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December 2016

  1. The Back Page: A new year
  2. The Hackett File: Mac in a box
  3. By Request: Holiday helpers
  4. What I Use: Back it up
  5. Nothing happens next week
  6. PowerPhotos
  7. A wish list for the iPhone in 2017
  8. Packing tech on vacation
  9. 3 technologies to keep an eye on in 2017
  10. Feed Sponsor: PowerPhotos
  11. 47: December 29, 2016
  12. Gamifying obedience to the state
  13. Removing podcast room noise, hum, and echo
  14. Tesla software predicts someone else’s accident
  15. Apple’s desktop Macs need some innovation in 2017
  16. Carrie Fisher dies at 60
  17. HandBrake finally hits 1.0 after 13 years
  18. Apple’s AI team publishes paper on photo recognition
  19. Listen without prejudice
  20. Happy Holidays to All
  21. The Rebound 117: Nose Pods
  22. WinterFest 2016
  23. Cars and Trucks and Mac SUVs
  24. RSS Sponsor: WinterFest – Artisanal software that’s better together
  25. Our favorite books of the year
  26. The Mac in 2016: Grading our predictions
  27. 46: December 21, 2016
  28. AirPods Review: Hearing is believing
  29. Apple extends accessory discount period
  30. Our favorites: Hardware and gadgets
  31. Tim Cook: “Great desktops” are coming
  32. The Rebound 116: Rebound: The John and Jon Edition
  33. Editing podcasts on iOS: A video example
  34. AirPods: Your burning questions, answered
  35. How Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is connected to the Mac
  36. Our favorites: Grab bag!
  37. Journaly
  38. RSS Sponsor: Journaly
  39. Our Favorites: iOS apps
  40. One Year of iPad Pro
  41. AirPods are shipping (and backordered)
  42. 45: December 8, 2016
  43. Our favorites: This year’s Mac app discoveries
  44. The Apple Watch doesn’t have to trade fashion for fitness
  45. Our favorites: iOS/Mac Games
  46. The Rebound 115: I Got The High Score Every Single Time
  47. Twitter accidentally pushed experimental @-less tweets to iOS users
  48. Hulu aims to avoid mix of chocolate, peanut butter with new profiles
  49. A wish list for the iPad Pro in 2017
  50. Apple’s machine learning research goes public
  51. Microsoft bringing Windows 10 to ARM chips, with caveats
  52. ‘Alto’s Odyssey’ coming in 2017
  53. Quick Tip: View only Downloaded Music on iOS
  54. Google Wifi reviews: Meshes with your lifestyle
  55. Apple’s new Single Sign On feature needs an asterisk
  56. Tim Cook: Apple Watch is doing great
  57. An oral history of the “Get a Mac” ads
  58. SetApp: Another take on the Mac App Store
  59. Netflix downloads use different video settings, codecs
  60. Studio Neat
  61. How Apple could make international travel easier
  62. What if the AirPort Extreme becomes the Siri Speaker?
  63. Transferring audio files from an SD card to an iOS device with FlashAir
  64. Recording a podcast locally on iOS without a Mac
  65. The Rebound 114: Nerds Are People
  66. The evolution of Apple’s laptops, from the PowerBook to the MacBook Pro
  67. 44: November 30-December 1, 2016
  68. Distant is a “wondrous” platformer being published by Alto’s Adventure creators

