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
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