Apple Support: You may experience difficulty when adding events for the month of March in applications with a calendar feature, such as Microsoft Entourage v. X. This occurs when the date region is set for Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, or Switzerland (Italian). Note: This issue oc … | Continue reading
This is the video I’ve been waiting for: | Continue reading
On this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, David and I take each other on a tour of their Mac setups, stopping at the Dock, menu bar and startup items. | Continue reading
Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Apple’s highly-anticipated big-screen MacBook Air is nearing a launch, according to a new report. DSCC analyst Ross Young reports today that the 15.5-inch MacBook Air has started panel production this month, suggesting an “early April launch.” A … | Continue reading
Boom 2 is a professional audio app that transforms the sound quality of your Mac. With its cutting-edge 31-band equalizer with 20dB Gain Control, Volume Booster, and unique Audio Effects, it offers a personalized and unmatched audio experience. The 31-band equalizer gives you com … | Continue reading
Eric Berger, writing at Ars Technica: Russia’s state-owned space corporation, Roscosmos, reported Saturday that a Progress supply ship attached to the International Space Station has lost pressure in its external cooling system. In its statement, Roscosmos said there was no threa … | Continue reading
This week on the show: While Federico is off wrangling Ethernet cables, Stephen and Myke explain their usage of Mastodon before talking about AI, firmware and Apple’s 2022. | Continue reading
Huge news for those paying for Twitter Blue: Twitter has launched a longer tweet feature, giving Blue subscribers in the US the ability to post up to 4,000 characters at once. If someone you follow uses the feature, the tweet in your timeline will have a “show more” button to kee … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Jason Snell published the 2022 Apple Report Card over on Six Colors. This year, I saved my full answers for publication here as well. The Mac: 5/5 Apple is entering the third year of its two-year transition to Apple silicon. While the company has been tight-lipped abou … | Continue reading
Apple Support: iChat AV cannot use a DV camera as an input device on computers with a PowerPC G3 microprocessor. Digital camcorders are the most common type of DV camera. iSight is not affected by this issue. However, iSight does require a 600MHz G3 processor or higher. See http: … | Continue reading
Jason Snell: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. This is the eighth year that I’ve presented thi … | 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
This week on Mac Power Users: Relay FM’s VP of Sales drops by the show to talk about her Apple gear, keeping multiple projects going at once and why she has built much of her workflow around Airtable. Kerry is an integral part of Relay FM, and I’m glad we finally got her onto a [ … | Continue reading
Emma Roth, writing at The Verge: Apple’s exploring the possibility of launching a more expensive iPhone “Ultra” above the iPhone Pro and Pro Max models, according to Apple tracker Mark Gurman. The high-end device could arrive as soon as 2024 with the iPhone 16 lineup. Last Septem … | Continue reading
Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories: There is no doubt in my mind that the essence of iPadOS – how menus appear, lists scroll, buttons are tapped, heck, even what a pointer should look like – has been designed with more taste, thought, and care than anything in Windows 11. Th … | Continue reading
I was wondering how the 2019 Mac Pro’s lifespan was holding up compared to older models, and it’s not great. I can’t imagine Apple is happy that the Intel machine is still around. | Continue reading
The Mac Studio may follow in the Mac Pro’s footsteps with a longer-than-average lifecycle, according to Mark Gurman. | Continue reading
Richard Fausset, writing at The New York Times: Keedran Franklin, a community organizer and social justice activist, runs a South Memphis food truck these days called “The Check-in.” The idea, he said, is not only to feed the people of Memphis, but also to ask them how they are g … | Continue reading
As usual, Jason Snell is on top of things over at Six Colors: Apple on Thursday announced its fiscal first-quarter results, and it was a step backward. The company’s year-over-year revenue fell $6.7 billion, though with total revenue of $117.2 billion it was still the company’s s … | Continue reading
Jess Weatherbed, writing at The Verge: Twitter will no longer provide free access to the Twitter API from February 9th. As announced by the official Twitter Developer account late Wednesday night, Elon Musk’s social media hobby will stop supporting free access to the Twitter API … | Continue reading
Underscore David Smith: Back in 2017 I had created a site which took the the audio of some of my favorite podcasts and tried to make them searchable by passing them through an automated speech-to-text engine. In the original version of this the transcription was done with very ro … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Stephen talks a bit about what has been going on in Memphis, Federico gets folded up over rumors and Myke has a surprise. | Continue reading
Two decades ago, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry. I was in high school, and remember it well, feeling the connection with the shuttle disaster that took place the day I was born. There’s a lot of great stuff out there marking the anniversary: Eric Berger: Two … | Continue reading
