Great guide from Bijan Stephen at The Verge that runs through the basics of streaming: I keep writing about live-streaming like it’s accessible and easy to do — which it’s not. It’s actually quite difficult to get started. Sorry! My bad. I didn…
Lees meerLast week, we learned that Apple and Google would be working together on a COVID-19 tracing project, likely a key requirement for the post-lockdown world to come. It was definitely the best news you’ll ever receive about the creation of a tool that …
Lees meerThe much rumored iPhone SE successor is rumor no longer. Apple took the wraps off the new low-cost smartphone on Wednesday, touting its A13 Bionic chip—the same that’s found in the top-of-the-line iPhone 11 series. The iPhone SE features a 4.7…
Lees meerFrom the creator of iPhoto Library Manager, PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for working with the new Photos app on your Mac. If you have photos scattered across multiple libraries that you want to merge together, have a library that you want to …
Lees meerApple and Google join up to start tracing COVID-19 contacts, Apple makes a bunch of TV shows available to watch for free, Disney faces strong headwinds, and Bloomberg adds a bit of normalcy with a report about the next generation of iPhones. Then My…
Lees meerIn 2003 Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, transforming Apple from just a seller of hardware and software into a company that sells digital good son the Internet. At the time it seemed like an incremental step to make the iPod experience better—…
Lees meerThe Apple of today is not the Apple of yesteryear. In the Steve Jobs era, secrecy over future products was an obsession, and while the company still likes to keep tight-lipped, it seems sometimes as though it’s so large and working on so many differ…
Lees meer[This piece is reprinted from the latest issue of our members-only newsletter. You should consider becoming a Six Colors member!] A lot of us are locked in our homes these days. You may be looking for something to read. And your local library is pr…
Lees meerRemote troubleshooting in this day and age is all the more important, but it can definitely be tricky at times. The other day I learned a handy tip that might save you some grief: you can request to share the screen of anybody whose Apple ID you kno…
Lees meerI was going to adjust my pundit hat and write a post guessing about the weight of the new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro—which Apple is not interested in disclosing at this time. But I don’t have to, because Dr. Drang did the “hard work” of subtraction…
Lees meerBack in January, Brydge—the maker of my favorite iPad keyboard—announced that it was going to make a version with an included trackpad. I’ve finally gotten a shipping version of the Brydge Pro+, and have been able to use it with a 2020 iPad Pro …
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute show that steals your time, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Allison Sheridan and Devindra Hardawar to discuss remote troubleshooting tips, the most and least fiddly tech, how the open web benefited our learning…
Lees meerDan can’t draw, Moltz still doesn’t have a new phone and Lex doesn’t care about web camera quality.
Lees meerWhen Apple announced the new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro—which features a trackpad that users can use to drive a cursor around on the iPad screen—some pundits pointed out that at long last, Apple was admitting that Microsoft was right after all …
Lees meerA most unusual Apple tech note. There’s also a helpful video narrated by TTS Alex. [Read on Six Colors.]
Lees meerGreat video from the Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern about laptop webcams in 2020 and how they are somehow terrible, especially compared to the amazing front-facing cameras in most of our smartphones. Stern specifically calls out the brand new Ma…
Lees meerHow will COVID-19 change the future of consumer technology? Why is Zoom the videoconferencing tool of the moment, and why has it had so many security and privacy issues? We ask the big questions this week, and also discuss Amazon’s ability to sell a…
Lees meerI’ve been posting a chart a week on Six Colors in 2020, but I have to admit that I’ve been a bit less enthusiastic about chart making for some reason the last few weeks. Okay, it’s because I’ve been seeing a lot of charts like these at the New York…
Lees meerOne of the defining characteristics of Apple’s ecosystem over the last decade has been its carefully curated nature—what critics refer to as the “walled garden.” The idea being, essentially, that if you don’t like the way Apple runs its extremely po…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech show that is trying to keep it down, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests newly-independent Rene Ritchie and up-and-coming podcaster Leo Laporte to discuss whether Fitbit’s new wearable can take on the Apple Wa…
Lees meerA major change rolled out inside Amazon’s Prime Video app for iOS today. As Nick Statt reports for the Verge: Amazon’s Prime Video iOS and Apple TV apps now let customers make in-app purchases, including renting and buying films and TV shows…
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