No AirTags, driving to the Apple Store, and why you might not need your own wiki. | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced the updated Find My app, allowing third-party products to use the private and secure finding capabilities of Apple’s Find My network, which comprises hundreds… | Continue reading
Tim Cook was on a podcast. But not this podcast. | Continue reading
Apple’s latest Arcade updates, LG exits the smartphone market, rumors of an iMac with a bigger display, and our automation and Stream Deck experiences. | Continue reading
Here’s Brent Simmons on chasing the perfect organizational system: Here’s what you need to know: it’s a mirage…. There’s no getting out of this fact: these apps are all going to take mo… | Continue reading
A few years ago, I switched from Chrome back to Safari, wanting a more fluid experience between my Macs and iOS devices. While I now enjoy having my bookmarks, tabs and history everywhere I go — as… | Continue reading
Really great read from Lauren Goode at WIRED about the persistence of digital memory, even in the face of things you might prefer to forget: Of the thousands of memories I have stored on my devices… | Continue reading
It’s a big news week! Myke and Jason break down Tim Cook’s podcast interview with Kara Swisher, and discuss some big changes at Apple Arcade. There’s also WWDC 2021 and Apple’s rumored augmented-re… | Continue reading
Kara Swisher of the New York Times interviews Tim Cook on her podcast this week: In this episode of “Sway,” Ms. Swisher presses Mr. Cook on the motivations behind Apple’s privacy push, the power th… | Continue reading
Want to browse the web quickly, smoothly, and anonymously with no advertising? Then get the ad blocker made for you – easy to setup, easy to keep up to date and now with native support for the Appl… | Continue reading
Let’s all say it together: Apple’s not perfect. As good as the company is at creating products, even the folks from Cupertino are not immune from the occasional misstep. Nobody bats a thousand. Som… | Continue reading
As the season builds to its climax, there’s an awful lot to process. A real-life tragedy intervenes in Ellen’s story. Margo needs to communicate information from another tragic event that didn’t ha… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kandji for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kandji is building the future of Apple device management. Drawing on decades of experience in Apple IT, the founders of Kandji saw the need … | Continue reading
The Palo Alto startup Xcinex announced a streaming box with an interesting twist–it’s got a built-in camera designed to notice how many people are in a room watching the television: In … | Continue reading
Apple Arcade, User Automation, and baseball caps. | Continue reading
Apple’s vice president of the App Store, Matt Fischer, in a press release today: “Today we’re launching our biggest expansion since the service debuted, now offering more than 180 great games… | Continue reading
Being a baseball fan who watches games on a Mac hasn’t always been easy. For years, MLB’s website showed live games in a Flash-based interface, though that’s recently been rectifi… | Continue reading
David Dudok de Wit: What you may not know is why TripMode wasn’t available on the Mac App Store. TripMode was released almost 6 years ago, after all. So why are we on the Mac App Store now? The rea… | Continue reading
In my recent piece about automation on macOS and iOS, I mentioned the witchcraft that is possible on the Mac with Keyboard Maestro: Keyboard Maestro has been the solution to almost every this-seems… | Continue reading
Writing at Ars Technica, Tim De Chant reports that a class-action lawsuit is underway over Amazon’s deals with major publishers: The suit seeks to compensate independent booksellers for Amazo… | Continue reading
John Voorhees reviews the Twelve South HoverBar Duo: There is no shortage of iPad stands. Search for one on Amazon, for instance, and you’ll be met with page after page of results. Most stands are … | Continue reading
Apple TV remote changes we’d like to see (and what should stay the same), our tech spring cleaning habits, whether in-person WWDC should return, and what other tech products should be ruggedi… | Continue reading
What’s the deal with the Dealmaster? | Continue reading
I’m a big believer in user automation. Not everyone is a programmer, but most of us perform repetitive tasks on our devices that can be eliminated by a judicious application of automation. Wh… | Continue reading
Dear Tim, It is my deepest pleasure to report the satisfactory conclusion of Phase One of Operation PETARD. When you came to me last summer and gave me the goal of publicly humiliating a purveyor o… | Continue reading
TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino: Apple is adding two new voices to Siri’s English offerings, and eliminating the default ‘female voice’ selection in the latest beta version of iOS. This means … | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format. Free for all developers, WWDC21 will offer unique in… | Continue reading
We’re celebrating 20 years of OS X with a discussion of how we use our Macs today and what we might upgrade later this year! Also, the future of Apple events, the future of movie theaters, an… | Continue reading
At last, the Soviets. We loved this whole episode, from the pointed conversation about Laika to the docking system designed out of coasters. Who makes Houston’s best borscht? Who cares! Let’s have … | Continue reading
This week, Six Colors is brought to you by Kandji. Kandji is building the future of Apple enterprise management. The use of Apple devices in the enterprise is growing rapidly. Drawing on decades of… | Continue reading
I’ve been a Mac user for about 30 years. And hard as it is for me to believe, the vast majority of that time has been spent with the modern macOS (or OS X, or Mac OS X, if we’re getting historical)… | Continue reading
My thanks to BZG Apps for sponsoring Six Colors this week. BZG makes Unite 4, which allows you to turn any Website into a Mac app. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can … | Continue reading
HomePod screen dreaming, OS X reminiscing. | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett joins Jason to wrap up the series and discuss all the Macs that didn’t make the list. | Continue reading
Like this story, this image was uploaded to Six Colors using a shortcut. This week Apple (hopefully temporarily?) broke the sharing of Shortcuts. I rely on Shortcuts when I’m working on my iP… | Continue reading
If I close my eyes, I can picture the classic Mac OS laid out before me. I can imagine every menu, every mouse gesture, the sound of the Mac SE chime, even depressing the reset switch after a hard … | Continue reading
Truly a Blockbuster episode. | Continue reading
Speaking of OS X history, here’s James Thomson on Twitter: It’s really a weird experience rewatching Steve introducing the Dock for the first time, as it was my code that was running here. To… | Continue reading
It’s officially spring now, which is when the internet’s fancy turns to rumors of 2021’s first Apple announcements. Over the last few years, Apple has generally released at least some new products … | Continue reading
Smart speakers with displays, how (and if) we use Apple’s productivity software, whether we have temperature and humidity sensors in our homes, and does anyone even care about AirTags anymore… | Continue reading
So many pages on this operating system over the years. Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Mac OS X. I wrote a bit about it in my Macworld column this week, and also put together a litt… | Continue reading
To understand the desperation Apple felt in the mid-to-late 1990s, look no further than to one particular t-shirt. On the front was a 3-D rendered numeral eight. On the back, the words “Hands-On Ex… | Continue reading
Mac OS X has been through a lot in 20-plus years. As someone who was sitting in the front row at Macworld Expo when then-CEO Gil Amelio brought Steve Jobs on stage to celebrate Apple’s purchase of … | Continue reading
Special guest Jason Snell joins the show to reminisce over 20 years of Mac OS X. I mean OS X. Sorry, MacOS. Also: HomePod, AppleTV, and Intel’s awkward new ad campaign. | Continue reading
Wake up Elvis and get The Band back together—we’re here to take a load for free and talk about the latest episode of “For All Mankind.” We cover Tracy’s rough introduction to Jamestown, Gordo’s poo… | Continue reading
A few years back, Apple implemented a new browser extension framework, with the goal of making the system more secure. However, when the company eventually discontinued its old system, some popular… | Continue reading
The future of the iPad Pro, the end of the 21.5-inch iMac, what the HomePod mini means for Apple’s home strategy, and Jason explains the NFL. | 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