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Apple keeps checking items off my Mac wishlist
Tue 4:49pm By Jason Snell via RSS
Clipboard history in Spotlight on macOS Tahoe.A couple of years ago, I recalled that in the early days of Mac OS X, I built up an entire array of utilities that allowed me to use my Mac just how I wanted it.…

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Apple’s built-in transcriber blows away Whisper ↦
Tue 1:49pm By Jason Snell via RSS
John Voorhees of MacStories took Apple’s new Speech framework, available to all developers, for a spin in the macOS 26 beta and got great results in making audio transcripts:…

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(Podcast) Downstream 97: Brand Destruction
Mon 7:32pm By Six Colors Staff via RSS
Zaz splits WBD, the neverending Paramount sale, listener letters, and TV picks! [Downstream+ subscribers also get: Apple TV stasis, Clooney on CNN, and the Great Netflix User Migration.]…

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(Podcast) Upgrade 568: A Persona of a Bearded Man
Mon 5:31pm By Six Colors Staff via RSS
The Summer of Fun begins with loads of WWDC follow-up, including some big-picture reflections on last week and a discussion of some of our favorite features in Apple’s beta OS releases.…

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(Sponsor) Know before you go with Turbulence Forecast
Mon 12:00pm By Six Colors Staff via RSS
Six Colors is sponsored this week by Turbulence Forecast, the easiest way to know in advance just how smooth or bumpy your next flight’s going to be.…

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Reducing suboptimal iCloud Photos storage sizes
Mon 11:30am By Glenn Fleishman via RSS
iCloud Photos requires mysterious files and processes and often consumes huge amounts of storage space. Six Colors subscriber John writes in with a question about one aspect of this:…

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Apple’s Shortcuts app is getting a huge upgrade in iOS 26 and macOS 26 — here’s how it will…
Sun 7:35am By Dan Moren via RSS
You may not know it, but there’s an app built right into your iPhone, iPad, and Mac that can supercharge your experience using all those products — and it’s about to get even more powerful.…

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(Sponsor) Magic Lasso Adblock
Fri 12:00pm By Jason Snell via RSS
My 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.…

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Apple’s newest OSes will support passkey import/export standard ↦
Fri 10:06am By Dan Moren via RSS
Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin: The import/export feature, which Apple demonstrated at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, will be available in the next major releases of iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.…

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The new Spotlight for macOS 26 shows a path forward
Thu 9:32pm By Joe Rosensteel via RSS
On Thursday there was a Six Colors Zoom call for Backstage-level members and contributors alike. Glenn Fleishman asked Jason Snell and Dan Moren about Spotlight. He wondered about the discoverability and the intuitiveness of some of these features.…

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Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era
Thu 6:52pm By Jason Snell via RSS
Is that a Mac? Nope, it’s iPadOS 26 running on a Studio Display.Some of us have spent an awful lot of time pondering the iPad’s use cases as a professional productivity device.…

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20 years of ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’ ↦
Thu 5:02pm By Jason Snell via RSS
The Steve Jobs Archive has remastered his classic Stanford commencement address for its 20th anniversary: It’s not an obvious candidate for a classic. A commencement address by a college dropout.…

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Canal+ to debut Immersive doc produced with new Blackmagic camera ↦
Thu 12:03pm By Jason Snell via RSS
French media company Canal+ announced this week that it’s working on a documentary about French motorcycle racer Johann Zarco at the French Grand Prix, which would probably not be notable for most people were it not for how it was made:…

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(Podcast) The Rebound 550: NINE FORTY-ONE!
Jun 11, 2025, 4:51 pm By Six Colors Staff via RSS
Lex has the big news and then, if we have time, we’ll talk about WWDC and whether or not Apple’s funny.…

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visionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple’s newest platform toward the future
Jun 11, 2025, 4:47 pm By Jason Snell via RSS
My visionOS 26 persona. The side of my head really does look like that!If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of wearable devices in front of our eyes, Apple needs to keep pushing toward that future at every opportunity.…

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