continue reading
Apple announced many things! And we talk about them in this episode. At some point Lex leaves. | Continue reading
As always, Apple’s WWDC keynote was jam-packed with more jam than a packing plant full of jam. We all saw the big top line items: Macs switching to ARM, iOS apps running on the Mac, cats and dogs l… | Continue reading
Most people attend WWDC remotely every year, watching video sessions in the comfort of their homes and offices. But I’ve been going to WWDC since the last 90s, so today was… strange. An… | Continue reading