Longtime MacUser and Macworld contributor Chris Breen works at Apple these days, and so he can’t write about tech anymore. Mostly. But for years, first at Macworld and now on his own blog, he has been detailing the horror of trying to get fast Inter…
Lees meerDavid Sparks finds a glimmer of hope for the future of Apple Mail in Apple’s new MailKit plug-in interface for the Mac: There is already a rich ecosystem of Apple Mail plugins, but I’ve become increasingly leery about using and recommending them …
Lees meerAs much fun as it is to see Apple roll out updates to its major platforms every summer, it’s always a slightly bittersweet experience. Even though there are new features and shiny things galore to pore over, there seems to be some software that is l…
Lees meerPresenting Upgrade 360, a new program designed to improve your podcast listening experience by letting you choose the level of podcast quality you wish to receive. Perhaps you want to hear us talk about the podcast bubble without any audio artifacts…
Lees meerIn the second edition of Mark German’s excellent Bloomberg newsletter, he details that Apple is actively exploring new ways of work that don’t circle around Cupertino: Just a few years after completing the multibillion-dollar Apple Park headquart…
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Lees meerStephen Hackett, Six Colors contributor and collector of vintage Apple Hardware, has launched a Kickstarter for a 2022 wall calendar featuring his original photography of items from his large collection. The days of the year are marked with key date…
Lees meerIn the aftermath of Apple employees pushing back on return-to-office policies and negative reactions to that (and again and likewise), Charlie Warzel wrote at length about why companies need to listen to the concerns of their employees in his Galaxy…
Lees meerAfter a couple of developer betas, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 are now available as part of Apple’s Beta Software Program, alongside beta versions of MacOS Monterey, tvOS 15, and watchOS 8. Federico Viticci at MacStories has, as always, a good look at the …
Lees meerHow we handle email, the potential of Shortcuts on the Mac, our latest tech delights, and whether we prefer our social media to be fed to us by the algorithm.…
Lees meerOld habits are hard to break, and when it comes to my very online life, there’s no habit older than email. I’ve had an email address since roughly 1994, and over the quarter-decade since, I’ve used everything from command line programs1 to webmail t…
Lees meerThe Upgrade Summer of Fun kicks into gear with new beachwear, a very special summer-themed edition of Ask Upgrade, dreams of larger iPads, and a bunch of streaming news. On the less fun side, we discuss why Apple has reacted the way it has to threat…
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Lees meerThis is the story of how the new Apple TV remote cost me hundreds of dollars, but in a good way. We were happy earlier this month to take delivery of a new Apple TV 4K, to replace one that I had given to my daughter when she returned to college last…
Lees meerIn iPadOS 15, Apple is making another round of changes to iPad multitasking. It would be easy to consider this yet another spin on the merry-go-round as Apple struggles to figure out how to break the iPad out of the iPhone’s fundamental one-app-at-a…
Lees meerAs I was reading Jason’s excellent Macworld piece about the future of iPadOS multitasking this morning this morning, I was simultaneously poking around the iPadOS 15 beta when something struck me. As of iPadOS 15, all apps now include those three-do…
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Lees meerThe legislative challenges to big tech, including Apple, are beginning: A House panel pushed ahead Wednesday with ambitious legislation that could curb the market power of tech giants Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple and force them to sever the…
Lees meerOne of the oldest arguments for having employees all work in the same office (and, within that space, out in the open and not behind office doors) is the idea that if you have a bunch of people bouncing around together in person, something magical w…
Lees meerWe discuss the future of the Apple Watch, from new materials to new shapes to all the sensors Apple might want to put on any product that touches your body. And then we talk about the risks Apple might face by failing to learn the right lessons from…
Lees meerWith Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference firmly behind us, we’re taking our sweet time picking our way through everything coming to Apple’s platforms this fall. As usual, there were way more changes than Apple talked about onstage, and between w…
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