Tear those epaulettes off one of your admin accounts in macOS. It knows what it did! And what’s that? It’s just too darned powerful. An account marked as an administrator can carry out …| Six Colors
The passkey was introduced with some excitement by Apple and varying degrees of hurrahs from Microsoft and Google a few years ago.1 This humble method of combining strong encryption, avoiding passw…| Six Colors
The definitive Mac of the last decade was the 13-inch MacBook Air, introduced in 2010 and featuring a wedge-shaped design. It influenced all the Apple laptops (and let’s face it, a lot of PC …| Six Colors
Imagine a slideshow of images of every portable Mac Apple has made, displayed in chronological order. It starts with the Macintosh Portable and ends with two M1 MacBooks. For a while, the slides ar…| Six Colors
The bottom row of my Stream Deck is devoted to Podcast Notes. Three years ago, Dan and I collaborated on a project that allowed us to dynamically create editing notes on our Macs while recording a …| Six Colors
The M4 MacBook Air can drive two external displays with its lid open. The new M4 MacBook Air is the Mac most people should buy. It’s easy to get caught up in the small changes Apple rolls int…| Six Colors
In late 2023, Digitimes reported that Apple was developing a low-cost MacBook, kicking off a lot of speculation about what that might mean and how the company might execute on such a product. Here&…| Six Colors
During last week’s WWDC festivities, John Gruber interviewed Apple executives on stage for The Talk Show Live, as he’s done for years. This time it was different because people at home …| Six Colors
Support for mice and trackpads on iPadOS is real. In a world that’s gotten awfully used to disappointment lately, it’s far better than I imagined. And we don’t even have to wait u…| Six Colors
Shortcuts for Mac adds support for LLM actions. So last year’s WWDC was too bold, too loud, too defensive. And, as it turned out, too aggressive in promising features Apple couldn’t del…| Six Colors
Editing the Home View in Bora Bora. I’m just back from Cupertino, and there’s an awful lot to think about. But before all that, I thought I’d cover what absolutely everyone is tal…| Six Colors
The Vision Pro isn’t a product many people should buy today, and that’s not really surprising. It’s an example of Apple playing a long game, trying to build a wearable computing p…| Six Colors
Now that’s more like it. Spatial appears above the red Leave button. On Tuesday, Apple flipped the switch on a new version of Persona, its 3D representations of visionOS users. Anyone with vi…| Six Colors
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 …| Six Colors
Here’s what the new M2 MacBook Pro is not: new. Yes, it’s powered by a new generation of Apple silicon, but it’s very much the same laptop that was updated for the Apple silicon e…| Six Colors
What the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro is… depends on your perspective. If you’re taking the 1000-foot overview of the Mac market, it’s most notable for being the first shipping product …| Six Colors
The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal–but t…| Six Colors
In October 2011, Apple fans wrote messages of love and loss on a black wall in front of the Apple Store in Seattle, remembering and celebrating Steve Jobs. I fell in love with Apple with the first …| Six Colors
It’s been a very long time since Apple released a product as speculative and impractical as the Vision Pro, its $3499 first-generation “spatial computing” headset. Led by Apple, t…| Six Colors
It’s been nearly two years since the Mac Studio was updated to M2, but on Wednesday Apple announced the next step in its evolution. And if you’re ready to write off the Mac Studio as ha…| Six Colors
Like the M2 MacBook Pro released earlier this year, the new M3 MacBook Pro doesn’t look particularly new. It’s the third iteration of the excellent MacBook Pro redesign from 2021, featu…| Six Colors
Three BitBar plugins in action. I really can’t recommend Mat Ryer’s BitBar enough. It’s a free Mac utility that lets you put more or less anything you want in your menu bar. I kee…| Six Colors
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time…| Six Colors
Last year, Apple started tolling the death knell for passwords with the first round of passkey support on its platforms. At the time, I wrote: …the writing is on the wall for the good old pas…| Six Colors
A surprising part of Apple’s macOS Ventura announcement on Monday was Continuity Camera, which lets Macs use the iPhone camera as a webcam. It’s not surprising in that it’s a feat…| Six Colors
The BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple: Apple has said it will upda…| Six Colors
I like reading books on my Kindle, but one of the drawbacks of the Kindle platform is that it doesn’t support the epub book format. Instead, Kindle supports the Mobipocket format and its Kind…| Six Colors
Rogue Amoeba has announced the release of Audio Hijack 3, the successor to the venerable Mac sound utility Audio Hijack Pro. This is a huge update–the first major one for Audio Hijack in ten …| Six Colors
Last month I wrote about how Apple’s cascade of macOS alerts and warnings ruin the Mac upgrade experience. My point wasn’t to ask Apple to make the Mac less secure. It was for Apple to …| Six Colors
In an attempt to protect Mac users from getting themselves into trouble, Apple introduced numerous permissions pop-ups into macOS Catalina. In the years since, the company has accelerated its appro…| Six Colors
As always, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri spent time with financial analysts on a scheduled phone call after reporting the company’s quarterly results. Here’s our complete tran…| Six Colors
I’ve detailed my very favorite apps here in 2014 and Dan and I praised more apps last year. I’m not going to restate the stuff mentioned in those stories–yep, still writing this i…| Six Colors
In recent years we’ve had some macOS releases that were disruptive, in the worst way. Whether it was bugs or incompatibilities or broken features, nothing makes the excitement of a new OS upd…| Six Colors