Apple Support: When using Boot Camp and Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices may affect system responsiveness if they are connected to the FireWire port of an Apple Thunderbolt display. Apple includes directions on how to update the FireWire driver within Windows. | Continue reading
Michael Steeber: Updates are coming to Apple Tice’s Corner in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. The store will be temporarily closed from January 31. I’m a little bit nervous about this renovation because Apple Tice’s Corner is the last location in the world with an original 2001 store … | Continue reading
With Audio Hijack, you can record any audio on your Mac. Whether you want to save audio from individual applications like Safari or Skype, hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, and even the entire system audio output, Audio Hijack can handle it. Simply put, if it ca … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, David Sparks and I return to our “Software Club” episode format and talk about Fantastical before being joined by one of the people behind the app. Michael Simmons discusses Fantastical’s history and the changes he’s seen in the Apple software ecosys … | Continue reading
Ah yes, a Friday evening news dump from Apple: On February 13, 2023, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Colombia, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Prices in Uzbekista … | Continue reading
Remember the 30th Anniversary Mac font from a few years ago? Robb Knight has recreated those glyphs as SVGs and they are glorious. | Continue reading
This week on Connected, I read some poetry, some Macs got reviewed and Federico makes a confession about this computing life. On the longer ad-free version of the show, Federico tells me about running Ethernet through his new home. | Continue reading
If you use a portable Mac with an external display, this free app looks like it’d be a lifesaver. | Continue reading
As Brian Stucki has discovered, the guts of the most powerful Mac mini ever help explain why the M1 model was mostly empty. | Continue reading
Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica: The lights at Massachusetts’ Minnechaug Regional High School burn ever bright. They actually never turn off. They can’t turn off. The smart lighting system for the entire building is broken, and it’s stuck in the “on” position. It has apparently been thi … | Continue reading
Apple Support: The version of America Online (AOL) originally bundled with the PowerBook 3400 is 3.0D. This version does not properly deal with the situation when another application, such as FAXstf, is set to answer. Upgrading to AOL version 3.0.1 or later will remedy the situat … | Continue reading
Today’s embargo day for Apple’s new M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pros, as well as the M2 and M2 Pro Mac mini, but last week David Price wrote a column for Macworld that has been bugging me all weekend.1 Let’s start at the top. After giving a recap of the Apple silicon transition to … | Continue reading
Howard Oakley writing at The Electric Light Company on how Apple silicon has grown in the move to the M2 family: Apple silicon CPU cores are grouped in fours, forming a cluster run at the same frequency and sharing cache. M1 Pro and Max chips are unusual in only having half a clu … | 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
This week on MPU: Kaitlin Salzke is an accountant, student and programmer who has built a library of OmniFocus automations. She joins David and Stephen to talk about using Javascript for automation, working on a PC during the week and pushing the boundaries of what macOS can do. | Continue reading
Sean Herber at The Iconfactory: Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it … | Continue reading
Carina Sweet at The Computer History Museum: Mountain View, CA – Jan. 19, 2023: The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading museum exploring the history of computing and its impact on the human experience, today announced the public release and long-term preservation of the so … | Continue reading
On this week’s episode of Connected, we covered Apple’s new Macs and the new HomePod, before pouring one out for third-party Twitter clients. On Connected Pro, Myke shares a secret about the future CEO of Apple. | Continue reading
This page is just … weird: | Continue reading
The event includes a new Apple Watch band and face, an iPhone wallpaper and a bunch of content across Apple’s services. | Continue reading
In its second product announcement in two days, Apple has unveiled a new HomePod: Oh shoot, that’s the original HomePod. Here’s an image of the new one: The two generations are very similar on the outside. The display at the top on the new one looks much more like what’s on the H … | Continue reading
The 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros have been bumped to the new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips. Apple even put together a short video with all the news: The specs for these new machines are just bonkers, with up to 12-core CPUs, 38-core GPUs and 96 GB of unified memory. Here’s a bit from [ … | Continue reading
Timing is a great way to automatically track and sort your time while using a Mac, but today the app spreads its wings: We are excited to announce Timing 2023.1, which introduces a new feature that a lot of you have been asking for: Timing can now import your iPhone and iPad usag … | Continue reading
Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Apple could be making its first announcement of 2023 as soon as tomorrow, sources say. The company is holding Mac-related briefings with influencers and select members of the press this week, and an announcement could be made via Apple’s Newsroo … | Continue reading