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I’m pretty content with my Apple Watch, but MY WORD LOOK AT THIS THING.

It’s Top Nine time over on Instagram, so it’s also Top Nine time here on the blog. Here’s my year, boiled down to nine images: The Vision Pro box & my original Macintosh, which turned 40 this year. Myke and I were given St. Jude’s Creator Achievement…

This week on Connected, we revisit the biggest stories of year, ranking each month on the most scientific scale known to humankind: the Ticci Scale.

There’s a new version of Pedometer++ rolling out now that makes it easy to see your step count over time: David and I have been talking about this feature for a while now, and it is exciting to see it shipping. I love being able to scroll back and see my…

Apple Support: In iOS 18.2 or later, the Mail app automatically sorts your email messages into categories to help you find and manage messages quicker. Primary: Find personal messages and time-sensitive information. Transactions: Keep track of your…

I was recently moving some files around and came across a column I wrote for my college newspaper. I was on the design side of the paper1 and didn’t get to write that much. In the fall of 2006, I was given a short-lived column covering the tech news, and…

From the Apple TV+ Newsroom: Following the acclaimed second season premiere of “Silo,” today Apple TV+ announced that the global hit, world-building drama has been renewed through season four. The fourth season of “Silo” will bring the series to its…

PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. It works with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide. PowerPhotos allows you to work with multiple Photo libraries and store them wherever you want,…

Many people have more PDFs and files than they’d like. This week on MPU, David and I explore two great applications that make managing files more straightforward and efficient.

I use several of Rogue Amoeba’s apps on a near-daily basis. They are critical to my work as a podcaster, and my Mac would be noticeably less useful without them. With the transition to Apple silicon, installing these programs became much more complicated,…

Graham Fraser at the BBC: This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. He has…

This week’s Conduit had a pretty mediocre guest: Jay is gone away again, so Kathy brings in Stephen Hackett as a guest host and they can actually talk about Yearly Themes!

This week: Myke shares some news, Federico covers iOS 18.2, and I launch a new awards program.

iOS 18.2 is rolling out today, bringing the next wave of Apple Intelligence features with it.1 The splashiest feature is Image Playgrounds, which allows users to create images based on photos in their image libraries: (Don’t look too closely at my hand in…

In November 1996, Apple released the Power Macintosh 4400 with a starting price of $1,725. Also sold as the Power Macintosh 7220, it’d be easy to write this machine off as just another grain of sand on the beige beach that was Apple’s product line in the…

Unite 5 for macOS takes your web experience to the next level, transforming websites into feature-rich Mac apps. Powered by a completely redesigned WebKit browser, Unite 5 offers a more immersive and customizable browsing experience. What sets Unite 5 apart?…

It’s that time of year again: when relatives come to the family get-together armed with tech questions. On this episode, David and I tackle some of the most common issues asked around the dinner table.

For years, Apple fans have looked at the Surface Studio longingly, wondering what a version of a tilting Mac desktop could look like. Many wondered if Apple would ever do anything like this machine, adding Apple Pencil and touch support to macOS, or doing some…

This week on Connected: With Myke out this week, Stephen and Federico bravely carry on, discussing the future of web browsers, how iOS 18.2 is shaping up, and a Kickstarter that seems a bit unusual.

Simon B. Støvring has launched a new app: Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak their appearance to match your preferences. I love this, and not just because it reminds me of the old Holiday…

Thomas Kleine Buening, Aadirupa Saha, Christos Dimitrakakis, Haifeng Xu, on Apple’s “Machine Learning Research” blog: Motivated by the phenomenon of strategic agents gaming a recommendation system to maximize the number of times they are recommended to…

In my week of guesting on other people’s Relay podcasts, I’m on today’s episode of Focused, talking about my recent sabbatical. I found the topic surprisingly weird to talk about, but David and Mike helped make it much more comfortable to do so.

Nilay Patel: Today we’re launching a Verge subscription that lets you get rid of a bunch of ads, gets you unlimited access to our top-notch reporting and analysis across the site and our killer premium newsletters, and generally lets you support…

Andrew Liszewski, writing at The Verge, about a thing that should probably not be made: Apple may have said goodbye to the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar last year, but a team of four engineers believes the concept deserves a second chance. They’ve created the…

Myke Hurley was out this week, so I joined Jason Snell for today’s episode of Upgrade: Stephen Hackett joins Jason to discuss emergency calls, reaction to Jason’s “The Mac is the Model” piece, iPhone metals, our innate troubleshooting powers, Jason’s…

Do you use audio on your Mac, in any way at all? Then SoundSource is for you. SoundSource provides superior control over all audio, right from your menu bar. With SoundSource, you get: Per-application control: Change the volume of any app relative to others,…

On this week’s Mac Power Users, David and I make it through the rest of Apple’s platforms this week, including a speed round of the company’s entertainment portfolio. On More Power Users, we covered the state of HomeKit, both in our own homes and more…

It’s that time of year again: Indie App Sales is currently boasting over 400 Mac and iOs apps for sale. There are some real gems on the list.

This week on the podcast: Federico has been battling color profiles and Stephen has been working to solve a mystery, while Myke has just been enjoying the vibes. On Connected Pro — the longer, ad-free version of the show — we reviewed the new Linkin Park…

They have four standard models, from the base machine up through a pretty nice M4 Pro model. For years, we ran Relay’s live stream on a Mac mini hosted by MacStadium. If you need a Mac in the cloud, it’s the only way to go.