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Sill gives a Nuzzel vibe to Mastodon and Bluesky links
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Journalist and developer Tyler Fisher, on his personal blog: Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and a…
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[Jeremy Burge is the founder of Emojipedia. You can find him at the Emojipedia Blog or on Twitter at @jeremyburge.] Remember the gavel emoji? It was a favorite of mine back on iOS 5, but harshly re…
on Sep 6
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This Week in Apple: There’s nothing good on
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Apple reportedly considers going where it never went before as it gains the attention of yet another government watchdog. And then, are you ready for a smarter Siri? Well, don’t worry if you’re not…
on Fri, 11PM
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Time for Apple to take the Smart Home seriously
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, writing at The Verge: Next year, [Apple] will reportedly launch an “AI wall tablet for home control,” and it’s said to be developing more devices for the home (including ca…
on Fri, 8PM
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The limits of the iOS App Store model. (More Colors and Backstage members get 14 more minutes about Jason’s Desktop-Laptop conundrum.) [We’re taking next week off for Thanksgiving, back…
on Fri, 7PM
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My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. 1Password wants you to understand the details about how laws like GDPR can affect your business. The EU enacted GDPR in 2018, and the day…
on Fri, 6PM
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Apple’s spent a lot of time investigating alternative ways of interacting with its devices, but one of my favorite is one of the newest: head gestures with AirPods. If you’re not famili…
on Fri, 1AM
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Clockwise 581: Visit That Like a Time Period with Dinosaurs
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How we deal with physical media, the most tech heavy restaurants we’ve patronized, tech that ended up disappointing us, and the social media networks of yesteryear that we’d bring back.
on Thu, 2AM
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Indecision at the intersection of Mac Studio and Mac mini
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My current desktop Mac, the one I work on day in and day out in my garage/office, is an M1 Mac Studio. I’ve had it for almost three years, and it’s still great. I know it’s great …
on Thu, 1AM
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The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model
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Personal computers started out simple. So simple that you could just type in programs and run them, save them, and even give them to your friends. But over time, things got more complicated. A lot …
on Wed, 4PM
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In my previous post for Six Colors, I wrote about why Apple’s Clean Up (and photo retouching tools in general) were a fine tool for people to have in their photo editing toolkits. Now that Cl…
on Tue, 5PM
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This Week in Apple: The good ship AI runs aground
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Rumors have Apple prepping a home hub, the company continues to be a target for regulations abroad, and AI runs into some diminishing returns. Camera obscura Sure, you’ve used Apple products in you…
on Nov 15
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The problems with the two-Mac lifestyle, Jason finally gets his Kindle review finished, and we take the long view via Apple’s financial charts.
on Nov 15
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Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
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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. Desi…
on Nov 15
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On Halloween, Apple announced its fiscal fourth quarter results, posting another flat sales quarter even while continuing to beat all-time quarterly revenue records. And as usual, I filled a bunch …
on Nov 14
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The incredible M4 Macs create Apple’s biggest challenge yet
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As the cavalcade of M4 Macs rained down upon us last week, it became clear that Apple has established a solid rhythm for updates to its processor line. So far, it’s been four years and weR…
on Nov 14
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2024 Kindle Colorsoft and Paperwhite Review: No perfect choices
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The Kindle Paperwhite (left) and Colorsoft (right). The world of ebook readers is in a weird place, but when hasn’t it been? E-readers have always been a strange product niche, not just since…
on Nov 14
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Quick Tip: One-touch Screen Sharing
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One of the most-used buttons on my Stream Deck is a one-touch connection to the Mac mini server sitting in a closet in my house. I’m frequently popping in to manage files on my RAID, or recon…
on Nov 13
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Report: Apple might ship ‘Home Hub’ in early 2025
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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has been reporting for some time that Apple is planning a “smart display” to be used in the home, but Tuesday he reported a remarkable level of detail: The…
on Nov 12
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This Week in Apple: Muddling through
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Tech CEOs put their heads together to keep the industry afloat, the new Macs are out and the reviews are good, but the Vision Pro forecast has turned to “Outlook hazy, ask again later”. Tim’s rollo…
on Nov 8
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We discuss our reviews of the M4 iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, as well as the ongoing challenge of Apple silicon being so good that it’s hard to sell upgrades. [More Colors/Backstage membe…
on Nov 8
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My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn. This is something like what IT and security professionals feel when…
on Nov 8
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Review: Belkin Travel Bag and Head Strap for Vision Pro
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Ready to go, a more respectable Vision Pro travel case. Belkin has just released two new Vision Pro accessories–a $50 add-on Head Strap that supplement Apple’s Solo Knit Band, and a $10…
on Nov 7
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M4 Mac mini Review: Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty form factor
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Meet the new Mac mini—for the first time in the last fourteen years, not the same as the old Mac mini. The latest iteration of Apple’s most diminutive Mac really earns that superlative in its…
on Nov 7
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M4 iMac Review: Gloriously niche
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The iMac, redesigned for Apple silicon in 2021, is a gorgeous reinvention of Apple’s venerable all-in-one. It’s colorful (if you want it to be), powerful (enough), and designed to show …
on Nov 7
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M4/M4 Pro MacBook Pro review: Brighter, clearer, faster
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The latest update to the MacBook Pro is not a radically different laptop than what has come before. Since the product was redesigned in 2021, subsequent updates have been largely the same, at least…
on Nov 7
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Where Will Apple Intelligence go next?
