Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the HomePod mini contains a dormant temperature/humidity sensor: The sensor, measuring 1.5 by 1.5 millimeters, is buried in the bottom edge of the HomePod… | Continue reading
This is staggering. “Bolle,” from Germany, drew and built a functional Mac SE/30 logic board. And with this work done, people in this message-board thread are beginning to speculate abo… | 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
Mac apps rule, leakers drool. | Continue reading
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, and iMac G3. | Continue reading
I don’t envy software developers who work on image editors—it must be tough when your biggest competitor has basically become a generic term for the whole category. But I’ve never been … | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this review of Panic’s code editor Nova by Alex Guyot of MacStories. Nova is a remarkable Mac-only app that I’m looking forward to using with all updates to the Six Col… | Continue reading
Zac Hall of 9to5 Mac has some questions about the discontinuation of the HomePod: Remember when Mac users had similar concerns about pro machines in Apple’s lineup? Apple rightfully held a roundtab… | Continue reading
The HomePod is no longer on the range. | Continue reading
I use Twitter a lot, and have for a long time. But I recently discovered that there’s a feature of Twitter that most people don’t use–and it’s one that I’ve been using… | Continue reading
Gamification of tasks, vertical tabs, Apple’s smart home ambitions, and sleep hacks. | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that new iPad Pro models are on the way as early as April, with some interesting new features: The company is planning a refresh to its iPad Pro line, adding a… | Continue reading
Google VP of Product Management, Sameer Samat: Starting on July 1, 2021 we are reducing the service fee Google Play receives when a developer sells digital goods or services to 15% for the first $1… | Continue reading
The Internet’s Dr. Drang points out a weird interface change in Big Sur: The M1 MacBook Air is the only machine I have running Big Sur, and for the first few days I kept wondering why certain… | Continue reading
Dan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica: FaceTime users are getting bombarded with group calls from numbers they’ve never seen before, often as many as 20 times in short succession during late hours of… | Continue reading
Myke’s on a quest for new TV speakers as we ponder the misfire of Apple’s high-end speaker and the potential fate of Apple’s high-end headphones. Jason runs with his Apple Watch, … | 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
In an unexpected move, Apple revealed late Friday that the full-sized version of its HomePod smart speaker would be discontinued. This came a couple of days after the Space Gray model had already b… | Continue reading
The original HomePod has been discontinued. Matthew Panzarino has the death notice: After 4 years on the market, Apple has discontinued its original HomePod. It says that it will continue to produc… | Continue reading
My podcast app of choice, Overcast, was recently updated and now features a brand-new Apple Watch app. According to Overcast developer Marco Arment, not a lot of Overcast users use the watch app, b… | Continue reading
Wayyyy back before multitasking was even a glimmer in the iPad’s eye, there was the Share sheet. First introduced in iOS 8, the Share sheet was the first way to easily move information betwee… | Continue reading
If this episode wears out or breaks, we’ll replace it free of charge, no questions asked. | Continue reading
From August 31, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, Macintosh SE/30, and laying out pages at college newspapers. | Continue reading
Maybe someday there will be a tell-all book written by someone inside Apple during the 2010s. Maybe we will eventually know exactly what happened that led to a bit of a lost decade for the Mac, one… | Continue reading
Despite being terrible at sports, I have been a sports fan my whole life. And for most of that time, I have wondered what it is about sports that makes them so appealing to so many people. At the h… | Continue reading
Geoffrey A. Fowler, writing at The Washington Post, about Amazon’s refusal to let libraries offer ebooks of the titles it publishes: Turns out, the tech giant has also become a publishing pow… | Continue reading
Google’s pullback from targeted advertising, TikTok’s new anti-bullying measures, how we read books, and what the heck is going on with NFTs. | Continue reading
Scientific discoveries often come from surprising places. Lonnie Shekhtman of NASA: Look up to the night sky just before dawn, or after dusk, and you might see a faint column of light extending up … | Continue reading
There’s been a beta version of Photoshop that runs native on the Apple M1 processor since the early days of the Apple silicon era, but on Wednesday Adobe released the official version, versio… | Continue reading
How many VOIP platforms can we use in a single show? | Continue reading
This week we ponder the future of WWDC, say goodbye to the iMac Pro, investigate a new iPad stand, and wonder about the misplaced priorities of the Paramount+ roll-out. | Continue reading
The iMac Pro, released in 2017, is no longer being made. Apple continues to sell them while they last, but that’s it. This isn’t a surprise. The iMac Pro hasn’t ever been updated,… | Continue reading
The California Sun newsletter, forwarded to NetNewsWire. Like many people in 2021, I suddenly find myself a paying subscriber to a bunch of email newsletters. One of the benefits of working at home… | Continue reading
The good stuff: spam and text editors. | Continue reading
An interview from June 12, 2020 covering the first nine entries in the series. | Continue reading
9to5Mac’s Benjamin Mayo caught a new feature in the latest iOS 14.5 beta: Something I hadn’t considered before: new beta includes a Item Safety setting in Find My. This is how Apple is trying… | 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
Juli Clover at MacRumors: Apple this week introduced a new service that’s designed to make it quick and easy for iCloud users to transfer their stored photos and videos to Google Photos. As o… | Continue reading
Turns out that the Soviets are America’s annoying moon roommates, moving their stuff without asking—and it might trigger a lunar conflict. Also, Tracy and Gordo continue to be messed up, Margo prov… | Continue reading
This is Google Drive, but it looks just like iCloud Drive. Long-time Mac storage utility maker ExpanDrive has launched StrongSync, a $50 utility that… sort of does what ExpanDrive already doe… | Continue reading
Related to my thoughts about the mortality of software and the announcement that Weather Line is shutting down, Jonas Downey of Basecamp writes about the meaning of buying a “lifetime” … | Continue reading
Our favorite dongles, adapters, and docks. Our thoughts on day trading. How we deal with spam calls and texts. Gadgets and accessories that haven’t gotten as much use during the pandemic. | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin runs up against one of my personal pet peeves: the inability to easily get information about the upload speeds on Comcast’s various internet plans. I’ve… | Continue reading
Printer and Other Peripherals Corner. | Continue reading
I love writing on my iPad. The mere act of getting up from my desk and switching away from my iMac can help me break out of a rut and be more productive. I frequently write in my backyard and at my… | Continue reading
Everyone needs an editor. But there is no doubt that being edited can be excruciating. Especially if your editor is good at what they do. Here’s a short bit from Marcin Wichary about the edit… | Continue reading
For years now, Apple has trumpeted its commitment to the privacy of its customers. Unlike most of its competitors, Apple’s business model (primarily selling products and services, not advertising) … | Continue reading
For years, one of the standards of Mac data protection has been making a daily bootable backup. If your Mac’s hard drive dies, you can plug in the backup and use it as your boot drive, pickin… | Continue reading