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Lees meerNASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Thursday. After a trip through the Martian atmosphere, the rover was lowered to the ground by a hovering “sky crane.” Even more amazing: During the final minutes of descent, the spacecraft wasn’t in direct…
Lees meerApple’s TV app roll-out continues. Here’s Abner Li of 9to5Google: As announced in December, Apple TV is now available globally on the Chromecast with Google TV. The new app allows you to watch original Apple TV+ content, as well as access existin…
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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 meerApple is not a person. It’s easy to forget sometimes, but Apple is not Tim Cook or the imprint of Steve Jobs or Phil Schiller or any other person. It’s an entity made up of thousands of people and a corporate culture (which, I’ll grant you, was larg…
Lees meerI came late to Hazel, Noodlesoft’s $42 utility that can act automatically on folders on your Mac to perform all sorts of tasks automatically. It was a desire to automatically compress old podcast projects that finally pushed me over the edge, but no…
Lees meerJeremy Burge of Emojipedia has information about new emojis in the latest iOS 14.5 beta: 💉 Syringe isn’t a new emoji, but it does have one change in the forthcoming update from Apple: the blood is removed. This makes the emoji more versatile when…
Lees meerDisney+ keeps growing and its original content is flowing, and Apple TV+ brings new marketing muscle to bear for the second-season launch of “For All Mankind.” And what can Apple do to make its Apple TV hardware more appealing? Sit down with a cup o…
Lees meerOftentimes, your biggest strengths are also your biggest vulnerabilities. That’s just as true for Apple as it is for anyone else. While the iPhone is surely the product that catapulted the Cupertino-based company into its meteoric rise, you could ma…
Lees meerDavid Sparks: I’m a big advocate for the hyper key. This idea was first introduced to me by Brett Terpstra and involves mapping Shift-Control-Option-Command to the caps lock key. Using the hyper key opens your keyboard up to a ton of new easily t…
Lees meerWe all get so used to the way that our Macs work that we sometimes forget that one of reasons that we love the platform is its flexibility—and I’m just as guilty of this as anybody. When I recently upgraded my iMac to Big Sur, I opened up Mail and w…
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Lees meerTwo interviews with John Siracusa used for the 20 Macs for 2020 podcast, discussing the first nine entries in the series.…
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Lees meerApple’s App Store woes, whether we’ve picked up Apple Fitness+, our thoughts on Clubhouse, and the oldest tech we use.…
Lees meerChange is coming for us whether we like it or not. This week we ponder the possibility of an augmented-reality future, and mourn the loss of a piece of software we’ve used for every single episode of Upgrade (until now).…
Lees meerOn last week’s episode of the Six Colors Podcast (available to members of this fine website), I mentioned to Jason that my alarm clock was starting to shuffle off this mortal coil, so I’d replaced it with a high-tech equivalent: a Shortcut automatio…
Lees meerIn the past few years, smart home tech has gone from a niche category to one that’s started to worm its way throughout our entire world. Apple’s HomeKit has played a part in that, but as the market becomes more advanced, Cupertino’s implementation i…
Lees meerAndrew E. Freedman, reporting for Tom’s Hardware: After several months of silence, [Intel is] firing back at Apple. Slides from the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker shows how it tested, and why it thinks Windows 10 laptops can beat back Apple’…
Lees meerA tool I have used for a dozen years seems to be officially, finally on its way into oblivion, as noted in an Ecamm Network tech note posted last week: Call Recorder for Skype will not be updated for compatibility with M1 Macs. I still use Call …
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