This week on Connected: Stephen breaks some shocking news on the show. Federico had feelings about the Apple Vision Pro. Myke messed up the points. All of this and then a Round Robin of some smaller announcements from WWDC. Don’t miss the first installment of Smell Talk: | Continue reading
For the last two years, I’ve successfully created beautiful wall calendars focusing on parts of Apple’s business. For 2022 I did hardware, and for 2023, software. The 2024 Apple History Calendar will complete the trilogy, focusing on Apple retail and the company’s services busine … | Continue reading
Federico, writing at MacStories: I’m going to be direct with this story. My 30-minute demo with Vision Pro last week was the most mind-blowing moment of my 14-year career covering Apple and technology. I left the demo speechless, and it took me a few days to articulate how it fel … | Continue reading
The Apple Vision Pro may be ushering in the era of spatial computing, but like many other Apple products, it’s using a name steeped in history. Ok, steeped may be a little strong, but Apple has had other products with “vision” in their names over the years. Seven products, to be … | Continue reading
I had the pleasure of hosting the latest episode of Charlie Chapman’s podcast to interview him about the history of Dark Noise and its recent business model change. | Continue reading
Apple Support: Question: I purchased two AppleVision Monitors and am trying to set them up, but my computer only has one ADB port on the back. I tried connecting the ADB cable from the first monitor to the side of the second monitor, but that did not work. Then I tried using a th … | Continue reading
Underscore David Smith: Last week at WWDC I was extraordinarily fortunate to be one of the very few people in the world to try out Vision Pro for myself. The 30 minute session I had with it has been described in tremendous depth in lots of places (the best likely being Myke’s di … | Continue reading
MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs. The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to Twitter.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just pre … | Continue reading
I’m writing this in the lobby of my hotel in Cupertino, a couple of hours before I fly home to Memphis and I am here to report that the vibe at WWDC is good. Electric, even. The Annual March For several years, Apple has been really good at keeping features across its platforms in … | Continue reading
Christian Selig, writing on Reddit: Eight years ago, I posted in the Apple subreddit about a Reddit app I was looking for beta testers for, and my life completely changed that day. I just finished university and an internship at Apple, and wanted to build a Reddit client of my ow … | Continue reading
This week on MPU: Recorded live at Apple Park, Stephen and David talk about some of the big announcements from WWDC23. Don’t miss More Power Users, where David shared his feelings about the new Mac Studio. | Continue reading
This week on a huge episode of Connected: For the first time in four years, Federico, Myke and Stephen are together and in person to record an episode of The World’s Greatest Podcast. This week, they judge their picks for WWDC23 — and one from the past. On Connected Pro, some fee … | Continue reading
It’s been one day since Apple announced a new Mac Pro, so we are now safely within the time period in which we can go back to worrying about the product and its future. Back in 2006 when the first Mac Pro was announced, we were already at the tail end of the era of […] | Continue reading
I still think Big Sur had my favorite default wallpaper in the modern age of macOS, but these look pretty good! | Continue reading
…in no particular order, except the first two which I am psyched about: Interactive widgets. “Find My” items can now be shared with others. Offline access to Maps. Medication alerts can now repeat if medication is not logged, and can be sent as critical alerts. I bailed on Medica … | Continue reading
Apple Support: Deployment and mobile device management (MDM) introduce new features for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV devices. These updates, detailed below, include the following operating systems: iOS 17 iPadOS 17 macOS 14 tvOS 17 watchOS 10 | Continue reading
Here’s a list of all iPhone models that are compatible with iOS 17: iPhone XS and XS Max iPhone XR iPhone 11 iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max iPhone 12 and 12 mini iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max iPhone 13 and 13 mini iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max iPhone SE (2nd and 3rd […] | Continue reading
Over at The Verge, Dan Seifert has a hands-on with the new notebook: Apple just announced the new MacBook Air 15, a 15-inch version of the most popular laptop in the world. I just saw it in person. As you can probably guess, it’s just like the smaller MacBook Air, but now it’s bi … | Continue reading
There’s a new Mac Pro in town, powered by the M2 Ultra chip that is also found in the new Mac Studio. As you can see, the new machine utilizes the same design as the 2019 model, both outside and inside, minus a whole bunch of extra Thunderbolt ports around back: That second image … | Continue reading
Today Apple unveiled Vision Pro, it’s first spatial computer. There is a lot to unpack with this new device and platform, but here are some numbers to get thing started: It’s two displays pack in more than 23 million pixels. Each display is akin to a 4K display. The headset is po … | Continue reading
With Audio Hijack, you can record any audio on your Mac. Save audio from individual applications such as Safari or Zoom, record from hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, or even capture the audio output of the entire system. Whatever you need to do with audio on yo … | Continue reading
The 2023 WWDC keynote is just a few days away, so before any more last-minute leaks make it out, I wanted to put my line in the sand for what I expect to see Monday. On this week’s Connected, I made the following picks: Apple will announce a 15-inch MacBook Air. The phrase “One m … | Continue reading
