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My MacUser colleague and Relay FM cohabitant Shelly Brisbin released an original audio documentary today, “36 Seconds That Changed Everything”, about the addition of accessibility to the iPhone ten years ago today:…

Compatibility and interoperability are concepts Apple has ignored or embraced, depending on its situation. To me, it seems that the Mac is about to enter a new era of incompatibility… and I’m okay with it.…

This week, on the 30-minute podcast that boldly goes where no podcast has gone before, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Brianna Wu and John Voorhees to discuss our storage strategies, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, AR try-on features, and the most…

Adam C. Engst interviewed a 101-year-old TidBITS reader:…

Stephen Hackett hauled out his G4 Cube to show the similarities and differences between the design of vents on the Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR and two G4-era models:…

After a brief commentary about Twitterrific 6 and the difficult world of App Store pricing, we kick off the The Upgrade Summer of Fun by building the official Upgrade iPhone home screen. 28 apps will be picked! Four will win coveted spaces in the dock! Rules…

For the last week Six Colors has been sponsored by Sanebox. I use Sanebox every day and want to thank Sanebox for the support.…

New Twitterrific 6 features include new color themes, user-editable custom themes, a new display font option, and better presentation of inline media.…

There’s only so much information one can digest in a single sitting. Even a week after Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference wrapped up, we’re still sifting through the details of the company’s announcements. And that’s before the deluge of…

My initial thought, when sitting in the audience at Apple’s WWDC keynote, was that iPadOS 13 was going to present me with a remarkable number of items from my iPad wish list. And that’s not wrong—it looks like this release is going to check a lot of…

This week, on the irreverent tech show where two out of three hosts still wear their Apple Watch, Dan and John catch Lex up on WWDC announcements. But we also discuss Dan’s CarPlay update, help John pick a new input device, and Lex’s parents’ new TV.…

This week, on the 30-minute tech show that goes down the rabbit hole, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Joe Rosensteel and Lory Gil to discuss Apple’s new hearing health push, how we use technology in our morning routines, our use of CarPlay and…

Last week in San Jose I found myself considering something John Gruber wrote for Macworld at the beginning of this decade—about how Apple’s product design doesn’t happen in short bursts, contrary to popular belief. It is a marathon, not a sprint. And no…

When I bought my Volkswagen GTI in 2012, I loved everything about it—except the audio system. In fact, it was so bad that I even felt the need to pen a screed about its shortcomings, which included a terrible, unresponsive interface; unreliable playback…

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez runs down all that’s currently known about the Sign In with Apple system announced at WWDC last week. The biggest question seems to be whether or not this will attract the attention of regulators who are already looking at big tech…

Radiohead, showcasing what is truly the best way to handle a digital extortion threat:…

Myke and Jason get over their WWDC hangover with a discussion of our favorite new iPadOS 13 features. Then we take a look at the future of Apple’s platforms with a discussion of Catalyst and SwiftUI and an exclusive interview with Apple’s Wiley Hodges and…

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Marco Arment writes about the latest Mac announcements and how they demonstrate a swing in terms of Apple’s listening to feedback. But I think he particularly nails it in this last paragraph:…

Billy Steele at Engadget:…

As Apple’s biggest event of the year winds down and the dust begins to settle, the shape of company’s future plans is starting to become clearer. And this time around it’s not a matter of digging up a mere smattering of hints about where Apple is taking…

From Apple’s podcast studio within its Worldwide Developer Conference, we’re joined by John Siracusa and Shelly Brisbin to discuss iPadOS, iOS, Catalyst, SwiftUI, and Apple’s new pro hardware.

Wired’s Andy Greenberg shares more information about the technology behind the new Find My app, which lets you locate your devices even if they’re offline. It is, frankly, bananas:…

This week, on the 30-minute show that can barely contain all the news, Dan is joined by host emeritus/permanent villain Jason Snell and special guests Myke Hurley and Alex Cox to run down all the announcements from WWDC. We discuss our favorite iOS 13…

As someone who has been using the Mac for nearly three decades and someone who heavily uses an iPad Pro to get work done, I’m disappointed when I see people try to pit the two platforms against one another. There’s definitely a certain subset of Mac users…

It’s all WWDC all the time this week, as Dan and John welcome special guest James Thomson to help them break down Apple’s announcements. We discuss James getting mildly sherlocked, whether or not you can plug in your legacy SCSI drives to an iPad Pro,…

It’s not an Apple event without strong opinions all around, and there were no shortage of those at WWDC this year. Apple showed off updates to all of its major platforms—yes, even tvOS!—and there are very few, if any, products that won’t be affected by…

On Monday Apple unveiled iOS 13, the next major release of the software that makes the iPhone run. While it’s currently available only for registered Apple developers, a public beta version will be out in July, followed by a full public release this fall.…

A few Mac tidbits I picked up at the McEnery Convention Center on Monday after the WWDC Keynote….…

The WWDC 2019 keynote was packed full with new announcements. Now, live from San Jose, Jason and Myke come together to talk about iOS 13, macOS Catalina, the introduction of iPadOS, and the new Mac Pro.