One of the most important developments in the history of the Mac was not created in Cupertino, but by a Mac clonemaker in a tiny town in Georgia. | Continue reading
Since Dan and I do a lot of tech podcasts in addition to our tech writing, a feature of this site since the beginning has been posting links to those podcasts. It’s been a largely manual proc… | Continue reading
Guesses and picks. As you do. | Continue reading
Apple event hopes, finding joy, our NFC uses, and how virtual conferences have changed things for the better. | Continue reading
Some of Apple’s announcements may be delayed, but it looks like the company will still be holding its fall event more or less right on schedule. Set your calendars for September 15 at 10am Pa… | Continue reading
Jason dives into macOS Big Sur and has to podcast from exile, Apple gets excited about Emmy nominations while prepping for fall product launches, and the release of “Mulan” leads us to … | Continue reading
DayStar Genesis MP (from Macworld magazine). Today, the chips that drive all of Apple’s products have multiple processing cores, able to do work in parallel. The iPhone 11 has six. My iMac Pr… | Continue reading
The Apple TV: perhaps the most unloved of Apple’s major platforms? Even though the Apple TV has been around about as long as the iPhone—it was actually shown off by Steve Jobs before the iPho… | Continue reading
I woke up this morning to find a challenge from Reader Max Velasco Knott. Max apparently enjoys Dark Mode on macOS — and my BitBar plugins don’t consider the existence of Dark Mode, mos… | Continue reading
It’s been a busy week, but do you see us sweat? We’re like ducks–proverbial ducks. | Continue reading
Professionals were dragged out of their beige towers by an iMac-inspired Power Mac that featured a drop-down door, big plastic handles, and a raft of new technologies. Guest Starring James Thomson,… | Continue reading
As a part of my ongoing 20 Macs for 2020 project, I’ve been releasing weekly podcast episodes featuring the voices of a bunch of people I know discussing the Macs I’ve placed on my list… | Continue reading
Since first introducing the Apple Watch, Apple has worked hard to clarify the product, steering it to where most users found it the most useful — notifications and activity tracking. The fanciful d… | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s ready to eat, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Shelly Brisbin an Joe Rosensteel. Hot topics include: What’s your online fact-finding … | Continue reading
We’re here to preach the gospel of Ted Lasso and tell you how you can get anointed by a fav from Jason Sudeikis. Turns out it’s pretty easy. | Continue reading
For those of us who spend a lot of brain power thinking about where Apple is heading next, this week has been a bit of a head-scratcher. New reports from the China Times suggest that the first Mac … | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Debby Wu and Mark Gurman have a rundown of much of what Apple’s expected to announce this fall: Among a comprehensive product refresh in the fall, Apple is also preparing a … | Continue reading
Over its decade-plus history, Apple’s App Store has been known as a secure and reliable source of quality software1. But even as that has been the case, it has also remained a hotbed of controversy… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke try to piece together conflicting rumors about Macs with Apple silicon, Apple TV+ embraces the UK and Mariah Carey, and Apple and Epic take it to the courts, and #askupgrade reaches … | Continue reading
I’m not sure there’s a more emblematic example of the transformation of Apple from its mid-90s blahs to the excitement of the Steve Jobs-Jony Ive era than what happened to Apple’s… | Continue reading
Sure as summer turns to fall, sure as pizza is the most delicious food, sure as a shark will devour whatever lies in its path, Apple is once again gobbling up smaller companies. In the past few wee… | Continue reading
Dan’s back from vacation. We’re “programmers” now. | Continue reading
Apple follows up its groundbreaking original PowerBooks with a new set of laptops that ushered in perhaps the ugliest period in Apple laptop history. | Continue reading
Dan is back with us to follow up on the Apple/Epic fight and talk some more about the weather. | Continue reading
A hazardous air quality warning in my living room. Right now, several parts of the state of California are on fire. This isn’t the usual early-fall fire season where dry offshore winds fan th… | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that is never out of time, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Lisa Schmeiser and Jeff Carlson to discuss our recent tech-related pandemic purchases,… | Continue reading
You’ve probably seen the stories: it’s an epic (eye-rolling pun intended) war between two technology giants. In this corner is Apple, accused of being a greedy colossus using its tight-fisted contr… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke take a walk in the woods while discussing Apple and Epic, the latest Apple TV+ news, the speed potential of Macs with Apple silicon, and how the pandemic has changed their working li… | Continue reading
25 years ago, Windows 95 was released to great fanfare. The magazine I worked at back then, MacUser, decided to offer up as a rejoinder a cover that said “Windows 95: So What?” It was o… | Continue reading
The star-crossed PowerBook 5300. People who think that the butterfly keyboard is the biggest black eye in the history of Apple’s laptops don’t remember the mid-1990s. Apple’s fina… | Continue reading
Indie developer Manton Reese linked to this interview with Basecamp’s Jason Fried that gets to the heart of how independent developers respond to Apple’s heavy-handed approach to the Ap… | Continue reading
If you’re wondering if App Review’s approach to WordPress was an isolated incident, I point you to the release notes to a recent GitHub app update: Improvements: • Updated design of rep… | Continue reading
The legal filings from Epic Games just keep on coming, as Kim Lyons and Russell Brandom report at The Verge: Epic has asked the court to restrain Apple from revoking that access while the case is o… | Continue reading
It’s not every day you see an Apple apology, but Matt Mullenweg of WordPress got one this week after Apple–spectacularly failing to read the room–rejected the free open-source Wor… | Continue reading
Our tenth anniversary! | Continue reading
Apple had made numerous attempts to sell server hardware, including a strange non-Mac server that Steve Jobs likened to a bizarre dream. But in the early 2000s, Jobs decided to take another crack a… | Continue reading
Dan’s on vacation, and I think he might be English. Jason is living the Apple Watch dream. | Continue reading
Are you a tech hypocrite? What’s a social media feature you want on other social networks? Do you listen to the radio? What do you think of Dropbox’s new features? Kathy Campbell, Dan S… | Continue reading
Three BitBar plugins in action. I really can’t recommend Mat Ryer’s BitBar enough. It’s a free Mac utility that lets you put more or less anything you want in your menu bar. I kee… | Continue reading
Don Giller is the unofficial archivist of David Letterman’s talk show career. It’s a crying shame that a curated sample of Letterman’s output from his NBC and CBS shows isn’… | Continue reading
One of the secrets to being an efficient computer power user is mastering the use of keyboard shortcuts. When you can tap a couple of keys and kick off something that otherwise would’ve requi… | Continue reading
Epic takes on Apple and Google’s dominance of smart phone app stores with an app update and corresponding legal filings and publicity campaign. What’s Apple’s next move, and more … | Continue reading
It’s 2020, and Apple is shipping a rack-mountable Mac Pro. It’s the latest chapter in a decades-long flirtation between Apple and the machines that dwell in the server closet. Even thou… | Continue reading
Though it might still only be mid-August, fall is rapidly approaching. That’s not only significant because it will hopefully mean the end of the heat that’s been barraging my home for the last seve… | Continue reading
Just another sleepy week in August, other than an Epic showdown. Jason gets to play Spider-Man and Dan doesn’t. | Continue reading
The very first time Apple made a laptop that compromised in numerous ways, all in the question of being as thin and light as possible. | Continue reading
Epic Games, the makers of the popular game Fortnite, doesn’t appreciate that mobile platform owners–we’re talking Apple and Google–demand that if you use their app stores, y… | Continue reading
It’s kind of tough out there right now, so if you’ve been finding it challenging to get through the days and weeks with some semblance of normalcy, you’re not alone. For my part, … | Continue reading