MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs. The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to Twitter.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just pre … | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I are joined by Sigmund Judge to discuss Apple TV hardware, tvOS, Apple TV+ content, and more. | Continue reading
While working on another project, I came across this video of Steve Jobs speaking at Macworld Expo in the fall of 1997. It’s a stunning video for a few reasons. In it, he announces no products. Instead, he shared some thoughts on how he viewed the mess that Apple had found itself … | Continue reading
While working on another project, I came across this delightful blog post by Jay at The House of Moth, about the Power Mac G5: How many fans does a Power Mac G5 have? Depending on the configuration this answer varies but you can be almost sure the answer is always one short. Let’ … | Continue reading
Mark Gurman, writing at Bloomberg: Apple Inc. will get an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of a landmark agreement announced last month, further tightening ties between the once-unlikely partners. Phil Schiller, the head of Apple’s App Store and its former marketing chief, … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Federico and Myke discuss MacStories’ open letter on AI, explore their feelings on how AI could impact the future of creativity, and delve into the idea of “Context, Consent, and Control.” | Continue reading
As spotted by Hartley Charlton, Apple has updated its Vintage & Obsolete Products document to include 2017’s iPhone X and 2018’s HomePod. | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: David and Stephen discuss Apple’s youngest platform and where it stands a few months after launch. They share some of their favorite apps and how spatial computing fits into their personal and professional lives. | Continue reading
I’m happy to announce that 512 Pixels now has a permanent merch store over on Cotton Bureau. At launch, I’ve got five shirts for sale. Three of the designs are back from the vault, updated for 2024, with a new 512 Pixels logo shirt and a design celebrating the original iPod1 join … | Continue reading
Last year, NASA announced plans to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of the decade. We now know much more about the agency’s plans, according to Jeff Foust: NASA selected SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that will be used to perform the final phases of the deorbiti … | Continue reading
Dr. Drang, bouncing off my recent post on Reminders: If you have the Move tool in your Mail toolbar, you can select all the messages you want to move, click on the Move tool, and select the appropriate folder from the drop-down menu. Because the menu is long, this may seem no eas … | Continue reading
This week on the podcast: After follow-up topics ranging from iPhone cases to apps for some very specific use cases, Stephen, Myke, and Federico discuss some of the changes in this week’s beta OSes, recent DMA news, Apple’s Beats strategy, and more. | Continue reading
Every summer, I take some time with Apple’s updated stock apps. Many of them are quite good, and meet the needs for the vast majority of users. I fully understand that sometimes you and I are not the vast majority of users, and that third-party apps can often better fit our needs … | Continue reading
Back in 2021, Ernie Smith wrote about the curious world of CD caddies: The first time I ever saw a CD-ROM, I had never seen a regular CD before, and I thought that it came in a giant plastic case. To be fair to me, I was in middle school, and I had little experience […] | Continue reading
I recently finished Harry McCracken’s excellent article about the CD-ROM’s rise in the mid-1990s, and it made me realize that I had never really explored Apple’s early CD hardware. Depending on how you count things, Apple sold six SCSI CD-ROM drives, from the “AppleCD SC” in Marc … | Continue reading
Dr. Drang: Yesterday morning, I got obsessed with the 10-day forecast section of the Apple Weather iOS app—specifically, how it presents each day’s temperature range. I still don’t understand the logic behind it. The blog post is impressive, but the footnote contains a straight-u … | 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. It’s easy to set up, doubles the speed at which Safari loads and now blocks all YouTube ads. Magic Lasso is an efficient, high perform … | Continue reading
David and I have been running iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11, so you don’t have to. This week on MPU, we discuss some new features coming to Apple’s platforms later this year. | Continue reading
Matt Evans’ most recent project gave me more “wow, computers have gotten fast!” vibes than I’ve felt in a long, long time. Here is Evans: This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building a simple desktop/GUI for it. I’d made a comment along the lines of “or … | Continue reading
I loved this video, and it makes me want to put more shelves up in my studio. | Continue reading
This week on the show: Federico is not on the show this week, so in his honor, Stephen reviews some headphones, and Myke returns to the multi-pad lifestyle. The guys also take a quiz to pick our their next Macs. | Continue reading
Apple: Answer a few questions to find the best Mac for you. The questions cover your use cases, where you plan on using the machine, what sort of peripherals you may use, and your budget. No mater what answers I gave it, I could never get it to recommend a Mac Pro. | Continue reading
Tom Warren, writing at The Verge: Happy Windows on Arm day. Microsoft is launching its Copilot Plus PCs today, with Qualcomm-powered chips inside. If you’re wondering where our reviews are, Microsoft and most of its OEM partners haven’t seeded devices ahead of today’s launch beca … | Continue reading