November 2016

  1. The Back Page: Design by the book
  2. The Hackett File: Two Macs
  3. By Request: Anniversaries
  4. What I Use: Traveling abroad
  5. Computers are awesome!
  6. ‘Aqua and Bondi’
  7. Quick Tip: Print to PDF in iOS
  8. Apple ranks highest in Wi-Fi router customer satisfaction
  9. Netflix will finally—finally!—let you download content to watch offline
  10. Demonetization bumped iPhone sales in India
  11. What’s the best way to migrate?
  12. Report: Amazon working on an Alexa-speaker with a screen
  13. David Sparks on dodging Calendar spam
  14. TWIT #590: The Lady in the Canister
  15. Go Play: Gunpoint
  16. Joe Steel recommends the Fire Stick 2
  17. All the Ways I Automate
  18. The Rebound 113: Case Closed
  19. The future of the Mac: a spinoff?
  20. Why Apple (probably) won’t make an ARM-powered Mac
  21. Tips for securing your network’s router
  22. Apple makes Apple Music deal with Indian ride-hailing service Ola
  23. Wi-Fi Mesh systems compared
  24. Quick Tip: Batch resize images in Preview
  25. Why the new MacBook Pros max out at 16GB of RAM
  26. Report: Apple’s getting out of the Wi-Fi game
  27. Apple issues an activity challenge to Apple Watch owners
  28. MailRoute
  29. The Talk Show Episode 173: “Fork the Universe”
  30. The Rebound 112: Turning This Car Rebound
  31. A podcast studio for under $100
  32. The Clock helps you keep an eye on time zones
  33. Apple syncs call logs via iCloud, but it’s more of an annoyance than security risk
  34. Feed Sponsor: MailRoute
  35. IDG drops comments from its sites
  36. More on scripting and Sal, who y’all know
  37. 43: November 16-17, 2016
  38. Sal Soghoian leaves Apple
  39. Troubleshooting some nasty Safari malware
  40. Google’s PhotoScan uses your phone to digitize old photos
  41. ‘Designed by Apple in California’
  42. MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: Keyboard chameleon
  43. The Rebound 111: No Port Left Behind
  44. The Retina divide
  45. What the Touch Bar tells us about the Mac’s future
  46. DirecTV’s streaming channel line-up, Apple TV promotion leaked
  47. The NES Classic is more or less an off-the-shelf Linux box
  48. 42: November 7, 2016
  49. Adobe’s VoCo – Photoshop for audio?
  50. Airfoil connects Macs to Chromecast
  51. Achieving Escape Velocity on macOS Sierra
  52. Review: On the road with the 13-inch MacBook Pro
  53. Apple cuts prices on USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 adapters, peripherals
  54. Next year’s Alexa upgrade is a little off-putting
  55. Single sign-on feature rolling out in tvOS, iOS betas
  56. Will the Touch Bar learn from the Apple Watch’s mistakes?
  57. The Rebound 110: What’s up, Thunderbolt Dock?
  58. Getting off the macOS beta train—this time, for real
  59. Why 2016 was such a tough year for the Mac
  60. Phil Schiller on MacBook Pro design decisions
  61. iOS 10.2 beta brings many new emoji
  62. iFixit tears down MacBook Pro with function keys

October 2016

  1. The Back Page: Project Titan memo from Bob Mansfield
  2. The Hackett File: In praise of Alfred
  3. By request: What to expect when you’re expecting new Macs
  4. Hello again.
  5. Apple’s less than exciting TV updates
  6. Apple’s TV plan has got to be more than the TV app
  7. 41: October 30, 2016
  8. PowerPhotos
  9. Sponsor: PowerPhotos
  10. Some more hands-on experience with the new MacBook Pros
  11. The Rebound 109: I’m Still Buying The Stuff
  12. Perpendicular philosophy
  13. A few quick thoughts about Thursday’s Mac event in Cupertino
  14. Live from Cupertino: Apple’s Oct. 27 event
  15. 4 ways Tim Cook made lemonade out of Apple’s Q4 2016 earnings
  16. Report: Apple TV discovery feature in the offing
  17. Apple’s fiscal 4th quarter in 5 charts
  18. Analysts fail to perform Jedi Mind Trick on Apple CEO
  19. Apple Financial Results: Live coverage
  20. New MacBook Pro images appear in macOS Sierra 10.12.1
  21. Logitech brings some Harmony to the Amazon Echo
  22. The 10th anniversary of the 5th anniversary of the iPod
  23. The New York Times buys The Wirecutter
  24. FabFocus
  25. 40: October 21, 2016
  26. Go Play: Mini Metro
  27. What the new MacBook Pro might have learned from iPhones and iPads
  28. The Rebound 108: The ROKR of Cars
  29. RSS Sponsor: FabFocus
  30. Apple event confirmed for October 27
  31. Wish List: Easier Alexa Skills
  32. What’s next for Project Titan and the Apple Car?
  33. Mac event coming next week?
  34. Go Play: Really Bad Chess
  35. Rockstar Games officially announces Red Dead Redemption 2
  36. Jason talks Photos on MacVoices
  37. Keep it secret: Apple files a lot of trademarks in Jamaica first
  38. Bloomberg: Apple scales back car plans
  39. U.S. journalist faces charges for covering a protest
  40. ‘It is the First Amendment.’
  41. ‘Welcome to Macintosh’ Kickstarter
  42. Six Colors fall sponsorships available
  43. Wish List: New Mac Alert Sounds
  44. Siri’s problem: Not quite human enough, yet
  45. Siri contemplates her navel
  46. The Rebound 107: The Hottest of Takes
  47. 39: October 13, 2016
  48. With Echo Spatial Perception, two Echoes finally are better than one
  49. When traveling, my iPad is essential and my Mac is the add-on
  50. Amazon launches Music Unlimited service, including Echo-only plan
  51. ‘5 GB is the new 16’
  52. Dropbox for iOS gets big update, promise of more
  53. Some encryption keys could use “trapdoored” prime numbers
  54. Philips Hue motion sensor: nice hardware, frustrating software
  55. Federico Viticci reviews the iPhone 7
  56. Capto
  57. RSS Sponsor: Capto
  58. Syncing feeling: iCloud Drive in macOS Sierra
  59. 3 neglected Apple products that could use some love
  60. The Rebound 106: Chamfered Nausea
  61. 38: October 6, 2016
  62. 21 Apple Watch Tips and Tricks
  63. When free space isn’t free: Purgeable storage in macOS Sierra
  64. Apple’s war on buttons: What’s next on the chopping block?
  65. Samsung acquires former Siri team members’ startup
  66. Inside Apple’s Lightning headphone adapter
  67. Life, as seen through 73,732 digital photographs
  68. Google giving free photo/video space to Pixel customers
  69. Major macOS updates can now download in the background
  70. It’s time for Apple to make a Siri Speaker—next year
  71. Boom 2

