John Voorhees of MacStories has a review of Tot 2.0, the simple Mac/iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch notes app by The Iconfactory: My favorite 2.0 feature is that Tot now supports automatic indenting.…
Lees meerJohn McCoy (host of the Sophomore Lit podcast on The Incomparable!) used the recent kerfuffle over the Cracker Barrel rebranding (if you don’t know, he covered it in his post) to discuss a trend in corporate branding: Just because I doubt that th…
Lees meerFantastic article by Lucasfilm historian, the appropriately named Lucas O. Seastrom, on creating an extremely detailed Star Wars-themed lounge at ILM: An entirely original piece in the Hideout was an industrial-style fan in the ceiling, an idea t…
Lees meerApple is nothing if not consistent. That announcement we all expected might happen today, happened today: Apple is giving the world two weeks’ notice that its next media event (which we all know is an iPhone launch event, though Apple never admits…
Lees meerAfter an era of stability, Apple may be about to mix things up with the iPhone, including a bunch of new models and even a change to the traditional fall roll-out cycle.…
Lees meerTear those epaulettes off one of your admin accounts in macOS. It knows what it did! And what’s that? It’s just too darned powerful. An account marked as an administrator can carry out nearly every operation—probably every operation—on your Mac dur…
Lees meerThe Bluesky social network has decided to block all devices from the state of Mississippi due to its far-reaching law that has some exceptionally broad requirements in the name of protecting children.…
Lees meerESPN has left the exclusivity of the cable bundle at long last, and we break down what it all means. Also: TV Picks and your letters!…
Lees meerGuy English joins us to talk about Lex’s guilt-inducing new Mac purchase that he sacrificed his morals for. We talk about refurbed Macs and Vision Pros, Dan’s new Folder Automations, iCloud woes, and the reality that Apple just needs to stop doing t…
Lees meerWhether we’ve used tech to build habits lately, if we edit Wikipedia, our approach to software updates, and if we blog or have any blog recommendations.…
Lees meerWe imagine how Apple would tier list its own products, and discuss what kind of personality might work for a tabletop “robot” from Apple.…
Lees meerThe passkey was introduced with some excitement by Apple and varying degrees of hurrahs from Microsoft and Google a few years ago.1 This humble method of combining strong encryption, avoiding password entry, and adding the best aspects of second-fa…
Lees meerSetting up a folder Automation in macOS Tahoe. One of the most exciting additions in macOS Tahoe is Shortcuts automation, which (among many other things) allows Shortcuts to act when things move or change in the filesystem.…
Lees meerApple Newsroom: Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update coming later today.…
Lees meerOur display setup and window management; which legacy online component should be sunset after AOL dial-up; whether new Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence automation appeals; and views on YouTube’s AI age verification and the best and worst ways to do …
Lees meerI do love it when I reference Dr. Drang on Upgrade and he responds with an entire blog post: As Jason said on the show, he’d probably need a kayak that’s a bit bigger and more stable than mine because of the choppier water he’d encounter in his b…
Lees meerAt the MIT Technology Review, my old colleague Mat Honan has a great piece about the simultaneous promise and overpromise of AI: In some ways, the AI hype cycle has to be out of hand.…
Lees meerBlind ranking bad Apple products, hope for a cheaper MacBook, the perils of Siri automation, and apparently Tim Cook took a trip to Washington D.C. for some sort of meeting?…
Lees meerIf you use Sonos hardware you deserve the best. Clic for Sonos is the fastest native Sonos client for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro.…
Lees meerI recently wrote about duplicating iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos to a network-attached storage (NAS) system. This struck a nerve for folks who want to keep full-resolution backups of their Photos Library when they don’t have enough local storage.…
Lees meerJim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and one of three men to have gone around the moon twice, died on Thursday: The plight of Apollo 13 in 1970 transfixed Americans.…
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