For over 20 years, Audio Hijack has enabled you to record any audio on your Mac. Capture audio from individual applications like Safari or Zoom, hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, or even the audio output of the entire system. If you can hear it, you can record i … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: WWDC24 a wrapped up, and the guys gather to score their picks and share some feelings about this week’s Apple news. | Continue reading
Tom Warren at The Verge: Microsoft is planning to launch its new Copilot Plus PCs next week without its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do on these new laptops. The software maker is holding back Recall so it can test it with the Windows Insider progr … | Continue reading
This week on a jam-packed episode of Mac Power Users, David Sparks and I hit the highlights from WWDC24, including updates across Apple’s platforms and the company’s move into the AI era. | Continue reading
Leading into WWDC, I shared some concerns I had when it came to thinking about how Apple would integrate AI into its products. Tim Cook has spoken to Josh Tyrangiel at The Washington Post about how the company went into this endeavor. Here’s Cook: We went into this saying, “These … | Continue reading
Props to The Basic Apple Guy for grabbing these screenshots. Like the default wallpaper, none of these seem to be actual image files that anyone can find in the file system. | Continue reading
macOS Sequoia has been announced and it comes with a couple of colorful new default wallpapers. However, Apple has changed where these images are stored on disk, and I have found so far is the Light version of the image: Download 6K version here. If you happen to know where the D … | Continue reading
There are new operating systems, but Apple has made some slight changes to the base system requirements for each OS: iOS 18 iOS 18 brings no changes in compatibility: iPhone 15 line iPhone 14 line iPhone 13 line iPhone 12 line iPhone 11 line iPhone XS and XS Max iPhone XR iPhone … | Continue reading
These are always fun: iOS 18 iPadOS 18 macOS Sequoia watchOS 11 visionOS 2 “Audio & Home” | 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
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I discuss iMessage, Arc, Notes, and more. Then, we chat about OmniFocus 4 and David’s new Field Guide. | Continue reading
I am sure working on these things is hard and complicated, but it looks like a lot of fun, too: | Continue reading
Tripp Mickle and Erin Griffith, at The New York Times: About a week after the reviews came out, Humane started talking to HP, the computer and printer company, about selling itself for more than $1 billion, three people with knowledge of the conversations said. Other potential bu … | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: “It’s inspiring to see how developers are using our technology to create exceptional apps and games that enhance the lives of users,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “This year’s winners have demonstrated how apps can … | Continue reading
This week on Connected, we made our official predictions for WWDC24. | Continue reading
Ben Surtees, the original developer behind the excellent macOS utility Bartender, concerning the recent sale of the app: After the release of Bartender 5, I came to the realization that supporting all the users and maintaining the app at the high standard I expect and you deserve … | Continue reading
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company (no not that one) is coming to my hometown with what would be the world’s largest supercomputer, as reported by Samuel Hardiman at The Daily Memphian: The Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence startup — xAI — is building an AI supercomputer in Memp … | Continue reading
Silo may be my favorite show on TV+ so far, and I hope we get a lot more of it. | Continue reading
Windows 11’s Recall feature has garnered a lot of attention since being announced, and much of that has focused on the potential privacy implications of software that basically tracks everything you do on your PC. Cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has taken a look at the featur … | Continue reading
PowerPhotos works in conjunction with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide. With PowerPhotos you can manage multiple photo libraries, either splitting up an existing library into smaller ones, or merging multiple libraries together … | Continue reading
Arc is a new browser that started life on macOS in 2022. David and I have been using it for months, taking notes and gathering thoughts. This week on MPU, we discuss its features, and how AI could change the way people browse the web. | Continue reading
There has been much debate about what Apple’s upcoming AI-based features could look like. With WWDC’s keynote just eight days away, Mark Gurman has some information about how Siri could be transformed by new technology: The big news at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next … | Continue reading
This week on the world’s greatest podcast: WWDC24 has been officially announced and rumors about iOS 18 are swirling. The guys also talk about Myke’s Meta Ray-Bans, Federico’s Apple Pencil settings, and Stephen’s least-used Apple device. | Continue reading
Kristof Gruber, Product Engineer at Craft: Entering a new platform only happens a few times in a developers life. It is a rare and delicious event, when you step in the realm of something genuinely new. If you are fast, you can feel yourself like the explorers in old times. Every … | Continue reading
There have been other credit card-sized Find My trackers on the market, but I believe this is the first rechargeable one. Bonus points for being MagSafe compatible. | Continue reading