iPads being used on college football sidelines ↦
Tue 3:09pm By Jason SnellYou may remember Aaron Rodgers throwing a Surface on an NFL sideline, but this year football teams in three college conferences are using iPads, as detailed in this feature from Apple Newsroom:…(Podcast) Upgrade 536: The Sleeping Lifestyle
Mon 5:49pm By Six Colors StaffScoring our very weird draft, The new Mac mini and MacBook Pro announcements, Apple’s latest financial results, our reactions to Image Playground and Genmoji betas, and pondering the actual job of a CEO.…(Sponsor) You want to charge how much for SSO???
Mon 2:45pm By Six Colors StaffImagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn. Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available in first class.…(Podcast) Downstream 81: Reba Reboot
Fri 8:16pm By Six Colors StaffHoliday specials and streaming rights; the questionable future of linear cable channels; Bob Iger’s Endgame gets interesting; Sports Corner with Rob Manfred, Jason Kelce, and Charles Barkley; Behold, the power of CBS; and some TV shows you should watch.…(Sponsor) 1Password
Fri 12:00pm By Jason SnellMy thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. The folks at 1Password recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco and were struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems.…Apple buys Pixelmator ↦
Fri 11:43am By Jason SnellPixelmator Team, announcing a shocker: Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time.…Apple sinks $1.1 billion into Globalstar’s satellite network, takes ownership stake
Fri 11:03am By Dan MorenIf you had any idea that satellite connectivity isn’t a key part of Apple’s strategy, well, the company’s satellite partner Globalstar has disclosed changes to its deal with Apple, including a new influx of $1.1 billion from Apple tied to capital…This is Tim, that was Luca: Apple’s Q4 results phone call, transcribed
Thu 5:20pm By Jason SnellEvery quarter after releasing financial results, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri hop on a conference call with analysts to detail the quarter gone by, give a peek at what’s to come, and dodge—er, I mean answer—questions from analysts.…Apple’s Q424 results: $95B revenue–with a twist
Thu 4:45pm By Jason SnellApple reported its financial results on Thursday for its fourth fiscal quarter, which ended on September 28. Revenue was $94.9 billion, up six percent versus the year-ago quarter and an all-time fourth quarter record.…Taking the AirPods Pro hearing test
Thu 12:11pm By Shelly BrisbinThe hearing test first checks your fit and environmental noise (left). During the test, you tap the screen when you hear a tone, as the screen image throbs (center).…(Podcast) Clockwise 578: Sadly, No Taste for Blood
Oct 30, 2024, 3:45 pm By Six Colors StaffOur use of tech in Halloween celebrations; the smallest tech we regularly use and the small gadget that wowed us; which Apple Intelligence features we’re using and looking forward to next; and the one item we’d give up this week, tech or non-tech.…(Podcast) The Rebound 519: Maybe: Kamala Harris
Oct 30, 2024, 1:45 pm By Six Colors StaffWhere would you put a charging port?…The truth behind Apple’s most unpopular decisions: It’s not about you (Macworld/Dan Moren)
Oct 30, 2024, 12:22 pm By Dan MorenTwelve years ago, my former Macworld colleague Lex Friedman and I were at an Apple focused conference where we presented a talk called “Apple is Huge Now (And That Sucks For You)”.…16GB for everyone: MacBook Air joins the RAM upgrade party
Oct 30, 2024, 11:00 am By Jason SnellThis guy gets more RAM now.This week, all of Apple’s Mac announcements have featured one trend beyond the arrival of the M4 processor family on macOS: The lifting of base RAM configurations from 8GB to 16GB across the board on new models.…Apple introduces new MacBook Pros with M4 chips, brighter screen
Oct 30, 2024, 11:00 am By Jason SnellApple’s week of Mac reveals rolls on with Wednesday’s announcement of the M4 MacBook Pro line. In some ways this is the smallest update of the week, but I’d wager that Apple sells far more MacBook Pros than iMacs and Mac minis put together.…Why Alexa hasn’t yet become the real computer of the future ↦
