Dan’s back from vacation. We’re “programmers” now. | Continue reading
Apple follows up its groundbreaking original PowerBooks with a new set of laptops that ushered in perhaps the ugliest period in Apple laptop history. | Continue reading
Dan is back with us to follow up on the Apple/Epic fight and talk some more about the weather. | Continue reading
A hazardous air quality warning in my living room. Right now, several parts of the state of California are on fire. This isn’t the usual early-fall fire season where dry offshore winds fan th… | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that is never out of time, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Lisa Schmeiser and Jeff Carlson to discuss our recent tech-related pandemic purchases,… | Continue reading
You’ve probably seen the stories: it’s an epic (eye-rolling pun intended) war between two technology giants. In this corner is Apple, accused of being a greedy colossus using its tight-fisted contr… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke take a walk in the woods while discussing Apple and Epic, the latest Apple TV+ news, the speed potential of Macs with Apple silicon, and how the pandemic has changed their working li… | Continue reading
25 years ago, Windows 95 was released to great fanfare. The magazine I worked at back then, MacUser, decided to offer up as a rejoinder a cover that said “Windows 95: So What?” It was o… | Continue reading
The star-crossed PowerBook 5300. People who think that the butterfly keyboard is the biggest black eye in the history of Apple’s laptops don’t remember the mid-1990s. Apple’s fina… | Continue reading
Indie developer Manton Reese linked to this interview with Basecamp’s Jason Fried that gets to the heart of how independent developers respond to Apple’s heavy-handed approach to the Ap… | Continue reading
If you’re wondering if App Review’s approach to WordPress was an isolated incident, I point you to the release notes to a recent GitHub app update: Improvements: • Updated design of rep… | Continue reading
The legal filings from Epic Games just keep on coming, as Kim Lyons and Russell Brandom report at The Verge: Epic has asked the court to restrain Apple from revoking that access while the case is o… | Continue reading
It’s not every day you see an Apple apology, but Matt Mullenweg of WordPress got one this week after Apple–spectacularly failing to read the room–rejected the free open-source Wor… | Continue reading
Our tenth anniversary! | Continue reading
Apple had made numerous attempts to sell server hardware, including a strange non-Mac server that Steve Jobs likened to a bizarre dream. But in the early 2000s, Jobs decided to take another crack a… | Continue reading
Dan’s on vacation, and I think he might be English. Jason is living the Apple Watch dream. | Continue reading
Are you a tech hypocrite? What’s a social media feature you want on other social networks? Do you listen to the radio? What do you think of Dropbox’s new features? Kathy Campbell, Dan S… | Continue reading
Three BitBar plugins in action. I really can’t recommend Mat Ryer’s BitBar enough. It’s a free Mac utility that lets you put more or less anything you want in your menu bar. I kee… | Continue reading
Don Giller is the unofficial archivist of David Letterman’s talk show career. It’s a crying shame that a curated sample of Letterman’s output from his NBC and CBS shows isn’… | Continue reading
One of the secrets to being an efficient computer power user is mastering the use of keyboard shortcuts. When you can tap a couple of keys and kick off something that otherwise would’ve requi… | Continue reading
Epic takes on Apple and Google’s dominance of smart phone app stores with an app update and corresponding legal filings and publicity campaign. What’s Apple’s next move, and more … | Continue reading
It’s 2020, and Apple is shipping a rack-mountable Mac Pro. It’s the latest chapter in a decades-long flirtation between Apple and the machines that dwell in the server closet. Even thou… | Continue reading
Though it might still only be mid-August, fall is rapidly approaching. That’s not only significant because it will hopefully mean the end of the heat that’s been barraging my home for the last seve… | Continue reading
Just another sleepy week in August, other than an Epic showdown. Jason gets to play Spider-Man and Dan doesn’t. | Continue reading
The very first time Apple made a laptop that compromised in numerous ways, all in the question of being as thin and light as possible. | Continue reading