September 2016

  1. The Back Page: Top 5 features I want on the iPhone 8
  2. In praise of Mac trucks
  3. What I Use: Home-automation hardware
  4. By Request: Apple’s long game in the living room
  5. New toys
  6. 37: September 30, 2016
  7. Assembling YouTube videos with Final Cut Pro
  8. Úll 2016
  9. The Rebound 105: If It Ain’t Bokeh, Don’t Fix It
  10. RSS Sponsor: Boom 2
  11. What’s next for Siri?
  12. CW app adds Apple TV, AirPlay support
  13. BlackBerry to stop making hardware
  14. ‘Why AirPods Are The Best Place For Siri’
  15. Review: Kobo Aura One is a waterproof “hardcover” ebook reader
  16. Messages on iOS 10: Better features, worse usability
  17. Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
  18. Introducing “Photos: A Take Control Crash Course”
  19. Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback
  20. The Rebound 104: SIMs and Needles
  21. RSS Sponsor: Loopback
  22. How Apple’s hardline privacy policy limits key features in Photos and Siri
  23. Report: Apple looking to beef up smart home, Siri
  24. 36: September 22, 2016
  25. 6 Photos features that are worth the upgrade to macOS Sierra
  26. First impressions of Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus
  27. Hands on with iPhone 7 Plus portrait mode
  28. CW app coming to Apple TV next week?
  29. Vin Scully: The Man, The Voice, The Stories
  30. macOS Sierra Review: Hey Siri, where did my files go?
  31. Apple promises fix for Lightning headphone control bug
  32. Wish List: More HomeKit automation granularity
  33. Quick Tip: Restore missing definitions to Look Up
  34. DEVONthink
  35. RSS Sponsor: DEVONthink
  36. 35: September 16, 2016
  37. tvOS 10 is missing its best feature, but this show ain’t over yet
  38. iPhone 7 Review: Many additions and one subtraction
  39. The Rebound 103: Lose the Dongle
  40. iOS 10: The MacStories review
  41. iPhone camera comparison: 7 versus original
  42. Embrace the stickers, but the iMessage App Store contains so much more
  43. Quick Tip: Delete a sticker from a Messages conversation
  44. Quick Tip: Temporarily hide iMessage stickers that obscure text
  45. Some iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 notes
  46. Amazon releases revamped Echo Dot and white Echo, adds UK and Germany
  47. Can’t access iMessage effects in iOS 10? Here’s the culprit.
  48. Single sign-on for TV apps not available in tvOS 10 yet
  49. PSA: Be careful when considering an install of iOS 10
  50. A couple more bits about installing and hiding iMessage apps
  51. What’s new in Photos for iOS 10
  52. Getting iOS 10 right from the start
  53. Dealing with the deluge of iMessage apps and stickers
  54. 9.7-inch Logitech Create Keyboard for iPad Pro: An ideal typing companion
  55. The Magic of AirPods
  56. Mapbox
  57. Two cameras, four cores: How the iPhone 7 gives you more
  58. A look at the ceramic in the new Apple Watch Edition
  59. The Rebound 102: Yippie Ki Yay, Monkey Captain
  60. 34: September 8, 2016
  61. Space: The Final Frontier
  62. RSS Sponsor: Mapbox
  63. Charging and listening to wired headphones on the iPhone 7 will cost you $40
  64. Hit the road, Jack: Apple’s reasons for killing the headphone port
  65. Apple’s annual iteration: Thoughts on the Sept. 7 media event
  66. Headphone jack-based Square reader works with Lightning adapter
  67. Live coverage: Sept. 7 Apple media event
  68. What to look for at Wednesday’s Apple event
  69. A Visit from Saint Timothy
  70. Find Any File lets you see into Mac packages
  71. Evolving App Store Business Models
  72. 25 Apple dongles await new arrival
  73. The Rebound 101: Thoughts on Taxes
  74. There’s an OS X Server in the basement
  75. What’s up with Google?
  76. Apple preps Twitter account
  77. Hey, Apple: It’s time to rethink iCloud
  78. 33: September 1, 2016
  79. How Apple could make its next social experiment a successful one

