Quick Look is a great Finder feature, and now it can see into folders thanks to a free Mac app named Folder Quick Look. Here’s what it is like in action: John Gruber, in his link to it: Looks, feels, and works like a feature that ought to be built into the Finder itself. Cool.| 512 Pixels
We just wound down our annual St. Jude fundraiser. The Relay community was once again incredibly generous, donating $753,756 to help end childhood cancer around the world. This makes 2025 our third-biggest fundraiser ever. When we started this back in 2019, we just wanted to raise a few thousand dollars, but as of today, we’ve […]| 512 Pixels
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history and app usage stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers in Safari, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. And with App […]| 512 Pixels
This week, on a jam-packed episode of MPU: From Liquid Glass to a stronger Spotlight, macOS Tahoe reshapes the Mac. Spotlight now remembers your clipboard and taps into App Intents, while Apple’s apps gain updates to match their mobile counterparts. Elsewhere, visionOS and watchOS bring new features to Apple’s other platforms.| 512 Pixels
Picking an iPhone used to be easy. For years, the only real option was what color you wanted, at least for some models. Then came the iPhone 6 and superior-yet-a-little-bendy 6 Plus, which made things a little more complicated. A few years later, things started getting weird. In rapid succession, we saw the 8 and […]| 512 Pixels
After months of reporting and rumors, Google made its investment in West Memphis official today. Here’s The Daily Memphian’s Dima Amro: Google’s new data center in West Memphis will cost $4 billion and take 18 to 24 months to complete, officials said Thursday, Oct. 2. The data center will host cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, […]| 512 Pixels
This week on the world’s greatest podcast, Myke and I cover a new wave of Apple hardware leaks, then share our feelings on iPhones.| 512 Pixels
Nick’s long column on Apple’s new design language is probably the best thing I’ve read on the subject. This line about the glass material switching from light to dark as content scrolls behind it really jumped out at me: It is Apple’s clever solution to a problem Apple created. I like a lot about Liquid […]| 512 Pixels
September is winding down in a couple days, and with it, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This year marks our 7th annual fundraiser for St. Jude, and as of this writing, we’re sitting just shy of $640,000 raised this year, which is incredible. I know it’s rough out there right now, which makes this number all […]| 512 Pixels
We’re all dealing with more information than ever, and it’s becoming increasingly complex. You need bulletproof financial documents for audits, collaborative tools for your team, and AI that can actually help. DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus1 is here, and it’s designed to work with you, not against you. Its AI integration is incredibly useful — it can […]| 512 Pixels
This week on Mac Power Users: iOS and iPadOS 26 bring many changes, including Liquid Glass, updated first-party apps, and new multitasking features for iPad users. This week, the guys talk through these changes and share impressions of Apple’s latest iPhones, AirPods, and Watches.| 512 Pixels
For the second year in a row, Casey Liss joined us for the Podcastathon. He just published an amazing piece about the show and his time at St. Jude: This was my fourth time in Memphis; it’s staring to feel — to a degree — like a home away from home. Having been on campus […]| 512 Pixels
Chris Pennington over at Coding in Public has been running a community fundraiser with Relay for St. Jude for a few years, and yesterday, we sat down to talk about my St. Jude story, and how the hospital is serving sick kids — and their families — around the world. Speaking for our St. Jude fundraiser, we […]| 512 Pixels
This week on the podcast: The guys reunite to share their impressions of the iPhone 17 Pros, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and Imran Chaudhri’s current position at HP.| 512 Pixels
Amrith Ramkumar at The Wall Street Journal (Apple News), writing about a new partnership between the Trump administration and his on-again, off-again bestie Elon Musk: Under the agreement with the General Services Administration, which oversees technology procurement for the federal government, agencies will get access to models such as Grok 4 and a new fast […]| 512 Pixels
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: One of the first things I did when I got the new iPhones into Six Colors global HQ was to get the iPhone 17 Pro Max up and running and run Geekbench 6. (I know there are a lot of Geekbench scores out there, but I like to run […]| 512 Pixels
Rakhim Davletkali has written a delightful blog post, reviewing macOS releases in reverse: Apple’s first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was […]| 512 Pixels
