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Worlds colliding this week — my Connected co-host joined us on MPU: MacStories boss Federico Viticci returns to the show to talk about the iPad’s apparent stagnation and how the Mac has grown over the last few years. The guys also talk about Raycast,…

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At WWDC in May 2002, Apple said goodbye to the classic Mac OS in a weird and wonderful way: Philip Michaels wrote about it Macworld: Steve Jobs wore black Monday, and not just because that’s the Apple CEO’s usual sartorial color of choice. Instead, Jobs…

Harry McCracken has a cool article out about Lumafield, a company that is working to reinvent CT scans, and Tony Fadell, the father of the iPod.

In addition to the Harry Potter iPod and the U2 iPod, there is another special edition iPod that was a little … less special. Let’s talk about the HP iPod. Mmmm, Brushed Metal and Windows XP… I always like referring to Apple’s press releases when…

This week on the show: Stephen did something out of the ordinary, Myke tries to explain Apple Watch faces and Federico learns about Margherita pizza. I can’t believe WWDC is just a few weeks away.

Plain text app wizard Jesse Grosjean is out with a new outlining app for the Mac, named Bike: Outlines are powerful, but can be confusing. In Bike outline editing is fluid, your ideas flow across the screen instead of jumping from position to position. This…

Apple Support: After updating to Mac OS X 10.4.7, the MacBook may show a solid grey, white, or black screen or a screen with vertical multi-colored lines. To resolve the issue temporarily, you may need to reset NVRAM. Once you can use the display again,…

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Michael Steeber, writing in his Tabletops newsletter: Near the iPod’s zenith, Apple split the Genius Bar into three distinct experiences. The iPod Bar became a hub for iPod support and The Studio became a home for creative projects. Apple Ginza and Apple…

The App Store didn’t launch until a year after the first iPhone, but it has defined the smartphone era. This week on MPU, David and I talk about some of our favorite iPhone apps.

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Over the span of two decades, Apple made a bunch of iPods. The original may have been just a single 5 GB player delivering 1,000 songs in your pocket, but the line spread from there to meet the needs of many more users. The iPod mini, iPod shuffle, iPod nano,…

This week on the show: To mark the death of the iPod touch, the guys gather around a shared browser window and rank iPods. Also on the docket: iPadOS 15, iPhone repairs and Jony Ive’s pen.

If you haven’t ordered one of these beauties, time is running out! Celebrate the Lisa in style:

Apple Support: Fonts that are in your Mac OS 9 System Folder may not be available to Mac OS X Panther and Tiger applications until you select the System Folder in Classic preferences or start Classic. Symptom: – Fonts are unexpectedly substituted in a Mac OS…

Apple PR has announced that the iPod touch will be for sale as long as supplies last: Since its introduction over 20 years ago, iPod has captivated users all over the world who love the ability to take their music with them on the go. Today, the experience of…

I am working on a thing, and I needed to find the release date of Apple’s GS/OS. I knew from this article that it had come out at AppleFest in September 1988. Finding the date of an event like this isn’t easy on the modern web, but I have collected a…

Apple: iCloud Documents and Data, our legacy document syncing service, has been discontinued and replaced by iCloud Drive. If you used iCloud Documents and Data, your account has been migrated to iCloud Drive. iCloud Documents was introduced years ago; iCloud…

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This week, David and I are launching a new episode type on Mac Power Users. Generally speaking, we have three primary formats for our episodes: Shows where we dive deep on a topic, app or other subject Interview shows where we talk to folks about their work,…

The original Apple TV was basically a low-powered Intel Mac. As such, people have installed all sorts of wacky things on them over the years, but this is the first memory upgrade I’ve seen:

Quinn Nelson has replaced the screen and battery on an iPhone 12 mini using the new Self Service Repair Program. His video really shows how much stuff Apple ships you to complete these tasks: It’s painfully clear that the current generations of iPhone…

Eric Migicovsky, a co-founder of the now-defunct smartwatch company, writing about why his company failed: I struggled over and over to define a strong long term vision for what Pebble as a company would accomplish. In some ways we were spoiled…when our…

This week on the show: Apple has shared more details about its live WWDC event next month and 1Password 8 has arrived on the Mac. After those topics, the guys perform an exit interview for iOS 15. On Connected Pro, I get philosophical about the line between…

Apple: We’re hosting a special all-day experience at Apple Park on June 6 to kick off WWDC22. Gather with others in the developer community to watch the keynote and State of the Union videos alongside Apple engineers and experts, explore the all-new…

After a long beta period, 1Password 8 for Mac is out today. The new version brings with it a new design, the ability to group vaults together in custom Collections and support for SSH keys. One of my favorite additions is Universal Autofill. Dave Teare…

Apple Support: Is there a product that converts Lisa documents to Macintosh format? You need the Lisa to Macintosh Migration Kit, available from Sun Remarketing. It converts LisaDraw, LisaWrite, LisaProject, and LisaCalc files to their Macintosh counterparts.

This week on Mac Power Users: Stephen and David sort through listener feedback, revisiting topics such as Preview.app, time tracking and their own Apple silicon experiences. Oh, and the person who took a Mac Pro to the coffee shop to get some work done on the…