This week, on the 30-minute podcast that boldly goes where no podcast has gone before, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Brianna Wu and John Voorhees to discuss our storage strategies, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, AR try-on features, and …
Lees meerAdam C. Engst interviewed a 101-year-old TidBITS reader: Adam: So you had no prior technology background before buying your first Mac Plus? George: No, I had no previous experience using computers. When I graduated in 1940 with a degree in mech…
Lees meerStephen Hackett hauled out his G4 Cube to show the similarities and differences between the design of vents on the Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR and two G4-era models: While the design from the outside is very similar to the Mac Pro, to my eye…
Lees meerAfter a brief commentary about Twitterrific 6 and the difficult world of App Store pricing, we kick off the The Upgrade Summer of Fun by building the official Upgrade iPhone home screen. 28 apps will be picked! Four will win coveted spaces in the do…
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Lees meerNew Twitterrific 6 features include new color themes, user-editable custom themes, a new display font option, and better presentation of inline media. The Iconfactory’s Twitterrific is my go-to Twitter client and has been for years. Version 6 of t…
Lees meerThere’s only so much information one can digest in a single sitting. Even a week after Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference wrapped up, we’re still sifting through the details of the company’s announcements. And that’s before the deluge of…
Lees meerMy initial thought, when sitting in the audience at Apple’s WWDC keynote, was that iPadOS 13 was going to present me with a remarkable number of items from my iPad wish list. And that’s not wrong—it looks like this release is going to check a lo…
Lees meerThis week, on the irreverent tech show where two out of three hosts still wear their Apple Watch, Dan and John catch Lex up on WWDC announcements. But we also discuss Dan’s CarPlay update, help John pick a new input device, and Lex’s parents’ new TV…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute tech show that goes down the rabbit hole, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Joe Rosensteel and Lory Gil to discuss Apple’s new hearing health push, how we use technology in our morning routines, our use of CarPla…
Lees meerLast week in San Jose I found myself considering something John Gruber wrote for Macworld at the beginning of this decade—about how Apple’s product design doesn’t happen in short bursts, contrary to popular belief. It is a marathon, not a sprint. An…
Lees meerWhen I bought my Volkswagen GTI in 2012, I loved everything about it—except the audio system. In fact, it was so bad that I even felt the need to pen a screed about its shortcomings, which included a terrible, unresponsive interface; unreliable …
Lees meerTechCrunch’s Sarah Perez runs down all that’s currently known about the Sign In with Apple system announced at WWDC last week. The biggest question seems to be whether or not this will attract the attention of regulators who are already looking at b…
Lees meerRadiohead, showcasing what is truly the best way to handle a digital extortion threat: In a note on the band’s Instagram, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood confirmed that the band had been hacked, writing “someone stole Thom [Yorke]’s minidis…
Lees meerMyke and Jason get over their WWDC hangover with a discussion of our favorite new iPadOS 13 features. Then we take a look at the future of Apple’s platforms with a discussion of Catalyst and SwiftUI and an exclusive interview with Apple’s Wiley Hodg…
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Lees meerMarco Arment writes about the latest Mac announcements and how they demonstrate a swing in terms of Apple’s listening to feedback. But I think he particularly nails it in this last paragraph: It’s hard to tell when Apple is listening. They spea…
Lees meerBilly Steele at Engadget: Fox Sports offered 4K streams for the 2018 FIFA World Cup last year, but in order to watch them, you had to own a HiSense TV. For the Women’s World Cup that begins Friday in France, those higher quality streams will be …
Lees meerAs Apple’s biggest event of the year winds down and the dust begins to settle, the shape of company’s future plans is starting to become clearer. And this time around it’s not a matter of digging up a mere smattering of hints about where Apple is ta…
Lees meerFrom Apple’s podcast studio within its Worldwide Developer Conference, we’re joined by John Siracusa and Shelly Brisbin to discuss iPadOS, iOS, Catalyst, SwiftUI, and Apple’s new pro hardware.
Lees meerWired’s Andy Greenberg shares more information about the technology behind the new Find My app, which lets you locate your devices even if they’re offline. It is, frankly, bananas: The solution to that paradox, it turns out, is a trick that req…
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