Oct 30, 2024, 10:02 am By Dan MorenGreat piece by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge about the evolution of the Amazon Echo and how an exciting project turns into a boring one: Alexa is still mainly doing what it’s always done: playing music, reporting the weather, and setting timers.…The M4 Mac mini: Tricks and treats
Oct 29, 2024, 1:09 pm By Dan MorenJust in time for Halloween, Apple has delivered a new version of its smallest Mac, which you could probably even fit into one of those plastic pumpkins.…New Mac mini shrinks down, gains M4 and M4 Pro chips
Oct 29, 2024, 11:00 am By Jason SnellApple’s big week, featuring a new iMac and the launch of Apple Intelligence, just got smaller. A lot smaller. Just in time for Halloween, it’s a Fun Size Mac mini.…(Podcast) Upgrade 535: Little Spicy Peppers
Oct 28, 2024, 5:20 pm By Six Colors StaffWe kick off a busy week by analyzing the new M4 iMac, the arrival of two different waves of Apple Intelligence, and Jason’s review of the iPad mini, but we’ll have to wait a week to score our draft because there’s more yet to come!…(Sponsor) The infinite loop of security
Oct 28, 2024, 12:00 pm By Six Colors StaffI recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco–security’s biggest event of the year– and I was struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems.…Apple Intelligence .1 Review: A small start of something big?
Oct 28, 2024, 12:00 pm By Six Colors StaffWith the release of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, Apple is hopping aboard the generative AI train. Apple Intelligence is a suite of disparate features, first announced earlier this year at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference, that…Apple introduces M4 iMac with revamped colors, nano-texture display option
Oct 28, 2024, 11:42 am By Dan MorenBegun, the week of Mac announcements has. Apple on Monday unveiled revamped iMac models, powered by its new M4 processors, in a series of bold new tints.…You can use Clean Up with a clear conscience
Oct 25, 2024, 1:44 pm By Joe RosensteelNext week, the first round of Apple Intelligence will be loosed on the general public, including the Clean Up feature in Photos that lets you alter images to remove unwanted elements.…(Sponsor) Magic Lasso Adblock
Oct 25, 2024, 12:00 pm By Jason SnellMy thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.…Use a cloned drive to recover from Mac failures
Oct 24, 2024, 5:53 pm By Jason SnellLast month, my Mac Studio stopped working. It went quickly from a bizarre error message to the inability to install software updates to a failure to reinstall the base operating system to a trip to the Genius Bar.…Choose your coding font ↦
Oct 24, 2024, 11:54 am By Jason SnellOver on Mastodon, I was embroiled in a whole conversation about fonts we use for writing. I write exclusively using monospaced fonts, and have done so for decades now.…(Podcast) Clockwise 577: Witches Are Doing it for Themselves
Oct 23, 2024, 3:35 pm By Six Colors StaffAll the Apple devices we use, the risks of switching to the Apple Password app, the games we play on our phones, and whether tech plays a part in our hobbies.…Apple releases second wave of Intelligence features via new developer betas
Oct 23, 2024, 1:11 pm By Six Colors StaffApple Intelligence just keeps on coming. The first batch of features in Apple’s much-hyped entry into the artificial intelligence boom will be released to the general public sometime next week, but the company is already moving on to the next one.…(Podcast) The Rebound 518: Stop Trying to Make Soda Pressing Happen
Oct 23, 2024, 12:33 pm By Six Colors StaffThe jokes write themselves and sometime it shows.…The new iPad mini is boring, but the next one might be mind-blowing (Macworld/Jason Snell)
Oct 23, 2024, 11:00 am By Jason SnellThe 2024 iPad mini has just been updated for the first time in three years, and yet, for some of the product’s biggest fans, it’s a bit of a disappointment.…
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