An Apple Pencil, a Kobo Libra 2, and some creamed corn. This time of year leads to a few inevitable kinds of stories. Giving thanks, and… deals? Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, a… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. The complaint provides new information… | Continue reading
Rich Woods reports about Windows on ARM and where it may be headed in the future: Qualcomm actually has an exclusivity deal with Microsoft for Windows on ARM, and speaking with people familiar with… | Continue reading
This week I’m traveling for Thanksgiving, and I’m using this MacBook Pro review unit before I have to send it back to Apple1. One of the things I had forgotten in the years where I larg… | Continue reading
Apple’s car project is back in the news, but is the company’s ambition in this area unrealistic? Also: Qualcomm spoils it for Apple, Apple employees get a new date to return to work, an… | Continue reading
Following up from his post from last fall, developer David Smith has taken his Apple Watch on a three-day hiking trip and figuring out some strategies for extending its life: What gives me some exc… | Continue reading
This week, thanks to an article by John Voorhees at MacStories about integrating Shortcuts with the Elgato Stream Deck, I discovered an incredibly useful tip about Shortcuts integration on the Mac.… | 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
As someone who’s enthusiastic about mechanical keyboards, I was interested in reviewing a prerelease version of the $110 Nuphy Air75. It’s a 75 percent keyboard (a size that’s rig… | Continue reading
Apple Cars without steering wheels and Apple-branded pentalobe screwdrivers. What a world. (The podcast will be off next week for Thanksgiving. Back in two weeks.) | Continue reading
A few months ago I decided to unplug the iPod Hi-Fi I was using as an external speaker for my iMac Pro, and replace it with a stereo pair of $199 Sonos One SL speakers. I’m using my iPad Pro&… | Continue reading
Marc Karzen shot the amazing, award-winning bumpers used going into and out of every commercial break on “Late Night with David Letterman,” one of my favorite television shows of all ti… | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple’s focusing on a fully autonomous car for release as early as 2025: Apple’s ideal car would have no steering wheel and pedals, and its interior… | Continue reading
John takes a foray into smart home automation. Dan wonders about Apple’s rumored headset, and special guest James Thomson takes us to programming school. | Continue reading
Disney+ came out of the gate strong, but its growth is waning. What does it need to do to reach a broader audience? It’s all about the ‘Hamiltons.’ Also, ViacomCBS pulls the rug o… | Continue reading
Our computer speaker setups, the latest apps we’ve installed, whether we’re experiencing NFT FOMO, and the smart home gadgets we’d like to get this holiday season. | Continue reading
In a move that I would wager almost nobody saw coming, Apple has announced that it will now allow consumers to buy official parts and tools to repair their own devices: Available first for the iPho… | Continue reading
Qualcomm, a company with no real interest in trying to appease Apple, told the world today that Apple will probably be shipping Apple-made cellular chips in devices at scale by 2023: At an investor… | Continue reading
It’s been five years since Apple announced the TV app–auspiciously on the same day it unveiled the first-generation Touch Bar MacBook Pros. A year earlier, Tim Cook first declared that … | Continue reading
This week Apple revises a child-protection feature, tries to avoid links in apps, launches a new business service, and welcomes some Netflix… games?… to the App Store. Oh boy! | Continue reading
Developer Dan Petrov has a quick write up of the new command line network quality tool included in macOS Monterey: It seems that Apple has quietly added a new tool in macOS Monterey for measuring y… | 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
Being able to control your lights from your devices or enjoy audio in every room are great goals for a smart home, but smart tech isn’t just about the things you can do, but what your smart h… | Continue reading
Shortcuts, services, and self-promotion. | Continue reading
Delightful video from the Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern about trying to spend 24 hours in the metaverse.1 My eyes hurt just from watching. Long story short: the metaverse is a ways from … | Continue reading
Left to right: Kobo Libra 2, 11th-generation Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Sage. I love e-readers, which explains why I write about them a lot. Earlier this year, I abandoned my Kindles and took up with … | Continue reading
Global supply chain issues strike again! The first units of Panic’s Playdate handheld gaming device were scheduled to ship before the end of the year, but they’ve now been delayed to ea… | Continue reading
A surprising amount of discussion of a Tom Hanks movie. | Continue reading
I’ve written a couple of times about Template Gun, a hot-dog cannon of an AppleScript that I use to automatically expand zip archives of Logic Pro templates to use in editing projects. The sc… | Continue reading
Our thoughts on Twitter’s new subscription service, the keyboards we’re using, how we feel about smart locks, and some thoughts on Apple’s new Communication Safety features for Me… | Continue reading
The Verge’s Adi Robertson: Epic v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says Apple must comply with an order to let developers add links and buttons to external payment options, denying the com… | Continue reading
Apple extended its service offerings to businesses on Wednesday by announcing Apple Business Essentials, which rolls together device management, support, and iCloud storage into a single subscripti… | Continue reading
Take Control Books recently released version 2.2 of my book about Apple’s Photos app. It covers changes in macOS Monterey and iOS/iPadOS 15, including the revamped Memories feature, new shari… | Continue reading
Twitter announced its premium Twitter Blue subscription service back in June, but it has just launched in the United States: We’ve launched Twitter Blue in the US, Canada, Australia, and New … | Continue reading
Michael Flarup just launched a Kickstarter for a book all about the art of iOS app icons: The iOS App Icon Book features hundreds of works of art from individuals and teams around the world. It ser… | Continue reading
Much as I love some good smart home lighting, there’s nothing worse than running into a problem that is singularly dumb. Recently, I detailed the smart home lighting setup in my new house, an… | Continue reading
Now that the M1 Pro and M1 Max have arrived, we turn our attention to the future of Apple silicon in 2022 and beyond. Will there be new chips every year, or is that too rapid a pace? | Continue reading
Better late than never, the big three: Charts, canyons, and clever automations. | Continue reading
I’m intrigued by the new Focus modes in macOS Monterey and iOS 15, but frustrated by the fact that there’s no easy way for an automation tool to detect the current Focus status. Except!… | Continue reading
Amongst the additions in macOS Monterey are a couple new screensavers—I know, try and contain your excitement. One is the retro “Hello” module inspired by Steve Jobs’s introductio… | Continue reading
Some of us are going to virtual reality. The rest of us are stuck in this stupid reality. | Continue reading
Microsoft and Facebook’s new metaverse moves, Netflix’s entry into the games market, Zoom’s consideration of an ad-supported model, and how we deal with needing to use Windows on … | Continue reading
What happens when a TV network has a potential big hit, but doesn’t have a streaming strategy to find an audience? Are sports leagues finally going to risk their fat cable contracts in order … | Continue reading
Apple’s added a few features over the last couple years that help us cope with our current world situation, whether it be unlocking our iPhones with our Apple Watches or improvements to FaceT… | Continue reading
At Macworld New York in 1999, Apple filled out its “Grid of Four” with a consumer notebook called the iBook. I’ve written about the iBook at length elsewhere, but the gist of the … | Continue reading
Last week Apple announced the results for its fiscal fourth quarter, which was the latest in a series of records set by the company. As always, I generated a bunch of colorful charts based on the n… | Continue reading
Netflix will begin to roll out games to its subscribers worldwide starting tomorrow: 🎮📱 Let the Games Begin📱🎮Tomorrow, Netflix Games will start rolling out on the Netflix mobile app. First on Andro… | Continue reading
We’re joined by Apple VPs Tom Boger and Tim Millet to discuss Apple’s chip-design philosophy and how it factored into the company’s first high-end Mac chips, the M1 Pro and M1 Max… | Continue reading