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Time for Apple to take the Smart Home seriously ↦

vrijdag 22 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, writing at The Verge: Next year, [Apple] will reportedly launch an “AI wall tablet for home control,” and it’s said to be developing more devices for the home (including cameras, a tabletop robot, and maybe even a TV).…

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Sill gives a Nuzzel vibe to Mastodon and Bluesky links ↦

vrijdag 22 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Journalist and developer Tyler Fisher, on his personal blog: Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and aggregates the most popular links in your network.…

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Indecision at the intersection of Mac Studio and Mac mini

donderdag 21 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

My current desktop Mac, the one I work on day in and day out in my garage/office, is an M1 Mac Studio. I’ve had it for almost three years, and it’s still great.…

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(Podcast) Clockwise 581: Visit That Like a Time Period with Dinosaurs

woensdag 20 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

How we deal with physical media, the most tech heavy restaurants we’ve patronized, tech that ended up disappointing us, and the social media networks of yesteryear that we’d bring back.…

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(Podcast) The Rebound 522: I’m All Out of Feelings

woensdag 20 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Get ready for the Apple TV TV.…

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The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model (Macworld/Jason Snell)

woensdag 20 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Personal computers started out simple. So simple that you could just type in programs and run them, save them, and even give them to your friends.…

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How Does Clean Up Measure Up?

dinsdag 19 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

In my previous post for Six Colors, I wrote about why Apple’s Clean Up (and photo retouching tools in general) were a fine tool for people to have in their photo editing toolkits.…

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(Podcast) Upgrade 538: A Lot of Mac in Your Face

maandag 18 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Is Apple trying to boost revenue by truly embracing smart home products, or is it too late? Also, Jason reviews Kindles while lamenting the current state of e-readers, and the Vision Pro gets new accessories and a music video by The Weeknd!…

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(Podcast) Downstream 82: What Is This Horror?

donderdag 14 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Monday Night football on ABC, streaming delays, and more TV picks. (Downstream+ subscribers also get: an Unrivaled new sports TV product; Amazon’s deal with the NBA; and pondering the limits of the NFL.)…

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Apple’s fiscal 2024 in charts

donderdag 14 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

On Halloween, Apple announced its fiscal fourth quarter results, posting another flat sales quarter even while continuing to beat all-time quarterly revenue records. And as usual, I filled a bunch of numbers into a Numbers spreadsheet, ran my little…

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(Podcast) Clockwise 580: Losing the Competition for Birds

donderdag 14 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

How we read (with or without tech), our favorite pet tech, whether we’d get a HomePod with a screen, and the small cute tech we like.…

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2024 Kindle Colorsoft and Paperwhite Review: No perfect choices

woensdag 13 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

The Kindle Paperwhite (left) and Colorsoft (right). The world of ebook readers is in a weird place, but when hasn’t it been? E-readers have always been a strange product niche, not just since that oddball first-generation Kindle, but since our first…

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(Podcast) The Rebound 521: The System Does Not Work

woensdag 13 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Stay for the thrilling conclusion to Lex’s refund odyssey.…

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Quick Tip: One-touch Screen Sharing

dinsdag 12 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

One of the most-used buttons on my Stream Deck is a one-touch connection to the Mac mini server sitting in a closet in my house. I’m frequently popping in to manage files on my RAID, or reconfigure a script that’s fed by my weather station, all so…

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Report: Apple might ship ‘Home Hub’ in early 2025 ↦

dinsdag 12 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has been reporting for some time that Apple is planning a “smart display” to be used in the home, but Tuesday he reported a remarkable level of detail: The product has a touch interface that looks like a blend of the Apple…

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(Sponsor) Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing

maandag 11 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

            Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect.…

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Review: Belkin Travel Bag and Head Strap for Vision Pro

donderdag 7 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Ready to go, a more respectable Vision Pro travel case. Belkin has just released two new Vision Pro accessories—a $50 add-on Head Strap that supplement Apple’s Solo Knit Band, and a $100 Travel Bag.…

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M4/M4 Pro MacBook Pro review: Brighter, clearer, faster

donderdag 7 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

The latest update to the MacBook Pro is not a radically different laptop than what has come before. Since the product was redesigned in 2021, subsequent updates have been largely the same, at least on the outside.…

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(Podcast) The Rebound 520: The Tim Cookiness of It

woensdag 6 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Apple’s AI ads rub us the wrong way.…

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(Podcast) Clockwise 579: Live Activities for Bean Sprouts

woensdag 6 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

Our default apps on iOS, how we feel about Genmoji, our favorite end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms, and whether we use Live Activities for news and sports.…

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iPads being used on college football sidelines ↦

dinsdag 5 november 2024 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)

You may remember Aaron Rodgers throwing a Surface on an NFL sideline, but this year football teams in three college conferences are using iPads, as detailed in this feature from Apple Newsroom: “Having iPad on the sidelines makes coaching way m…

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