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

Over on Mastodon, I was embroiled in a whole conversation about fonts we use for writing. I write exclusively using monospaced fonts, and have done so for decades now.… | Continue reading

Apple Intelligence just keeps on coming. The first batch of features in Apple’s much-hyped entry into the artificial intelligence boom will be released to the general public sometime next week, but the company is already moving on to the next one.… | Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We have the new phones. And we have thoughts on the new phones.… | Continue reading