It’s almost time. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is just days away. Come Monday morning, both Dan Moren and I will be somewhere on the Apple Campus, watching Apple unveil whatever it chooses to put in front of the world.…
Lees meerMy thanks to my old pal Glenn Fleishman for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Glenn has created a letterpress book called Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a 64-page romp through the history of printing and type told through technological innovations…
Lees meerThe Max launch and prioritizing tech stacks; Netflix’s ad viewers and the future of ad-free streaming; and in Sports Corner the regional sports network collapse has begun.…
Lees meerOur current device-charging setups, how we manage our windows, our weather apps of choice, and the travel items that have saved our bacon.…
Lees meerIt’s time for our bold WWDC predictions.…
Lees meerEvery now and then I type something into Spotlight on the iPad and I see that Twitterrific is still installed. I can’t bear to uninstall it, but since Twitter killed third-party client apps, I don’t use Twitter very often.…
Lees meerWe’re delighted you’ve chosen to embark upon Apple Reality. Today is the first day of a whole new world for you, and we hope that you enjoy living in it as much as we did creating it.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to ge…
Lees meerI’ve updated another eight-year-old article of mine, bringing my discussion of my podcast editing technique a bit more up to date. Interestingly, my methodology hasn’t really changed much.…
Lees meerIt’s time for our bold WWDC predictions.…
Lees meerAfter the failure of bankrupt Diamond Sports to pay licensing fees, Major League Baseball will take over all San Diego Padres broadcasting starting Wednesday: As a result of the new arrangement, Padres fans can now obtain a new direct-to-consumer…
Lees meerHey, it’s our antepenultimate week talking about the Apple headset speculatively! New apps are a-shipping and generative AI asks “How many fingers am I holding up?”… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusi…
Lees meerMy thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide offers a more nuanced approach to setting and enforcing sensitive data policies. At most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever,…
Lees meerTwice as much baseball, if you want it.Sometimes you want to watch more than one thing on your TV. This impulse was initially satisfied by the introduction of TVs with picture-in-picture functionality, but as access to TV began to come from various …
Lees meerWhether we’d be comfortable in a driverless taxi, our thoughts on the U.S. Surgeon General’s advisory regarding kids and social media, using Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro on the iPad, and the last time technology blew us away.…
Lees meer50 minutes with the complaints department.…
Lees meerSpecial guest: Jason Snell. Topics: Headset, headseat, headset. And no baseball talk other than how games might look in VR. Also: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, and GM’s dumb decision to drop CarPlay.…
Lees meerWith WWDC and our annual draft right around the corner, it’s time to survey the final rumors about Apple’s AR/VR headset, while also taking stock of some real accessibility developments due this fall.…
Lees meerA couple of years ago, my favorite Mac email app—the Gmail web wrapper app Mailplane—was discontinued. After an appropriate period of mourning (which included using Apple Mail regularly for the first time in years), I was desperate for an email app …
Lees meerMy thanks to iMazing for sponsoring Six Colors this week. iMazing is the answer to so many questions about how you can have more control over how to sync and back up iOS and iPadOS devices… and want to do it all from a Mac or Windows PC rather than …
Lees meerJulia’s back at last, so we blast through discussing HBO Max becoming Max, Hulu going inside the Disney+ app, the WGA’s “streaming strike”, the NFL’s Peacock playoff game, and ESPN plotting its inevitable over-the-top service.…
Lees meerFast Company’s Harry McCracken talked to some of the team behind Apple’s new Personal Voice accessibility feature about its development as well as some more fine details: When it came to enabling third-party apps to speak via Personal Voice, Appl…
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