WWDC23 is just a few days away, so Myke, Federico and I have made our predictions for what Apple will — and won’t — announce. | Continue reading
Christian Selig, the developer behind the Reddit client Apollo got some shockingly bad news from Reddit today: Apollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year. Even if I only kept subscription … | Continue reading
Last week, news broke that the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) planned on firing its staff and volunteer helpline folks and replace them with a chatbot named Tessa, less than a week after the workers formed a union. That is going about as well as you would think, as … | Continue reading
Antonio G. Di Benedetto has an in-depth look at the little buttons on the underside of the Apple Watch that make swapping bands so easy: While I often prefer a universal solution over a proprietary connector, here’s the thing — Apple’s band release button beats the hell out of fi … | Continue reading
The Verge has published a half-hour documentary on what happened to the Lisa at the end of its life, and it's a fantastic watch: | Continue reading
Apple Support: This article describes MySQL included with Mac OS X Server 10.0.3 or later. | Continue reading
TextExpander’s customizable and shareable snippets of text allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly — all you have to do is type a short abbreviation and TextExpander does the rest of the work for you. Here’s How It Works: … | Continue reading
Chance Miller is the editor-in-chief of 9to5Mac. This week on MPU, he joins us to discuss his work covering Apple and what the group wants to see at WWDC23. | Continue reading
I hope you spend some time weekend just thinking about this thing. I know I will. | Continue reading
Apple: My Photo Stream is shutting down on July 26, 2023. Learn more about this transition and how to keep your photos up to date across all your devices and safely stored in iCloud. As part of this transition, new photo uploads to My Photo Stream from your devices will stop one … | Continue reading
The high school version of me would have been all over this. | Continue reading
Tim Stevens, writing on his very excellent Substack: That’s my favorite joke from my software engineering days, one that I’m sure is older than me by decades and probably predates the invention of digital computers. The sad part is, it’s a joke I’ve been able to use again even lo … | Continue reading
Ford PR has some good news for its customers: Starting early next year, Ford EV customers will have access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada, in addition to the over 10,000 DC fast-chargers that are already part of the BlueOval Charge Network. Thi … | Continue reading
This week on an action-packed episode of podcast: An old problem is back, Myke found an unusual way to fix his Apple Watch, Federico is dazzled by magnets and Stephen feels weird about some apps. | Continue reading
I can’t be in Cupertino for the keynote on Monday, but I’ll be in town Tuesday-Thursday to hang out and record a couple of podcasts. I can’t believe WWDC is almost here again. This marks 10 years of going for me, and it’s always a fun week. | Continue reading
Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are out now for select iPad models. I played with Logic for a few minutes, and was pretty disappointed when it failed to import the template I use to edit Connected, running in to the same error Dan Moren got. | Continue reading
Neil Jhaveri, writing about my favorite email client for the Mac: Mimestream combines the power of macOS with Gmail’s advanced features for a new kind of email client that lets you move through your email effortlessly. Unlike other email clients that use the decades-old IMAP prot … | Continue reading
Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. Unite 4 includes dozens of new features, including support for native notifications … | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol at MacRumors: Just a few weeks ahead of WWDC, it appears that Apple continues to secretly apply for trademarks related to its rumored AR/VR headset. Delaware-based shell company “Deep Dive LLC” submitted a trademark application for “xrProOS” stylized in Apple’s SF P … | Continue reading
Mark Bramhill’s name will be familiar to many, as he produced Welcome to Macintosh, a true great in the world of Apple podcasts. This week on MPU, he chats with us about his podcasting career, using a Mac mini as a home server, the power of Descript and what it was like to create … | Continue reading
Apple Tysons Corner in Virginia was one of the first two Apple Stores to open back in May 2001. This week, it is reopening in a new location and features a new design that brings back an old friend. Michael Steeber has details: Today, Apple revealed its most comprehensive redesig … | Continue reading
Searching for it in the App Store is a mess, as there are a ton of other apps using the service and its name, but if you want the official experience, there’s an app for that. via 9to5Mac | Continue reading
This week on the show, The One True John joins Federico and me to discuss the winners of Automation April, Apple’s recent run of press releases, Stage Manager on the Mac and using iMessage on Windows. On Connected Pro, a discussion about the possibilities of a MacStories YouTube … | Continue reading
Apple Support: iMac Pro Update for Boot Camp improves the compatibility of iMac Pro with Apple mice, keyboards, and trackpads when running Windows 10 through Boot Camp. Additionally, iMac Pro Update for Boot Camp addresses these compatibility issues on iMac Pro computers running … | Continue reading
Kevin Purdy at Ars Technica: You don’t hear nearly as much about Drobo boxes as you used to, especially on sites like Ars Technica. We now have some news, but it isn’t good. StorCentric, the holding company for the Drobo and Retrospect brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in l … | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak. These updates draw on advances in hardware and software … | Continue reading