Many years ago, when I first started writing about Apple on the MacUser blog, one of my first recurring features was a series I called “Under the Gavel”, in which I rounded up legal cha… | Continue reading
Facebook went down, so we spend our time talking about Steve Jobs and the Apple of yesteryear. | Continue reading
“Squid Game” and Netflix’s international strategy, the difference between a hit and a franchise, “Law & Order” and TV network brand extensions, successes and failu… | Continue reading
Our paper document approach, our thoughts on Facebook and whether we think it will change its ways, the single-purpose robot we’d have in our homes, and the rate at which we replace and/or up… | Continue reading
The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini aren’t for everybody. Apple’s higher-end iPhone Pro line offers a high-refresh-rate display and a telephoto camera and a few other features that make th… | Continue reading
Andrei Frumusanu of Ananandtech takes a deep dive into Apple’s new A15 processor: Apple’s initial vague presentation of the new A15 improvements could either have resulted in disappointment, … | Continue reading
The iPhone 13 and iPad mini are out and MacBook Pros may be on the way shortly, so it’s time for us to answer your questions! It’s an extended #askupgrade covering new hardware, how to … | Continue reading
A couple weeks back, while I was in the throes of working on my iOS 15 review, I noticed a weird bug: my phone was no longer responding to “Hey Siri” requests. If I held the home button… | Continue reading
If you’re looking to order an Apple Watch Series 7 after last month’s announcement, mark your calendars: Apple announced on Monday that preorders for its latest smartwatch open this Fri… | Continue reading
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media d… | Continue reading
Justin Hamilton: Today, I released a new app called Affirmations. It’s a self-care tool I made that delivers compliments and positive reminders to you. I specifically designed the foundation of the… | Continue reading
Via Merlin Mann and Gabe Weatherhead, I discovered this presentation by Florian Haas about the right and wrong ways to run a distributed workforce: Distributed teams are better than localized teams… | Continue reading
Mimestream is a Mac app reminiscent of Apple Mail, but it uses the Gmail API. I’ve been using Mailplane as my email client for something like a decade. Unfortunately, back in June the makers … | Continue reading
This week Six Colors is sponsored by Boom 3D, immersive audio for everything you listen to on your Mac (or PC). Boom 3D offers an enhanced audio experience with all kinds of media like movies, musi… | Continue reading
Apple has released a quick update for iOS 15: iOS 15.0.1 includes bug fixes for your iPhone including an issue where some users could not unlock iPhone 13 models with Apple Watch. In addition, it f… | Continue reading
iWork updates and new iPhones. | Continue reading
Brandon Katz of The Observer has a good overview of Apple TV’s current subscriber base, how Apple’s strategy of focusing on building a high-quality catalog of originals is going, and wh… | Continue reading
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Team, At Apple, our values are strong. We care about the environment, we look out for workers across our supply chain, and we pride ourselves on creating a welc… | Continue reading
I’m happy to announce Downstream, a new fortnightly podcast I’m co-hosting with Julia Alexander about the future of streaming media. Tech and entertainment companies are vying for our a… | Continue reading
Is Amazon’s new Astro robot cute or menacing? What are our biggest family tech support challenges? How do we revisit our photos? And what do we use for video chatting? | Continue reading
Keynote will let you place live camera (left) and device screen capture (right, Mac only) on slides as standard objects. You’ll need to bring your own device frames, though. On Tuesday Apple … | Continue reading
Myke and Jason review the iPhone 13 and iPad mini, settle on their preferred iPhones, and wonder if Apple should appoint a Color Czar. | Continue reading
Boom 3D for macOS and Windows offers an enhanced audio experience with all kinds of media–movies, music, games, and more. A zero-distortion volume boost, and instant enhancement of ordinary s… | Continue reading
It was 20 years ago that I reviewed Mac OS X 10.1 for Macworld. I remember writing this article under the redwood tree in my backyard–the same place I wrote my iPad mini review earlier this w… | Continue reading
