A few Mac tidbits I picked up at the McEnery Convention Center on Monday after the WWDC Keynote….macOS Catalina: Sidecar and CatalystWhen Apple showed off Sidecar, the new feature that lets you connect an iPad and use it as either an additiona... | Continue reading
It’s that time again, everyone. Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote kicks off at 10am PDT that’s 1pm EDT, 1900 UTC. Jason and Dan will both be in attendance. Apple will livestream the event as usual, but if you’d like to follow along with ... | Continue reading
My thanks to Erik Hanberg for sponsoring Six Colors this week to promote his tech-savvy sci-fi adventure series, The Lattice Trilogy.It’s got high-stakes action, thought-provoking dystopian themes, and gripping twists, all set in a future where pr... | Continue reading
This week on the irreverent tech podcast that is more irreverent than usual, Dan plays co-host roulette. First, he and Lex discuss Apple’s new iPod touch, rumors about future iPhone features, the headphones Lex wants but won’t buy, and getting... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s (hopefully) more talk than ticks, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Rosemary Orchard and Megan Morrone to discuss iOS apps we want to see in dark mode, our thoughts on the new iPod touch, the competit... | Continue reading
Looks like rumors of an update to Apple’s odd-man-out iOS device were not just sound and fury: the iPod touch has gotten speed-bumped to an A10 Fusion chip—a significant improvement over the old A8. Apple says it now support features like AR and Gro... | Continue reading
It’s time for our fourth annual competition regarding what will happen on stage next week at WWDC! Will there be new hardware? What will macOS be called? How many times will we see Tim Cook? This week we guess, but next week reality will be our judg... | Continue reading
In the future, privacy is a thing of the past.Get all three books for $0.99 each.All three of these books managed to surprise me over and over again. In a landscape where so much of our storytelling conforms to templates, it was refreshing to have no ... | Continue reading
I’ve been using St. Clair Software’s Default Folder since the days of System 7. It’s a utility that lets you set a different default location for the Open/Save dialogs in every app you use, and provides some other clever features like ... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that spends way too much time on keyboards, we discuss Apple’s latest keyboard—drink!—announcements, the distribution of Teslas amongst our podcast hosts, what we really think of Elon Musk, and the ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that never has too much time on its hands, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Anže Tomić and Allison Sheridan to discuss Apple’s latest MacBook keyboard update, what other companies might run afoul of US-Chin... | Continue reading
Continuing its renewed commitment to update pro Mac laptops on a regular basis, Apple on Tuesday announced an update to its 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro Touch Bar models ten months after the previous announcement. These updates don’t bring any ch... | Continue reading
With the WWDC draft a week away, Jason and Myke engage in a flight of fancy, discussing all their wishes for iOS and macOS developments that probably won’t happen. Also, Jason has to retrieve his iPad. ... | Continue reading
I’m happy that Apple added lyrics listings to iTunes on the Mac and Music on iOS. Sometimes I hear (or mishear) something in a song I’m listening to, and I want to consult the written lyrics. Internet lyrics databases like Genius, largely ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s always got time for you, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Kathy Campbell and James Thomson to discuss the new Alexa Guard, our swag collection habits, banning facial recognition, and where we’l... | Continue reading
This week on the irreverent tech show that your body rejects, we board the topic train to discuss Apple’s latest iOS update and its new Channels options, the impact of the Supreme Court’s latest decision, and a whole host of payment-related an... | Continue reading
It’s a busy week for Myke as Jason as they discuss hanging on to old software, how third-party apps react to Apple’s app updates, the Supreme Court’s ruling on an App Store antitrust case, the struggles of Apple Retail, and new reports a... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30 minute tech show where we come and go as we please, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Shahid Kamal Ahmad and Jean MacDonald to talk about Google’s I/O announcements, scooters as part of transportation solutions (and pro... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent mini-golf podcast that occasionally discusses technology, we talk Bloomberg’s latest WWDC scoops, Apple’s voracious appetite for buying companies, Intel getting thrown under a bus twice, and the weird story of Warr... | Continue reading
Logitech has been making keyboard cases for the iPad Pro since the very beginning. Its case for the original 9.7-inch iPad Pro was close to perfect. With the $130 Slim Folio Pro for the 2018 12.9-inch iPad Pro (the 11.5-inch model is $120), Logitech c... | Continue reading
I’ve spent six months using the 2018 iPad Pro with Apple’s Smart Keyboard Folio and a collection of external USB and Bluetooth mechanical keyboards. The Smart Keyboard Folio has been a solid traveling companion, and it’s a major impr... | Continue reading
Apple’s financial results lead us to discuss the company bringing a new focus to iPhone sales and throwing Intel under the bus. Then Mark Gurman of Bloomberg swoops in with a huge collection of new and slightly used macOS, iOS, and watchOS rumors fo... | Continue reading
Steve Jobs introducing Automator in 2004 (left) and Craig Federighi introducing Shortcuts in 2018.User automation is important. Giving users the power to eliminate repetitive tasks and connect apps together in ways the app designers never anticipated ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that is always on time, no matter where you are, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Lory Gil and Matthew Cassinelli to discuss how we distract ourselves with tech while traveling, our thoughts on the new Luminary p... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that is never quite what you think it’s going to be, we talk about the latest rumors that support for pointing devices is coming to iOS, Dan makes the latest case for a touchscreen Mac (and John makes the count... | Continue reading