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If you didn’t notice, Apple Intelligence is here. But it would be hard not to notice–Apple is marketing its new collection of AI features everywhere it possibly can, from television ads…
on Nov 6
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iPads being used on college football sidelines
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You 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: “Ha…
on Nov 5
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This Week in Apple: Macs for days
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The new Macs are here! The new Macs are here! Apple also updated its peripherals. Wow. Then it did a little shopping. Sweet 16 As was foretold in prophecy, Apple introduced new M4-based Macs this w…
on Nov 1
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Macs, tax, and the rules of acquisition
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A huge week! We break down new Macs, Apple’s Mac release strategy, the financial results, and a surprising Apple purchase.
on Nov 1
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My 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 prom…
on Nov 1
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Pixelmator 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, Pixelmato…
on Nov 1
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Apple sinks $1.1 billion into Globalstar’s satellite network, takes ownership stake
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If 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…
on Nov 1
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Apple’s Q424 results: $95B revenue–with a twist
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Apple 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 fo…
on Oct 31
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This is Tim: Apple’s Q4 results phone call, transcribed
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Every 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, a…
on Oct 31
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The Back Page: Tim Cook’s busy schedule
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It should come as a surprise to no one that Tim Cook is a very busy man. He’s the CEO of one of the world’s largest and most valuable companies—and he’s not just a stuffed, button…
on Oct 31
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Taking the AirPods Pro hearing test
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The 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). Even if your AirPods Pro hearin…
on Oct 31
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Clockwise 578: Sadly, No Taste for Blood
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Our 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; an…
on Oct 31
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The truth behind Apple’s most unpopular decisions: It’s not about you
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Twelve 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)”. The …
on Oct 30
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Apple introduces new MacBook Pros with M4 chips, brighter screen
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Apple’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…
on Oct 30
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16GB for everyone: MacBook Air joins the RAM upgrade party
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This 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 …
on Oct 30
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Why Alexa hasn’t yet become the real computer of the future
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Great 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: pl…
on Oct 30
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The M4 Mac mini: Tricks and treats
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Just 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. As a current Mac mini user (and someone who&…
on Oct 29
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New Mac mini shrinks down, gains M4 and M4 Pro chips
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Apple’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. The redesigned M4 Mac…
on Oct 29
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Apple Intelligence .1 Review: A small start of something big?
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With 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…
on Oct 28
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Apple introduces M4 iMac with revamped colors, nano-texture display option
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Begun, 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. The iMac’s design remains largely the…
on Oct 28
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This Week in Apple: Tune in next week
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This week we get to know Tim Cook (did you know, for instance, that he is CEO at Apple Inc.?) and get a gut check on Apple’s AI position. Ultimately, however, we’re just biding time until next week…
on Oct 25
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You can use Clean Up with a clear conscience
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Next 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. This is not a…
on Oct 25
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Apple Intelligence and Mac anticipation
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Apple Intelligence arrives again, just before it arrives; we try to imagine how Apple will execute its “week of Macs.”
on Oct 25
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Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari 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 be…
on Oct 25