Guest Marco Arment joins Jason and Myke to discuss the possibility of new Apple laptop keyboards at last, his Overcast priorities over the next year, and the future of podcasting. There are also some mild opinions about Jony Ive, the streaming-video wars,... | Continue reading
Apple’s Texas Hold’em game is so old it was originally developed for the iPod. While it eventually made the jump to iOS, it eventually folded in 2011. But now it’s back! With updated gameplay, graphics, and “new characters.”[... | Continue reading
This week the Summer of Fun goes old school, as two of Jason’s colleagues from back in the 1990s compare Apple’s many transitions over the years to the ones Apple and its developers and users face today. Also, we wonder what happens to the mov... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that puts the “stop” and “watch” in “stopwatch,” Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Lory Gil and Casey Liss to discuss Jony Ive’s departure from Apple, whether or not we re... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show where we’re all staying put, we discuss Jony Ive’s departure from Apple and what it all means, an interview with Eddy Cue and what he means, Dan’s new Synology NAS, and James’s new app.... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that requires more than one movement, we’re diving deep into betas, or at least, the iPadOS beta, which Dan and John have installed. Plus, Lex has a new smart addition to his household for a dumb task, we learn... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s hit 300 and is still going strong, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Dan Sturm and Aleen Simms to discuss Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the tech we won’t use in public, our experience wit... | Continue reading
Apple releases public betas a bit earlier than we expected, Bill Gates muses on Microsoft’s missed opportunity and the power of tech giants, WebOS just keeps on keeping on, and we’re all going to need a fuzzy puppy update this week because thi... | Continue reading
Against my very own advice, I set out to install the public beta of iPadOS on my 10.5-inch iPad Pro. But even before I installed the software, I ran into a problem. I may be unwise enough to install pre-release software, but I’m definitely not unw... | Continue reading
It’s Public Beta season, and Jason’s spent the last week reviewing macOS Catalina. Are the Catalyst apps better this year? And what features were pleasant surprises? We also discuss JJ Abrams’s big new streaming deal, share our own iPhon... | Continue reading
There’s a lot going on in macOS Catalina, version 10.15 of the software that runs the Mac, which arrives today with its first Public Beta release. This begins the era of third-party developers bringing their iPad apps to the Mac for the first time | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech podcast where we’ve got our complaints, Dan runs down some recent frustrations with Instagram and Time Machine backups. John, meanwhile, has problems with his giant mixed-platform group chat. And James runs through ... | Continue reading
In June 2018 at WWDC Apple trumpeted changes it was making to the Mac App Store to welcome back some major apps to the store. Panic’s Transmit returned in November, Microsoft Office arrived in January and BBEdit arrived in June.Who’s next?... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute podcast that boldly goes where no podcast has gone before, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Brianna Wu and John Voorhees to discuss our storage strategies, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, AR try-on features, and ... | Continue reading
After a brief commentary about Twitterrific 6 and the difficult world of App Store pricing, we kick off the The Upgrade Summer of Fun by building the official Upgrade iPhone home screen. 28 apps will be picked! Four will win coveted spaces in the dock! Ru... | Continue reading
For the last week Six Colors has been sponsored by Sanebox. I use Sanebox every day and want to thank Sanebox for the support.SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters toget... | Continue reading
New Twitterrific 6 features include new color themes, user-editable custom themes, a new display font option, and better presentation of inline media.The Iconfactory’s Twitterrific is my go-to Twitter client and has been for years. Version 6 of t... | Continue reading
My initial thought, when sitting in the audience at Apple’s WWDC keynote, was that iPadOS 13 was going to present me with a remarkable number of items from my iPad wish list. And that’s not wrong—it looks like this release is going t... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show where two out of three hosts still wear their Apple Watch, Dan and John catch Lex up on WWDC announcements. But we also discuss Dan’s CarPlay update, help John pick a new input device, and Lex’s parents | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that goes down the rabbit hole, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Joe Rosensteel and Lory Gil to discuss Apple’s new hearing health push, how we use technology in our morning routines, our use of CarPla... | Continue reading
When I bought my Volkswagen GTI in 2012, I loved everything about it—except the audio system. In fact, it was so bad that I even felt the need to pen a screed about its shortcomings, which included a terrible, unresponsive interface; unreliable playba... | Continue reading
Myke and Jason get over their WWDC hangover with a discussion of our favorite new iPadOS 13 features. Then we take a look at the future of Apple’s platforms with a discussion of Catalyst and SwiftUI and an exclusive interview with Apple’s Wile... | Continue reading
SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription.SaneBox works on top of your existing email ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that can barely contain all the news, Dan is joined by host emeritus/permanent villain Jason Snell and special guests Myke Hurley and Alex Cox to run down all the announcements from WWDC. We discuss our favorite iOS 13 fea... | Continue reading
