Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels thinks Apple should bring back Dashboard: Apple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time. Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing developers to bring their iOS widgets over to the …
Lees meer9to5Google: In an email to administrators this morning, Google said it “will now transition all remaining users to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription based on your usage.” As such, Workspace’s only free plans are for Nonprofits and Ed…
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Lees meerUsing a Stream Deck doesn’t just increase your productivity—it also increases your appetite for custom icons to label all those buttons. Via John Voorhees of MacStories, I found out last week about Christian Lobach’s $4 utility Button Creator, which…
Lees meerApple’s rumored VR headset might not ship until 2023, but will it be the best VR headset ever made? And if so, at what cost? Also, Apple seems to have a settled on a strategy for handling demands to open up payment processing and external web links,…
Lees meerSome questions are perennials. This week on Upgrade we answered a question from a listener named Kiran: Assuming that the display quality of an Apple external display is the same as the upcoming iMac, would you pick the iMac over an external disp…
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Lees meerLast week, Jason wrote up his new podcast note workflow, using Keyboard Maestro and an AppleScript script. The end goal was to create a text file that contained notes about things to fix while editing, along with timecodes to ease the process of fin…
Lees meerThis is the year. All signs point to 2022 as the year that Apple introduces its first Apple silicon-based Mac Pro. But what form will that new Mac Pro take? It sounds simple enough, but in switching to its own processor architecture, Apple is forced…
Lees meerThe Korea Times: Apple said it plans to provide an alternative payment system at a reduced service charge compared with the current 30 percent charge, as the tech giant turned in its compliance plans to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). …
Lees meerOnce upon a time, you could watch a keynote presentation from any major computer chip company and rest easy in the confidence that the name “Apple” would never pass the lips of any presenter. The message always seemed to be, as per the classic Mad M…
Lees meerZoom and FaceTime are weird. Apple and the home (again). The G4 iMac turns 20. It floated above your desk like a VESA-mounted iMac.… Become a member to listen to our exclusive weekly podcast and get more benefits.
Lees meerSpeaking of the iMac G4, here’s my look back at that great, weird, beautiful computer from my 2020 tour of the most notable Macs of all time.…
Lees meer[From 20 years ago:] As the best-selling Mac of all time, the original iMac set a standard for Apple that’s tough to top. To stand a chance, the design of any follow-up iMac would have to be just as bold, as remarkably different as the original. App…
Lees meerI’ve noticed that folks who write about cord-cutting tend to be maximalists: “How can I get the most of all the things available?” Fair enough. A lot of people like lots of TV. But I am not them. I am but a humble fan of classic moves with a less-th…
Lees meerTell me how the panelist caused you extra work.Last year I decided I was spending too much time doing jobs because I could do them, not because they were an essential part of my job. (My friend Myke Hurley would, in the spirit of his podcast Cortex,…
Lees meerHow we turn our digital photographs into physical media, our experiences with external monitors, our thoughts on an audiobook service from Apple, and the AR/VR headset features that would appeal to us.…
Lees meerMy friend David Sparks has been leading a double life for a while now. To his law colleagues and friends, he has had a strange side hustle writing and talking about tech. To the rest of us, he’s a Mac expert who still practices law, too. No more. Da…
Lees meerMicrosoft Exchange admins felt a great disturbance in the Force last night as it became 2022: The “long” type allows for values up to 2,147,483,647. It appears that Microsoft uses the first two numbers of the update version to denote the year of …
Lees meerWe conclude our 2021 Favorites series with this list of books we loved this year. You might know this about us, but we read a lot. These were the cream of the crop. Piranesi My favorite book of the year was Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. It’s not a sequ…
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