★ The 2021 14-Inch MacBook Pro

The differences between a MacBook Pro and MacBook Air should not be subtle. Let the truck be a truck, true to its purpose. Let the MacBook Pro be unabashedly *pro*.

Review: Apple Watch Series 7

Apple's newest model of the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Series 7, went on sale on October 8, 2021. Initial supplies were limited, but I finally received mine a few days ago, and over the next few weeks it will...

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The Talk Show: ‘Giddy With Mac-Ness’

Please Shrink the Trackpad

Lukas Mathis: After years of struggling with ghost clicks, randomly dragged icons, poor palm rejection, and generally ever worsening MacBook trackpads, I didn’t want to deal with software features trying to compensate for a trackpad’s lack of physic…

Lightroom Classic 11

Adobe: Reimagine local adjustments with the brand new Masking panel. Now use the Brush, Linear Gradient, and Radial Gradient tools with greater precision and organization. You can also access the Color Range and Luminance Range tools that help you s…

Keyboard Maestro 10

Stairways Software: Keyboard Maestro 10 expands on the powerful base of previous versions, improving the editor, adding many new actions and triggers, Paste by Name, status menu display, subroutines, and more.[…]Added Paste by Name action giving Spo…

Dangerous NSLog() Calls in Swift

Daniel Jalkut (tweet): NSLog("Failed to get modification date at URL: \(url) - \(error)") […] In the scenario of my crash, the interpolation of “url” and “error” results in surprise template placeholders, because of the presence of spaces in the pat…

Microsoft’s Foray Into ARM Processors With Windows

Microsoft’s Foray Into ARM Processors With Windows

Looking Back on Apple’s Acquisition of P.A. Semi

AppleScript Much Faster in Monterey

leo_r: I wonder if it’s just me - or AppleScript is much faster on Monterey? In fact it’s just blazingly fast. For example, I have a script that polls InDesign document’s elements for certain attributes. On Monterey, it takes 15 seconds to scan this…

Default macOS Wallpapers

Dave Mark: Follow the headline link, start scrolling for a walk through all the different default macOS wallpapers, going all the way back to Mac OS X Tiger, which dropped back in 2005. There are some really great ones here, including many that inst…

Spotify Now #1 Podcasts Platform

Sarah Perez: In September, analysts at eMarketer predicted Spotify was poised to overtake Apple Podcasts in U.S. listenership sometime this year. Today, Spotify announced for the first time it may have succeeded on that front. During the company’s Q…

macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies

Corbin Dunn: At Apple I worked on the main User Interface (UI) framework called AppKit for about 13 years. I would help enforce UI consistency in applications by logging bugs and helping the application developers fix any issues. Back then a lot of …

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