Sam Schechner and Keach Hagey, writing at The Wall Street Journal: Google plans to stop selling ads based on individuals’ browsing across multiple websites, a change that could hasten upheaval in t… | Continue reading
When the first MacBook Pro was announced in 2006, it was better than the PowerBook G4 is a myriad of ways: it was way faster, promised to run cooler, included a camera for video chats and — of cour… | Continue reading
Photo courtesy of Macintosh Garden. Kids, when I was your age, the App Store was called “boxed software.” As in software, on disk or CD, in a cardboard box. You could buy it at the stor… | Continue reading
In the war against spam, it often feels like we’re waging an uphill battle. While our email tools have improved and evolved over the last few years, the battlefield has started to shift from … | 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
This week: colorful iMacs, adding ports and slots to MacBook Pros, Paramount+ enters the streaming wars, and Twitter attempts to finally do something. | Continue reading
With a company as secretive as Apple, those wanting to divine the company’s intentions and future plans often seize upon the slightest shred of material that escapes the curved glass walls of… | Continue reading
Lawyers. I don’t hold much with ’em as a rule, but they pay well, and I’ve got more than a few app subscriptions to my name. So when this fellow walks through my door with the tro… | Continue reading
Who doesn’t love a puzzle? | Continue reading
Not every episode of “For All Mankind” needs to have the drama of a solar storm. | Continue reading
In episode 143 of the Liftoff podcast, Stephen Hackett and I interviewed the show’s co-creator, Ronald D. Moore about the second season of his TV series “For All Mankind,” which d… | Continue reading
Designer Fredrick R. Brennan was disgusted by terrible fake typewriter props in movies and TV, obviously created by people who either haven’t seen a typewriter in years or maybe ever: The mai… | Continue reading
One of the most clever iOS Shortcuts out there is the one Federico Viticci built to place iOS and watchOS screenshots inside images of the hardware they’re running on. (An example is attached… | Continue reading
Our SSDs are aging too fast! | Continue reading
Apps that need some reinvention, our wake-up/bedtime smartphone habits, the appeal (or not) of hi-fi music, and what we’ve added to our emergency kits. | Continue reading
Apple ignited the legal music-download revolution with iTunes, led again by dropping copy-protecting DRM from its music downloads, and in 2007 led a major upgrade in digital-music quality with the … | Continue reading
Yesterday at a press conference at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars Perseverance entry, descent and landing lead Allen Chen laid out a not particularly subtle challenge: “In addit… | Continue reading
Writing at MacRumors, Hartley Charlton collects some reports that M1 Macs are registering high SSD use: Across Twitter and the MacRumors forums, users are reporting that M1 Macs are experiencing ex… | Continue reading
New iPad keyboards make us notice the magic of the Magic Trackpad, AirPods might be getting an unwelcome makeover, and the butterfly keyboard isn’t really gone as long as we remember it. | 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
A friend of mine, knowing that I’ve create many charts in Numbers, sent me an interesting example of how Numbers frequently doesn’t behave as you’d expect it to. Our expectation a… | Continue reading
We came in peace, for all mouse-kind. A podcast in two acts. | Continue reading
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, iMac G3, and to his great dismay, John learns Jason’s final rankings. | Continue reading
John Siracusa discusses six more old Macs for the 20 Macs for 2020 Project. | Continue reading
“For All Mankind” has returned for a second season on Apple TV+, and this season Jason Snell and Dan Moren will be reviewing every episode! In the premiere, we get a time jump accompanied by a mont… | Continue reading
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Thursday. After a trip through the Martian atmosphere, the rover was lowered to the ground by a hovering “sky crane.” Even more amazing… | Continue reading
This week is a super special episode of the Liftoff podcast: Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett interview Ron Moore, co-creator, writer and producer of “For All Mankind” on Apple TV+. We d… | Continue reading
Apple’s TV app roll-out continues. Here’s Abner Li of 9to5Google: As announced in December, Apple TV is now available globally on the Chromecast with Google TV. The new app allows you t… | Continue reading
Feature parity on social networks, awesome things born of a creative spark, venting our tech frustrations, and topics we avoid bringing up on social media. | Continue reading
Don’t buy the Apple TV. | 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
About 10 months ago I reviewed the Brydge Pro+, a version of my favorite iPad Pro keyboard that added a trackpad. The good news was that with iPadOS 13.4, Apple enabled full trackpad support. The b… | Continue reading
Apple is not a person. It’s easy to forget sometimes, but Apple is not Tim Cook or the imprint of Steve Jobs or Phil Schiller or any other person. It’s an entity made up of thousands of people and … | Continue reading
I came late to Hazel, Noodlesoft’s $42 utility that can act automatically on folders on your Mac to perform all sorts of tasks automatically. It was a desire to automatically compress old pod… | Continue reading
Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia has information about new emojis in the latest iOS 14.5 beta: 💉 Syringe isn’t a new emoji, but it does have one change in the forthcoming update from Apple: the blo… | Continue reading
Disney+ keeps growing and its original content is flowing, and Apple TV+ brings new marketing muscle to bear for the second-season launch of “For All Mankind.” And what can Apple do to … | Continue reading
Apple TV+’s space drama “For All Mankind” returns for its second season this Friday. And as a part of the launch, Apple is announcing its first official Apple TV+ companion podcas… | Continue reading
Oftentimes, your biggest strengths are also your biggest vulnerabilities. That’s just as true for Apple as it is for anyone else. While the iPhone is surely the product that catapulted the Cupertin… | Continue reading
David Sparks: I’m a big advocate for the hyper key. This idea was first introduced to me by Brett Terpstra and involves mapping Shift-Control-Option-Command to the caps lock key. Using the hyper ke… | Continue reading
We all get so used to the way that our Macs work that we sometimes forget that one of reasons that we love the platform is its flexibility—and I’m just as guilty of this as anybody. When I re… | Continue reading
Apple TV, smart home strategy, and we compare our ‘buts.’ | Continue reading
What I wouldn’t give for a holocaust cloak and Fitness+ support. On Thursday I asked why the Apple TV still exists in its current form and at its current price. I had some ideas, but if you p… | Continue reading
Two interviews with John Siracusa used for the 20 Macs for 2020 podcast, discussing the first nine entries in the series. | Continue reading
Remember when the future of TV was apps? I use the Apple TV every day. It’s attached to my living room TV. And while I’ve complained about how little Apple seems to be focused on updati… | Continue reading
A surprising amount of mug talk. | Continue reading
Apple’s App Store woes, whether we’ve picked up Apple Fitness+, our thoughts on Clubhouse, and the oldest tech we use. | Continue reading
Change is coming for us whether we like it or not. This week we ponder the possibility of an augmented-reality future, and mourn the loss of a piece of software we’ve used for every single episode … | Continue reading
On last week’s episode of the Six Colors Podcast (available to members of this fine website), I mentioned to Jason that my alarm clock was starting to shuffle off this mortal coil, so I’… | Continue reading