My wife Merri, writing at Parents: I am grateful for my son’s cancer diagnosis. Say whaa? I know. If I hold up a mirror right now, I am giving myself the sarcastic stink eye as well. In the w… | Continue reading
I didn’t make Connected this week, but the young men I record with did a great job talking about changes that may be coming to the iPad with iOS 13: This week, in the absence of adult supervi… | Continue reading
Michelle Corbet at The Daily Memphian: Over the past three years, nine babies with SCID-X1, more commonly known as “bubble boy disease,” have been treated with an experimental therapy that is now b… | Continue reading
This week marks the 10th anniversary of MacStories, and John asked me to write a column to help mark the occasion. His entire pitch to me was: “You’ve known Federico the longer than any… | Continue reading
It seems like a rarer and rarer occurrence that a new iOS app can make a big difference in my daily work, but Underscore’s new “timezone savvy calendaring” app has done it. Here&#… | Continue reading
I find it pretty off-putting when Apple fans bash Samsung just for being Samsung, but damn. | Continue reading
Apple Support, writing about a very specific software update: This update is for 20-inch and 24-inch aluminum iMac computers with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8 GHz processors running Mac OS X Tiger. It improves… | Continue reading
Guilherme Rambo has brought the heat this Monday morning, reporting that iOS 13 will include a system-wide dark mode, a new universal undo gesture, a more robust version of Safari and better font m… | Continue reading
This week, MacStories turns ten years old. Federico and the MacStories crew will be celebrating this week. He had kicked the week off with an excellent post. I don’t want to blockquote any of… | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I dive into the excellent journaling app Day One: Journaling can be an excellent way to collect your thoughts and reflect on the events of the day, and Day One makes it … | Continue reading
With Marzipan expected to bring new apps to the Mac to replace venerable programs like iTunes, I think now is the time to talk about our expectations of what these new apps may be like. My thoughts… | Continue reading
I wish I had thought of this draft idea. | Continue reading
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: The 2019 iMacs are a contradiction. They are brand-new computers that somehow feel like the last members of a dying order. They are shells designed in 2012 that … | Continue reading
This week on Connected, we cover a lot of ground: Federico has discovered something terrible about his childhood, Stephen had an accident and Myke wants a new TV. After all of that is taken care of… | Continue reading
Jason Snell has written about today’s black hole news: To capture this image, the EHT used seven different radio telescopes all around the world in order to use something called interferometr… | Continue reading
This morning, the National Science Foundation and the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope project announced a things-will-never-be-the-same bit of news: Today, in coordinated press conferences … | Continue reading
Mr. Rambo, writing at 9to5Mac: Fellow developer Steve Troughton-Smith recently expressed confidence about some evidence found indicating that Apple is working on new Music, Podcasts, and perhaps Bo… | Continue reading
I know a lot about Apple history, and I’ve never come across this device until today. Juli Clover writes: Unsurprisingly, the W.A.L.T. takes a while to start up given its age, but it’s … | Continue reading
This time on Liftoff: Rocket Lab has a new satellite platform, while methane cycles have been measured on Mars. Elsewhere, NASA continues to work through the details of its new 2024 lunar goal and … | Continue reading
I recently joined Timothy Buck on his UNCO podcast to talk about podcasting, the history of Relay FM and building a relationship with your listeners. | Continue reading
This week’s Ungeniused was recorded live in Atlanta over the weekend, and in it, we talked about discuss extreme ironing, lawn mower racing and egg tapping. My thanks to our sponsor: Backblaz… | Continue reading
Mmmmm, specs. | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, our special guests goes into the ins and outs of creating music with iOS devices: Jakob Haq is a musician and YouTuber from Sweden who create, edits and publishes all … | Continue reading
Good news for buyers, but $249 would be even better. | Continue reading
The venerable text editor is back on the Mac App Store, as noted by Zac Hall at 9to5Mac: BBEdit 12.6 in February introduced support for Sandboxing on the Mac, a major overhaul that secures how the … | Continue reading
This week on the show: AirPower is dead, Powerbeats Pro are here, Federico is having a good week on Twitter and iCloud Drive deserves some attention from Apple. My thanks to our sponsors: Hullo: A … | Continue reading
For a while now, if you’ve been looking at a high-end iMac, there has been an obvious, looming question: Should I just buy the iMac Pro instead? Jason Snell, writing at Macworld, tackles this… | Continue reading
I joined John and Gui over on the newest episode of Stacktrace to talk through Apple’s 40-year history, and how it is a company that is always changing. It was a lot of fun to nerd about abou… | Continue reading
I recently spoke with Darren from The Mac Quad about my background, some of the gear I use to produce content and some important pieces of nerd culture that should be saved for future generations. … | Continue reading
The PowerCD is a weird footnote in the history of Apple’s audio products, but I just recently learned in was going to come in two colors, thanks to this support article: There original strate… | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: Stephen and David talk through the ups and downs of the Mac App Store and share some of the hidden gems they’ve found there over the years. Then, they recap Appl… | Continue reading
After announcing AirPower back in the fall of 2017, the multi-device wireless charging pad has been cancelled. Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch: Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, c… | Continue reading
We’re super excited to announce we’re hosting a live episode of Connected at WWDC again this year. The show will be the evening of Wednesday, June 5. Tickets are on sale now and are mov… | Continue reading
Big, big week on Connected: After announcing tickets for their live WWDC show and judging their predictions for Apple’s media event and breaking a score between Stephen and Myke, the guys sha… | Continue reading
On what is the second episode of Liftoff in two days: The guys talk through a few stories that didn’t make Episode 95, including what’s going on with Boeing’s Starliner and Sierra… | Continue reading
…and she isn’t happy about it. | Continue reading
A huge space policy announcement it the central theme on this episode of Liftoff: Vice President Mike Pence has challenged NASA to return to the moon within five years. Jason and I respond to the n… | Continue reading
After upgrading my MacBook Pro to macOS 10.14.4 this morning, macOS asked me to re-authenticate one of my G Suite accounts I use in Mail.1 As pointed out by Greg Pierce, I am not the only one, and … | Continue reading
Apple Support: This document provides compatibility information and basic troubleshooting for installing Mac OS 8.6. | Continue reading
This time on Ungeniused, a heartbreaking story: In 1982, a series of murders rocked the country and changed consumer packaging forever. This took place 4 years before I was born, but it impacted th… | Continue reading
It’s all a lie, but here it is on my iPhone XS: I really do not like that Apple allowed this. | Continue reading
There’s a lot to process about today’s event, but in the meantime, here’s some stuff you should check out: Keynote Details Apple’s March 25 Keynote: By the Numbers Apple Shares Vi… | Continue reading
I love this. | Continue reading
This week on MPU: The guys work their way through some feedback, Stephen has feelings about his Apple Watch and David has switched notes apps … again. This was my first “feedback”… | Continue reading
Yours truly, over at MacStories: The recent iMac updates brought additional power and flexibility to Apple’s all-in-one desktop, but didn’t redesign or modernize the iMac as we’ve… | Continue reading
Hi, it looks like you want to read an article about Clippy. I can help you with that! | Continue reading
I went into 2019 with a lot of plates in the air, and a lot of change, having joined Mac Power Users. My schedule felt chaotic, so I restarted time tracking, something I haven’t done since 20… | Continue reading
I had forgotten all about this: Apple has discovered that a small percentage of flash storage drives in these MacBook Air models have an issue that may result in data loss. This update tests your d… | Continue reading