It’s episode 300! This week we look to the future by drafting stories we’ll be talking about over the next hundred episodes of Upgrade, and then we answer all of your questions about how the podcast got started, how we put it together, and where we’…
Lees meerShortcuts guru and friend of the site Matthew Cassinelli has shared an iOS shortcut for users who are being detained by the police. The shortcut texts a preset message to a trusted contact, before recording a video. Cassinelli’s version tweaks an …
Lees meerAt Wired, Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman lay out precautions to take with your tech when you’re protesting: If you insist on using biometric unlocking methods to have faster access to your devices, keep in mind that some have an emergency f…
Lees meerApple recently confirmed that it bought Inductiv, a machine-learning company based in Canada; the staff from the firm will apparently be working on improving Siri. This is just the latest in a line of acquisitions of AI and machine-learning companie…
Lees meerI showed my kids a PowerBook 180 today. They’d never seen one before. In my memory it is a mind-blowingly small and light computer that, for the first time, allowed me to take my Mac with me anywhere I went. It changed my life, and that’s not an exa…
Lees meerA few weeks back on Clockwise, our guest (and good friend) Jean MacDonald lamented that, in this age of social distancing, there’s no really great way to watch a TV show or movie with someone online. Speaking as someone who’s been recording a two-…
Lees meerThere’s a raft of media news this week, as Spotify removes a popular podcast from the ecosystem and Apple TV+ makes more content deals. We’ve got questions about the future of podcasting and whether Apple is committed to a video subscription service…
Lees meerThis week’s charts tell the story of how Apple rolls out releases of software for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad—and when the last update of that operating-system cycle finally shipped. In the beginning, a new version of the iPhone OS arrived in…
Lees meerRumors of an Apple augmented reality headset have been around for years, but in the last few weeks speculation has rapidly begun to ramp up, alongside suggestions that the product could be shown off as early as this year, and might even ship as earl…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech show that’s worth staying home for, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Casey Liss and Jean MacDonald to discuss our thoughts on Apple possibly not including headphones with the next iPhone, the restaurants an…
Lees meerIn the argument between people who embrace the iPad to get work done and people who stick to their Macs, I’m firmly Team Both. For a few years now, I’ve used an iMac at my desk and an iPad Pro everywhere else. Committing to the iPad to get work don…
Lees meerNetNewsWire developer Brent Simmons (who just started a new job at Audible) wrote a fascinating post about his priorities while developing his apps: The best general advice I can give is just this: make sure performance is part of the foundation…
Lees meerWhen Apple TV+ launched, it did so with a small slate of Apple originals. Unlike pretty much every other streaming service, Apple had eschewed purchasing rights to older movies and TV shows to buttress its content library. That strategy seems to be …
Lees meerDeveloper _David Smith, whose apps include not only the new Watchsmith, but also venerable standbys like Pedometer++ and Sleep++ has written up the improvements he’d like to see in watchOS 7 when it’s presumably announced at this year’s WWDC: I…
Lees meer“Star Trek: Discovery” composer Jeff Russo is recording the score for the show’s third season by recording individual musicians in their homes and then having a sound engineer put it all together in post. Russo (in a Facebook Live session), as repor…
Lees meerFor this week’s chart 1, I thought I’d illustrate how long Apple has historically stuck with different processor architectures. As you probably know, there are lots of reports that in the next year, Apple will begin to roll out Macs powered by its o…
Lees meerLast month I was sad to report that the new iPad Pro keyboard/trackpad combination from Brydge, the makers of my longstanding favorite iPad Pro keyboard, was just not good enough. The keyboard and price were both impressive, but the trackpad exp…
Lees meerThis week we handle all the existential questions of life. Partly because Dan’s drinking.
Lees meerI’m definitely not a programmer, and I can’t proclaim to be an expert at user automation, but I’m very enthusiastic. My latest project has been figuring out the best way to scrape data from webpages and use it in interesting ways, all on iOS via Sho…
Lees meerLast week on the AppStories podcast, Federico Viticci once again interviewed Apple’s Craig Federighi. Federico is someone who has spent an awful lot of time thinking about how the iPad can be used, and Federighi is the leader of Apple’s software tea…
Lees meerGuardian Firewall empowers users to take back control of their privacy on their iOS devices. Blatant exfiltration of very precise geolocation coordinates and data trackers recording your every move in native apps, just like they do on websites, are …
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