My pal Casey Liss, co-host of the Accidental Tech Podcast, has released a new app: In short, MaskerAid allows you to quickly and easily add emoji to images. Plus, thanks to the magic of machine lea… | Continue reading
Have you seen the news today? Oh boy. | Continue reading
As a so-called elder millennial, I remember our 19″ Zenith television, with an actual clicker, that sat in the oak armoire in the family room. It would display whatever happened to be broadca… | Continue reading
Using a self-driving taxi service, common myths about livestreaming, our gaming habits, and how we value art created by machines and artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
It’s official — Apple’s doing a product launch event on Tuesday, March 8. The company sent out invitations bearing the phrase “Peek performance,” a Dad-Joke-level play… | Continue reading
On Tuesday Apple halted all sales in Russia and removed the RT and Sputnik apps from the App Store. Here’s the Apple statement: We are deeply concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine a… | Continue reading
Our most speculative draft yet! Jason and Myke refuse to wait for Apple. Instead, they predict what will happen at Apple’s next product launch–whenever it might happen. | Continue reading
I use iZotope’s RX audio utilities constantly. They clean up background noise, remove buzzing and humming, and even remove the reverberations from echoey rooms. There was even that one time w… | Continue reading
Ooooh, Apple, you’ve done it this time. You’ve gone and gotten a European country mad—and not just any European country, but the Netherlands, a country which in the context of an epic f… | Continue reading
I’ve spent a lot of time with different pieces of smart home tech over the last several years, but having finally made the jump from an apartment to a house that I actually own has opened up … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Tech Complaints Corner. Your call is important to us. Please hold. | Continue reading
Smart locks, streaming tech and accessories, the future of household robots, and whether we’re more productive at day or night. | Continue reading
ViacomCBS changes its name, Peacock weathers the Super Bowl storm, the Disney brand continues to evolve, the culture of binge-dropping begins to fade away, Netflix is Doing Just Fine, and your lett… | Continue reading
Oh, tax season. Admittedly, the annual ritual has gotten a lot easier for me since getting a) an accountant and b) getting most forms delivered electronically as PDFs. But I ended up with a wrinkle… | Continue reading
Pyto does its thing. Upon arriving at our topical resort for a week on vacation, my wife and daughter sat out on the deck doing crossword puzzles and I broke out my iPad with Magic Keyboard and tri… | Continue reading
Jason imagines a future iOS App Store improved by sideloading, Myke gets back into reading digital comics, and both of them have a very strongly worded wish list involving the rumored big new iMac. | Continue reading
My thanks to Clay for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Being more generous, more responsive, and more conscientious with people can take effort. And yet they’re core to our personal and profe… | Continue reading
The long, slow transition to electric cars. And is Jason’s iMac shut-down procedure Lawful Good or Neutral Evil? | Continue reading
Some technology news actually happened, and we even spend some time talking about it. | Continue reading
The opening act? We’ve been in the Apple silicon era for 15 months now, and I’m tired of waiting. My last two primary Macs have been 27-inch iMacs. First the original 5K model, then the… | Continue reading
Obsolete tech, smartphone camera lenses, Chrome OS on an old Mac or PC, and app tracking privacy on Android. | Continue reading
Each year when Apple’s WWDC wraps up, I find myself doing what a lot of app developers do: planning my response to the upcoming version of iOS. But my summers aren’t consumed by Xcode o… | Continue reading
We all know it needs to happen. So Basic Apple Guy went ahead and redesigned System Preferences on macOS: Everyone has a thing in their life long overdue for a change. It might be a piece of clothi… | Continue reading
Last in, first out? John Gruber, who was the final person to enter the Six Colors Report Card (to be fair, there were four stragglers who popped in at the very last moment), has published his full … | Continue reading
John Siracusa has Opinions on video streaming apps: I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations.… | Continue reading
Finding a common time when a group of people can meet has been a recurring theme of my life for a couple of decades now. Back in the old days, it was often finding common times for project meetings… | Continue reading
Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards. | Continue reading
This week Jason and Myke both revive some classic hardware that hits them right in the feels. Also, there’s a confusing set of Apple event rumors, and Apple tries to address AirTag security c… | Continue reading
People make us laugh, challenge us to improve, support us when things are tough, and celebrate with us once they get better. They’re core to our personal and professional success, but being m… | Continue reading
The Six Colors Report Card for 2021 is in the books, but nerds being nerds, there’s always a clamor for more statistical slicing and dicing of the data. This year I’m happy to present a… | Continue reading
Taking a stroll through the Apple Newsroom, and how some Apple press releases are like takeout shots in curling. | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. Kolide believes that the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation is the “average&… | Continue reading
Apple just posted a statement about AirTag that addresses a batch of issues: We’ve become aware that individuals can receive unwanted tracking alerts for benign reasons, such as when borrowin… | Continue reading
Writing about podcasting! Is that all that I do? Well, technically sometimes I also podcast. Which feeds the writing about podcasting. Really, it’s a vicious cycle. For more than a decade, I&… | Continue reading
Whether we’re still using the iPad to its fullest potential, how we’re watching the Winter Olympics, AI-generated music and art, and the ways we digitally send cash to friends. | Continue reading
Finally, Grant the poodle tells us what he’s really thinking. | Continue reading
The future of CNN+ is called into question, the Oscars recognize streaming services of all kinds, and did Peacock finally get the Olympics right? | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: The new capability will empower millions of merchants across the US, from small businesses to large retailers, to use their iPhone to seamlessly and securely accept Apple Pay, conta… | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual dive into the Six Colors Apple Report Card, as Jason and Myke interpret the scores and comments of several dozen Apple-watchers and add their own views on where the c… | Continue reading
At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send impo… | Continue reading
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… | Continue reading
A podcast about dating in the Netherlands. | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide connects device security and Slack together in a clever way–by sending people important, timely, and relevant recommendations a… | Continue reading
I have to search for a lot of movies to watch on my Apple TV because I have a movie podcast. If a movie is located within a service that I’m already paying for, then I’d like to get tha… | Continue reading
Everybody’s got tech problems this week. | Continue reading
How we manage notifications, our thoughts on Crisis Text Line’s data collection, our password management setup, and how we’re feeling about the Wordle acquisition by the New York Times. | Continue reading
Dan and I joined Matthew Cassinelli earlier today to discuss and show off our Podcast Note shortcut and discuss Shortcuts and automation in general. It was a good time, so if you’d like to se… | Continue reading