From the most recent post over on iMore, announcing that no new posts will be published on the site: It’s a keen reminder that the world of technology never stands still: The term ‘artificial intelligence’ was the reserve of science fiction in the early days of the iPhone. The wo … | Continue reading
This week on the show: The original Connected crew is reunited just in time to share their initial impressions of the Apple Watch Series 10 and iPhone 16 Pro. They also discuss Apple’s definition of a photo and how they should introduce one another. | Continue reading
I know these machines have earned these labels but jeez. | Continue reading
Apple’s VP of camera software engineering Jon McCormack gave Nilay Patel a quote about how Apple views photography in our modern age. Here’s what he said: Here’s our view of what a photograph is. The way we like to think of it is that it’s a personal celebration of something that … | Continue reading
With Audio Hijack, you can 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 it. Whatever you need to … | Continue reading
We’ll be live on the Relay YouTube channel all day, raising money for St. Jude: | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol: Apple has seemingly leaked the rumored next-generation Mac mini with five USB-C ports, according to a code change within Apple software that was discovered today by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. The code refers to an unreleased Mac mini model with an Apple si … | Continue reading
Widgetsmith is getting a really fun update for iOS 18: Widgetsmith 7 on iOS 18 includes new ways to use your widgets to perform useful Actions from your Home screen, Lock screen, and Control Center. Actions allow you to quickly launch an app, run a Shortcut, make a call, send a t … | Continue reading
macOS Sequoia is rolling out today, and it joins its predecessors in the macOS Screenshot Library. This initial version of Sequoia is pretty quiet; the fireworks will come with Apple Intelligence in the coming months. | Continue reading
I recently switched back to Reminders for the 10,000th time, and came across this really cool Mac app that adds Reminders (and a quick-add text box) to your menubar. It belongs on the same list as InstaRemind when it comes to making Reminders easier — and faster — to use on macOS … | Continue reading
I hate everything about this. I could have told our city leadership that something like was inevitable. | Continue reading
Emma Roth: SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn astronauts successfully performed a spacewalk, marking the first done by a private company. After depressurizing SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, the billionaire funding the mission, Jared Isaacman, emerged from the spacecraft early Thursday morning. With … | Continue reading
This week on a jam-packed episode of the world’s greatest podcast: The guys score their picks regarding Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event. Things didn’t go well for everyone. | Continue reading
This week on a special episode of MPU: Apple’s September event brought new iPhones, updated AirPods, and a revised Apple Watch line. Stephen and David sort through the news and share their thoughts. | Continue reading
On June 25, 2010, our son had his “No More Chemo” party at St. Jude Children’s Hospital, at nearly 20 months of age: These parties are one of my favorite things about life at St. Jude: Confetti, singing and cheering aren’t what you think of when you think of a hospital. But St. J … | Continue reading
Apple held its annual iPhone event today, and the biggest thought in my mind about is that Apple’s product messaging has gotten confusing. Apple Watch For years, rumors have claimed that the Apple Watch Ultra would fall off the annual release cycle the standard Apple Watch enjoys … | Continue reading
Tom Ravenscroft, at Dezeen: Dezeen can exclusively reveal photos of technology company Apple’s new events venue, which is built into the hillside at the Apple Park campus in California. Set to officially open later today, The Observatory is the most significant building to be com … | 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: Matt Cassinelli joins the show to discuss his background with Workflow and Apple and how it led to him becoming the “Shortcuts Guy.” The group then discusses Apple’s automation tools across its platforms, and how those tools have extended to the web. | Continue reading
Monday, September 9 will mark ten years since Apple announced the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, as well as the Apple Watch. That’s all fine and good, but the real news of the day was free music from U2: Apple, Universal Music Group and legendary rock band U2 today announced the release of … | Continue reading
Looks like the colors of Monday’s new iPhones have leaked, and once again the Pro phones are just so… boring. | Continue reading
This week on the show: It’s Glowtime! Apple’s annual iPhone keynote is September 9, so Federico, Myke, and Stephen peered into a crystal ball and have returned with a range of predictions for the event. | Continue reading
MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs. The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to social media.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, jus … | Continue reading
Boeing has a ghost in the machine. | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I take inventory of what software and services we’re using in our content businesses, and how we work with our respective teams across multiple time zones and platforms. | Continue reading
Ryan Smith, with some very sad news: It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publicat … | Continue reading
