Up until recently, USB-C was more of a fluke in my household—a strange visitor from a possible future, in which we all used small, reversible plugs. Sure, my iMac had a couple of Thunderbolt ports that use the USB-C ports and every once in a while a…
Lees meerDan’s back from Seattle, Jason’s back from Phoenix, the music never left, and the iPod touch remains available while supplies last.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerThough I greatly enjoyed my vacation last week, it ended with a bit of a mishap. On Sunday morning, the last full day of my travels, I knocked my beloved Series 4 Apple Watch off the nightstand where it had been charging and it tumbled three feet to…
Lees meerDan’s got Apple Watch woes, the iPod is dead, and Twitter is increasingly dead to us.…
Lees meerOur computer mousing habits and devices, whether we signed up for the in-person portion of WWDC, our Apple Watch upgrade habits, and the iPods we’ve owned and count among our favorite models.…
Lees meerA surprisingly lengthy post on the Apple Newsroom which goes on for several paragraphs about the joy of consuming digital music eventually reaches its raison d’être in the final line: Customers can purchase iPod touch through apple.com, Apple Sto…
Lees meerThis site was making the rounds in my circle of friends for obvious reasons. Created by Alex Barredo, Podcast Details visualizes the consistency (or inconsistency) of a podcast’s run time and release schedule. I put the Six Colors podcast (just for …
Lees meerJason Kottke is taking some time off: There’s no real roadmap for this, no blueprint for independent creators taking sabbaticals to recharge. The US doesn’t have the social safety net necessary to enable extended breaks from work (or much of anyt…
Lees meerAn unlikely alliance of tech giants beckons us toward our passwordless future, but in the meantime there’s a new version of 1Password. We also discuss Apple Car rumors, hope for the future of AirPods Max, our disassembly of a Magic Keyboard, and mor…
Lees meerEvery so often, I get the smart idea that I should smooth over an everyday problem I have with the power of computers. I know some Python. I work in Nuke, which is a big pile of procedural code blobs that operate on inputs. And I’m capable of using …
Lees meerMyke Hurley joins Jason to talk about why people got so upset about 1Password 8, our password-less future, and our personal logistical concerns about WWDC.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerMy thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. As a native Safari extension, it blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – lettin…
Lees meerLast summer 1Password maker AgileBits made the wrong kind of news, when it announced that it was killing its traditional Mac app and replacing it with a new one built with Electron, a development system based on web technologies, on top of a cross-p…
Lees meerThe pinnacle of the MacOS is back.…
Lees meerLast year at WWDC Apple detailed its long-term plans to get rid of passwords. It included a preview of a technology called Passkeys in iCloud Keychain in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey. The idea is that you can log in anywhere by authenticating on your d…
Lees meerYou have to admire Apple’s approach to complex technology. The goal, always, is to make it easy, to make it magic, to make it seem effortless. Regular users shouldn’t be burdened by an avalanche of settings and options. Things should just work. The …
Lees meerThis week we check in on Studio Display firmware, ponder what form the iPhone 14 might take and whether it’s different enough from the iPhone 13, and break down the results of Apple’s record fiscal quarter—including some trepidation about the future…
Lees meerApple seems, in general, to have weaponized the idea of institutional stubbornness. This is the company that refused to license its operating system to PC makers back in the 1980s and 1990s, insisted on making a smartphone, and launched yet another …
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Lees meer(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Luca: …and with that, let’s open the call to questions. Operator: Our first question comes from Jan Key from Key Blur Financial. Go ahead. Jan: Thanks for taking my question. Tim, you said that you’re facing a lot…
Lees meerApple’s financial results show complications ahead, Jason installed some beta display firmware, and you probably shouldn’t do word games when your brain’s half asleep.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
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