This week Jason and Myke ponder the mysteries of the 13-inch MacBook Pro(s), including why the Touch Bar is frozen in time and whether there’s a bigger change coming to Apple’s laptop line. Also Jason makes another IKEA order, Myke shares some knowl…
Lees meerMy thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It runs as a native Safari content blocking extension, and blocks intrusive ads, …
Lees meerApple chooses its public actions very carefully, so often trying to suss out what it’s up to is a matter of reading between the lines. Because the actions that the company doesn’t take are almost as significant as the ones that it does. While it ha…
Lees meerZoom CEO Eric Yuan, writing on the company’s blog: Zoom will offer an end-to-end encrypted meeting mode to all paid accounts. Logged-in users will generate public cryptographic identities that are stored in a repository on Zoom’s network and ca…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech show that’s always at home, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jeff Carlson and Aleen Simms to discuss pandemic tech changes we’d like, privacy concerns over contract tracing, the best (and worst) phishing at…
Lees meerA pretty astounding announcement from Wink, the maker of a smart-home system including an app, hub, and accessories: In order to provide for development and continued growth, we are transitioning to a $4.99 monthly subscription, starting on May …
Lees meerTechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino talked to Apple’s Craig Federighi about everybody’s favorite topic, the new iPadOS cursor: “There was a process to figure out exactly how various elements would work together,” Federighi says. “We knew we wanted a…
Lees meerThis week on Taskmaster, we have been commanded to switch chat software in mid-podcast.
Lees meerJonathan Deutsch released the last version of HyperEdit more than a decade ago. Now he’s released Whisk 2.0, a (renamed) update to the very same app, which he launched in 2004: With encouragement from that passionate group of beta testers, I was…
Lees meerMy Tot dots (at least, the ones in use) are now numbered. There’s an update out today for Iconfactory’s little-notes app Tot, and as Craig Hockenberry points out, I’m reponsible for one of its features: The initial releases of Tot didn’t have…
Lees meerApple’s doing things differently this year. The company is making its annual developer conference virtual, and also pushing back the date from the usual first-week-of-June start. It announced on Tuesday that WWDC will begin June 22: Apple today …
Lees meerInstalling, updated, and configuring Homebridge plug-ins via the web interface is easy. For a couple of years now, I’ve been running Homebridge on my Mac mini server in order to add my non-HomeKit devices, including my Nest thermostat, to my HomeKi…
Lees meerMagic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It allows you to experience a cleaner, faster web - without ads. As a native Safari content blocking extension, Magic Lasso blocks intrusive ads, pop …
Lees meerIf the 16-inch MacBook Pro was too heavy for your liking, but the new MacBook Air too light on power, you’re now in luck: Apple has revamped its 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard design, as well as a host of improved processor opti…
Lees meerVia Geraint Preston, here’s a remarkably detailed history of the early days of the Freeware/Shareware movement in the 1980s written by Jimmy Maher. Throughout his life, Fluegelman had a special relationship with San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridg…
Lees meerEvery quarter, Apple releases its financial results and then executives spent about an hour on a conference call with analysts, making scripted statements and then answering a few handpicked questions. This is the transcript of that call. This tran…
Lees meerIt’s Apple earnings day again, but this will be unlike all the other financial results reveals we’ve seen in recent years. Apple will be disclosing how it fared between January and March of this year, which will partially include the period where Ap…
Lees meerIn this week’s episode, Lex makes a startling admission, Moltz finally has a new phone and Dan conducts some risky business.
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s working overtime from home, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Megan Morrone and James Thomson to discuss the last video or piece of media that impacted us, what if everyone unmuted their mics …
Lees meerI don’t understand how we’ve gone all this time, including through a period where Apple was heavily pushing a Messages App Store, without being able to easily translate texts in Messages. iTranslate’s keyboard will do the trick—if both sides use i…
Lees meerToday I spent a few hours using Service Station, a new Mac utility by Peter Kamb. Not only is it great to see a brand-new Mac utility, but this one hits the sweet spot for me—it’s all about creating more useful contextual menus in the Finder. T…
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