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In a timeline where a lot of folks have …complicated… feelings about Apple, seeing the company to continue improve access to technology for everyone is still great.

MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs. The new microposting feature makes it as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to social media. When MarsEdit 5 is…

Known as an app launcher and Spotlight replacement, Alfred can supercharge a wide range of tasks across macOS. This week on MPU, we discuss David’s new Field Guide on Alfred and our use of the application.

John Siracusa, writing at Hypercritical: As far as I’m concerned, the only truly mortal sin for Apple’s leadership is losing sight of the proper relationship between product virtue and financial success—and not just momentarily, but constitutionally,…

As I wrote about earlier this week, xAI has broken ground on a second data center on Tulane Road here in Memphis that will require an unbelievable amount of electricity. Today, the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce sent an email saying: xAI is demobilizing…

Dyana Bagby, writing in 2024 for Georgia Public Broadcasting, the PBS/NPR affiliate in Atlanta: The Atlanta City Council voted Tuesday, Sept. 3, to ban data centers along and near the Atlanta BeltLine and within a half-mile of MARTA stations. The new…

This week on the podcast, I answer questions about my new two-phone lifestyle, Myke wonders what Eddy Cue knows that he doesn’t, and then we discuss the Motorola ROCKR and last week’s injunction against Apple over its App Store policies.

Ariel Wittenberg for Politico, writing about xAI’s use of gas turbines to power its supercomputer in Memphis: Just three miles away is Boxtown, a secluded neighborhood that officially became part of the city of Memphis in 1968, the year that the Rev. Martin…

After linking to that New Yorker article about xAI using gas turbines to help power its first supercomputer here in Memphis, I opened my RSS client to see this article by The Daily Memphian’s Samuel Hardiman who writes: Memphis Light, Gas and Water said…

Nick Heer, writing about rumors that the 2027 iPhone will feature a “truly edge-to-edge display:” I know the Dynamic Island was a clever way of transforming a necessary hardware compromise into a signature feature, albeit an imperfect one. This is a fun…

I’ve been paying close attention to the on-going saga of xAI’s Memphis-based supercomputer, and how the company seems to be misleading both the public and our local officials on how much pollution it is causing. The story is now gaining national attention.…

On September 1, 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 exploded while on the launchpad, leading the loss of an Israeli communications satellite: In the weeks after the failure, it was reported that some at SpaceX (including Elon Musk) thought the accident could have been…

Do you love the Apple Notes document scanner, but would you like more flexibility in sending the scans to email, messages, files, or other apps? Then Simple Scan is for you. Simple Scan is the quick, easy way to scan paper documents to optimized, searchable…

This week on MPU: With rumors — and complaints — swirling about the state of the iPad and iPadOS, David and Stephen take some time to talk about their usage of the platform and share where they think Apple should take its tablet next. On the ad-free,…

John Gruber: This does not mean apps can now use alternative payment processing in-app. It doesn’t even mean apps are no longer required to offer Apple’s IAP in-app for purchases and subscriptions. All it means is that apps (in the US for now, but Apple…

After yesterday’s injunction, Apple has updated its U.S. App Review Guidelines concerning buttons and links to external payment providers. Here are the key changes: 3.1.1: Apps on the United States storefront are not prohibited from including buttons,…

NASA’s new moon rocket uses a lot of components from the shuttle program, including the venerable RS-25 engine. Three were mounted to the shuttle itself, and the core stage of the SLS is powered by four of them. The next rocket — slated to take astronauts…

Earlier this evening, an 80-page document was released by the U.S. District Court in California, hitting Apple hard for its anti-competitive strategies concerning the App Store. The Verge’s Jay Peter’s has a great breakdown, but the gist of the ruling is…

This week on the show: Myke is learning, Federico saw a rumor, Stephen comes clean, and Apple launched a weird webpage.

Rumors continue to point toward Apple having a thin phone in this fall’s lineup. I am fascinated by this, and think it could be my next iPhone, even if it comes with compromises. Tim Hardwick reports on one such trade-off: Achieving this level of thinness is…

Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers…

YouTuber and podcaster Chris Lawley joined me and Sparks on this episode of MPU to tell us about how the Mac has replaced the iPad as his primary computer.

I just sent the April edition of System Extension, the newsletter for 512 Pixels members. I’m currently writing a series of articles for members outlining the history of internal expansion ports that have shipped in Macs over the years. This month, the…

Samuel Hardiman, at The Daily Memphian, writing about the on-going concern here in Memphis over xAI’s use of gas turbines to help power its AI supercomputer: Chunrong Jia, a professor in the U of M’s division of epidemiology, biostatistics and…

There’s a new EV truck on the scene, and it’s not even a pointy stainless steel triangle! Sean O’Kane has details at TechCrunch: It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment…

Today marks ten years since the original Apple Watch shipped. In that decade, it’s gone from a slow and constrained device that was trying to do far too much to something that I wear every day and night to track my fitness and get a very select number of…

Chance Miller at 9to5Mac: Apple CEO Tim Cook is being pressed for information on his collaboration with the Trump administration surrounding tariffs. In a letter sent today, Senator Elizabeth Warren said that Cook’s collaboration with Trump “creates the…

This week on the podcast: Myke is back from paternity leave and has some hot takes on the last two months of tech news. He and Federico accidentally have the same surprise, while Stephen wonders what Beats could slap its logo on.

Kailynn Johnson at The Memphis Flyer: The mail said the turbines are designed to protect the air with “air quality levels similar to those from a neighborhood gas station. It cited that the Environmental Protection Agency refers to facilities like the xAI…

Ben McCarthy, writing about what they would like to see in the rumored iOS 19 redesign: For a long while, I’ve felt that the design of iOS is too top heavy. While our phones seem to grow larger every year, our hands do not and so interface elements are…