Safari 15 Watch: Old tabs edition

It’s official: As of the latest macOS Monterey beta–version 12.0.1, which makes me wonder if they’ve locked version 12.0 on the new MacBook Pro models and everyone else will jump … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The MacBook Pro and macOS details Apple didn’t talk about

Apple’s Unleashed event wrapped up in under an hour today, and it wasn’t short on news: new MacBook Pros, brand new Apple silicon processors, new colors of HomePods, and, uh, some music… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Sponsor) Daylite is Monterey ready!

Apple fans, excited for macOS Monterey? So are we! Daylite is an award-winning CRM and productivity app made exclusively for your Mac, and it’s now Monterey ready! Daylite goes beyond the ess… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Rebuilding my smart home: Let there be light (Member Post)

One of the most interesting aspects of moving from an apartment you rent to a house you own is the freedom it gives you in terms of what smart home tech you can adopt. There are some things that ju… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

‘LaserWriter II’: Life amid the broken Macs (and printers) of Tekserve

Tamara Shopsin’s novel Laserwriter II (MCD) will be published on October 19. It’s a funny and quirky book about ’90s-era Apple products and the people who fix them at New York Cit… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

iPhone 13 Pro review: This Pro’s got few cons

Almost every year since 2007, I’ve gotten a new iPhone.1 Some years promise big improvements over the past—others are more incremental. But 14 years into the iPhone’s life, those big up… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 376: The 2021 October Event Draft

Surprise! Jason and Myke predict what will happen at next week’s Apple media event. What ports will be on the much-rumored MacBook Pro? Will it appear in familiar colors, or will Apple branch… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: October 14, 2021

MacBook Pros; Shortcuts and other betas. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 420: Get Back on That Train!

How we share passwords, a subscription service we wish we could give up, our external storage setup, and the tech we once wrongly dismissed. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Safari 15 watch: Favorites Bar edition

I know a lot of people who have been monitoring the progress of macOS Monterey and hoping that there might be more changes in store to the Safari interface before the final version ships, possibly … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 362: Gruber Doesn’t Like It

There’s an Apple event next week! So naturally we spend time talking about writing apps instead. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Adventure and the Apple Watch battery ↦

David Smith is a prolific app developer, and has created several popular apps focused on the Apple Watch. And yet when it came time for him to take an extended backpacking adventure outdoors, he ch… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple event coming Oct. 18

It’s official: there will be another Apple media event this fall, and it’s Monday, Oct. 18 at 10 Pacific. New MacBook Pro models are likely to be the star of the show. We’ll have … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Boox Nova Air review: A multitasker among unitaskers

Left to right: Kobo Libra H2O, Kindle Oasis, iPad mini, Boox Nova Air. Many years ago, the Internet handed around an old Radio Shack newspaper ad and pointed out that the smartphone could now repla… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 375: My Watch Is My Cake

Apple Watch Series 7 pre-orders lead to more Apple color confusion, Apple’s App Store rules may need to skate to a puck that’s headed for a courtroom, and Myke takes his iPad mini on a … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS ↦

Me, back in 2015: Google to iOS users: thanks for using our apps, please enjoy Android UI conventions— Jason Snell (@jsnell) October 8, 2015 Jeff Verkoeyen, staff engineering lead for Google … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: October 8, 2021

Who watches the Apple Watcher? Deep thoughts for a Friday. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Considering Tim Cook’s record, ten years after Jobs’ passing (Member Post)

Back in August, we passed the 10th anniversary of Tim Cook being named CEO of Apple, and of course, this week marks ten years since the passing of Steve Jobs. A lot of water has gone under the brid… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Under the Gavel: Antitrust concerns are here, there, everywhere

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 361: Technify Yourself, Don’t Wrecknify Yourself

Facebook went down, so we spend our time talking about Steve Jobs and the Apple of yesteryear. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Downstream 1: Movies are Back! Movies are Dead!

“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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 419: Zup Zup Zup Zup

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

iPhone 13 review: We put the ‘fun’ in function

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Anandtech on the A15 ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 374: Abnormal Within an Abnormal Group

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Quick Tip: iPhone not responding to “Hey Siri”? This may be the culprit.

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple Watch Series 7 preorders open on October 8, deliveries a week later ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Talk Show 324: A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

You made a good app, Justin ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

‘No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That!’ ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Mimestream: A native Mac app with proper Gmail support

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Sponsor) Boom 3D

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple releases iOS/iPadOS 15.0.1 update ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: October 1, 2021

iWork updates and new iPhones. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s goal for Apple TV+ ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The Back Page: Keep it secret, keep it safe (Member Post)

(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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Welcome to Downstream ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 418: A Lousy Dalek

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

iWork comes alive with Keynote live-video features

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 373: We Will Give You Color… But It Will Not Be Fun

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Sponsor) Boom 3D: Volume Booster & Equalizer with 3D Surround Sound

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

OS X 10.1 review: Mac OS X comes of Age ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: September 24, 2021

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The iPhone 13: An upgrader’s guide

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Using Safari at night gets easier with Noir (Member Post)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 359: Well, This Has Been Wizard Talk

iOS 15 and a surprising amount of discussion about Gandalf. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 417: Propping Up Late-Stage Capitalism

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Inside the iPhone Leather Wallet (second generation)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago