Tom Warren, writing at The Verge: Happy Windows on Arm day. Microsoft is launching its Copilot Plus PCs today, with Qualcomm-powered chips inside. If you’re wondering where our reviews are, Microsoft and most of its OEM partners haven’t seeded devices ahead of today’s launch beca … | Continue reading
For over 20 years, Audio Hijack has enabled you to record any audio on your Mac. Capture audio from individual applications like Safari or Zoom, hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, or even the audio output of the entire system. If you can hear it, you can record i … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: WWDC24 a wrapped up, and the guys gather to score their picks and share some feelings about this week’s Apple news. | Continue reading
Tom Warren at The Verge: Microsoft is planning to launch its new Copilot Plus PCs next week without its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do on these new laptops. The software maker is holding back Recall so it can test it with the Windows Insider progr … | Continue reading
This week on a jam-packed episode of Mac Power Users, David Sparks and I hit the highlights from WWDC24, including updates across Apple’s platforms and the company’s move into the AI era. | Continue reading
Leading into WWDC, I shared some concerns I had when it came to thinking about how Apple would integrate AI into its products. Tim Cook has spoken to Josh Tyrangiel at The Washington Post about how the company went into this endeavor. Here’s Cook: We went into this saying, “These … | Continue reading
Props to The Basic Apple Guy for grabbing these screenshots. Like the default wallpaper, none of these seem to be actual image files that anyone can find in the file system. | Continue reading
macOS Sequoia has been announced and it comes with a couple of colorful new default wallpapers. However, Apple has changed where these images are stored on disk, and I have found so far is the Light version of the image: Download 6K version here. If you happen to know where the D … | Continue reading
There are new operating systems, but Apple has made some slight changes to the base system requirements for each OS: iOS 18 iOS 18 brings no changes in compatibility: iPhone 15 line iPhone 14 line iPhone 13 line iPhone 12 line iPhone 11 line iPhone XS and XS Max iPhone XR iPhone … | Continue reading
These are always fun: iOS 18 iPadOS 18 macOS Sequoia watchOS 11 visionOS 2 “Audio & Home” | Continue reading
Unite 5 for macOS takes your web experience to the next level, transforming websites into feature-rich Mac apps. Powered by a completely redesigned WebKit browser, Unite 5 offers a more immersive and customizable browsing experience. What sets Unite 5 apart? We’ve gone beyond jus … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I discuss iMessage, Arc, Notes, and more. Then, we chat about OmniFocus 4 and David’s new Field Guide. | Continue reading
I am sure working on these things is hard and complicated, but it looks like a lot of fun, too: | Continue reading
Tripp Mickle and Erin Griffith, at The New York Times: About a week after the reviews came out, Humane started talking to HP, the computer and printer company, about selling itself for more than $1 billion, three people with knowledge of the conversations said. Other potential bu … | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: “It’s inspiring to see how developers are using our technology to create exceptional apps and games that enhance the lives of users,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “This year’s winners have demonstrated how apps can … | Continue reading
This week on Connected, we made our official predictions for WWDC24. | Continue reading
Ben Surtees, the original developer behind the excellent macOS utility Bartender, concerning the recent sale of the app: After the release of Bartender 5, I came to the realization that supporting all the users and maintaining the app at the high standard I expect and you deserve … | Continue reading
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company (no not that one) is coming to my hometown with what would be the world’s largest supercomputer, as reported by Samuel Hardiman at The Daily Memphian: The Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence startup — xAI — is building an AI supercomputer in Memp … | Continue reading
Silo may be my favorite show on TV+ so far, and I hope we get a lot more of it. | Continue reading
Windows 11’s Recall feature has garnered a lot of attention since being announced, and much of that has focused on the potential privacy implications of software that basically tracks everything you do on your PC. Cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has taken a look at the featur … | Continue reading
PowerPhotos works in conjunction with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide. With PowerPhotos you can manage multiple photo libraries, either splitting up an existing library into smaller ones, or merging multiple libraries together … | Continue reading
Arc is a new browser that started life on macOS in 2022. David and I have been using it for months, taking notes and gathering thoughts. This week on MPU, we discuss its features, and how AI could change the way people browse the web. | Continue reading
There has been much debate about what Apple’s upcoming AI-based features could look like. With WWDC’s keynote just eight days away, Mark Gurman has some information about how Siri could be transformed by new technology: The big news at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next … | Continue reading
This week on the world’s greatest podcast: WWDC24 has been officially announced and rumors about iOS 18 are swirling. The guys also talk about Myke’s Meta Ray-Bans, Federico’s Apple Pencil settings, and Stephen’s least-used Apple device. | Continue reading
