Francisco Lindor, no!Apple’s now a sports broadcaster. The premiere of “Friday Night Baseball” on Apple TV+, featuring two live games, has come and gone. Any baseball fan will tell you that it’s a long season, and you can’t tell anything from the final score on opening day. But a … | Continue reading
Baseball season is here and Jason has a detailed critique of Apple’s first Friday Night Baseball broadcasts. But it’s not all home runs and calls to the bullpen, as Myke goes home to Dongletown and we ponder just what might be announced at WWDC 2022.… | Continue reading
Last week Audio Hijack 4 arrived, and was I excited about its automation features. I had several people ask me about a simple automation I created, which generates a single button on a Stream Deck that toggles recording on and off and changes its display based on recording status … | Continue reading
When institutional tech lags home tech, Apple’s baseball efforts get underway, and WWDC 2022 is now officially on the schedule.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Selecting a channel in Audition. It’s ready for EQ and limiting. Among a group of my friends and fellow podcasters, a certain kitchen gadget is known simply as the “cult device.” We enjoy the Instant Pot, but are far too cool to openly admire a mere hunk of metal and circuitry… … | Continue reading
It’s opening day! And Apple has provided more information about its forthcoming baseball broadcasts, which premiere Friday: Produced by MLB Network’s Emmy Award-winning production team in partnership with Apple, “Friday Night Baseball” will offer a modern and dynamic broadcast e … | Continue reading
Welcome to our new feature, Water Heater Talk.… | Continue reading
Whether we’d put our trust in an Apple Bank, how we feel about editing tweets, our office chair situation, and Plex’s new Universal Watchlist: yea or nay?… | Continue reading
Apple TV+ wins Best Picture, “Our Flag Means Death” is… a hit?, why being the fan of a baseball team is going to bring you pain, “Obi-Wan” takes on “Stranger Things” directly, and Jason subscribed to CNN+… for science!… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in an online format from June 6 through 10, free for all developers to attend. However, it’s not entirely online: In addition to the online conference, Apple will host a special … | Continue reading
Myke takes possession of his Apple Studio Display, Jason gets excited about the arrival of Audio Hijack 4, and Apple revises its approach to allowing external links in iOS apps.… | Continue reading
Celebrating all the goodies in Audio Hijack 4, the importance of app automation, the Enterprise report card, regulation threats, and a new home for the Mac Studio.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Ever since earlier this month, when Apple broke the minds—and bank accounts—of its devoted power users by delivering the unexpected announcement of a new and long-awaited Apple consumer display, the internet has been awash in rumors over one particular quirk of the monitor: Why d … | Continue reading
An Audio Hijack 4 automation switches blocks on and off and starts a session.Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack 4 is here, and while it’s got a bunch of interesting new features, my favorite is its support for automation via JavaScript and Shortcuts. While not quite everything in Audio … | Continue reading
Apple announced Thursday that it’s launched its Apple Business Essentials program for small businesses in the United States. The company announced the program in November 2021 and has been running it in beta form in the intervening months. The program uses device-management featu … | Continue reading
Audio Hijack 4 features a new light interface mode and the ability to manually wire connections between blocks.Rogue Amoeba has released Audio Hijack 4, a huge update to its all-purpose Mac audio recording tool. It’s the app’s first major update since Audio Hijack 3, way back in … | Continue reading
On Upgrade this week we were talking about if we’d pay extra for Macs with nice colors, and mentioned the black MacBook, which was more expensive than the white model. Stephen Hackett has a good reminder from Apple history: For every generation of MacBook that it was a part of, … | Continue reading
Last year, device-management startup Kandji approached Six Colors to commission a new entry in our Report Card series focusing on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government. We worked with Kandji and the hosts of the Mac Admins Podca … | Continue reading
There’s a good chance that you’ve already seen that viral video making the rounds over the past week, in which a self-described former Apple employee is blown away by picking up a photo from one iOS device and dropping it on the other. If not, check it out below. PLEASE tell me I … | Continue reading
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Our thoughts on the EU’s plans for messaging interoperability, how we feel about smart implants and body modifications, when and why we choose websites over apps for certain services, and long overdue feature requests for products we use each day.… | Continue reading
Apple’s first foray into live sports streaming debuts on April 8: Apple and Major League Baseball today announced the first half of the 2022 “Friday Night Baseball” schedule. These scheduled games are available to anyone with internet access, for free, only on Apple TV+. “Friday … | Continue reading
It’s episode 400! We evaluate the forward-looking predictions we made back in episode 300, and then draft stories we’ll be talking about over the next hundred episodes! Also, an Apple TV+ movie won Best Picture and we round up an awful lot of Apple rumors.… | Continue reading
