MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last with you, we discussed the Pocket 8086. If you don’t remember what the Pocket 8086 is, or who I am, or what any of this has to do with everyone’s favorite Apple blog, I’d refer yo … | Continue reading
Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: Our iPhones are always with us, making the Home Screen very valuable real estate in our lives. This week, the guys share their home screens and Focus modes and how their devices help keep them on track. On More Power Users, we talked through our Cont … | Continue reading
Joanna Stern has written about this before, but in her email newsletter this week, she addresses the fact that Apple Intelligence continues to misgender her spouse: Here’s a notification for you, Apple: There is no husband. Despite what my iPhone’s frequent notification summaries … | Continue reading
Apple’s “intelligent” notification summaries have been …uhhhhh… making things up as LLMs often do, and after repeated complaints from the likes of the BBC, Apple is changing how they work. Chance Miller has details: Here are the changes included in iOS 18.3 for Apple Intelligence … | Continue reading
I’m pumped about this version of my favorite weather app: Live Activities Now you can opt to have Live Activities start automatically when precipitation is in the area! They’ll be started via a notification about 15 minutes before rain or snow begins, then you’ll continue to rece … | Continue reading
This week on the podcast: Federico, Myke, and Stephen consider turning their podcast over to a non-profit for all decision-making. Other points of business include Unifi networking, Focus modes, daily notes, and other items. | Continue reading
After years of waiting, AT&T Fiber finally became available on my side of the street,1 giving me access to sweet, sweet gigabit speed both to and from the Internet. This became the impetus for me to replace most of my home network. I was using a set of pretty old eero base statio … | Continue reading
From the Mastodon blog: Mastodon was founded on the principles that people should be able to control their social circle online, curate their own timeline, and convene freely with any community of their choosing. We believe social media should help users build bridges, not walls. … | Continue reading
Automation on the Mac is alive and well and FastScripts 3 from Red Sweater makes it easy to organize and run your favorite scripts. With FastScripts you can set up powerful keyboard shortcuts to run your scripts, or select and run your scripts from a menu bar icon. The app suppor … | Continue reading
I haven’t thought about AOL in a long time, but it is still around, apparently: | Continue reading
In this feedback episode, David and I discuss AI-powered dictation solutions, the safety features built into many Apple products, and some listener feedback. | Continue reading
If you’re starting the new year off looking at new tools, Drafts Pro is half off for the first year right now. Drafts is the fastest and most flexible way to get something out of your head and into you computer. | Continue reading
This week on Connected: It is time to name a new Annual Chairman, so the guys judge their 2024 predictions and make a new round of guesses for what 2025 may bring to the Apple faithful. | Continue reading
I double checked; today is not April 1. | Continue reading
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – delive … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I discuss the task managers we tried in 2024, and what we are currently using to get things done at work and beyond. | Continue reading
I haven’t gotten very far into this interview yet, but Serlet’s history and career should be more widely known than it is. | Continue reading
On January 5, 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the Aqua user interface for the very first time. Stylistically, it was a bold departure from what had come before, and was no doubt created with the iMac G3 in mind. The changes were more than skin deep, and no where was the influence of Ne … | Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official MS-DOS correspondent. Long time reader; second-time guest post. I’ve only ever writte … | Continue reading
Apple: Apple TV+ is ringing in the New Year by offering an all-access pass to customers all around the world. Enjoy Apple TV+ for free the first weekend of 2025 (January 3 through January 5), Apple TV+ will be free on any device where Apple TV+ is available. All you need is an Ap … | Continue reading
On this week’s Mac Power Users, it’s MPU Holiday Special time! David and I reflect on our college Macs and how influential they would end up being on each of us. | Continue reading
In January 2006, the first Intel Macs were announced. We’ll deal more with that anniversary in a year, but for now, it’s worth walking through the final full year of PowerPC Macs. Transitions happen for a reason, and exploring those reasons can tell us a lot about the priorities … | Continue reading
I’m pretty content with my Apple Watch, but MY WORD LOOK AT THIS THING. | Continue reading
It’s Top Nine time over on Instagram, so it’s also Top Nine time here on the blog. Here’s my year, boiled down to nine images: The Vision Pro box & my original Macintosh, which turned 40 this year. Myke and I were given St. Jude’s Creator Achievement Award. Our community raised o … | Continue reading
This week on Connected, we revisit the biggest stories of year, ranking each month on the most scientific scale known to humankind: the Ticci Scale. | Continue reading
