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Lees meerArs Technica’s Jon Brodkin runs up against one of my personal pet peeves: the inability to easily get information about the upload speeds on Comcast’s various internet plans. I’ve long known that it’s difficult to find upload speeds on Comcast’s …
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Lees meerI love writing on my iPad. The mere act of getting up from my desk and switching away from my iMac can help me break out of a rut and be more productive. I frequently write in my backyard and at my kitchen counter on an iPad. And I feel more focused…
Lees meerEveryone needs an editor. But there is no doubt that being edited can be excruciating. Especially if your editor is good at what they do. Here’s a short bit from Marcin Wichary about the edits on his forthcoming book, Shift Happens: How personal …
Lees meerFor years now, Apple has trumpeted its commitment to the privacy of its customers. Unlike most of its competitors, Apple’s business model (primarily selling products and services, not advertising) allows it to succeed without relying on collecting p…
Lees meerFor years, one of the standards of Mac data protection has been making a daily bootable backup. If your Mac’s hard drive dies, you can plug in the backup and use it as your boot drive, picking up where you left off. (Or at least, where the last back…
Lees meerSam Schechner and Keach Hagey, writing at The Wall Street Journal: Google plans to stop selling ads based on individuals’ browsing across multiple websites, a change that could hasten upheaval in the digital advertising industry. The Alphabet I…
Lees meerWhen the first MacBook Pro was announced in 2006, it was better than the PowerBook G4 is a myriad of ways: it was way faster, promised to run cooler, included a camera for video chats and — of course — included an amazing new charging technology tha…
Lees meerPhoto courtesy of Macintosh Garden.Kids, when I was your age, the App Store was called “boxed software.” As in software, on disk or CD, in a cardboard box. You could buy it at the store or, if you were a Mac user and couldn’t find any Mac software n…
Lees meerThis week we grapple with rumors of colorful new Macs and additional ports on MacBook Pro models, note the arrival of Paramount+ to the Streaming Wars, debate the merits of Twitter’s attempt to actually do something resembling anything, and wonder i…
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Lees meerIn episode 143 of the Liftoff podcast, Stephen Hackett and I interviewed the show’s co-creator, Ronald D. Moore about the second season of his TV series “For All Mankind,” which debuted last week on Apple TV+. If you’re not a regular podcast listene…
Lees meerDesigner Fredrick R. Brennan was disgusted by terrible fake typewriter props in movies and TV, obviously created by people who either haven’t seen a typewriter in years or maybe ever: The main problem is that an analog typewriter is incapable of …
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Lees meerApps that need some reinvention, our wake-up/bedtime smartphone habits, the appeal (or not) of hi-fi music, and what we’ve added to our emergency kits.…
Lees meerApple ignited the legal music-download revolution with iTunes, led again by dropping copy-protecting DRM from its music downloads, and in 2007 led a major upgrade in digital-music quality with the launch of iTunes Plus. But more than a decade later,…
Lees meerYesterday at a press conference at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars Perseverance entry, descent and landing lead Allen Chen laid out a not particularly subtle challenge: “In addition to enabling incredible science, we hope our efforts and our …
Lees meerNew iPad keyboards make us notice the magic of the Magic Trackpad, AirPods might be getting an unwelcome makeover, and the butterfly keyboard isn’t really gone as long as we remember it.…
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Lees meerFrom November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, iMac G3, and to his great dismay, John learns Jason’s final rankings.…
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