I was frankly flabbergasted to see a post on The Verge this morning, reporting that Amazon has—finally!—added the ability to show the cover of whatever you’re currently reading on your Kindle… | Continue reading
Stacey Higginbotham of Stacey on IoT has some details on the upcoming launch of products based on the new Connected Home over IP standard that counts Apple, Amazon, and Google as members: Today we … | Continue reading
Last week we visited my mother in Arizona for the first time in more than a year. Driving 1800 miles and trading sitting isolated in one house for sitting isolated in another isn’t the most p… | Continue reading
What we’d track with Apple Find My, our Samsung Unpacked predictions, what we expect from Apple’s April event, and a rant about Apple TV. | Continue reading
At long last, our origin story revealed. | Continue reading
Back in 2016, the FBI and Apple clashed over unlocking an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook. Things looked tense for a bit, as a showdown over encryption loomed, bu… | Continue reading
I’ve gotten to know Paul Campbell over the past few years because he was the co-organizer of the Apple-focused Úll conference. But he’s also the co-founder of Tito, a company focused on… | Continue reading
David Smith released a new app today. This isn’t news. He’s one of the most productive app developers on the planet. What’s news is that it’s an Apple Watch app he designed … | Continue reading
Sometimes if you stare at something too long, you begin to see patterns that aren’t really there. I’m worried that this is happening to me when it comes to pondering Apple’s smart home strategy. Ha… | Continue reading
The Verge’s Nick Statt has an in-depth story on customers who have run into mysterious “white spots” when trading their devices in to Apple via its partner Phobio: The situation s… | Continue reading
Apple announced (and pre-announced) that it’s holding a virtual event next Tuesday at 10 a.m. “Spring Loaded” is the tagline. | Continue reading
MacRumors reports that the beans have been spilled on the upcoming spring Apple event from an unlikely source: Upon being asked “When is the next Apple Event,” Siri is currently respond… | Continue reading
Ben Smith of the New York Times wrote an excellent piece about the rise of writers building their own businesses, most prominently newsletters based on the Substack platform. This part, about compe… | Continue reading
Apple’s making moves both outdoors (Find My) and in (rumored new smart home products). Apple’s original podcasts continue with another project tied to TV+. And we discuss why some of Ap… | Continue reading
With Loopback it’s trivial to pass audio from one application to another on your Mac. Need to play a recording into Zoom? Add sound effects into a podcast? Include music in a streamed event? … | Continue reading
Late on Friday, as befits disappointing news, Logitech announced that it would be discontinuing its Harmony remote line: While Harmony remotes are and continue to be available through various retai… | Continue reading
Apple has made several attempts to make a go of the game market over the years—anyone remember when Apple had Game Evangelists? Pippin? Game Sprockets? And each and every time, just like boss battl… | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It runs as a native Safari co… | Continue reading
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