This week on Connected, we make our official WWDC predictions. Next week is going to be wild. My thanks to our sponsors: ButcherBox: Thoughtfully sourced meat delivered directly to your door KiwiCo… | Continue reading
I got an amazing tweet today: Made something real geeky today, partly inspired by a blog post from 9 years ago on @512px. It's a Markdown editor disguised as Word 5.1 for Macintosh System 7. W… | Continue reading
The new iPod touch starts at $199, and is powered by the A10 Fusion chip, and Apple is pushing AR and Apple Arcade pretty hard in its messaging. That all makes sense, as does the lack of a larger s… | Continue reading
I’ve had a gear page up on the site for a long time now, but decided it was time to walk through how I record my podcasts in video form: It’s not the only new video on my channel this m… | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: From trigger to actions, variables to debugging, David and Stephen go through the powerhouse that is Keyboard Maestro and discuss David’s new Field Guide on the … | Continue reading
The crew at iFixit has taken apart one of the new MacBook Pros, complete with its revised keyboards. The material that makes up the membrane over the switches is new, now made of nylon, as opposed … | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe it has been two years since I introduced the 512 Pixels Membership. The membership has given me the chance to do bigger projects like the Aqua Screenshot Library. This fa… | Continue reading
Steven Troughton-Smith has written an epic blog post, tracing the evolution from NextSTEP to Mac OS X through the lens of Mail.app. | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Myke keeps dropping his phone, Apple keeps releasing new MacBook Pros for Stephen to talk about, and Federico has published a magnum opus on the state of the iPad and iOS 12… | Continue reading
Apple has officially sent out details for this year’s event. I am very excited to say that I will be attending the keynote! The neon unicorn’s face sums up how I feel right now: | Continue reading
Exciting stuff going on here at Relay FM HQ: Join us in celebrating Relay FM’s 5th birthday with a special live show featuring some of your favorite podcast hosts for what the kids call a pod… | Continue reading
After months of teasing, Casey Liss has shipped Vignette, a new iPhone app for keeping your contact images updated easily. Here’s a bit from his blog post announcing the app, about why he wro… | Continue reading
This time on Liftoff, Jason and I continue our series marking the 50th anniversary of each Apollo mission: In May 1969, Tom Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan took their Apollo spacecraft within … | Continue reading
Apple has updated the MacBook Pro today, just two weeks before WWDC. Jason Snell has details: These updates don’t bring any changes to the exterior of the MacBook Pro—it’s the same base design intr… | Continue reading
David Sparks has launched his new Field Guide, a video course all about Keyboard Maestro. Keyboard Maestro is one of those applications that can really make a Mac sing, but it can be a bit intimida… | Continue reading
After months of work, Federico has published a manifesto of sorts about the working on the iPad Pro: Seven years after I started (slowly) replacing my MacBook Air with an iPad, my life is different… | Continue reading
This week marks the second anniversary of the 512 Pixels Membership. To mark the occasion, I am sharing this article, which was sent in this month’s members-only newsletter. To learn more and… | Continue reading
2019 has brought a lot of changes to my workload. I joined Mac Power Users, which radically changed how my work week looks, bringing to an end to a couple of projects and requiring changes to other… | Continue reading
Long title; short article: You may notice that the built-in NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics subsystem does not appear in the Device Manager and cannot be used with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista. Wind… | Continue reading
Steven Troughton-Smith has spent some time testing one route to get from x86 to ARM for Mac apps: Of course, the specter of macOS on ARM has been in the public psyche for many years now, and many h… | Continue reading
Dave Mark, writing at The Loop: Interesting difference between the Mac and iOS is the ability to download and run a Mac app without any involvement from Apple. While you can sideload an iOS app usi… | Continue reading
Artemis — the new name for NASA’s initiative to put humans back on the moon by the end of 2024 — may be defined by its new, flashy goal, but as Loren Grush writes, it has an up-hill battle to… | Continue reading
This week on the show: Federico floats a conspiracy about iTunes, the crew check in on their 2019 predictions, and Myke makes a huge promise before Stephen shares about his Pixel 3a. If you’l… | Continue reading