Kristof Gruber, Product Engineer at Craft: Entering a new platform only happens a few times in a developers life. It is a rare and delicious event, when you step in the realm of something genuinely new. If you are fast, you can feel yourself like the explorers in old times. Every … | Continue reading
There have been other credit card-sized Find My trackers on the market, but I believe this is the first rechargeable one. Bonus points for being MagSafe compatible. | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple unveiled the lineup for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, including Keynote and Platforms State of the Union, and shared more information about what developers will learn and experience all week. The free online conference brings the global … | Continue reading
Steve from Mac84 has the best advice I’ve seen for what to do when unboxing a new (to you) vintage computer: | Continue reading
Do you want to try an ad blocker that’s easy to set up, easy to keep up to date, and with pro features available when you need them? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high-performance ad blocker for your i … | Continue reading
This week on MPU: iMessage is one of the stickiest parts of the Apple ecosystem, and this week, the guys discuss some of its features, explore its security credentials, and share some tips for making it run smoothly. | Continue reading
If you don’t want a bunch of AI nonsense showing up in your Google results, Ernie Smith’s new project may be for you. He writes over on Tedium: Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you … | Continue reading
Google has begun rolling out AI-powered search results, and it’s not going super well. While many of the screenshots floating around social media are probably fake, there are some real examples that are pretty troubling, as Kylie Robison reports for The Verge: Imagine this: you’v … | Continue reading
Chance Miller has more over at 9to5Mac: Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to address a rare problem where deleted photos would reappear on a user’s device after installing iOS 17.5. In the release notes, Apple said this was caused by “database corruption.” The company … | Continue reading
This week on the podcast: Stephen has a new user name, Myke has a new iPad, Sonos has new headphones, Federico has a new MacPad screen, OpenAI has new drama, and Microsoft has a new vision for the PC. | Continue reading
Filipe Espósito, writing at 9to5 Mac: Back in 2020, Apple offered selected developers a custom DTK Mac mini with the A12Z Bionic chip inside, so that they could develop apps for the Apple Silicon platform. After the official launch of the M1 Macs, developers had to return their D … | Continue reading
On Mastodon, @bullware sent me something amazing. This is a concept put together by Terauma on the LEGO Ideas website, which collects projects designed by the community for voting. Some of these projects become reality, with the designer earning royalties. You know I voted before … | Continue reading
Mario Guzman is back, with yet another nostalgia-powered music player for macOS: Control Apple Music with this simplified controller that has the look and feel of QuickTime 7 and Mac OS X “Tiger”. JUST LOOK AT THIS THING: | Continue reading
This update fixes a horrific bug that was reported late last week: This update provides important bug fixes and addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted. Tim Hardwick wrote about the bu … | Continue reading
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock prevents you from being followed by ads on the … | Continue reading
John Buck published a book covering the “Apple Technology Group,” a division within Apple that operated back in the 1980s and 1990s and experimented with many forward-looking bits of technology that we take for granted today. On this week’s MPU, David and I spoke to John about th … | Continue reading
This story by Caleb Sasser is just wild. | Continue reading
This week on Connected: With Myke on vacation, Stephen and Federico discuss what’s going on with iPadOS, then cover the news from Google I/O and OpenAI’s recent event. | Continue reading
This is from a lovely blog post by David Smith: This last year has been a complicated one as an indie app developer. I’ve been in this community for long enough to know that there are always ebbs and flows in sentiment, and this year has lots of reasons to be feeling the ebb side … | Continue reading
MacRumors, on Threads, just four days ago: Apple’s thinnest device ever.#ipadpro #bendgate Tim Hardwick, writing on MacRumors today: Despite videos indicating that the 2018 iPad Pro models bent more easily than other models, Apple said the bend did not worsen over time or negativ … | Continue reading
Speaking of Jason, I re-read his original iPad Pro review this weekend, and this part really jumped out at me: But let’s pull back and get the big picture. No, keep pulling back, this thing’s huge. The iPad Pro is a tremendous piece of hardware. It’s the fastest iOS device ever. … | Continue reading
Speaking of Federico, he just published a banger of an article over on MacStories, discussing all the ways that iPadOS is still a mess, 14 years after the launch of the original iPad and 9 years after the launch of the first iPad Pro: I started using the iPad as my main computer … | Continue reading
Federico and I joined Jason on this week’s perfectly-numbered episode of Upgrade: The new iPad Pro is here, and Jason is joined by Federico Viticci to discuss the new model, Jason’s review, and the limitations of iPadOS. Stephen Hackett also joins the show not to crush some creat … | Continue reading
Calling all crossword fans! Black Ink, the beloved Mac app for solving crosswords from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and more, is now available for iOS. Download it from the App Store and enjoy nearly-endless crossword-solving fun on your iPhone, iPad, … | Continue reading