There’s a new version of Pedometer++ rolling out now that makes it easy to see your step count over time: David and I have been talking about this feature for a while now, and it is exciting to see it shipping. I love being able to scroll back and see my progress over the years, … | Continue reading
Apple Support: In iOS 18.2 or later, the Mail app automatically sorts your email messages into categories to help you find and manage messages quicker. Primary: Find personal messages and time-sensitive information. Transactions: Keep track of your confirmations, receipts, and sh … | Continue reading
I was recently moving some files around and came across a column I wrote for my college newspaper. I was on the design side of the paper1 and didn’t get to write that much. In the fall of 2006, I was given a short-lived column covering the tech news, and this entry is from Octobe … | Continue reading
From the Apple TV+ Newsroom: Following the acclaimed second season premiere of “Silo,” today Apple TV+ announced that the global hit, world-building drama has been renewed through season four. The fourth season of “Silo” will bring the series to its final, thrilling chapter, tell … | Continue reading
PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. It works with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide. PowerPhotos allows you to work with multiple Photo libraries and store them wherever you want, including on an external d … | Continue reading
Many people have more PDFs and files than they’d like. This week on MPU, David and I explore two great applications that make managing files more straightforward and efficient. | Continue reading
I use several of Rogue Amoeba’s apps on a near-daily basis. They are critical to my work as a podcaster, and my Mac would be noticeably less useful without them. With the transition to Apple silicon, installing these programs became much more complicated, and I feared that Apple … | Continue reading
Graham Fraser at the BBC: This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. He has not. A spokesperson … | Continue reading
This week’s Conduit had a pretty mediocre guest: Jay is gone away again, so Kathy brings in Stephen Hackett as a guest host and they can actually talk about Yearly Themes! | Continue reading
This week: Myke shares some news, Federico covers iOS 18.2, and I launch a new awards program. | Continue reading
iOS 18.2 is rolling out today, bringing the next wave of Apple Intelligence features with it.1 The splashiest feature is Image Playgrounds, which allows users to create images based on photos in their image libraries: Apple’s system will not create realistic images, and is instea … | Continue reading
In November 1996, Apple released the Power Macintosh 4400 with a starting price of $1,725. Also sold as the Power Macintosh 7220, it’d be easy to write this machine off as just another grain of sand on the beige beach that was Apple’s product line in the 1990s. I mean, just look … | 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
It’s that time of year again: when relatives come to the family get-together armed with tech questions. On this episode, David and I tackle some of the most common issues asked around the dinner table. | Continue reading
For years, Apple fans have looked at the Surface Studio longingly, wondering what a version of a tilting Mac desktop could look like. Many wondered if Apple would ever do anything like this machine, adding Apple Pencil and touch support to macOS, or doing some wild Mac/iPad hybri … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: With Myke out this week, Stephen and Federico bravely carry on, discussing the future of web browsers, how iOS 18.2 is shaping up, and a Kickstarter that seems a bit unusual. | Continue reading
Simon B. Støvring has launched a new app: Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak their appearance to match your preferences. I love this, and not just because it reminds me of the old Holiday Lights app. | Continue reading
Thomas Kleine Buening, Aadirupa Saha, Christos Dimitrakakis, Haifeng Xu, on Apple’s “Machine Learning Research” blog: Motivated by the phenomenon of strategic agents gaming a recommendation system to maximize the number of times they are recommended to users, we study a strategic … | Continue reading
In my week of guesting on other people’s Relay podcasts, I’m on today’s episode of Focused, talking about my recent sabbatical. I found the topic surprisingly weird to talk about, but David and Mike helped make it much more comfortable to do so. | Continue reading
Nilay Patel: Today we’re launching a Verge subscription that lets you get rid of a bunch of ads, gets you unlimited access to our top-notch reporting and analysis across the site and our killer premium newsletters, and generally lets you support independent tech journalism in a w … | Continue reading
Andrew Liszewski, writing at The Verge, about a thing that should not have been made: Apple may have said goodbye to the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar last year, but a team of four engineers believes the concept deserves a second chance. They’ve created the Flexbar, which is essentiall … | Continue reading
Myke Hurley was out this week, so I joined Jason Snell for today’s episode of Upgrade: Stephen Hackett joins Jason to discuss emergency calls, reaction to Jason’s “The Mac is the Model” piece, iPhone metals, our innate troubleshooting powers, Jason’s laptop dilemma, the ChatGPT M … | Continue reading