After months of work, Federico has published a manifesto of sorts about the working on the iPad Pro: Seven years after I started (slowly) replacing my MacBook Air with an iPad, my life is different… | Continue reading
This week marks the second anniversary of the 512 Pixels Membership. To mark the occasion, I am sharing this article, which was sent in this month’s members-only newsletter. To learn more and… | Continue reading
2019 has brought a lot of changes to my workload. I joined Mac Power Users, which radically changed how my work week looks, bringing to an end to a couple of projects and requiring changes to other… | Continue reading
Long title; short article: You may notice that the built-in NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics subsystem does not appear in the Device Manager and cannot be used with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista. Wind… | Continue reading
Steven Troughton-Smith has spent some time testing one route to get from x86 to ARM for Mac apps: Of course, the specter of macOS on ARM has been in the public psyche for many years now, and many h… | Continue reading
Dave Mark, writing at The Loop: Interesting difference between the Mac and iOS is the ability to download and run a Mac app without any involvement from Apple. While you can sideload an iOS app usi… | Continue reading
Artemis — the new name for NASA’s initiative to put humans back on the moon by the end of 2024 — may be defined by its new, flashy goal, but as Loren Grush writes, it has an up-hill battle to… | Continue reading
This week on the show: Federico floats a conspiracy about iTunes, the crew check in on their 2019 predictions, and Myke makes a huge promise before Stephen shares about his Pixel 3a. If you’l… | Continue reading
I love how short this article is: Starting on Dec 15th 2017, you won’t be able to log in into the Message app or iChat app with your AOL account. For more information, contact AOL. | Continue reading
Ryan Christoffel has all the details. | Continue reading
This week on MPU, we work our way through some feedback, talk about what we want from WWDC and make some confessions about the iPad Pro. | Continue reading
A decade ago, my wife and I saw our entire lives change in a moment when our oldest son was diagnosed with brain cancer. That moment, of course, was a series of events. First, a checkup at the pedi… | Continue reading
It is a busy week on Connected: Warren Buffett and Tim Cook star in a new iPhone game, Stephen and Myke tried the official Twitter app for a week and Federico is exporting his notes. Elsewhere, Mar… | Continue reading
A thoughtful examination of what bringing iPad apps to the Mac may mean for developers and users. | Continue reading
This year’s colorful, cheaper-but-still-more-expensive-than-any-other-entry-level-model iPhone XR is a fascinating phone. It delivers iPhone XS performance in a nice enclosure, with just enou… | Continue reading
This fortnight on Liftoff, Jason Snell and I check in on the SLS’ test procedures and the on-going planning to return to the moon in 2024, then get a dose of planetary defense. Next time: Apo… | Continue reading
This week on Ungeniused, we talk about some weird weather: It isn’t cats and dogs, but rains including fish, frogs and spiders have been recorded around the world. My thanks to our sponsor: A… | Continue reading
Anthony Colangelo of the space blog and podcast Main Engine Cut Off has a new Mac app out, named Downlink: While browsing the GOES Image Viewer a few months ago, I had an idea: with the data freque… | Continue reading
Apple Support: Follow these steps on your Mac if a blank optical disc (such as a CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R) doesn’t appear on the desktop or in the Finder after you insert it. When’s the la… | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I got nerdy about Finder and some Mac applications that can enhance it, or even replace it: At the heart of the macOS experience is Finder, which is part file manager, p… | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Stephen returns order to the podcast after two weeks away, Myke reads some Hex color codes and Federico turns on his hype machine. We also talk about the death of Aperture, … | Continue reading
Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter: Dashboard isn’t the only thing gone in 10.15 — so is 32-bit app & plugin support, Carbon, Ink, QuickTime 7 & QuickTime plugins, PPTP, and hardware RA… | Continue reading
Jason Snell has fired up his chart machine: Apple’s quarterly results are in. The company posted revenue of $58 billion, down 5% from the same quarter a year ago. iPad revenue was up 22% and Servic… | Continue reading
Apple has a new support page up urging customers to migrate their libraries out of Aperture, for the end is nigh for the photo editing application: In June 2014, Apple announced the discontinuation… | Continue reading
Apple Support: Mac OS X applications typically store preference settings in plist files, such as “com.apple.Mail.plist”. In Mac OS X 10.3.9 and earlier, plist files were typically in XM… | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, Michael Hyatt joins David and I this week in an interview that ranges from how to get your life together and find a little focus to nerdy Keyboard Maestro scripts. It … | Continue reading
The newest version of Overcast has a really nifty new feature, as explained by Marco Arment: With today’s 2019.4 update, you can now share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public… | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol, with good news for owners of machines with the dreaded butterfly keyboards, quoting from an internal Apple memo he got his hands on: Most keyboard-related repairs will be required to… | Continue reading
This week on Liftoff: Stephen and Jason talk the news, from blackholes to Beresheet, and spacesuits to backronyms. Then, a bit about the Crew Dragon anomaly. My thanks to our sponsor: ExpressVPN: H… | Continue reading
Apple Support: This article details the do it yourself (DIY) repair process for installing feet and plugs for MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro computers that exhibit missing o… | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I interviewed Rene Ritchie: Over a year ago, long-time Apple blogger Rene Ritchie launched Vector, a daily YouTube show covering the world of Apple and tech beyond. This… | Continue reading
This week on Ungeniused: Started as a terrible codename by some high school friends in the early 1970s, 420 is now a worldwide phenomenon. This episode’s sponsor was a complete coincidence: B… | Continue reading
Zac Hall at 9to5Mac, writing on the weird history of the use of gold and gold finishes when it comes to the Apple Watch: Apple Watch has a curvy history with the color gold and accompanying straps.… | Continue reading
Guilherme Rambo, continuing an incredible week at 9to5Mac: Apple is working on bringing the Mac and iOS closer together with the introduction of macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time,… | Continue reading
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