August 2016

  1. RSS isn’t dead, and here’s the proof
  2. The Back Page: The third party
  3. What I Use: Creating and maintaining my website
  4. By Request: Desktop diagram
  5. Keeping up on the news
  6. Tapbots releases public beta of Pastebot for Mac
  7. WSJ goes hands on with third-party Siri integration
  8. BitTorrent client Transmission once again infected by malware
  9. Sonos and Amazon teaming up for voice control of speakers
  10. EU says Apple owes taxes, Apple says “nuh uh”
  11. The Mac: If not Sept. 7, then when?
  12. Apple Event: September 7
  13. How fair are your dice?
  14. The age of the dramatic Apple event reveal is over, and that’s okay
  15. Why Apple Watch 2 doesn’t need cellular anyway
  16. The Rebound 100: Why Aren’t We Doing THAT Show?
  17. 32: August 25, 2016
  18. New iPhone tap-to-pay feature coming, home button going?
  19. Apple’s presentation at Black Hat
  20. The future of board games: malleable, personal, and finite
  21. Report: Remote iPhone jailbreak in use by state-sponsored hackers
  22. Music subscription services are so good that I’m totally trapped
  23. Bloomberg: Apple developing Snapchat competitor
  24. Apple’s approach to machine learning and AI
  25. Streaming trumping digital video sales and rentals?
  26. Talkshow with John Gruber
  27. Amazon wants to offer a cheaper, Echo-only music streaming service
  28. The Mac OS Watch
  29. All-star notes app Vesper reaches the end
  30. MacStadium
  31. Follow-up: Exporting MP3s from iOS
  32. Quick Tip: Auto-expanding email address
  33. The next big thing in tech ought to be better batteries
  34. The Rebound 99: Helmet Conferencing
  35. 31: August 18, 2016
  36. RSS Sponsor: MacStadium
  37. Inside Square Enix’s mobile games studio
  38. Deus Ex Go hacks into a winning mobile formula
  39. New AT&T plans kill data overage charges in favor of throttling
  40. Quick Tip: Excluding backups from Spotlight
  41. The 5 stages of grief for a headphone-jack-free iPhone
  42. Wishlist: Bring back Find My Friends’s Temporary Events
  43. Intel’s Project Alloy takes a step into “merged reality”
  44. Castro 2: Inbox triage for podcast episodes
  45. Tim Cook’s Washington Post interview
  46. MacTech Conference
  47. The Rebound 98: Do I Sound Like a Toxin Flusher
  48. The Talk Show: “Enjoyably Clicky”
  49. The large appeal of a better iPhone camera
  50. 4 more places to find a list of all your Apple products
  51. iPad podcast post-production with Auphonic
  52. Google Docs, Sheets get iOS 9 split screen (finally)
  53. Sponsor: MacTech Conference
  54. Breaking into the smart home (through the front door)
  55. Six Colors sponsorship openings
  56. NBC Olympics streaming: Good content, bad app
  57. Mark Gurman: Details of the new iPhone
  58. Fast Company’s cover story about Apple
  59. Top 10 least-loved emojis
  60. The Rebound 97: Stop Acting Like You Steve
  61. Apple joins the security bounty culture
  62. Apple’s new plan: a TV guide
  63. Jeremy Burge on the gun emoji
  64. Lose iPhone, then get scammed
  65. Apple’s emoji updates in iOS 10
  66. The Six Colors Shirt
  67. Smart Keyboard gets new languages
  68. 30: August 2, 2016
  69. So Kagi died…
  70. Meet Apple’s new Remote app, not quite the same as the old Remote app
  71. Crowdsourcing Siri
  72. FunctionFlip for your flipping f-keys
  73. Automate this: Switch on

