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Lees meerLights on, nobody homeBack in the early days of the pandemic, the Drobo 5D disk array attached to my Mac mini died—and with it went my access to all my archival podcast and video files (including a few works in progress), a backup of my photo librar…
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Lees meerAudio producer James Shield, who works on the daily news podcast of the Times and the Sunday Times (of London), details how he’s using digital tools to make it easier to cover breaking news: We’ve been doing the bulk of our editing in Descript si…
Lees meerIf reports are to be believed, 2021 is shaping up to be a year where the Mac takes two steps forward—but only after taking one step back. We analyze the rumors of new MacBook Pros, iMacs, and Mac Pros. A new Apple display? The death of the Touch Bar…
Lees meerApple’s no stranger to introducing and popularizing new technologies. The original iMac wasn’t the first to use USB, but it drove adoption of the standard. Multitouch displays existed before the iPhone, but it was the first real commercial product o…
Lees meerLibrary Extension helps you find library books, but it doesn’t work on Safari—yet.At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari. But with a catch, as Dan pointed out: Apple…
Lees meerIf you like to be surprised about what new products Apple is planning, you might want to avert your eyes. On Friday there were two major reports about Apple’s forthcoming Mac plans. First off, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported about new Mac desktops…
Lees meerApple has tidied up the Apple TV+ website, according to Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac: As of today’s overhaul, the new TV+ website homepage features the same featured header that you see in the Apple TV app, along with sections for latest releases and…
Lees meerI’m an avid user of Apple’s Notes app: it’s where I keep all my random jottings, from ideas for books to thoughts for podcasts I’m recording, and pretty much everything in between. In general, I’m pretty happy with the built-in iCloud syncing that m…
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Lees meerYet another leak of Apple’s tracking fobs, who should moderate online content, good password hygiene, and Spotify’s podcast listeners.…
Lees meerClayton Ashley of Polygon can help explain why you’re hearing sea shanties in your head now. And if you’re not hearing them now, you will be hearing them as soon as you click through: Just like the crew of a ship would join each other in song to …
Lees meerI’ve been a fan of tiny Mac laptops for many years. From the 12-inch PowerBook G4 to the iBook to the 11-inch MacBook Air, I’ve always opted for the smallest laptop I could get my hands on. And yet, with the discontinuation of the 12-inch MacBook, t…
Lees meerMacRumors’s Joe Rossignol: MacRumors reader David Chu today alerted us that the hidden “Items” tab in the Find My app can be enabled on iOS 14.3 and later by typing in the link findmy://items into Safari and tapping on “Open” in the prompt that a…
Lees meerThe “big announcement” teased yesterday is an expansion of Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, which the company founded last year after the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others sparked mass protests: These forward-looki…
Lees meerI had a sneaking suspicion that my post about using BBEdit to process text might tempt Dr. Drang to write a nerdy follow-up post or two, and it did: One of the cleverest things Jason does, which I think he undersells, is nibble away at the datase…
Lees meerIt’s January and the avalanche of 2021 Apple product rumors has already begun. But we also take time to reflect about the first decade of the Mac App Store, have a difficult discussion about when tech companies should deplatform those planning polit…
Lees meerI think we can all agree that there are times when the current reality could be a little…better. For several years, Apple has talked up the potential of the augmented reality space, and more recently, there have been rumors that the company is getti…
Lees meerVia The Verge, a statement from Apple PR regarding its removal of the “free speech” trumpeting Twitter clone Parler from the App Store: “We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on …
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