512 Pixels reader Brian sent me a screenshot they took way back on Mac OS X 10.0, showing that Apple’s current struggle with transparent user interface elements isn’t anything new:| 512 Pixels
Clipboard managers are one of those utilities you don’t realize you need until you try one. And for years, they’ve all felt the same—catch-all junk drawers where your copy/paste history goes to die. Quip takes a different approach. It’s a clipboard manager and text expander for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, built to feel native, […]| 512 Pixels
Underscore, writing last week: Five years ago, a TikTok video changed my life. And I can say that without any hyperbole. I remember watching Widgetsmith rocket to the top of the App Store, and I could not have been more excited for Dave as it was happening. It’s a thrill to work on such a […]| 512 Pixels
Our 7th annual 12-hour live show raising money for St. Jude is coming up on Friday! Please tune in and donate:| 512 Pixels
Today, Apple launched iOS 26. Over at Cross Forward, we’ve got major updates to three of our apps today: Widgetsmith 8 This is a big one. Widgetsmith’s design has been updated for Liquid Glass, but we took that opportunity to make meaningful improvements across the app: New main screen that makes it easier to find […]| 512 Pixels
I think Snell nails it: macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It’s the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral damage from Apple’s broader design ambitions on its other platforms. It features the biggest update to Spotlight ever, including direct access to app actions and Apple’s first-ever […]| 512 Pixels
Ticci is back with a comprehensive look at iOS and iPadOS 26: There was a lot riding on Apple’s software strategy in 2025. Now that we’re entering the final phase of the Apple product launch year, I believe that, in hindsight, their three key moves from the first half of 2025 are – at least […]| 512 Pixels
I spent a large part of my weekend making over 150 screenshots, just for you. I mostly like Liquid Glass on iOS and iPadOS, but it feels like macOS got a lot less time in the oven than the mobile operating systems did. For example, toolbar buttons still really stick out, and I wish app […]| 512 Pixels
I know this puts me in a very specific age bracket, but I did almost of all my writing in high school in AppleWorks 6 and still miss it.| 512 Pixels
It’s wild that we’ve been watching iPhone events for nearly two decades now, but it’s true, and over that time, things have fallen into a predictable pattern: Rumors about features and designs start to leak Parts photos show up online Invites go out Apple announces something that a lot of folks have already seen That […]| 512 Pixels
This week on Connected: With the dust settling from Apple’s event, the guys score their picks, covering the iPhone Air, 17, and 17 Pro, as well as new AirPods and Apple Watches.| 512 Pixels
Identity 4 has had a Macintosh Plus for years, but was unhappy with its bulk and heat generation, so they did something wild: I ought to make a rack-mounted version of this computer so it can fit cleanly in my studio rack cabinets along with all my other conveniently packaged gear. I will even give […]| 512 Pixels
Come for some interesting tidbits, stay for Joz throwing the phone across the studio and two guys trying to bend it:| 512 Pixels
Apple’s saving tech blogs a lot of work by making its own supercut of today’s event:| 512 Pixels
512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, design, and other fine nerdery, written by Stephen Hackett.| 512 Pixels
Ming-Chi Kuo is back with a new report, this time concerning a new MacBook Apple is apparently working on behind the scenes: Expected to enter mass production in late 4Q25 or early 1Q26, with an approximately 13-inch display and powered by the A18 Pro processor. Potential casing colors include silver, blue, pink, and yellow Apple […]| 512 Pixels
In September 2025, Apple released macOS 26 Tahoe, advancing the version number to match its new convention of aligning releases with the next calendar year. Tahoe introduced Liquid Glass to the Mac. Despite sharing a name, the user interface was different in some notable ways to its iOS and iPadOS cousins. Beyond the new design, […]| 512 Pixels
While sometimes it can be hard to see from single release to single release, Apple has steadily been refining the Aqua user interface since first introducing it. Mac OS X started life on CRTs and small notebook screens. Today, macOS spans from 13-inch MacBooks to the 32-inch Pro Display XDR. It has undergone system font […]| 512 Pixels
I spent the week with ALSAC — the fundraising organization at St. Jude — with half a dozen Relay folks and a few hundred other content creators who are using their platforms for fundraising. View this post on Instagram A post shared by St. Jude PLAY LIVE (@stjudeplaylive) (Most of the events were at the Peabody […]| 512 Pixels