We discuss why it’s useful to take time every once in a while to pull back and look at the big picture instead of getting bogged down in the day-to-day grind. Also, Jason built himself a tool… | Continue reading
Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. … | Continue reading
This is a tricky one. On the one hand, the NightWatch Apple Watch stand is ridiculous. It’s an $85 hunk of plastic. No hunk of clear plastic should cost $85. And yet… I bought one in Ju… | 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
Zoom and FaceTime are weird. Apple and the home (again). The G4 iMac turns 20. It floated above your desk like a VESA-mounted iMac. | Continue reading
Speaking of the iMac G4, here’s my look back at that great, weird, beautiful computer from my 2020 tour of the most notable Macs of all time. | Continue reading
I’ve noticed that folks who write about cord-cutting tend to be maximalists: “How can I get the most of all the things available?” Fair enough. A lot of people like lots of TV. Bu… | Continue reading
Tell me how the panelist caused you extra work. Last year I decided I was spending too much time doing jobs because I could do them, not because they were an essential part of my job. (My friend My… | Continue reading
We’re easing back in from our post-holiday comas. | Continue reading
How we turn our digital photographs into physical media, our experiences with external monitors, our thoughts on an audiobook service from Apple, and the AR/VR headset features that would appeal to… | Continue reading
We spend our first episode of 2022 discussing what we think Apple will do this year. Is it finally time for an Apple product you put on your face? Jason and Myke also discuss changes they’re … | 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
My friend David Sparks has been leading a double life for a while now. To his law colleagues and friends, he has had a strange side hustle writing and talking about tech. To the rest of us, he̵… | Continue reading
Microsoft Exchange admins felt a great disturbance in the Force last night as it became 2022: The “long” type allows for values up to 2,147,483,647. It appears that Microsoft uses the first two num… | Continue reading
Some predictions are like sweet denim jackets or A-Ha’s “Take On Me”: they never go out of style. As 2021 draws to a close, you’ll see tech pundits from across the Internet … | Continue reading
We conclude our 2021 Favorites series with this list of books we loved this year. You might know this about us, but we read a lot. These were the cream of the crop. Piranesi My favorite book of the… | Continue reading
Millennials / Terminal / ls -al / What’s your shell? It’s the last Six Colors podcast of the year. Let the molting begin! | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for once again sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide focuses on honest, user-focused device management and security, with informed consent, opt-in style enrollment, and commit… | Continue reading
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