How we manage email spam, the tools we use that have changed how we complete tasks, tech decluttering, and how we fix privacy problems like Pegasus. | Continue reading
Last year, I wrote about how I built a bunch of scripts to notify me about my local air quality. Well, it’s summer again, and wildfires are back–and with wildfires comes polluting wildf… | Continue reading
A few big stories in the news over the weekend disclosed the existence of a piece of spyware called Pegasus, developed by NSO Group, which has hacked a number of phones—including iPhones—belonging … | Continue reading
I updated my perennial “The right Mac laptop to buy for a student” story today, two years to the day since I last updated it. It’s funny how that story has evolved since I first p… | Continue reading
Sliding down a string of lanterns in the Lost City. On July 16 Team Alto1 released Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City on Apple Arcade. It’s a sequel of sorts to Alto’s Odyssey, release… | Continue reading
Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 14.0, a new version with a whole bunch of new features. (Even the oldest software dogs are fully capable of learning new tricks.) BBEdit notes are persistent… | Continue reading
Jason’s back, and Myke has a lot of questions about his vacation. They also discuss a load of Apple TV+ news, new Safari betas, the MagSafe battery pack, and a bunch of Apple hardware rumors. | Continue reading
Amongst Apple’s latest spate of updates today is HomePod 14.7, which brings as its biggest feature the ability to view and control timers set on the HomePod from the Home app. Which all HomeP… | Continue reading
Those apps? They’re a widget! 🤯 Siri gets a lot of flack from Apple device users—and it’s often well deserved. The voice assistant’s performance is generally spotty, sometimes dow… | Continue reading
Podcasting has been an important part of my life for more than a decade now; these days, I make roughly half my income from the various shows that I host and produce. That’s why it’s so… | Continue reading
We’re back from vacation and in need of network administration. | Continue reading
We’re mainly a show about old technology now. | Continue reading
The input devices we use, how much of our work happens in the cloud, form vs. function in our tech purchases, and the details that Apple sweats (and the ones it doesn’t). | Continue reading
Apple’s continuing to build out its MagSafe accessory market by releasing a $99 battery pack that uses the company’s magnetic charging feature. Just slap it on the back of your iPhone 1… | Continue reading
I’ve been watching and enjoying Loki, but one of the most fun parts of the show is the design and aesthetic of the Time Variance Authority offices. It’s just dripping with a ’60s … | Continue reading
Like many of you, I generally feel that I pay a lot for internet access and it’s not as good as I’d like. But it’s tricky sometimes to draw data from that feeling. Which is why Co… | Continue reading
After a few tips from Harry McCracken on Twitter, retro tech genius Benj Edwards has created detailed instructions on how to run Windows 3.1 on the iPad: Thanks to a MS-DOS emulator called iDOS 2 o… | Continue reading
For the first time Jason is (mostly) off this week! After discussing who’s winning the streaming wars, Myke challenges John Siracusa to describe his ideal Mac, asks Merlin Mann to share what he’s e… | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Ron Amadeo has more details on the fake phones the FBI seeded amongst criminals: Two different interfaces would launch depending on what PIN you typed in on the lock screen. PI… | Continue reading
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Longtime MacUser and Macworld contributor Chris Breen works at Apple these days, and so he can’t write about tech anymore. Mostly. But for years, first at Macworld and now on his own blog, he… | Continue reading
We’re both sitting on a beach drinking a cold beverage this week. (But not the same beach.) | Continue reading
Pokémon Go, our biggest tech gear ROI, the tech we take on vacation, and whether we’d rather have a time machine or a transporter. | Continue reading
I recently had to go back to my Series 5 Apple Watch after my Series 6 met an untimely end when I slid down a waterfall at a state park on family vacation. I was fine, but my watch’s glass fa… | Continue reading
David Sparks finds a glimmer of hope for the future of Apple Mail in Apple’s new MailKit plug-in interface for the Mac: There is already a rich ecosystem of Apple Mail plugins, but I’ve… | Continue reading
I know you’ve heard it a million times before, so many times that you skim past it when you read it. And you’ll probably do it again this time, but I’ve got to try. I’m look… | Continue reading
Presenting Upgrade 360, where YOU choose the audio quality! (The quality of the actual content was up to us.) The podcast bubble keeps expanding, and the macOS Public Beta has arrived. It’s a… | Continue reading
In the second edition of Mark German’s excellent Bloomberg newsletter, he details that Apple is actively exploring new ways of work that don’t circle around Cupertino: Just a few years … | Continue reading
One of the features I’m most excited about in Apple’s latest platform updates is the ability to save two-factor authentication codes into my iCloud Keychain. That means (hopefully) no m… | Continue reading
My thanks to Rogue Amoeba for again sponsoring Six Colors, this time for Loopback. Loopback has become an essential tool in my Mac audio toolbox. Loopback passes audio between Mac apps, so if you n… | Continue reading
A week of public betas: Safari, Shortcuts, Focus, and more. | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett, Six Colors contributor and collector of vintage Apple Hardware, has launched a Kickstarter for a 2022 wall calendar featuring his original photography of items from his large colle… | Continue reading
If there’s a theme of Apple’s operating-system releases in 2021, it’s platform unification. This development is most significant for macOS, which tended to lag behind iOS in the 2… | Continue reading
In the aftermath of Apple employees pushing back on return-to-office policies and negative reactions to that (and again and likewise), Charlie Warzel wrote at length about why companies need to lis… | Continue reading
Here at Apple, we are delighted that America’s excellent progress in combatting COVID-19 means that we will this fall be able to welcome our employees back to Apple Park in person. Face-to-fa… | Continue reading
After a couple of developer betas, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 are now available as part of Apple’s Beta Software Program, alongside beta versions of MacOS Monterey, tvOS 15, and watchOS 8. Federico… | Continue reading
How we handle email, the potential of Shortcuts on the Mac, our latest tech delights, and whether we prefer our social media to be fed to us by the algorithm. | Continue reading
Old habits are hard to break, and when it comes to my very online life, there’s no habit older than email. I’ve had an email address since roughly 1994, and over the quarter-decade sinc… | Continue reading
Running a shortcut via the command line on macOS Monterey. Last week, Dr. Drang wrote an excellent post summing up where Shortcuts on the Mac fits in with all of the Mac’s existing automation… | Continue reading
SUMMER OF FUN! This week we’ve got new beachwear, a mega Summer edition of #askupgrade, dreams of larger iPads, and a less fun conversation about Apple’s reaction to potential new tech … | Continue reading
Pass audio between applications on your Mac with the power of Loopback. Need to play a recording into Zoom? Add sound effects into a podcast? Include music in a streamed event? Loopback gives you t… | Continue reading
New audio equipment, beta software, and the pace of Apple app updates. | Continue reading
This is the story of how the new Apple TV remote cost me hundreds of dollars, but in a good way. We were happy earlier this month to take delivery of a new Apple TV 4K, to replace one that I had gi… | Continue reading
As I was reading Jason’s excellent Macworld piece about the future of iPadOS multitasking this morning this morning, I was simultaneously poking around the iPadOS 15 beta when something struc… | Continue reading
Apps and tech we use to fall asleep, our tech pickiness, our single- or multi-monitor setups, and interface changes we’ve never gotten used to. | Continue reading
Our annual Prime Day extravaganza. | Continue reading
The legislative challenges to big tech, including Apple, are beginning: A House panel pushed ahead Wednesday with ambitious legislation that could curb the market power of tech giants Facebook, Goo… | Continue reading
One of the oldest arguments for having employees all work in the same office (and, within that space, out in the open and not behind office doors) is the idea that if you have a bunch of people bou… | Continue reading