Good news for buyers, but $249 would be even better. | Continue reading
The venerable text editor is back on the Mac App Store, as noted by Zac Hall at 9to5Mac: BBEdit 12.6 in February introduced support for Sandboxing on the Mac, a major overhaul that secures how the … | Continue reading
This week on the show: AirPower is dead, Powerbeats Pro are here, Federico is having a good week on Twitter and iCloud Drive deserves some attention from Apple. My thanks to our sponsors: Hullo: A … | Continue reading
For a while now, if you’ve been looking at a high-end iMac, there has been an obvious, looming question: Should I just buy the iMac Pro instead? Jason Snell, writing at Macworld, tackles this… | Continue reading
I joined John and Gui over on the newest episode of Stacktrace to talk through Apple’s 40-year history, and how it is a company that is always changing. It was a lot of fun to nerd about abou… | Continue reading
I recently spoke with Darren from The Mac Quad about my background, some of the gear I use to produce content and some important pieces of nerd culture that should be saved for future generations. … | Continue reading
The PowerCD is a weird footnote in the history of Apple’s audio products, but I just recently learned in was going to come in two colors, thanks to this support article: There original strate… | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: Stephen and David talk through the ups and downs of the Mac App Store and share some of the hidden gems they’ve found there over the years. Then, they recap Appl… | Continue reading
After announcing AirPower back in the fall of 2017, the multi-device wireless charging pad has been cancelled. Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch: Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, c… | Continue reading
We’re super excited to announce we’re hosting a live episode of Connected at WWDC again this year. The show will be the evening of Wednesday, June 5. Tickets are on sale now and are mov… | Continue reading
Big, big week on Connected: After announcing tickets for their live WWDC show and judging their predictions for Apple’s media event and breaking a score between Stephen and Myke, the guys sha… | Continue reading
On what is the second episode of Liftoff in two days: The guys talk through a few stories that didn’t make Episode 95, including what’s going on with Boeing’s Starliner and Sierra… | Continue reading
…and she isn’t happy about it. | Continue reading
A huge space policy announcement it the central theme on this episode of Liftoff: Vice President Mike Pence has challenged NASA to return to the moon within five years. Jason and I respond to the n… | Continue reading
After upgrading my MacBook Pro to macOS 10.14.4 this morning, macOS asked me to re-authenticate one of my G Suite accounts I use in Mail.1 As pointed out by Greg Pierce, I am not the only one, and … | Continue reading
Apple Support: This document provides compatibility information and basic troubleshooting for installing Mac OS 8.6. | Continue reading
This time on Ungeniused, a heartbreaking story: In 1982, a series of murders rocked the country and changed consumer packaging forever. This took place 4 years before I was born, but it impacted th… | Continue reading
It’s all a lie, but here it is on my iPhone XS: I really do not like that Apple allowed this. | Continue reading
There’s a lot to process about today’s event, but in the meantime, here’s some stuff you should check out: Keynote Details Apple’s March 25 Keynote: By the Numbers Apple Shares Vi… | Continue reading
I love this. | Continue reading
This week on MPU: The guys work their way through some feedback, Stephen has feelings about his Apple Watch and David has switched notes apps … again. This was my first “feedback”… | Continue reading
Yours truly, over at MacStories: The recent iMac updates brought additional power and flexibility to Apple’s all-in-one desktop, but didn’t redesign or modernize the iMac as we’ve… | Continue reading
Hi, it looks like you want to read an article about Clippy. I can help you with that! | Continue reading
I went into 2019 with a lot of plates in the air, and a lot of change, having joined Mac Power Users. My schedule felt chaotic, so I restarted time tracking, something I haven’t done since 20… | Continue reading
I had forgotten all about this: Apple has discovered that a small percentage of flash storage drives in these MacBook Air models have an issue that may result in data loss. This update tests your d… | Continue reading
I love stuff like this. | Continue reading
Good news if your AirPods are slowly dying: The new Apple-designed H1 chip, developed specifically for headphones, delivers performance efficiencies, faster connect times, more talk time and the co… | Continue reading
Busy, busy week: The boys take some time to mark National Ravioli Day, then dive into Apple’s new iPads and iMacs before making predictions for the company’s upcoming media event. I am … | Continue reading
In addition to the iMac changes, Apple has quietly adjusted many options for the iMac Pro, as Joe Rossignol reports: Alongside a spec bump to standard iMac models, Apple today quietly added 256GB R… | Continue reading
There’s a big episode of Jason Snell and Myke Hurley’s Upgrade podcast hot off the presses: After nearly two years, Apple has released new iMacs, and Jason has an exclusive interview wi… | Continue reading
Apple is at it again this morning, this time updating its iMac line: Apple today updated its iMac line with up to 8-core Intel 9th-generation processors for the first time and powerful Vega graphic… | Continue reading
With its media event just a week away, it seems that Apple is clearing the decks a bit. This morning, the company announced a new iPad, as well as an updated iPad mini. iPad Air The new non-Pro iPa… | Continue reading
John Koblin at The New York Times, writing about Apple’s media event happening a week from today: The event at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino is also meant to drive home — for iPhone fans… | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: When thinking about making an iPad a notebook replacement, there are a lot of factors to consider. David and Stephen talk through the hardware and software that can ma… | Continue reading
Phil Schiller made an appearance on this week’s ATP, talking about WWDC and much more, including the Macworld when he jumped off a platform to show off the iBook’s wireless networking. Oh, and boxe… | Continue reading
We mark a special occasion on today’s Ungeniused. My thanks to Water Cooler Trivia for supporting the show. | Continue reading
This week, on a packed episode of Connected: Stephen introduces his co-hosts to a groundbreaking iPad drawing application, Federico starts a new mini-series and Myke buries the lede concerning Spot… | Continue reading
BananaPaint is an iPad app that looks (and feels) like MacPaint. What more do you need to know? The best part? The developer says the app will save and open original MacPaint documents. I don’… | Continue reading
This week’s MPU features one of my favorite people in our corner of the Internet: Shawn Blanc returns to the show to talk about his move to the iPad Pro and how he manages the growing team be… | Continue reading
I have written about the Dogcow before, but I thought it was time to tell her story in video form: Even though I didn’t start using the Mac on a regular basis until 2001 or so, I have a fondness fo… | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Federico talks about the new MacStories Shortcuts Archive and the guys check in with iOS 12 halfway through its lifecycle. Federico’s work on the Shortcuts Archive is … | Continue reading
Federico Viticci has created a masterpiece: Since the original release of Workflow in 2014, we’ve created hundreds of automations to help readers use their iOS devices more efficiently. The goal of… | Continue reading
iFixit has been working on a story about the display ribbon cable in the Thunderbolt 3 MacBook Pros. Here’s the gist of it: The issue is fairly simple: the current generation of MacBook Pro l… | Continue reading
Apple Support: Every 72 hours after you start up or restart your computer, a routine maintenance task (or “cron job”) runs that can affect iDisk. If you have selected the “Create … | Continue reading
Last night, we recorded a live Mac Power Users in Chicago. I just published the episode, which was a ton of fun to record: Live from Chicago, David and Stephen thaw out long enough to talk to a cou… | Continue reading
I missed Connected this week for reasons, but I’m looking forward to hearing the show: After skipping follow-up, Myke and Federico try to explain the new USB branding, discuss fingerprint sen… | Continue reading
At its “Back to the Mac” event in the fall of 2010, Apple took the wraps of the second-generation MacBook Air. In one keynote, the MacBook Air went from a too-expensive, underpowered no… | Continue reading