Epic Games, the makers of the popular game Fortnite, doesn’t appreciate that mobile platform owners–we’re talking Apple and Google–demand that if you use their app stores, y… | Continue reading
It’s kind of tough out there right now, so if you’ve been finding it challenging to get through the days and weeks with some semblance of normalcy, you’re not alone. For my part, … | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple may be ready to unleash a bundle of subscriptions alongside the iPhone this fall: There will be different tiers, according to the people, who asked not to be… | Continue reading
We return to our Apple Watch roots this week and it turns out it’s Moltz’s turn to get picked on for some reason. | Continue reading
This week on the 30-minute tech show that has had a little too much gluten, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Paul Kafasis and Lory Gil to discuss Microsoft and Apple argue about cloud gam… | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since Apple introduced AirDrop as a part of Mac OS X Lion and iOS 7. I consider AirDrop to be one of Apple’s best moves of the past decade. It’s a fea… | Continue reading
David Sparks wrote an article in VR: I recently tried out a new Oculus app that is intriguing. The app is called Immersed, and it is quite a trip. With the app on your Oculus Quest and the host sof… | Continue reading
As a person of routine, part of my morning regimen for the last several decades is settling down with my morning cup of tea and reading some comic strips. As a kid, I’d dig through the newspaper to… | Continue reading
Jason reviews the new iMac (with nano-texture display) and the public beta release of macOS Big Sur. Myke thinks Apple’s making a big mistake in keeping game streaming services off of its pla… | Continue reading
Most of Apple’s early laptops were, like today’s MacBooks, complete Macs. The premise was: “Let’s engineer a Mac that’s like the one on your desk, but put it in a single pac… | Continue reading
August tends to be right in the middle of the summer doldrums, the time when everybody goes on vacation and thus news—including tech announcements—are few and far between. Then again, 2020 isn’t yo… | Continue reading
In the summer I love to kick back with an ice-cold beta. Also, Microsoft’s in the news for weird reasons. | Continue reading
The classic “cheese grater” design of the Power Mac G5 influences the design of the modern Mac Pro, and also represents (in the worst way) the last time Apple embarked on a chip transit… | Continue reading
Pursuant to the announcement earlier this week that Microsoft would not be bringing its xCloud game streaming service to iOS, the two companies have exchanged fire over where the blame lies. First,… | Continue reading
So here we are, at the end of OS X. Two decades ago Apple parked the sixteen-year-old Classic Mac OS and leaped to version 10.0, but four years ago the company rebranded the software that drives th… | Continue reading
This has got to be the end, right? Apple has announced that it’s moving the Mac to Apple-designed processors. The design of the iMac is stale and in desperate need of reinvention–just a… | Continue reading
The Verge’s Tom Warren reports on the latest casualty of Apple’s App Store policies, Microsoft’s forthcoming cloud gaming system: “Our Project xCloud preview TestFlight period has… | Continue reading
Interesting interview (and, I think, perhaps the first major one) with Apple senior vice president for machine learning and AI strategy, John Giannandrea, along with product marketing VP Bob Borche… | Continue reading
Given the frequency with which I have to deal with audio, Rogue Amoeba’s apps are amongst the most indispensable tools in my arsenal.1 And one that I’ve grown increasingly fond of in re… | Continue reading
This week’s episode, like every week’s episode, features three Apple fellows with a decidedly lower-case “f”. | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that’s always there for you, can Instagram Reels take on TikTok? What are our favorite low-tech pastimes? What do we think of Disney’s Mulan release? Wha… | Continue reading
With iOS 14 now humming along in beta form, many people (myself included) are excited about the possibilities of widgets. I’m excited to see what the developers of some of my favorite apps do… | Continue reading
With Tuesday’s announcement of the new 27-inch iMac, Apple seems to be clearing out some of the final major Intel Mac releases in its product pipeline. The big question is, what’s next for the iMac… | Continue reading