My thanks to BZG Apps for sponsoring Six Colors this week. BZG makes Unite 4, which allows you to turn any Website into a Mac app. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. Unite 4 includes dozens of … | Continue reading
Managing Zoom windows, Apple’s cycle of listening to (or ignoring) its customers, and the disadvantages of Apple re-using its technology.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Last year, I revisited one of my favorite iOS games, as Team Alto updated Alto’s Odyssey, bringing it to Apple Arcade with new levels, music, and artwork. It turns out that Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City was only half of Team Alto’s Apple Arcade project. The new Alto’s Adventure: … | Continue reading
Hopefully you wanted to hear about digital goods.… | Continue reading
Big tech outages, our data backup strategies, the tech wisdom we’d impart to the masses, and the last time we felt out of our depth.… | Continue reading
Is Wall Street souring on the streaming wars? Is Netflix coming for your shared passwords? Both issues are way more complicated than they might seem.… | Continue reading
So the Mac Studio has two SSD slots. They’re proprietary and you can’t just swap them in anyway. But why? Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham has an excellent overview: Deeply sympathetic as I am to the goals of the right-to-repair movement, and deeply frustrated as I am by Apple’s … | Continue reading
Back in late 2000—unfortunately, I don’t have any email archives from this period—we were planning a cover story about Mac customization. Written by Christopher Breen, it recommended utilities like James Thomson’s DragThing and St. Clair Software’s Default Folder. In the era of O … | Continue reading
Jason’s got the new Mac Studio and Studio Display and it’s time for his complete review. We also discuss where the M2 chip might appear, and what the Mac will look like in 2023.… | 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
In our YouTube video on Thursday, Dan relayed a question from a listener asking if the Studio Display supported automatic rotation. I grabbed the screen and twisted — and nothing happened. Oh well! Maybe it’s a VESA mount thing. But, being right-hand dominant, I had chosen to lif … | Continue reading
I wasn’t expecting one of the bigger reactions to my Mac Studio review to be my aside about the power strip I’ve been using for more than a decade, but that’s what happened! Here’s what I wrote: Funny thing about Apple silicon: Apple’s not kidding about power consumption. For 15 … | Continue reading
When it comes to iPhone upgrades, Apple is incremental. So are iPhone reviews. Those of us who review iPhones are, for understandable reasons, focused on what’s new between this year’s model and the last. Fortunately, Apple’s release of a new iPhone SE in March 2022 is an opportu … | Continue reading
Jason’s spent a week with new Apple products. Lots of opinions about what’s wrong and right with the Studio Display. Jason third-thinks his Mac Studio purchase and comes out ahead.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, writing at The Verge: Matter, the new smart home interoperability standard being developed by Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and others, has been delayed. Again. Expected this summer, the launch has been rescheduled for fall of 2022, Michelle Mindala-Fr … | Continue reading
On Thursday Jason and Dan went on YouTube and talked about the new Mac Studio and Studio Display and answered your questions. Here’s the video in case you missed it: … | Continue reading
Discuss the Studio Display, Mac Studio and other new Apple products LIVE during our special live YouTube stream today at 9 Pacific, noon Eastern! Apple’s most popular devices come with their own displays. The iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and iMac can all be used right out of the box. I … | Continue reading
Discuss the Mac Studio and other new Apple products LIVE during our special live YouTube stream today at 9 Pacific, noon Eastern! The Mac Studio is the first entirely new entry in the Mac product line in a very long time. It’s a kind of Mac—the mid-range-desktop—that used to be c … | Continue reading
It may not be a new iPad, but it’s new to one of us.… | Continue reading
Our experience with game streaming services, our thoughts on Elden Ring, whether we order tech online or choose to pick it up, and the products we purchased from Apple’s March event.… | Continue reading
There comes a time in one’s life when, no matter how long one puts it off, one must buy a new iPad. For me, that day came immediately following last week’s Apple event, at which the company unveiled the fifth-generation iPad Air. But, before you ask: no, I didn’t buy an iPad Air. … | Continue reading
The new iPad Air is coming this week. It’s an enticing mid-range iPad for people who don’t need the extra features of the iPad Pro but want something bigger than the iPad mini and better than the base-model iPad. What it isn’t is new. The iPad Air offers features that premiered o … | Continue reading
On Monday, Apple released macOS 12.3 and iOS/iPadOS 15.4. The two biggest features in these updates are Universal Control and mask support for Face ID. I recommend the excellent MacStories summaries of macOS and iOS. Universal Control The pointer goes where no mouse has gone befo … | Continue reading
John Siracusa joins Jason to talk about the Mythical Mid-Range Mac Minitower, the distortion of the iMac over time, the modular possibilities offered by the Apple Studio Display, and other fallout from last week’s Apple announcements.… | Continue reading
Late in 2021, my wife and I moved to a new house, which meant packing up everything in my office of more than a decade and then setting it up all over again in my new (but somewhat smaller) office. In some ways this was a good opportunity to revisit my setup, try to simplify some … | Continue reading