Rian Johnson’s Knives Out was perhaps my favorite film of last year, so when I saw that Vanity Fair had invited him to break down a scene from the movie, I eagerly went to watch the video. Little did I know that he snuck in an Apple tidbit as a bonu…
Lees meerLast week I wrote my Macworld column about some of the ways the iPad’s approach to files is inadequate. I was focusing mostly on AirDrop, whose behavior doesn’t really make sense in a world where there’s a filesystem exposed on every iOS device. B…
Lees meerYour life is up! Well, the life of the security certificate on your website, anyway. News out of last week’s meeting of the CA/Browser Forum is that Apple has announced Safari will no longer accept HTTPS certificates older than about 13 months, as o…
Lees meerIt would be overkill to claim Samsung has changed the name of the smartphone game with the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, because photography has already emerged as one of the most important features for flagship phones. What Samsung has done with its hu…
Lees meerApple may let users change their default apps on iOS. Jason Snell has some thoughts on iOS file handling. Apple updated its guidance for the quarter based on the effect of the Coronavirus. Apple’s platforms are increasingly being targeted by adwa…
Lees meerFebruary might be the cold doldrums of winter, where important tech news is sparser than sun and green grass, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing of note going on. With just over three months to go before the fireworks of Apple’s annual Worldwide …
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech show that’s only 1800 seconds, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Aleen Simms and Ant Pruitt to discuss apps and services we use to communicate, complaints about Google’s mobile productivity suite, our antivi…
Lees meerApple on Monday issued a note that it would likely not hit its guidance for the second fiscal quarter of 2020, due to the coronavirus: Our quarterly guidance issued on January 28, 2020 reflected the best information available at the time as wel…
Lees meerMy house gets damp in the winter. Like, really damp. So damp that stuff starts growing on the ceiling. Since getting a new house isn’t really an option, I’m left with mitigating it as best I can. So I tried to use smart-home tech to make it better.…
Lees meerImage from Malwarebytes report. Malwarebytes, a company that sells anti-malware software, came out with its annual report on the state of malware this week. It has fed a bunch of overhyped headlines around the web about malware on the Mac growing r…
Lees meerThis week on the 30 minute tech show that’s like a wizard, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Brianna Wu and Shahid Kamal Ahmad to discuss Samsung’s latest flip phone, security tips for elections and ordinary people, high refresh rate phones…
Lees meerWe’ve come to expect Apple to roll out new operating-system features on an annual cycle. Announce in June, ship in September or October, and spend the rest of the fall and spring fixing bugs and adding the features that didn’t get finished in time. …
Lees meerToothFairy didn’t exactly fix Moltz’s AirPod problem but it kind of did. Taika Waititi has some thoughts on the butterfly keyboard. Reviews of Apple TV+’s new show Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet have been mixed. We explain what that means. Despite…
Lees meerJohn Teti of The AV Club reviews Fox’s new NFL graphics, which debuted on the Super Bowl broadcast last Sunday: As Kansas City Chiefs kick returner (and buffet line troublemaker) Mecole Hardman carried the opening kickoff out of the end zone, Fo…
Lees meerPrevis Pro is a brand-new iOS app for storyboarding film and video created by a multiple Apple Design Award winning team. If you make films or create videos, you already know the importance of using storyboards to design that perfect shot. But, un…
Lees meerThis week on the 30 minute tech podcast that’s Roman all over, Dan and guest host Jason Snell are joined by special guests Carolina Milanesi and Matthew Cassinelli to discuss the best and worst of Apple in the year gone by, Google’s divisive Super B…
Lees meerMatt Birchler has some great thoughts on where watchOS should go. Six Colors gives its annual Apple report card. YouTube-dl is a command line tool for downloading YouTube videos. Ring doorbells had a bad 2019. Google admits it sent private video…
Lees meerGauging consumer demand for a product can be hard, even for a company as successful as Apple. Sometimes a product is a breakout hit, there are production slowdowns at the factory, or both, and the company just can’t make ‘em fast enough. But there a…
Lees meerWhen you tell someone that Apple made $90 billion in its most recent quarter, it might sound like the kind of ridiculous number that you throw out there to emphasize a huge, unthinkable quantity—but no, the company literally generated ninety billion…
Lees meerIt’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. This is the fifth year th…
Lees meerMoviepass is no more. Apple has been in talks to be the future home of NFL Sunday Ticket. Apple had a good quarter. Apple has been in talks to acquire MGM. Apple has made a production deal with former Starz exec Carmi Zlotnik. Fantastical 3.0 i…
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