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Lees meerRogue Amoeba has announced that my favorite audio utility, Audio Hijack, is getting a huge update: Perhaps the single most notable change, however, is something making a return from years back: scripting support. In the years since Audio Hijack P…
Lees meerMost of Apple’s software is proprietary. Some of it, though, is based on open-source projects. WebKit, which powers Safari, is an open-source project. Which means that Apple is not the only source of contributions to the code that powers Apple’s web…
Lees meerMyke and Jason discuss the mysteries of Apple’s car project, and express confusion about Apple’s 2022 product release schedule. And at last, France makes a big box-related move.…
Lees meerCommunication has always driven technology forward. From the telegraph to the telephone to the internet, it’s regularly been one of the killer apps for every technological development of the last century-plus. And Apple’s devices are no exception to…
Lees meerJames Fallows has essentially built an FAQ file about what’s happening between airlines and wireless companies that could have a huge impact on the U.S.: This post is a basic who-what-why primer on the controversy involving new 5G wireless networ…
Lees meerMy 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” person. So do the hundreds of organizations that send imp…
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Lees meerJohn 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, who joined Apple in May of 2021. It’s almost as if Ap…
Lees meerStephen 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 developers to bring their iOS widgets over to the …
Lees meer9to5Google: 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.” As such, Workspace’s only free plans are for Nonprofits and Ed…
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Lees meerUsing 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 last week about Christian Lobach’s $4 utility Button Creator, which…
Lees meerApple’s rumored VR headset might not ship until 2023, but will it be the best VR headset ever made? And if so, at what cost? Also, Apple seems to have a settled on a strategy for handling demands to open up payment processing and external web links,…
Lees meerSome 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 iMac, would you pick the iMac over an external disp…
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Lees meerLast 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 editing, along with timecodes to ease the process of fin…
Lees meerThis is the year. All signs point to 2022 as the year that Apple introduces its first Apple silicon-based Mac Pro. But what form will that new Mac Pro take? It sounds simple enough, but in switching to its own processor architecture, Apple is forced…
Lees meerThe 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 plans to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). …
Lees meerOnce upon a time, you could watch a keynote presentation from any major computer chip company and rest easy in the confidence that the name “Apple” would never pass the lips of any presenter. The message always seemed to be, as per the classic Mad M…
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