Dan’s waiting for a new iPhone. Jason’s got four, and an iPad mini. We wrote a lot of words this week, so many words that we no longer understand words. | Continue reading
The cameras, they get better every year. When it comes to iPhone upgrades, Apple is incremental. So are iPhone reviews. Those of us who review iPhones are, for understandable reasons, focused on wh… | Continue reading
For power users and people who like to tweak their devices, the arrival of Safari Extensions in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 is a huge step forward. Dan has already written about Safari Keyword Search, whi… | Continue reading
iOS 15 and a surprising amount of discussion about Gandalf. | Continue reading
What size iPad we prefer, our assessment of Apple Arcade two years in, the new iOS 15/iPadOS 15 features we love, and our most recent Apple purchases. | Continue reading
In 2020, Apple sold an iPhone Leather Wallet that attached via MagSafe and held three credit cards. I bought one and have used it for a year, and I like it! But this year, Apple has revised the wal… | Continue reading
Why does the iPad mini exist? Let me count the ways. It’s for kids, people with small hands and good eyesight, people who want a pocketable(-ish) iOS device that doesn’t compromise on f… | Continue reading
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite line is a little more appealing on the outside. The ebook giant has released two new model of its most popular… | Continue reading
Earlier this year, I lauded the return of one of my favorite Safari extensions, Arne Martin Aurlien’s Safari Keyword Search. Now that extension has been updated to version 2.0 and is embarkin… | Continue reading
iOS 15 is here and Myke and Jason share their opinions about new features! Also we’ve got a lot of Apple Event follow-up, and now that Ted Lasso has won eight Emmy Awards, it’s time to … | Continue reading
[This story contains material from the forthcoming update to my book “Take Control of Photos, Second Edition.” If you’d like a deep dive into every feature in the Photos app for M… | Continue reading
Widgets can be placed anywhere, not just in the left column. And I’ve reduced my home screen to a single page thanks to the addition of App Library. I’ve spent the last three months usi… | Continue reading
What is there to say about an operating system fifteen years after release? Fifteen years after the classic Mac OS was released, it was just two years away from its successor, Mac OS X, coming on t… | Continue reading
My thanks to Daylite, the award-winning CRM and productivity app made for Mac-based small businesses, for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Daylite seamlessly integrates with Apple devices–not… | Continue reading
A new home is a blank slate: an opportunity to start over, to hopefully do things better this time—and probably, ultimately, to end up with the same mess as always. But in this era of smart home te… | Continue reading
Dan bought a new iPhone. Jason wants to buy a new Apple Watch. An iPad pricing conundrum. And to those who dream of a unified Apple color system, keep watching the starlight. | Continue reading
AppleInsider reports that Geekbench users are uploading scores for the iPhone 13 that show a 10 percent increase over the iPhone 12 in single-core performance, and a 21 percent increase in multi-co… | Continue reading
Dylan Patel, in a post with a laughably doom-and-gloom headline that nevertheless makes some interesting points about Apple’s chipmaking division and the A15 processor: It appears Apple has n… | Continue reading
We’re feeling blue. By which we mean the blue shade of the new iPhones. | Continue reading
The last time we used the full capabilities of the iPhone’s video camera, the Apple products we still want to see this year, whether we’re tempted by the Apple Watch Series 7, and all t… | Continue reading
Good morning! (Photo: Apple) Dan’s got the quick reactions to Tuesday’s Apple event covered, but I had a few notes left on the cutting-room floor that I wanted to get out before shiftin… | Continue reading
As a subscriber to the iPhone Upgrade Program for lo these many years, I’ve been glad to see that Apple has streamlined the process year after year. What once required you to go into a store … | Continue reading
Apple announced new iPhones, Apple Watches and iPads on Tuesday, and this is our quick reaction to the news. What color is the saddest rainbow? Why was Joz locked out of Apple Park one night? Why i… | Continue reading
Sure seems like Apple’s got the whole “slickly produced video” thing down to a science, doesn’t it? As expected, today’s event saw the wraps taken off the new iPhone 1… | Continue reading