The Internet’s Dr. Drang points out a weird interface change in Big Sur: The M1 MacBook Air is the only machine I have running Big Sur, and for the first few days I kept wondering why certain commands were disabled. They weren’t—I was confused ab…
Lees meerDan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica: FaceTime users are getting bombarded with group calls from numbers they’ve never seen before, often as many as 20 times in short succession during late hours of the night. Griefers behind the pranks call as …
Lees meerMyke’s on a quest for new TV speakers as we ponder the misfire of Apple’s high-end speaker and the potential fate of Apple’s high-end headphones. Jason runs with his Apple Watch, and more apps go native on Apple Silicon. Thanks for following Upgrade…
Lees meerThis week, Six Colors is brought to you by Kandji. Kandji is building the future of Apple enterprise management. The use of Apple devices in the enterprise is growing rapidly. Drawing on decades of experience in Apple IT, we saw a great need for a m…
Lees meerIn an unexpected move, Apple revealed late Friday that the full-sized version of its HomePod smart speaker would be discontinued. This came a couple of days after the Space Gray model had already been listed as out of stock, prompting theories about…
Lees meerThe original HomePod has been discontinued. Matthew Panzarino has the death notice: After 4 years on the market, Apple has discontinued its original HomePod. It says that it will continue to produce and focus on the HomePod mini, introduced last …
Lees meerWayyyy back before multitasking was even a glimmer in the iPad’s eye, there was the Share sheet. First introduced in iOS 8, the Share sheet was the first way to easily move information between apps in the sandboxed system, and while Apple has since …
Lees meerFrom August 31, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, Macintosh SE/30, and laying out pages at college newspapers.…
Lees meerMaybe someday there will be a tell-all book written by someone inside Apple during the 2010s. Maybe we will eventually know exactly what happened that led to a bit of a lost decade for the Mac, one that will be remembered for a failed attempt to ret…
Lees meerGoogle’s pullback from targeted advertising, TikTok’s new anti-bullying measures, how we read books, and what the heck is going on with NFTs.…
Lees meerScientific discoveries often come from surprising places. Lonnie Shekhtman of NASA: Look up to the night sky just before dawn, or after dusk, and you might see a faint column of light extending up from the horizon. That luminous glow is the zodia…
Lees meerThere’s been a beta version of Photoshop that runs native on the Apple M1 processor since the early days of the Apple silicon era, but on Wednesday Adobe released the official version, version 22.3.0. As Pam Clark of Adobe writes: Starting today,…
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Lees meerThis week we ponder the future of WWDC, say goodbye to the iMac Pro, investigate a new iPad stand, and wonder about the misplaced priorities of the Paramount+ roll-out.…
Lees meerThe iMac Pro, released in 2017, is no longer being made. Apple continues to sell them while they last, but that’s it. This isn’t a surprise. The iMac Pro hasn’t ever been updated, though Apple has tweaked some specs and dropped the 8-core model when…
Lees meerThe California Sun newsletter, forwarded to NetNewsWire.Like many people in 2021, I suddenly find myself a paying subscriber to a bunch of email newsletters. One of the benefits of working at home is that I can spend my morning drinking tea, eating …
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Lees meerFrom June 12, 2020: The Power Mac G5, PowerBook Duo, PowerBook 500 & 5300, Blue-and-White Power Mac G3, DayStar Genesis MP, Mac mini, Mac IIcx and IIci, and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.…
Lees meer9to5Mac’s Benjamin Mayo caught a new feature in the latest iOS 14.5 beta.: Something I hadn’t considered before: new beta includes a Item Safety setting in Find My. This is how Apple is trying to prevent 'stalking' with AirTags. If someone secretly…
Lees meerThis is Google Drive, but it looks just like iCloud Drive.Long-time Mac storage utility maker ExpanDrive has launched StrongSync, a $50 utility that… sort of does what ExpanDrive already does? Like its big brother, StrongSync allows you to view clou…
Lees meerRelated to my thoughts about the mortality of software and the announcement that Weather Line is shutting down, Jonas Downey of Basecamp writes about the meaning of buying a “lifetime” software license: But in software, “lifetime” doesn’t mean a …
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