The pinnacle of the MacOS is back.… | Continue reading
Last year at WWDC Apple detailed its long-term plans to get rid of passwords. It included a preview of a technology called Passkeys in iCloud Keychain in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey. The idea is that you can log in anywhere by authenticating on your device—you don’t have to set pas … | Continue reading
We’re sifting through the fallout of Netflix’s trying times, pondering the future of ads on streaming services and trying to identify which shows benefit from binge-watching—and which don’t.… | Continue reading
The tech we always travel with, things we hope seem slow in 30 years, Twitter’s new Close Friends feature, and devices we own that we secretly wish would die.… | Continue reading
Amazon: Beginning in late 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.AZW, .MOBI) files to your library using Send to Kindle. This change won’t affect any MOBI files already in your Kindle library. MOBI is an older file format and won’t support the newest Kindle features for d … | Continue reading
Tony Fadell, Nest founder and a key to creating the iPod, has a new book out and Fast Company has a very interesting excerpt in which he details what he learned from Steve Jobs about communicating tech products to consumers: He used a technique I later came to call the virus of … | Continue reading
This week we check in on Studio Display firmware, ponder what form the iPhone 14 might take and whether it’s different enough from the iPhone 13, and break down the results of Apple’s record fiscal quarter—including some trepidation about the future. Also, Myke finally got his Pl … | Continue reading
Do you 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. It’s easy to setup, blocks all YouTube ads and doubles the speed at which Safari loads. Magic Lasso is an efficient, hig … | Continue reading
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Luca: …and with that, let’s open the call to questions. Operator: Our first question comes from Jan Key from Key Blur Financial. Go ahead. Jan: Thanks for taking my question. Tim, you said that you’re facing a lot of headwinds in the next quart … | Continue reading
Apple’s financial results show complications ahead, Jason installed some beta display firmware, and you probably shouldn’t do word games when your brain’s half asleep.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Every quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri make statements and take questions from financial analysts on a conference call. This is the transcript of the call for April 28, 2022. Tim Cook’s opening remarks Thank you Tejas. Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you … | Continue reading
On Thursday, Apple announced its results for the second quarter of its 2022 fiscal year. It was a March quarter record of $97.3 billion in revenue, with all-time quarterly records for iPhone, Mac, and Wearables sales. We’ll be walking through all the results later this afternoon … | Continue reading
One of my very favorite game developers, Zach Gage, is back with a new one. Knotwords, by Gage and Jack Schlesinger, is a crossword-puzzle style game with a twist: instead of filling the puzzle via clues, you have to fill various regions of the board with a limited selection of l … | Continue reading
Let’s do lunch.… | Continue reading
Over the years, all sorts of entities have purchased the television rights to sporting events at prices that don’t make sense, at least if you’re expecting them to turn a profit directly from the sporting events themselves. Fox famously overpaid for NFL rights to establish itself … | Continue reading
The video conferencing cameras we use, how we’d change Siri’s voice, whether we’d tackle an iPhone repair, and our plans (or lack thereof) for leaving Twitter.… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: The new online store offers more than 200 individual parts and tools, enabling customers who are experienced with the complexities of repairing electronic devices to complete repairs on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups and iPhone SE (3rd generation), such as t … | Continue reading
Apple has released a beta version of macOS 12.4 that includes within it a beta version of the firmware for the Apple Studio Display. This is the first update to the Studio Display firmware since it shipped, and Apple says that it “has refinements to the Studio Display camera tuni … | Continue reading
Jason added a (working) Studio Display and a Playdate to his house last week, and Myke’s a little upset. Also CNN+ died, Netflix went into crisis, and Apple kept making sports streaming deals. We also discuss the parking situation at Apple Park, accept the passing of the iPhone m … | Continue reading
I use Reincubate’s Camo to turn my iPhone into a high-quality webcam for my Mac. Even an older iPhone’s camera is better than any webcam you’ve got, but mounting it can be fussy, and you have to unlock the phone and launch the Camo app every time you use it—which isn’t very conve … | Continue reading
Friday afternoon I spent about half an hour showing off the new Panic Playdate on a YouTube Stream. If you’re interested in the new retro handheld game device, check it out!… | Continue reading
Emergency podcast! Julia and Jason reconvene for a second time in a week to discuss Netflix’s very bad quarterly results (and how the company will change its behavior and strategy as a result) and the rapid but not entirely surprising death of CNN+.… | Continue reading
A baseball digression (including some tech talk), a Mac app that outpaces its cross-platform competition, and the curious case of the HomePod (and why Apple should take more chances).… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Federico Viticci uses Audio Hijack 4 scripting to connect his recording sessions to his time tracking: That got me thinking: when I start recording a show, I could run a script that fires off a shortcut that contains a Timery action to start time tracking. I don’t want to manual … | Continue reading