July 2016

  1. The Back Page: Hello, friend
  2. Non-password reasons to use 1Password
  3. What I Use: Automation
  4. By Request: Upgrade path
  5. Presentable: ‘The Color Show’
  6. My search for the best iPad Pro accessories
  7. Apple’s web of authentication
  8. The Rebound 96: Thumbprints Sink Ships
  9. Introducing “Free Agents”
  10. Report: Apple’s negotiating style hampering TV efforts
  11. Roll 20 now selling official licensed D&D content
  12. Project Titan’s eye turns to software
  13. Return of the Rocketeer
  14. Ode to the iPod Classic
  15. 29: July 27, 2016
  16. Apple sells its billionth iPhone
  17. Fix iCloud Tabs in macOS Sierra beta
  18. Apple remains optimistic after a tough Q3 2016
  19. Apple’s Q3 in charts and commentary
  20. Apple Q3 2016 financial results
  21. Quick Tip: Advanced Finder searches
  22. iOS 10 lets silent videos autoplay
  23. WSJ: Bob Mansfield heading up Apple car project
  24. Verizon buying Yahoo internet services for $4.83 billion
  25. forScore
  26. Razer Mechanical Keyboard Case: The quest for the perfect iPad Pro keyboard continues
  27. ‘Take Control of Preview’
  28. Three reasons to run your own Mac server
  29. The Rebound 95: Are You Anti-Gravity?
  30. iOS 10 Messages: All the New Features and How to Use Them
  31. ‘The iPad paradox’
  32. See every device associated with your Apple ID
  33. On sale now: The Six Colors t-shirt
  34. CocoaConf returning to Yosemite in 2017
  35. RSS Sponsor: forScore
  36. 28: July 20, 2016
  37. Scrivener for iOS out now
  38. Skype’s infrastructure changes lead to privacy and security questions
  39. Wish List: Auto-locking with the Apple Watch
  40. My weather station
  41. Apple Music and iTunes Match matching methods now match
  42. Centrify
  43. Which e-reader should you buy?
  44. 22 Overlooked iOS 10 Features You Should Try Out Now
  45. iOS 10: A place for Ethernet
  46. Sorry, macOS: Messages’ best new features are iOS only
  47. Eddy Cue on skinny bundles, translated
  48. Scrivener for iOS Review
  49. Eddy Cue chats with the Hollywood Reporter
  50. The original Nintendo Entertainment System rides again
  51. 27: July 13, 2016
  52. How Apple could improve Family Sharing
  53. Six Colors sponsorships available this summer
  54. The Rebound 94: A Prime Day Miracle
  55. Stop audio pauses in iOS 10 Public Beta
  56. Pokémon Go gains full access to Google accounts
  57. Super Stickman Golf 3 spins you right round, baby, right round
  58. San Diego’s all-star food and beer
  59. Mashable’s profile of Jordyn Castor
  60. Beginner’s guide to Pokémon Go
  61. Artisanal Software Festival
  62. The Rebound 93: That’s Cool, Senator
  63. Control bandwidth-sucking apps with TripMode
  64. Who benefits from Apple’s public betas? We all do
  65. 26: July 7, 2016
  66. RSS Sponsor: Summerfest – Artisanal software for your new plans and fresh projects
  67. More on Apple’s two-factor authentication: Apple Watch, app passwords, more
  68. 7 things to try in the macOS Sierra public beta
  69. Hands on with macOS Sierra
  70. Where should I install my iOS and macOS betas? A guide.
  71. macOS Sierra public beta arrives today
  72. Comcast, FCC continue to spar over cable box competition proposal
  73. Reconciling forked iMessage conversations
  74. Doing the two-step: Switching to Apple’s two-factor authentication
  75. Comcast set-top boxes to offer Netflix streaming
  76. Fireworks at Jupiter
  77. Fielding Independence Day
  78. Centrify
  79. Apple slams back at Spotify
  80. Searching for a good reason to remove the headphone jack
  81. It’s the ecosystem, stupid: Why Apple’s latest OS’s complete each other

