As a followup to my piece on passkeys, reader Andrew pointed me to a blog post by Terence Eden, which contains a bit of a thought experiment on what happens if you have a catastrophic accident (say, a house fire) and lose access to all your devices:…
Lees meerApple and WhatsApp announced on Tuesday that the popular chat service has been rolled into Apple’s Move to iOS system, which allows Android users to migrate their data to the iPhone. Here’s the announcement from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page(?!): …
Lees meerThere was a lot going on last week, but I wanted to note this announcement from Apple about July availability for Friday Night Baseball: “The 2022 season is off to a great start, and we’re proud to bring all baseball fans a new way to watch their…
Lees meerThere’s this somewhat odd sentiment among some parts of the Mac community that the best release of the platform’s software ever was Snow Leopard. Yes, that’s right: 2009’s Mac OS X 10.6, a release that was famously marketed as having “zero new featu…
Lees meerIt’s the aftermath of a WWDC like no other, so in this very special episode Myke and Jason kick off the Summer of Fun with an episode recorded live in the California sun. The breeze is blowing, the questions about the M2 processor and Stage Manager …
Lees meerOur excitement and trepidation regarding Passkeys, our thoughts on auto-generated Siri App Shortcuts, the most exciting features announced at WWDC, and our inevitable (?) USB-C future.…
Lees meerThe iPad’s journey, the arrival of the M2, and we stopped by Touch Bar’s house on our way to Apple Park.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerEditable toolbars come to the iPad.Lost in the excitement about Apple finally breaking the iOS multitasking paradigm and introducing overlapping windows and support for external displays with Stage Manager was something that will probably have an ev…
Lees meerLast year, Apple started tolling the death knell for passwords with the first round of passkey support on its platforms. At the time, I wrote: …the writing is on the wall for the good old password, and the first step to its demise is being rolled…
Lees meerA surprising part of Apple’s macOS Ventura announcement on Monday was Continuity Camera, which lets Macs use the iPhone camera as a webcam. It’s not surprising in that it’s a feature that’s been used by apps like Camo to take advantage of the fact t…
Lees meerThe new M2 MacBook Air isn’t going to be on sale until next month, but I was fortunate enough to spend some time with several of them on Monday at Apple Park. Unlike the M1 MacBook Air, which was about providing a comforting shell around the then-ne…
Lees meerIn 2020, Apple acquired the popular hyperlocal weather forecasting app Dark Sky and while some elements of that app have made their way into the company’s own revamped Weather app over the last few years, there remained one last holdout: the Dark Sk…
Lees meerLive from Apple Park, Jason has a first-hand report from the WWDC Keynote. (Myke was nearby, but that’s a whole other story.) Together they discuss groundbreaking iPad news, the new M2 Macbook Air, some familiar iPhone lock screen customization feat…
Lees meerAs always, Apple has only a limited amount of time during its WWDC keynote to discuss all the new features that it’s bringing to its software updates. Here are a few of the big announcements that didn’t make their way into the presentation but still…
Lees meerHello from Apple Park! Dan and I are in our seats (in the shade, fortunately!) for today’s Apple media event. Stay tuned to Six Colors for coverage throughout today and all week.…
Lees meerMy thanks to the New Mexico Tea Company for sponsoring Six Colors this week. You might be saying to yourself: Tea? That’s an odd fit for Six Colors. But here’s our secret: Six Colors is almost entirely powered by tea. In fact, Dan and Jason are fuel…
Lees meerOh how I love the mad geniuses at The Iconfactory. On Thursday Iconfactory developer extraordinaire Craig Hockenberry announced a new app today, and it’s… unexpected? It’s called WorldWideWeb, and it’s a simple, Bonjour-driven web server. It doesn’t…
Lees meerIn the wake of my article about typing diacritical marks the other week, reader Andrew wrote in with a very niche question: …lots of typefaces/fonts come with extended character sets and alternative glyphs that – as far as I can see – can’t be ac…
Lees meerWishing doesn’t make it so. When Apple makes its announcements at the WWDC keynote on Monday—Dan and I will both be there, in person, to cover it!—it will be revealing stuff that’s been in the works for months. In fact, for the better part of the ye…
Lees meerApple software improvements we want to see at WWDC, the technology-themed art that graces our walls, which browsers we use, and why printers are the worst.…
Lees meerMy wife is a saint. She has to put up with me complaining every time we’re in our car listening to satellite radio and a DJ comes on. “You just don’t want to hear people talking,” she says, and she’s absolutely right. I accept that other people like…
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