Listening to last week’s Accidental Tech Podcast made me realize: that the original HomePod and the Apple Studio Display have a few things in common. Both products entered a category full of competition—displays and voice-activated speakers. Both were regarded in some quarters as … | Continue reading
We just don’t talk about Apple Maps enough.… | Continue reading
When I first tried Ecamm Network‘s live-streaming app Live, I didn’t like it.1 I liked the idea of it. Software that streams live to YouTube, Twitch, and other services is dominated by open-source projects like OBS and Streamlabs and expensive cross-platform apps like Wirecast. L … | Continue reading
Our charging situations, which collaborative workspaces we prefer, how we protect our digital privacy, and what we’re watching on Apple TV+.… | Continue reading
Julia has some advice for David Zaslav as he takes the reins of Warner Bros. Discovery—mostly about the fates of CNN+ and the Harry Potter franchise. Plus, the rise of streaming sports.… | Continue reading
Justin O’Beirne, who keeps a close eye on Apple Maps, has noted that the company has finally expanded its cycling directions in the US: As of April 15, 2022, Apple has quietly added cycling directions for the parts of the Midwest covered in Expansion #6, including Chicago (pictu … | Continue reading
Justin O’Beirne, who keeps a close eye on Apple Maps, has noted that the company has finally expanded its cycling directions in the US: As of April 15, 2022, Apple has quietly added cycling directions for the parts of the Midwest covered in Expansion #6, including Chicago (pictu … | Continue reading
This week we’re imagining the right and wrong improvements for the Apple Watch, speculating about the first wave of M2 Macs, lamenting Apple’s process for replacing a defective product, and buzzing (in a bad way) about CNN+.… | Continue reading
For as long as the Mac has had overlapping windows, it’s come up with ways to manage them. Everything from zoom controls to window shades to turning folders into tabs at the edge of your windows1—seems like the Mac’s tried it all. But I’m going to take this opportunity to call ou … | Continue reading
Dan is looking for Focus in all the wrong Spaces. Jason’s Studio Display delivery didn’t go well. That’s baseball!… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Speaking of sports, I recently read Craig Calcaterra’s new book Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game, and I really enjoyed it. I’m a happy subscriber to Calcaterra’s Cup of Coffee newsletter, which gives me a hit of baseball news and opinio … | Continue reading
Rob Art Morgan called himself a mad scientist… and what a perfect description. An idiosyncratic writer and enthusiastic technologist who specialized in quantifying Mac speed and determining what was fastest, the man behind the independent site BareFeats has died at 77: The proli … | Continue reading
How many people does it take to fill John Moltz’s shoes? Two people. One for each shoe.… | Continue reading
Capturing and editing video on iPhone & iPad, what we think about 8k video, how the Apple Watch’s rumored health features would affect our purchasing decisions, and our thoughts on Apple using Shortcuts as a way to introduce new functionality.… | Continue reading
Me at Macworld, 10 years ago: Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the venerable Mac text-editing app BBEdit. I’m sure there are other apps not published by a gigantic company that have managed to last as long, but I’m not sure that any app has changed with the times and remai … | Continue reading
Francisco Lindor, no!Apple’s now a sports broadcaster. The premiere of “Friday Night Baseball” on Apple TV+, featuring two live games, has come and gone. Any baseball fan will tell you that it’s a long season, and you can’t tell anything from the final score on opening day. But a … | Continue reading
Baseball season is here and Jason has a detailed critique of Apple’s first Friday Night Baseball broadcasts. But it’s not all home runs and calls to the bullpen, as Myke goes home to Dongletown and we ponder just what might be announced at WWDC 2022.… | Continue reading
Last week Audio Hijack 4 arrived, and was I excited about its automation features. I had several people ask me about a simple automation I created, which generates a single button on a Stream Deck that toggles recording on and off and changes its display based on recording status … | Continue reading
When institutional tech lags home tech, Apple’s baseball efforts get underway, and WWDC 2022 is now officially on the schedule.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Selecting a channel in Audition. It’s ready for EQ and limiting. Among a group of my friends and fellow podcasters, a certain kitchen gadget is known simply as the “cult device.” We enjoy the Instant Pot, but are far too cool to openly admire a mere hunk of metal and circuitry… … | Continue reading
It’s opening day! And Apple has provided more information about its forthcoming baseball broadcasts, which premiere Friday: Produced by MLB Network’s Emmy Award-winning production team in partnership with Apple, “Friday Night Baseball” will offer a modern and dynamic broadcast e … | Continue reading
Welcome to our new feature, Water Heater Talk.… | Continue reading
Whether we’d put our trust in an Apple Bank, how we feel about editing tweets, our office chair situation, and Plex’s new Universal Watchlist: yea or nay?… | Continue reading
Apple TV+ wins Best Picture, “Our Flag Means Death” is… a hit?, why being the fan of a baseball team is going to bring you pain, “Obi-Wan” takes on “Stranger Things” directly, and Jason subscribed to CNN+… for science!… | Continue reading