June 2016

  1. The Rebound 92: An Infestation of Dans
  2. The Back Page: A minimum of futzing
  3. An analysis of Scottish sweets
  4. By Request: Quiet, I’m talking to Siri
  5. What I Use: Podcasting gear
  6. The pace of summer
  7. Wish List: Voiceprint passwords
  8. ‘Visions of Harmony’
  9. Apple gets patent to disable cameras
  10. Steve Jobs’ most colorful keynote moments
  11. 25: June 29, 2016
  12. New macOS Sierra security feature may harm more than help
  13. A little less color
  14. RSS Sponsor: Centrify
  15. Amazon’s new Kindle Page Flip wants to ape holding a page
  16. Automate This: Light it up
  17. USS Enterprise comes out of the workshop
  18. A little perspective on Apple’s financial performance
  19. Centrify
  20. New iOS 10 extensions stand to benefit Apple Watch
  21. The Rebound 91: Zsa Zsa Gboard
  22. Apple discontinues Thunderbolt Display
  23. 24: June 23, 2016
  24. Getting the time on your phone, old school
  25. 8 hidden features of macOS Sierra
  26. Apple confirms unencrypted kernel intentional
  27. Dropbox iOS update brings scanning features
  28. Hands on with macOS Sierra
  29. Strange things are afoot in my iTunes Library
  30. Amazon releases new base model Kindle
  31. iOS 10 beta’s kernel not encrypted
  32. What Apple’s Advanced Computer Vision can recognize
  33. WSJ: Next iPhone won’t have major changes
  34. Sonos app update adds lock-screen controls
  35. E-book settlement credits are rolling out…
  36. 20 years of the Iconfactory
  37. The lack of iPad features in iOS 10
  38. Many Tricks
  39. The Talk Show live at WWDC
  40. RSS Sponsor: Many Tricks
  41. With Sierra, Apple lets the Mac be the Mac
  42. Follow the users: Why Messages got the biggest upgrade in iOS 10
  43. The Rebound 90: Apps Are My Friends
  44. With watchOS 3, Apple Watch gets a do-over
  45. Apple embraces Not-Apple
  46. 23: June 14, 2016
  47. WWDC 2016: Apple’s OS improvements, in the order I want to download them
  48. WWDC 2016: Four platforms, quick reactions
  49. WWDC 2016 Keynote: live coverage
  50. Centrify
  51. Apple TV’s universal search expands
  52. WWDC 2016 Wish List: Apple TV
  53. Sci-fi short film written by an AI
  54. WWDC wish list: Surprises, wild cards, and one more things
  55. The Rebound 89: Turn the Negative Down
  56. Motion Stills
  57. Bitcam
  58. RSS Sponsor: Centrify
  59. Will iOS 10 include new emojis?
  60. App Store Uncertainty
  61. Joe Steel’s Apple TV Wish List
  62. Subscription fatigue
  63. Apple’s App Store changes and subscription pricing
  64. 22: June 8, 2016
  65. WWDC Wish List: Apple Watch
  66. Schiller details App Store revisions
  67. WWDC Wish List: iOS
  68. WWDC Wish List: The Mac
  69. The quest for a smarter Siri
  70. Igloo, a modern Intranet
  71. Nest founder Tony Fadell departs
  72. Wish List: Expiring Wallet items
  73. No shame in using free tools
  74. The joy of Slack
  75. Remembering the long-ago days of upgradeable Macs
  76. The Rebound 88: More of That Podcast Meat
  77. 21: June 2, 2016
  78. The Incomparable memberships
  79. How the fourth-generation Apple TV grew on me
  80. Bloomberg hires Mark Gurman
  81. Twitterrific adds a tip jar
  82. Today’s the day the capital-I Internet dies
  83. The Ringer
  84. Bezos says Amazon Video on Apple TV awaits “acceptable business terms”
  85. Don Melton’s video transcoding scripts
  86. Easily install command-line tools with Rudix
  87. Another take on souping up a Mac mini server