From Apple’s podcast studio within its Worldwide Developer Conference, we’re joined by John Siracusa and Shelly Brisbin to discuss iPadOS, iOS, Catalyst, SwiftUI, and Apple’s new pro hardware. ... | Continue reading
It’s all WWDC all the time this week, as Dan and John welcome special guest James Thomson to help them break down Apple’s announcements. We discuss James getting mildly sherlocked, whether or not you can plug in your legacy SCSI drives to an i... | Continue reading
It’s not an Apple event without strong opinions all around, and there were no shortage of those at WWDC this year. Apple showed off updates to all of its major platforms—yes, even tvOS!—and there are very few, if any, products that won’t be af... | Continue reading
A few Mac tidbits I picked up at the McEnery Convention Center on Monday after the WWDC Keynote….macOS Catalina: Sidecar and CatalystWhen Apple showed off Sidecar, the new feature that lets you connect an iPad and use it as either an additiona... | Continue reading
It’s that time again, everyone. Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote kicks off at 10am PDT that’s 1pm EDT, 1900 UTC. Jason and Dan will both be in attendance. Apple will livestream the event as usual, but if you’d like to follow along with ... | Continue reading
My thanks to Erik Hanberg for sponsoring Six Colors this week to promote his tech-savvy sci-fi adventure series, The Lattice Trilogy.It’s got high-stakes action, thought-provoking dystopian themes, and gripping twists, all set in a future where pr... | Continue reading
This week on the irreverent tech podcast that is more irreverent than usual, Dan plays co-host roulette. First, he and Lex discuss Apple’s new iPod touch, rumors about future iPhone features, the headphones Lex wants but won’t buy, and getting... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s (hopefully) more talk than ticks, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Rosemary Orchard and Megan Morrone to discuss iOS apps we want to see in dark mode, our thoughts on the new iPod touch, the competit... | Continue reading
Looks like rumors of an update to Apple’s odd-man-out iOS device were not just sound and fury: the iPod touch has gotten speed-bumped to an A10 Fusion chip—a significant improvement over the old A8. Apple says it now support features like AR and Gro... | Continue reading
It’s time for our fourth annual competition regarding what will happen on stage next week at WWDC! Will there be new hardware? What will macOS be called? How many times will we see Tim Cook? This week we guess, but next week reality will be our judg... | Continue reading
In the future, privacy is a thing of the past.Get all three books for $0.99 each.All three of these books managed to surprise me over and over again. In a landscape where so much of our storytelling conforms to templates, it was refreshing to have no ... | Continue reading
I’ve been using St. Clair Software’s Default Folder since the days of System 7. It’s a utility that lets you set a different default location for the Open/Save dialogs in every app you use, and provides some other clever features like ... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that spends way too much time on keyboards, we discuss Apple’s latest keyboard—drink!—announcements, the distribution of Teslas amongst our podcast hosts, what we really think of Elon Musk, and the ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that never has too much time on its hands, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Anže Tomić and Allison Sheridan to discuss Apple’s latest MacBook keyboard update, what other companies might run afoul of US-Chin... | Continue reading
Continuing its renewed commitment to update pro Mac laptops on a regular basis, Apple on Tuesday announced an update to its 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro Touch Bar models ten months after the previous announcement. These updates don’t bring any ch... | Continue reading
With the WWDC draft a week away, Jason and Myke engage in a flight of fancy, discussing all their wishes for iOS and macOS developments that probably won’t happen. Also, Jason has to retrieve his iPad. ... | Continue reading
I’m happy that Apple added lyrics listings to iTunes on the Mac and Music on iOS. Sometimes I hear (or mishear) something in a song I’m listening to, and I want to consult the written lyrics. Internet lyrics databases like Genius, largely ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s always got time for you, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Kathy Campbell and James Thomson to discuss the new Alexa Guard, our swag collection habits, banning facial recognition, and where we’l... | Continue reading
This week on the irreverent tech show that your body rejects, we board the topic train to discuss Apple’s latest iOS update and its new Channels options, the impact of the Supreme Court’s latest decision, and a whole host of payment-related an... | Continue reading
It’s a busy week for Myke as Jason as they discuss hanging on to old software, how third-party apps react to Apple’s app updates, the Supreme Court’s ruling on an App Store antitrust case, the struggles of Apple Retail, and new reports a... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30 minute tech show where we come and go as we please, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Shahid Kamal Ahmad and Jean MacDonald to talk about Google’s I/O announcements, scooters as part of transportation solutions (and pro... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent mini-golf podcast that occasionally discusses technology, we talk Bloomberg’s latest WWDC scoops, Apple’s voracious appetite for buying companies, Intel getting thrown under a bus twice, and the weird story of Warr... | Continue reading
Logitech has been making keyboard cases for the iPad Pro since the very beginning. Its case for the original 9.7-inch iPad Pro was close to perfect. With the $130 Slim Folio Pro for the 2018 12.9-inch iPad Pro (the 11.5-inch model is $120), Logitech c... | Continue reading
I’ve spent six months using the 2018 iPad Pro with Apple’s Smart Keyboard Folio and a collection of external USB and Bluetooth mechanical keyboards. The Smart Keyboard Folio has been a solid traveling companion, and it’s a major impr... | Continue reading