To my surprise, as much as anybody’s, I’ve ended up using Apple’s Notes app a lot over the last several years. I use it when I want to jot down things about my novels, when I’m taking notes for podcast episodes, and even for making checklists. But I…
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Lees meerI’ve seen the future of the iPad, and it’s hidden under a key. The future of an entire platform is a lot to pile on a single plastic square, but here we are. Down in the bottom left corner of Apple’s keyboards is a new key labeled with the picture o…
Lees meerApple’s been crowing about the pace at which its users install software updates for ages. Rapid uptake of updates is a sign of a healthy ecosystem—and yet, as announced last week, Apple has made a change that threatens to derail the iOS update train…
Lees meerIf you’ve spent any amount of time troubleshooting network connections, you’ve probably used good old ping. But as I discovered recently, sometimes you need a little more information out of it. For example, ping by default does not tell you when the…
Lees meerApple’s new podcast subscriptions, our favorite under-the-radar WWDC news, the last game we got into, and which big tech companies we’d break up.…
Lees meerWWDC 2021 is over! This week we discuss a lot of the hidden details of Apple’s announcements, and share our first reactions to using the first developer betas. (Jason isn’t mad at Safari, just disappointed.)…
Lees meerIf there is one thing that Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is fundamentally about, it’s tools. This is the company’s opportunity to lay the groundwork for the big OS releases that will debut this fall, yes, but we’re also talking about Apple…
Lees meerTechCrunch’s Mathew Panzarino got an interview with Apple marketer Bob Borchers and exec Sebastien Mariners-Mes in which they addressed the changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15: “It was a very deliberate decision on our part,” says Mariners-Mes a…
Lees meerWhen Apple’s annual updates ship this fall, Safari will be at version 15. Each new version of Apple’s browser is marked by security and performance improvements, but this year Safari is getting an all-new design as well. Apple seems to be unhappy wi…
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Lees meerApple announced the winners of its annual design awards today, and it’s a really impressive collection of iPhone and iPad apps1. Here are the winners: Apps Inclusivity: Voice Dream Reader Delight and Fun: Pok Pok Playroom Interaction: Carrot Weather…
Lees meerFor many years, power users have been able to use plug-ins to extend the capabilities of macOS’ built-in Mail application. And for years, those users have been accustomed to those plug-ins breaking as Apple has updated Mail and the operating system.…
Lees meerThe early years of smart home tech have been a morass of competing standards and technologies, often hindering broad adoption by consumers who don’t want to figure out which devices work with which systems. To combat this, most of the major industry…
Lees meerIf you thought the addition of precipitation alerts and a redesigned Weather app in iOS 15 meant that Dark Sky, which Apple acquired back in 2020, was not long for this world…well, it’s gotten a bit of a reprieve, according to an update on the Dark …
Lees meerOur thoughts on Spatial Audio in Apple Music, if we’re excited about Shortcuts on the Mac and our other WWDC favorites, if SharePlay will convince us to use FaceTime, and how we feel about Universal Control for iPad and Mac.…
Lees meerLast year Apple introduced Car Keys, which allows Apple devices to unlock and start cars that are equipped with the proper technology. While it was clear that the first wave of cars to support this feature would use the same NFC reader technology us…
Lees meerApple made a lot of WWDC announcements…but first we talk about Nintendo, Playdate, and audio.…
Lees meerSteven Aquino, writing at Forbes, has an excellent round-up of all the things that Apple announced which have implications for accessibility. In particular, Steven does a good job of looking at features that may not have even been explicitly designe…
Lees meerI bet there’s nothing you like more than dealing with passwords. Coming up with strong passwords, remembering them, saving them to password managers, entering verification codes. Is there anything more fun? Well, sorry1 as I am to rain on your parad…
Lees meerI’ve sort of fallen in love with SF Symbols, Apple’s library of thousands of iconographic representations that’s intended to let app developers build interfaces without custom art while standardizing the look of Apple’s platforms. Recently the Swift…
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