Last week, Roku held a press event in New York where they unveiled their latest streaming devices, wireless cameras, and minor adjustments to their existing, content-driven interface.…
Lees meerApple tiptoes a line between the U.S., China, and India, while Europe hits back with a big fine. Is the solution to the iPad’s high-end malaise… the Mac menu bar?…
Lees meerOn a very bad night’s sleep, the Health apps shows how long I was awake, and how much time it took for me to get back into core sleep.…
Lees meerA mock-up I made in 2021 of what a more Mac-like iPad would look like when hooked up to a 5K display. Two weeks ago, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported that some serious changes were in the works for iPadOS 19: I’m told that this year’s upgrade wi…
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Lees meerInterest in a humanoid home robot and its role, who we’d want to own Chrome if Google sells it and what they’d do with it, the streaming service we’d cancel first, and our favorite go-to site for inspiration, nostalgia, or feel-good vibes.…
Lees meerFriend of the site Todd Vaziri with another amazing post, years in the making: Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience.…
Lees meerMyke Hurley returns to the show to discuss eight weeks of fatherhood and fatherly advice, everything he’s missed, and modern baby technology. Plus we wonder about Vision Pro rumors and Jason offers academic apologies and e-reader follow-up.…
Lees meerSix Colors contributor Shelly Brisbin has just updated her longtime, definitive book about accessibility features in iOS: I’m pleased to announced that iOS Access for All (iOS 18 edition) is available now.…
Lees meer(Slaps roof of camper van) This bad boy can fit so much Apple revenue in it. The incredibly unpredictable nature of the United States’s trade policy is going to have a profound effect on Apple hardware, not just in the U.S.,…
Lees meerSimple solutions to complex tech problems, whether iPadOS 19 can solve its power user problem, if we look forward to Siri knowing what’s on our screen, and OpenAI’s prospective social media network.…
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Lees meerTariffs! Are they off? Are they on? Are they halved, doubled, super-tricksy inside outified? Nobody really knows. While my colleague Jason Snell already gave some concrete ideas for how Apple can deal with the wild world of import taxes, I’m taking …
Lees meerWill Carroll joins Jason to discuss MLB’s big television plans, the ratings challenge for the NBA Playoffs, and our TV picks. [Downstream+ subscribers also get: Vision Pro at Yankee Stadium, made-for-TV leagues, threats to MLS, and Zombie Vin Scully…
Lees meerDo you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.…
Lees meerAfter nearly 500 episodes away, Scott McNulty returns to the podcast to discuss the resilience of babies, dysfunction at Apple, the future of the Vision Pro, and (of course) ebooks and e-readers.…
Lees meerJeremy Reimer at, yes, Ars Technics with the first of a three-part series on the history of the internet. I even learned a few little tidbits that I hadn’t known before: In the meantime, Steve Crocker at the University of California, Los Angeles,…
Lees meerAt MacStories, Federico Viticci does some excellent speculation about how Apple might catch up in AI: Yesterday, Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information, published an outstanding story detailing the internal turmoil at Apple that led to the delay…
Lees meerMy thanks to Intego for sponsoring Six Colors this week with Mac Washing Machine X9. You know the drill: spring cleaning. It’s a useful concept to force you to do the necessary tasks you would otherwise put off, and it goes for your digital live as …
Lees meerDan’s sort of turned Six Colors into a Numbers-themed blog over the past few days, but I thought I’d pile on with an additional post about Apple’s spreadsheet app, which I use to generate all our financial charts.…
Lees meerWhether we use a docking device with our main PC or Mac, feelings of algorithm fatigue and if it’s enough to leave Spotify, the software we geek out over like Numbers, and if rising prices due to tariffs might stop us from buying a new phone this ye…
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