It was a weird year for movies. Theaters were closed, open, and sometimes closed again? And not everyone felt comfortable returning to an enclosed space full of other people later in the year. And … | Continue reading
We watch a lot of TV. It’s the platinum era of television–you could watch several hours a day for the entire year and never run out of top-shelf entertainment. But who has the time? So … | Continue reading
What tech had the biggest impact on us in 2021, our predictions for the most surprising tech story of 2022, whether we seek out short-form videos, and our biggest tech irritations of the last year. | Continue reading
Jason and Julia are off for the holiday, but before they left, they took time to record this special episode featuring answers to listener letters! (Only two-thirds of the letters are from people n… | Continue reading
As the year comes to an end, it’s time for the Eighth Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2021, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous cate… | Continue reading
Kolide provides teams unprecedented ground truth across their Linux, Mac, and Windows devices. Powered by osquery, our honest approach to obtaining device visibility via informed consent, opt-in s… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. Kolide believes that the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation is the “average&… | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual Christmas gift exchange round-robin, and then the boys get down to business with some competitive picks about what will happen in 2022. All that’s followed by a… | Continue reading
We played and enjoyed a lot of games this year. Weird, right? It’s as if we needed to escape. Anyway, here are some of our favorites. Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City As I admitted back in… | Continue reading
Since 2005, I’ve partaken in a peculiar pastime every January1: the MIT Mystery Hunt. This weekend-long competition sees teams attempt to solve around two hundred puzzles involving everything… | Continue reading
The last apps we purchased, how we’d handle third-party payment options on our Apple devices, our experience with Exposure Notifications, and how we track our resolutions, themes, and habits … | Continue reading
You thought you were going to get out of the year without a Epidemiology Corner segment? Fat chance. | Continue reading
WinterFest 2021 is on now. It’s a holiday-themed sale of great independent Mac apps, at discounts of 20 or 25 percent: The new year brings new plans, fresh projects, and great new ideas. Whet… | Continue reading
In this Upgrade Holiday Special, Jason and Myke answer the holiday-themed questions of Upgradians everywhere. | Continue reading
At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send impo… | Continue reading
As we reach the end of the year, it’s time for us to share some of the stuff that we liked this year. Here are our picks for our favorite hardware of the year. Some are obvious… some less so.… | Continue reading
If you’ve ever struggled to put a screenshot into a photo of Apple hardware to make it fit in an appropriate context, you’ll appreciate this: Apple has just added a Product Bezels secti… | Continue reading
This week my friend Stephen Hackett posted a video tour of his new home studio and along with it, updated the page detailing all the gear he uses. Last month, we passed the seventh anniversary of t… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide connects device security and Slack together in a clever way–by sending people important, timely, and relevant recommendations a… | Continue reading
So back in October I tweeted about how it was easy to lose the pointer under the notch on the 24-inch MacBook Pro, and that someone should do something about that: once again I am asking for someon… | Continue reading
Shortcuts maven Matthew Cassinelli has a story up at iMore about eight ways for Apple to improve Shortcuts: Combined with architecture changes, a lack of integration across Apple’s other team… | Continue reading
Promised at WWDC, a new version of Swift Playgrounds arrived this week, with its most notable feature addition being support for submitting projects to the App Store. John Voorhees of MacStories pr… | Continue reading
Why we’re not using Obsidian, favorite iOS apps, photos, and thoughts of spring. [We’ve been told to take next week off. The podcast will be back in two weeks.] | Continue reading
Smart retouching in action. The Pixelmator team has released Pixelmator Photo 2.0, which brings Pixelmator Photo to the iPhone for the first time. Pixelmator Photo has been my go-to photo editing a… | Continue reading
Here are six iOS apps that stood out for us this year, but weren’t part of the old standbys list. They’re not all new, but they’re ones we used a lot more this year. Noir I use Da… | Continue reading
This is a nice post from developer Simon B. Støvring about getting data out of 1Password and into iCloud Keychain: Ensuring all items in 1Password have a valid website address is necessary in order… | Continue reading
Never has a show been taken over by a guest quite so quickly. | Continue reading
We dig into why CNN+ has to exist, even though it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Also, the strange divisions between what’s on HBO and what’s on HBO Max, we talk a surprising amount… | Continue reading
Will we use SharePlay? What are our feelings about Bluetooth earbuds? How do we protect ourselves when we’re browsing online? And what are our picks for favorite TV, movies, and books of the … | Continue reading
Myke is back from vacation with a lot of follow-up for Jason about last week’s show. Also: the official Upgrade Draft championship trophy is unveiled, and we discuss Apple’s forthcoming… | Continue reading
Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack. At Kolide, we think end-user… | Continue reading
Apple released iOS 15.2, macOS 12.1, and watchOS 8.3 today, with a bunch of new features including SharePlay for macOS, the new Apple Music Voice plan, App Privacy Report, Legacy Contacts, and a wh… | Continue reading
Friday afternoon I tried something new and did a live stream. The subject: a “re-boxing” of my MacBook Pro review unit, which is going back to Apple. (In fact, since the video was compl… | Continue reading
As we reach the end of the year, it’s time for us to share some of the stuff that we liked this year. We’ll start with a category that is surprisingly robust: Mac apps. Some of these ar… | Continue reading
Boop, said the smart appliance to the home automation. | Continue reading
A couple of things I wanted to do over at The Incomparable’s website involved knowing the status of a shared Google Calendar. For months I tried to build up the courage to figure out how to i… | Continue reading
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, writing at The Verge, details an interesting component of the upcoming Matter connectivity standard: Matter TV, as we’ll call it for wont of an official name, will allow co… | Continue reading
Describing an experience with augmented reality, last-minute tech gifts, using tech with holiday decor, and how we prepare for tech support when gathering with family. | Continue reading
Around my house, 2021 has been a year of durable goods upheaval. The 10-year-old refrigerator gave us a scare, the 14-year-old Prius put us on notice that its battery was soon to need replacing, an… | Continue reading
At Fast Company, Jared Newman writes in praise of the $15 Markdown editor app Typora, which just exited a seven-year(!) beta: [Typora developer] Abner says he started working on Typora to satisfy h… | Continue reading
Podcast host, developer, and single-ping aficionado Casey Liss decries the state of high-quality external displays for the Mac: The above is the entire lineup. That’s it. Four options. Three of whi… | Continue reading
With Myke on assignment, Dan Moren joins Jason to discuss the features Apple hasn’t yet delivered in 2021 and its product lineup for 2022. Then Jason breaks down the new e-readers you could u… | Continue reading
Home automation, speakers, Shortcuts, and bagels. | Continue reading
YouTuber and podcaster Quinn Nelson has a cat problem: Strange question: is there a way to disable the touch sensitive surface on HomePods? Our cat has learned that if he touches them music plays a… | Continue reading
We’ve seen stories of people triumphantly locating their lost belongings thanks to AirTags, but, as always, technology is a double-edged sword. It seems that some car thieves in Canada are us… | Continue reading
When I reviewed three recently-released e-readers last month, I received several complaints about this line in the story: Kobos are much better citizens [than Kindles] when it comes to borrowing e-… | Continue reading
John Voorhees at MacStories has come up with a clever way to generate a bunch of AppleScript files that just run Shortcuts as a way to open up Shortcuts to apps that support running scripts, but no… | Continue reading
It’s the season of American consumerism, so here’s the technology we bought. | Continue reading