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
While working on a Top Secret project,1 I needed to install Mac OS X Lion on an older MacBook Pro. I have my own USB installer that I created, but I thought it would be a good time to use the USB installer Apple sold for $69 back in the day.2 Physically, the USB key […] | Continue reading
Whether you’re in the harbor or at high sea, you need to know where you are or where you’re sailing. If you have all the maps, books, and documents. DEVONthink for Mac and DEVONthink To Go for iOS will not let you down on your mission and help you navigate the “seven seas of info … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I took a road trip through CarPlay Land. | Continue reading
Hanlon’s razor says “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity,” but it’s impossible to tell the difference with Twitter these days. | Continue reading
Andrew Cunningham, writing at Ars: Today, as part of a new Windows 11 preview build for Windows Insiders, Microsoft has announced that previews of new Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Devices apps are available in the Microsoft Store for download. The Apple Music and Apple TV app … | Continue reading
Mark Gurman: Apple Inc. is working on adding touch screens to its Mac computers, a move that would defy long-held company orthodoxy and embrace an approach that co-founder Steve Jobs once called “ergonomically terrible.” Apple engineers are actively engaged in the project, indica … | Continue reading
This week, we’ve got another Q&A-style support article: I want to remotely power up and remotely reset a Macintosh computer? Are there Apple or third party solutions available? Depending on the Macintosh model you have, there are different software and hardware solutions availabl … | Continue reading
I love bike riding — both on and off the road — but I hate riding in the cold weather, so for several months out of the year my road bike is mounted to a trainer in my garage. Riding inside is great when it is cold outside, but it’s boring. For years, I would balance […] | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: In partnership with parking platform SpotHero, Apple Maps now provides parking information for more than 8,000 locations across the U.S. and Canada. Parking availability can be filtered based on EV charging, wheelchair accessibility, and more. On the iPh … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, I got the chance to catch up with one of the folks I’ve known the longest online: Shawn Blanc left his job back in 2011 to become a full-time writer. Twelve years later, he’s the mastermind behind sites like The Focus Course and The Sweet Setup and m … | Continue reading
The Weather Machine is a new unified API for weather forecast data. If you need to build weather info into your app, this service will save you a ton of time and complexity. You’ll get a single modern interface for the best data providers on Earth. You can write just one integrat … | Continue reading
In his Power On newsletter: While Apple still has many kinks to work out with the device —involving hardware, software and services, as well as how it will be marketed and sold — the company is banking on the product as its hot new introduction for this year. … what’s ready at th … | Continue reading
I quit covering these things years ago, but this report has the potential to be very spicy. Usually, Q1 is Apple’s best, as it covers the holiday season, but recent supply and production issues are expected to take a big bite out of the company’s earnings. | Continue reading
I recently sold my Pro Display XDR and moved to a pair of Studio Displays. The Studio Display is pretty great, espeically with the optional height-adjustable stand. I didn’t use any of the high-end features of the XDR, and after just a few weeks, I’ve fallen in love with this set … | Continue reading
Last week, I was putting things together for an upcoming episode of Mac Power Users1 and came across a few old posts in which I shared my Apple setups. I thought it would be fun to put them all in one place: October 2009: This was my home desk at my wife and I’s first […] | Continue reading
It’s that time again on Connected: 2022 is over, and there are picks to be scored. After grading their predictions for the year, Stephen, Myke and Federico amend some rules and put their flags in the ground for 2023. | Continue reading
Apple Support: If your Mac supports it, you can use Gigabit Ethernet, which requires a special Gigabit Ethernet cable. If you don’t have a Gigabit Ethernet cable, you can still connect to a Gigabit Ethernet network by adjusting the Ethernet speed of your computer. Amazingly, the … | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe it is January again. The new year means I get to put another bundle of used Field Notes on my shelf: Long time readers — and viewers — will know that I’ve done this for over a decade, but I carry a notebook with me just about all the time. Their […] | Continue reading
It’s a big start to the new year on Mac Power Users: It’s not every day that Apple releases a new productivity app, but with iOS 16.2 and macOS Ventura 13.1, the company launched Freeform, an infinite canvas app for sketching, organizing and sharing information. David and Stephen … | Continue reading
Apple Support: Dark Sky’s features have been integrated into Apple Weather. Apple Weather offers hyperlocal forecasts for your current location, including next-hour precipitation, hourly forecasts for the next 10 days, high-resolution radar, and notifications. Apple Weather is av … | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol with a reminder about Dark Sky: Apple says it will be shutting down Dark Sky on January 1, 2023. The popular weather app was already removed from the App Store in September and it will stop functioning for existing users starting tomorrow. The iOS 16 Weather app has … | Continue reading
Over at MacRumors, Hartley Charlton pointed out something that hadn’t crossed my mind: Historically, Apple released at least one new Mac model every year in the fourth quarter that runs between October and December, starting in 2001 with the launch of the iBook G3. This means tha … | Continue reading
Basic Apple Guy: Confession: I have a disproportionate, bordering on irrational, adoration for iPod Socks! I couldn’t really explain to you why. Maybe the iPod Socks got wrapped up in the halo of the early days of owning my first iPod, with all the nostalgia and delight of discov … | Continue reading
Did you know that 1Password Business comes with free 1Password Family memberships for employees? This came up in the Discord for Relay FM Members today: When you’re part of a team that uses 1Password Business, you get a complimentary 1Password Families membership, which you can s … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Myke, Federico and Someone Who Kind of Sounds Like Stephen review 2022’s biggest Apple stories, grading them from “Nightmare” to “Best, I Love You.” 2022 had some downright wild tech stories, and it was a lot of fun to grade each month’s news with the best … | Continue reading
It’s not every day that we get a new system-level productivity application from Apple, but here we are. | Continue reading
The little robot seems surprisingly repairable for something so complex: | Continue reading
James Thomson: This is an updated version of a piece I wrote for the 20th anniversary, with an extra ten years of history! Many people using PCalc on their shiny devices today don’t realise that the app has been around for a lot longer than they think. In some cases, a lot longer … | Continue reading
Geeeeeeeeeze. | Continue reading