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  • Meetup Summary – March 2024

    4:00pm By David Sparks
    In your podcast feed today, you’ll find a short summary of the MacSparky Labs Meetup for March 2024… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in? The post Meetup Summary – March 2024 appeared first on MacSparky.
  • Mac Power Users 736: Maintaining & Caring For Your Apple Hardware

    12:00pm By Leilani Resurreccion
    Join Stephen and me on this episode of Mac Power Users as we offer advice on how to best care for Macs, iPhones, iPads, and more, from cleaning to battery management and beyond. Then, we reflect on recent news, including the new MacBook Air and the death of…
  • The Lab Report for March 15, 2024

    Fri 5:00am By David Sparks
    It’s time for the Lab Report, covering this week’s Apple news, rumors, and more… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in? The post The Lab Report for March 15, 2024 appeared first on MacSparky.
  • M3 MacBook Air has Faster SSD Speeds

    Thu 5:00am By David Sparks
    A bit of good news from iFixit on the teardown of the new M3 MacBook Air: they have now switched to two 128 GB storage modules. You may know that in the first two iterations of the Apple silicon MacBook Air, the base storage models were significantly slower…
  • Focused 199: Repotting and Retirement, with Jim Eagar

    Wed 12:00pm By David Sparks
    Jim Eagar joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about how to navigate the four phases of retirement with meaning and purpose. This episode of Focused is sponsored by:…
  • Who’s Responsible For Age Verification?

    Wed 5:00am By David Sparks
    There seems to be a lot of finger-pointing going on about age verification between software and hardware developers. Facebook (and now Tinder) argue that it’s up to the hardware seller to verify a user’s age. (Ben Lovejoy covers this over at 9to5Mac.) In…
  • Local vs. Cloud Transcription Experiment

    Wed 5:00am By David Sparks
    It’s experiment day in the MacSparky Labs. I wanted to find out if there’s a difference in quality between having your recordings transcribed in the cloud versus local Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.… This is a post for the Early Access and…
  • The New M3 MacBook Air

    Tue 7:30pm By David Sparks
    Recently, Apple released new M3-based MacBook Air computers in 13- and 15-inch sizes. In addition to the faster processors, the new machines can run two monitors simultaneously. Specifically, they can run one 6k and one 5k monitor, provided the lid on the…
  • Apple Takes a Patent on a Tiltable iMac Similar to the Microsoft Surface Studio

    Tue 6:15pm By David Sparks
    I know it’s just a patent, but be still my heart. The post Apple Takes a Patent on a Tiltable iMac Similar to the Microsoft Surface Studio appeared first on MacSparky.
  • Sparky’s New Travel Charger

    Mar 12, 2024, 5:00 am By David Sparks
    I bought a new compact travel charger that juices up iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch all with just one cable and USB-C adapter. … This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?…