Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac did the work to round up Apple’s entire decade of the 2010s, from the iPad to the iPhone 11: The best way to describe this post is that it is the the decade as I remember it. I intentionally ignored some things that I de…
Lees meerDownlink 2 lets me crop my particular corner of our planet. Space fan and podcaster Anthony Colangelo has updated his utility, Downlink, to version 2.0. Downlink powers my Mac’s desktop background, providing “live” (updated a few times an hour) s…
Lees meerWith a new year come Jason’s predictions for Apple in 2020. How varied can the iPhone product line get? Will Apple make its most interesting laptop yet—and will it run macOS or iPadOS? And how can Apple double down on the success of AirPods? We also…
Lees meerTechnology has made its way into every nook and cranny of our lives over the past decade, and there’s no reason to think that trend’s about to stop now. As we roll into the ’20s, Apple has positioned itself at the forefront of a bunch of different t…
Lees meerDid you know that the Date & Time Control Panel in Mac OS 8 (released in 1997) will only let you set a Mac’s date to a range between January 1, 1920 and December 31, 2019? As LowEndMac reports: Back in the late 90s many of us on the Mac web wrot…
Lees meerThe irreverent tech podcast returns for a new year and new decade, as we discuss the holiday tech gifts we got and gave, a few iOS wishlist items, our hopes for 2020, and whether or not we’re still Apple Arcade subscribers.
Lees meerStephen Hackett spends a lot of time thinking about the Mac, and it shows when he writes pieces like this: So why is this my Mac of the decade? Simple. It’s the most influential computer Apple shipped in the last ten years. That seemed really ob…
Lees meerWhat was Apple’s device of the decade? David Sparks says it’s the iPad: Today was not an unusual day… I spent hours on the iPad planning my week, performing an OmniFocus review, responding to clients in Basecamp, and writing this post. Throughou…
Lees meerAll told, 2019 was a relatively quiet year for the iPhone and iPad. Apple brought back some old favorites to round out the iPad product line, and a new batch of incrementally improved iPhones was released in the fall, as anyone could have predicted.…
Lees meerIn his latest post, Dr. Drang compares methods of building a text transformation Shortcut: The point of this exercise was not ROT13, it was expanding my toolbox of techniques so I’d know about more options to solve real problems in Shortcuts. I …
Lees meerNetNewsWire, the venerable RSS reader that returned to original creator Brent Simmons in 2018 to be revived as an open-source project that was released for the Mac in August, is now in public beta testing on iOS. I’ve been using it this week on…
Lees meerApple’s come a long way in the last decade. Ten years ago, the company had just released the third version of the iPhone and users of the smartphone had only recently gotten the ability to cut, copy, and paste things. The iPad was waiting in the win…
Lees meerLast year I predicted huge changes for the Mac for 2019, and let’s be honest—the changes were far more modest than I was anticipating. Mac Catalyst arrived, but a flood of Catalyst apps didn’t. Apple finally shipped a modular Mac Pro, two and a half…
Lees meerThe great thing about knowing Dr. Drang is that sometimes he will solve technical problems for you just because he’s intrigued by the challenge. (Every Southwest Airlines flight I book gets processed automatically by a script thanks to Drang.) I wa…
Lees meerThis week on the 30 minute tech show that knows a lot about elves, Dan and special guest co-host Jason Snell are joined by guests Allison Sheridan and Alex Cox to discuss our tech stocking stuffers, why the Mac’s community exists, Apple’s satellite …
Lees meerThis week we try to solve a technology mystery. What if there was a murder, but no body? What if there were victims, but no crime? We all want answers: Who killed the butterfly keyboard, and why?
Lees meerPredicting what Apple will do is a tricky business. The company is famously secretive, though leaks from far corners of its supply chain can give us some clues, particularly when it comes to new iPhones. Still, for a company with a reputation for be…
Lees meerThe best part about making predictions as a member of the press is that almost nobody has a long memory. You predict the future, but by the time the evidence against you has collected, everyone’s moved on to reading your new predictions for the next…
Lees meerThe end of the year—and with it the decade!—are nigh, and both have been busy for the company from Cupertino. There have been new products, the usual number of major and minor controversies, and oh so much rumor and speculation. But let’s stick to t…
Lees meerTodd Spangler of Variety has some exciting corporate merger news: TiVo has scrapped plans to split itself into two separate companies, and instead announced a $3 billion merger with Xperi, a company that sells audio, imaging and computing te…
Lees meerHere’s the Unlikely News Story of the Day: Apple, Google, Amazon, and an alliance of other smart-home manufacturers 1 say they’re going to work together on an open-source protocol for communicating with smart-home devices via IP: The goal of the…
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