I love how short this article is: Starting on Dec 15th 2017, you won’t be able to log in into the Message app or iChat app with your AOL account. For more information, contact AOL. | Continue reading
Ryan Christoffel has all the details. | Continue reading
This week on MPU, we work our way through some feedback, talk about what we want from WWDC and make some confessions about the iPad Pro. | Continue reading
A decade ago, my wife and I saw our entire lives change in a moment when our oldest son was diagnosed with brain cancer. That moment, of course, was a series of events. First, a checkup at the pedi… | Continue reading
It is a busy week on Connected: Warren Buffett and Tim Cook star in a new iPhone game, Stephen and Myke tried the official Twitter app for a week and Federico is exporting his notes. Elsewhere, Mar… | Continue reading
A thoughtful examination of what bringing iPad apps to the Mac may mean for developers and users. | Continue reading
This year’s colorful, cheaper-but-still-more-expensive-than-any-other-entry-level-model iPhone XR is a fascinating phone. It delivers iPhone XS performance in a nice enclosure, with just enou… | Continue reading
This fortnight on Liftoff, Jason Snell and I check in on the SLS’ test procedures and the on-going planning to return to the moon in 2024, then get a dose of planetary defense. Next time: Apo… | Continue reading
This week on Ungeniused, we talk about some weird weather: It isn’t cats and dogs, but rains including fish, frogs and spiders have been recorded around the world. My thanks to our sponsor: A… | Continue reading
Anthony Colangelo of the space blog and podcast Main Engine Cut Off has a new Mac app out, named Downlink: While browsing the GOES Image Viewer a few months ago, I had an idea: with the data freque… | Continue reading
Apple Support: Follow these steps on your Mac if a blank optical disc (such as a CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R) doesn’t appear on the desktop or in the Finder after you insert it. When’s the la… | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I got nerdy about Finder and some Mac applications that can enhance it, or even replace it: At the heart of the macOS experience is Finder, which is part file manager, p… | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Stephen returns order to the podcast after two weeks away, Myke reads some Hex color codes and Federico turns on his hype machine. We also talk about the death of Aperture, … | Continue reading
Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter: Dashboard isn’t the only thing gone in 10.15 — so is 32-bit app & plugin support, Carbon, Ink, QuickTime 7 & QuickTime plugins, PPTP, and hardware RA… | Continue reading
Jason Snell has fired up his chart machine: Apple’s quarterly results are in. The company posted revenue of $58 billion, down 5% from the same quarter a year ago. iPad revenue was up 22% and Servic… | Continue reading
Apple has a new support page up urging customers to migrate their libraries out of Aperture, for the end is nigh for the photo editing application: In June 2014, Apple announced the discontinuation… | Continue reading
Apple Support: Mac OS X applications typically store preference settings in plist files, such as “com.apple.Mail.plist”. In Mac OS X 10.3.9 and earlier, plist files were typically in XM… | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, Michael Hyatt joins David and I this week in an interview that ranges from how to get your life together and find a little focus to nerdy Keyboard Maestro scripts. It … | Continue reading
The newest version of Overcast has a really nifty new feature, as explained by Marco Arment: With today’s 2019.4 update, you can now share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public… | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol, with good news for owners of machines with the dreaded butterfly keyboards, quoting from an internal Apple memo he got his hands on: Most keyboard-related repairs will be required to… | Continue reading
This week on Liftoff: Stephen and Jason talk the news, from blackholes to Beresheet, and spacesuits to backronyms. Then, a bit about the Crew Dragon anomaly. My thanks to our sponsor: ExpressVPN: H… | Continue reading
Apple Support: This article details the do it yourself (DIY) repair process for installing feet and plugs for MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro computers that exhibit missing o… | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I interviewed Rene Ritchie: Over a year ago, long-time Apple blogger Rene Ritchie launched Vector, a daily YouTube show covering the world of Apple and tech beyond. This… | Continue reading
This week on Ungeniused: Started as a terrible codename by some high school friends in the early 1970s, 420 is now a worldwide phenomenon. This episode’s sponsor was a complete coincidence: B… | Continue reading