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Last month I complained about the Safari download window being hard to read with the default settings. Today I'm back complaining about contrast and legibility again with the updated Home app in macOS Ventura. I wanted to add an accessory today and I stared at the window for
I just noticed that Apple updated the Font Book app in macOS Ventura, and while I don't know for sure, it seems that it was done in Swift UI. It's nice! Here's what I wrote a few days before WWDC this year: WWDC wish:
Apple released public betas for all their main products today, and I think the one people will enjoy the most up front will be the new lock screen. We got: 1. New fonts 2. Color controls 3. Wallpaper filters 4. New animated wallpapers 5. Depth-detection in all photos 6. Widgets
I've gone all in on Siri for voice assistants in my home. A HomePod is always close enough to take my requests, and being able to AirPlay from my devices to them quickly is a huge draw. But I do have one Google Assistant speaker in the houseā¦
Mail for iOS and Mac got a few solid updates, which means I had to give it a shot on iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura. I appreciate the new snooze, send later, and undo send features are nice, and work as you'd expect, although I still
Just over 2 months ago I made this video where I proposed something called studioOS that was exclusive to the Pro iPads and allowed them to run more apps at the same time in a fully-windowed environment. Here's the very quick mock up I threw together for it:
On a pretty regular basis Iāll see someone write a thread or blog post about why theyāre switching to all stock iPhone apps. The dream seems to be throwing all third party apps to the side and going all in on Apple stuff. Everyone is of course allowed
There's a constant stream of Apple rumors, and you never know exactly how accurate any of them are until months (or years) later, but we never go back to look up how accurate the rumors were, so I wanted to change that today. I went through all the
The new Studio Display reviews are out, and the general consensus seems to be that it's a pretty damn good display with great speakers and a decent-to-terrible webcam that's getting fixed with a software update rolling out as we speak. A few reviewers have criticized the
The Mac Studio looks great, and as a computer lover, I want one just because, but I thought this mental exercise was a good way to determine if it's right for you. Consider an alternate reality where the Mac Studio was released in October 2021, and the new
Apple used their now-famous vague performance charts to show how their new M1 Ultra system on a chip smoked NVIDIA's top-of-the-line RTX 3090 graphics card both in performance and power usage. I believe Apple 100% about the power usage, but the performance numbers are a bit misleading, in
Jason Snell does his excellent Apple report card every year, and while I wasnāt invited (Jason, call me š), the report card has been rattling around in my head since it came out and I wanted to add my takes, so consider this a write-in ballot. As a reminder to
The Moto 360 has a cutout at the bottom. Apple fanboys: OMG itās a flat tire, what trash! The Pixel 3 XL has a big old bathtub notch. Apple fanboys: man, what an ugly notch, Google sucks. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra has a tiny notch. Apple fanboys:
Apple's "best I can do is 27%" deal for merchants selling dating apps in the Netherlands is a bit of a laugh, but what would it look like if Apple made this available to everyone? Like let's just say that at WWDC this June
Iām here to say that yes, I notice the notch on the 2021 MacBook Pro every single time I use the computer, and yes, itās annoying. When these machines came out, everyone went out of their way to say something like, āI donāt even notice it!ā and