Tim Cook loves satisfied customers.There was a time—a very long time, in fact—when Apple didn’t need to make much of an attempt to actually sell iPhones. I don’t want to imply that the act of creating new iPhone models and new ... | Continue reading
[Every quarter Apple’s CEO and CFO talk to financial analysts on an hourlong call. This is the transcript of that call from Tuesday, April 30, 2019.]Tim Cook: Thanks Nancy, and good afternoon, and thanks to all of you for joining us today. This ha... | Continue reading
Apple’s quarterly results are here. The company posted revenue of $58 billion, down 5 percent from the same quarter a year ago. iPad revenue was up 22% and Services revenue was up 16%, but Mac revenue was down 5% and iPhone revenue was down 17%.... | Continue reading
Jason struggles between the Mac’s insistence on file management and iOS’s lack of it, Podcasts take a step toward going viral with some help from Overcast, and we prepare for the Upgrade Summer of Fun with a new arrival from Dongletown. ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that just keeps getting older, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Heather Kelly and Jeremy Burge to discuss rumors that the iPad will add pointing device support, our favorite tech flops, drone deliveries, and our ... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that sometimes takes lengthy digressions, we discuss the debacle that is the Galaxy Fold, John’s pulling back from Instagram, Lex’s daughter’s surprisingly macabre game of The Sims, and Dan’s ... | Continue reading
What’s next for macOS and iOS? This week we discuss all of last week’s reporting by Guilherme Rambo about the future of Apple’s platforms, from Find My Friends to support for external displays and pointing devices, to the complicated fut... | Continue reading
In the last few months Amazon has released two new Kindles, the $130 Kindle Paperwhite and the $90 base-model Kindle. Both of them are notable improvements on their previous versions, making it harder for me to declare which Kindle you should buy. The bas... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show where nobody is innocent for long, we discuss Disney’s new streaming service—aimed directly at John and Dan—and what it means for Apple TV+, plus iOS 13’s rumored improvements, Lex’s too... | Continue reading
I recently updated my Mac mini server to macOS Mojave after a long and troublesome ordeal. 1 While the update has been mostly positive, one of the features I was sad to lose was the ability to configure my own VPN server. As you may recall, the VPN s... | Continue reading
Disney finally unveils its streaming service at a price that makes us wonder just what game Apple thinks it’s playing; we get a sneak peek at some possible new iPad features for iOS 13; and Jason and Myke ponder the major changes due for the Mac thi... | Continue reading
Netflix ties its own hands, new Kindles arrive, Amazon gets criticized for cozying up to oil companies while touting its own green-energy efforts, web accessibility is trickier than you’d think, and… is that a black hole? ... | Continue reading
The 2019 iMacs are a contradiction. They are brand-new computers that somehow feel like the last members of a dying order. They are shells designed in 2012 that somehow contain 8th- and 9th-generation Intel processors. They represent Apple’s bro... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that is a flat circle, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Shelly Brisbin and Jeff Carlson to discuss whether our downloading of new apps has slowed, what we’d like to see changed if iTunes is broken up, smart... | Continue reading
That’s a black hole. Source: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.In a legitimately amazing achievement for humanity, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration announced that it has directly imaged a black hole for the first time 1. There ... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that asks the hard questions about government security, we discuss Apple’s 5G pickle, Netflix’s most recent decisions on technology and pricing, the hopefully inevitable disruption of iTunes, and how Grea... | Continue reading
John Siracusa joins Jason to discuss how 2019 is potentially an enormous year for the Mac in both hardware and software. Also, we make time to swap TiVo stories and generate John’s Hierarchy of Mac Pro Needs.... | Continue reading
Back in 2014, Bare Bones Software’s Rich Siegel announced he was pulling his app, BBEdit, out of the Mac App Store. It was a bad sign for the viability of the store, and Bare Bones wasn’t the only major Mac developer to realize it didnR... | Continue reading
Apple’s News+ pitch failed with key newspapers—but Facebook might value news curation now? Future iPhones come into focus, but Apple’s 5G timeline is called into question. Dell’s new XPS laptop is a winner. And the “hearables... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show where time is always on our side, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Aleen Simms and Rene Ritchie to discuss mundane tasks we think voice assistants could improve, living the multi-pad lifestyle, tech movie tr... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that goes where even we least expect it, we talk AirPower’s demise, some fallout from last week’s Apple event, the good and bad of April Fools Day on the Internet, and our latest much-anticipated picks. P... | Continue reading
This week we say goodbye to AirPower, ponder the place of the new iPad Mini, speculate a bit about Apple Arcade, and take a hard look at Apple News+. Also, Jason literally sits in the iMac Pro Gap. ... | Continue reading
[Updated March 27, 2019.]As a parent of children aged 17 and 14 who writes and talks about technology all day, all of a sudden I find myself being asked all the time by fellow parents for advice about buying laptops for their kids. Some of them have... | Continue reading