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
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It runs as a native Safari content blocking extension, and blocks intrusive ads, pop ups and trackers, including … | Continue reading
Jason bought a lot of stuff this week, some of it more unexpected than others. Dan bought a new iPad—but not the one you’re thinking of. And where does the Mac Studio fit?… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits. | Continue reading
Finally, an Apple event.… | Continue reading
One takeaway from Apple’s Peek Performance event this week: the Mac is increasingly a platform for pros. After years of pros feeling ignored by the company, that’s a heck of an about-face. But Apple’s delivered a slew of impressively powerful Macs: the iMac Pro, the new Mac Pro, … | Continue reading
The iPad Air’s place in Apple tablet lineup, how we avoid succumbing to the news 24/7, our dreams of being radio DJs, and what one thing we’d change about Apple’s new display.… | Continue reading
It’s not every day that Apple announces an entirely new Mac model, as it did Tuesday with the unveiling of the Mac Studio. And everyone knows that Apple’s track record on releasing standalone displays has been sketchy in recent years. But on Tuesday, Apple also did something it h … | Continue reading
Well, that was exciting, wasn’t it? Here are my quick-hit reactions to Apple’s March 8 event, at which the company updated the iPhone SE and iPad Air, rolled out a brand-new Mac and ext… | Continue reading
It’s not every day that Apple introduces an entirely new Mac line. But on March 8, that’s exactly what happened. Jason, Myke, and special guest Stephen Hackett discuss the new Mac Studi… | Continue reading
As always, the facts come fast and furious at an Apple event, so some details about its latest products fall through the cracks. Others, the company chooses not to dish out, leaving instead for its… | Continue reading
Disney inevitably embraces advertising, NBC inevitably takes its ball and goes home, and The Batman inevitably forces a discussion about the future of theatrical releases. | Continue reading
Want to browse the web quickly, smoothly, and anonymously with no advertising? Then get the ad blocker made for you – easy to set up, easy to keep up to date, and now with best-in-class YouTube ad … | Continue reading
An interesting development in terms of Apple corporate governance, as reported by Levi Sumagaysay of MarketWatch: Apple investors on Friday voted to support an audit that would examine the impact o… | Continue reading
Soccer writer Grant Wahl went to Qatar to report a story in advance of this year’s World Cup soccer tournament. Apparently everyone in Qatar needs to install an app that tracks your location … | Continue reading
Event anticipation, chip roll-out theories, and preparing to open our wallets. | Continue reading