With the advent of Shortcuts on macOS, automation on the Mac has become more accessible than ever. There is no part of our workflows that we can’t automate and thus there is no part of our wo… | Continue reading
The decommissioned weather station, with cloudy solar panel, spiderwebbed shield, and mossy anemometer. It’s rare that a piece of technology lasts so long and serves you so well that it’… | Continue reading
John Paczkowski at Buzzfeed: Apple has tapped a new head of PR: longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet. She’ll replace Stella Low, former communications chief at networking giant Cisco,… | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels thinks Apple should bring back Dashboard: Apple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time. Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing d… | Continue reading
9to5Google: In an email to administrators this morning, Google said it “will now transition all remaining users to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription based on your usage.” A… | Continue reading
Ty Burr, former Boston Globe film critic, writing at his Substack about movies that can’t be found online: The problem, in 9 cases out of 10, is a rights issue. Who owns a movie, particularly… | Continue reading
The streaming services we use regularly, creating or augmenting a tech product, the messaging apps we use, and our NFC experiences. | Continue reading
How much would you pay to drive out of here in an Apple headset today? | Continue reading
If I’ve learned anything about automation, it’s that projects are never really finished. After I wrote about my solution to taking notes during a podcast recording, Dan followed up with… | Continue reading
Using a Stream Deck doesn’t just increase your productivity–it also increases your appetite for custom icons to label all those buttons. Via John Voorhees of MacStories, I found out las… | Continue reading
Apple seems to have a settled on a strategy for handling demands to open up payment processing and external web links, and we’re frustrated by the decision. Following a silly Wall Street Jour… | 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
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 … | Continue reading
Some questions are perennials. This week on Upgrade we answered a question from a listener named Kiran: Assuming that the display quality of an Apple external display is the same as the upcoming iM… | Continue reading
I’m kind of a sucker for menu bar apps. I’m not sure why, but there’s tons of software that I would never just leave running in my Dock, but I’m more than happy to reduce to… | Continue reading
“Shortcuts: Name That Tune” and other puzzles. | Continue reading
What is listening to a podcast if not being haunted by ghosts? | Continue reading
Last week, Jason wrote up his new podcast note workflow, using Keyboard Maestro and an AppleScript script. The end goal was to create a text file that contained notes about things to fix while edit… | Continue reading
The last tech we bought for our home workplaces, the tyranny of choice with subscription service content, non-smartwatch wearables we’d like, and the state of printers in the year 2022. | Continue reading
It’s a new year! Disney has moved another Pixar movie out of theaters and onto Disney+. Why “Don’t Look Up” was the perfect movie for Netflix. “Yellowstone” is a… | Continue reading
Just as a follow up to my post about digital vaccine cards, I was pleased to hear this week that my home state, Massachusetts, is now following in the footsteps of California and offering digital v… | Continue reading
The Korea Times: Apple said it plans to provide an alternative payment system at a reduced service charge compared with the current 30 percent charge, as the tech giant turned in its compliance pla… | Continue reading
We discuss why it’s useful to take time every once in a while to pull back and look at the big picture instead of getting bogged down in the day-to-day grind. Also, Jason built himself a tool… | 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. … | Continue reading
This is a tricky one. On the one hand, the NightWatch Apple Watch stand is ridiculous. It’s an $85 hunk of plastic. No hunk of clear plastic should cost $85. And yet… I bought one in Ju… | 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
Zoom and FaceTime are weird. Apple and the home (again). The G4 iMac turns 20. It floated above your desk like a VESA-mounted iMac. | Continue reading
Speaking of the iMac G4, here’s my look back at that great, weird, beautiful computer from my 2020 tour of the most notable Macs of all time. | Continue reading
I’ve noticed that folks who write about cord-cutting tend to be maximalists: “How can I get the most of all the things available?” Fair enough. A lot of people like lots of TV. Bu… | Continue reading
Tell me how the panelist caused you extra work. Last year I decided I was spending too much time doing jobs because I could do them, not because they were an essential part of my job. (My friend My… | Continue reading
We’re easing back in from our post-holiday comas. | Continue reading
How we turn our digital photographs into physical media, our experiences with external monitors, our thoughts on an audiobook service from Apple, and the AR/VR headset features that would appeal to… | Continue reading
We spend our first episode of 2022 discussing what we think Apple will do this year. Is it finally time for an Apple product you put on your face? Jason and Myke also discuss changes they’re … | Continue reading
Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack. At Kolide, we think end-user… | Continue reading
My friend David Sparks has been leading a double life for a while now. To his law colleagues and friends, he has had a strange side hustle writing and talking about tech. To the rest of us, he̵… | Continue reading
Microsoft Exchange admins felt a great disturbance in the Force last night as it became 2022: The “long” type allows for values up to 2,147,483,647. It appears that Microsoft uses the first two num… | Continue reading
Some predictions are like sweet denim jackets or A-Ha’s “Take On Me”: they never go out of style. As 2021 draws to a close, you’ll see tech pundits from across the Internet … | Continue reading
We conclude our 2021 Favorites series with this list of books we loved this year. You might know this about us, but we read a lot. These were the cream of the crop. Piranesi My favorite book of the… | Continue reading
Millennials / Terminal / ls -al / What’s your shell? It’s the last Six Colors podcast of the year. Let the molting begin! | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for once again sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide focuses on honest, user-focused device management and security, with informed consent, opt-in style enrollment, and commit… | Continue reading
It was a weird year for movies. Theaters were closed, open, and sometimes closed again? And not everyone felt comfortable returning to an enclosed space full of other people later in the year. And … | Continue reading
We watch a lot of TV. It’s the platinum era of television–you could watch several hours a day for the entire year and never run out of top-shelf entertainment. But who has the time? So … | Continue reading
What tech had the biggest impact on us in 2021, our predictions for the most surprising tech story of 2022, whether we seek out short-form videos, and our biggest tech irritations of the last year. | Continue reading
Jason and Julia are off for the holiday, but before they left, they took time to record this special episode featuring answers to listener letters! (Only two-thirds of the letters are from people n… | Continue reading
As the year comes to an end, it’s time for the Eighth Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2021, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous cate… | Continue reading
Kolide provides teams unprecedented ground truth across their Linux, Mac, and Windows devices. Powered by osquery, our honest approach to obtaining device visibility via informed consent, opt-in s… | 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
It’s time for our annual Christmas gift exchange round-robin, and then the boys get down to business with some competitive picks about what will happen in 2022. All that’s followed by a… | Continue reading