Kerry Provenzano was kind enough to have me on her podcast, and we talked a lot about blogging: In this episode, Kerry is joined by Relay co-founder, podcaster and blogger Stephen Hackett. They delve into Stephen’s 16 years of writing at 512 Pixels and uncover the key advice writ … | Continue reading
This week on the podcast: Federico tried an iPhone screen protector, Stephen remembered some dates, and Myke interrupted the first St. Jude read of the year. Lastly, Apple has an upcoming event, so the guys take some time to reevaluate the Bill of Rickies. | Continue reading
We just passed $3 million raised for St. Jude since 2019! We are excited to share with you that Relay will be recognized on the wall inside St. Jude that highlights corporations and organizations with exceptional fundraising efforts for its life-saving work. Here’s a short video … | Continue reading
Since 2019, the Relay community has raised $2.98 million in support of St. Jude’s life-saving work. TWO POINT NINE EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS, YALL! That number staggers me. With $3 million in sight,1 today we are launching Relay’s sixth annual fundraising campaign for St. Jude Childr … | Continue reading
When I started this project, my goal was to untangle the messiest of all Mac product lines. In my initial blog post I wrote: At its heart, the Performa line is the fruit of badge engineering. This is often found in the car market, perhaps most famously in the Chrysler K-car platf … | Continue reading
Eric Berger, writing at Ars: Following weeks of speculation, NASA finally made it official on Saturday: Two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June will not return home on that vehicle. Instead, the agency has asked SpaceX t … | Continue reading
Aria Alamalhodaei, writing at TechCrunch: After a nearly three-year interlude, Jared Isaacman is returning to space. The billionaire entrepreneur first went to orbit as part of the Inspiration4 mission, which made history for having a crew comprised entirely of private citizens, … | Continue reading
I dig the artwork, as shared by Joanna Stern on Threads: | Continue reading
We’ve done it; we have come to the final three Performas. It’s taken 11,000 words to get here, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Performa 6400 In a world of weird 1990s Macs, the 6400 may take the prize for the most awkward. Here it is, in Power Macintosh form, in […] | Continue reading
Lex.Games is a website and iOS app for playing daily word games. If you like Wordle or Connections or crossword puzzles, there’s a good chance you’ll like Lex.Games. Lex.Games offers: Conlextions, directly inspired by the NYT game Lexicogs, where you solve crossword-style clues b … | Continue reading
This week on MPU: Marco Arment joins to discuss his podcast app for iOS, Overcast, which just received a major rewrite for its 10th anniversary. David and Stephen talk to Marco about that project, how he thinks through user feedback, and Apple’s annual release cycle. | Continue reading
In the spring of 1996, Apple updated its all-in-one Performa across two collections of models: the 5200 and 5400. Thankfully, not all of them were beige… Performa 5200 Series In 1996, the Performa 5200 line was updated with three new models: Model: CPU: Memory: HDD Size: Price: 5 … | Continue reading
By the fall of 1995, the final pre-PowerPC Performas were still available for purchase by those looking to potentially procure a personal computer until later in 1996. Apple was moving on from 68K-based Macs, and now so must we. Macintosh Performa 5300CD & 5320CD These machines w … | Continue reading
This time on Connected: The guys cover some iPhone rumors, changes at Apple Podcasts, the announcement of Monument Valley 3, and iOS 18’s final days in beta, all before discussing the idea of the “Apple cult” starting to fade. | Continue reading
This 28-minute video about a family buying a Performa is amazing in every single way. Cancel your plans this evening and enjoy: For bonus points, check out the Australian version: | Continue reading
Starting in November 1994, Apple transitioned the Performa line to use the PowerPC processor. This took some time and started some eight months after the first Power Macintosh models were announced, but as covered at great length in this series, Performas were all rebadged Macs f … | Continue reading
Today Apple launched an online version of its podcast service. Users can search for and listen to shows on the web, and if signed in, they can add shows to their library and “Up Next” queue. Apple Podcasts is late to this party but I’m glad it’s here. | Continue reading
ScreenFloat is your Mac’s screenshot all-rounder. You capture screenshots and recordings with it, and they’ll float above all windows, so you can always reference them. It’s like Picture-in-Picture — just for screengrabs. Copy or redact text, barcodes, and faces effortlessly to k … | Continue reading
This week on MPU: Apple Intelligence recently entered beta. David and Stephen have spent time with the features currently available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. These include writing tools, summarization Mail and Messages, and a new Focus Mode. | Continue reading
Ten years ago, we published the first episodes of five podcasts, and Relay was born. Just a few weeks before, Myke Hurley and I — along with some friends — had wound down our shows on 5by5 and promised we’d be back with something new. As I wrote at the time, that entire timeframe … | Continue reading
In August of 1994, Apple was on the cusp of shipping the first PowerPC Performas. That’s a topic for a future blog post, but just because the 69k machines were getting old doesn’t mean Apple was giving up on them. Robin Meyerowitz wrote this for MacWEEK at the time: Breaking from … | Continue reading