May 2016

  1. The Back Page: Pop the clutch
  2. What I Use: Email forever
  3. Ecosystem eclecticism
  4. Wish List: Full dictionary interface on iOS
  5. Is it me, or did the power just go off?
  6. Meh
  7. Apple’s intelligent assistant plans shouldn’t just echo the Echo
  8. Google’s cool tech and creepy interactions
  9. The Rebound 87: Dedicated Emoji Strip
  10. 20: May 26, 2016
  11. Is Google repeating Microsoft’s mistakes?
  12. Google beats Oracle
  13. New Six Colors Magazine, podcast releases
  14. Quick Tip: Restore missing Share menu options
  15. Apple Notes and college sports recruiting
  16. Comixology Unlimited: More about discovery than binging
  17. Amazon takes a chip off the Marvel block with Comixology Unlimited
  18. In Praise of the A-List
  19. Skype causing more headaches for Mac podcasters
  20. Apple’s AI challenges
  21. Layers
  22. Here’s hoping Google’s new messaging apps aren’t just two more silos
  23. Cook: Apple’s in India “for the next thousand years”
  24. The Rebound 86: Guttural Thinking Sounds
  25. 19: May 19, 2016
  26. Inside Google’s Plan to Rule the VR World
  27. Does a cellular Apple Watch make sense?
  28. Tim Cook at the Cricket Match
  29. Apple to open Maps-centric office in India
  30. Google I/O Keynote live coverage (completed)
  31. Apple opens iOS accelerator in Bengaluru
  32. Apple staffing up on wireless charging experts?
  33. Associate, a simple iOS app for Amazon links
  34. Twitter cutting links and photos from 140-character limit
  35. It’s Apple update Monday!
  36. Bushel 1
  37. The Incomparable #300
  38. Reimagining the iPad’s Smart Connector
  39. Apple confirms iTunes file-deletion bug reports
  40. The Rebound 85: Mornin’ Drinkin’
  41. RSS Sponsor: Bushel
  42. 2016 MacBook review: A laptop with a point of view
  43. The iPad Pro is a better iPad than a laptop
  44. Apple’s R&D spending bump is an argument for its car project
  45. 18: May 11, 2016
  46. The mystery of OS X’s haunted input volume slider
  47. Medium’s latest intriguing publishing experiment
  48. Panic’s new building sign
  49. Slack, Quip, and easy sign-in
  50. App Camp For Girls
  51. Empty coffee cups
  52. Review: Logitech Base
  53. Many Tricks
  54. The Rebound 84: You’re Sitting In It Wrong
  55. Nest paralysis
  56. Confessions of a digital packrat
  57. 17: May 5, 2016
  58. Apple Music is probably not deleting your music by itself
  59. The power of the Mac menu bar
  60. How I podcast: Live and in person
  61. Viv, the spiritual successor to Siri, gets its first public demo on Monday
  62. RSS Sponsor: Many Tricks
  63. Six months of the fourth-generation Apple TV
  64. Report: Apple Music to get UI overhaul at WWDC
  65. A lost iPad’s travelogue
  66. Kindle Oasis Review
  67. Warning signs for Apple’s iPhone business
  68. Hulu looking to launch cable-like streaming service
  69. Quitter: Marco Arment wrote a Mac app
  70. SoundCloud shuts down podcasts temporarily
  71. Imprint

April 2016

  1. The Back Page: Apple events – the darker side
  2. By Request: Dreams of iOS podcasting
  3. What I Use: Keeping in touch
  4. Is it June yet?
  5. Comcast to roll out 1TB data caps?
  6. Reassuring words about Apple’s approach to Services
  7. Imagining a totally wireless MacBook or iPhone
  8. What does Apple look like without the iPhone?
  9. The Rebound 83: He’s More Crazy Shirt Than Man Now
  10. 16: April 28, 2016
  11. MyScript Stylus: Handwriting on iPad, with a catch
  12. The iPhone SE: A surprise hit?
  13. Too many secrets
  14. Why Tim Cook is still optimistic after Apple’s growth stalled in Q2 2016
  15. Apple’s “first” subscription service paves the way for more
  16. Picking apart Apple’s Q2 2016 numbers
  17. Apple analyst call transcript
  18. Apple Q2 2016 results: Going down!
  19. Dropbox solves the Terabyte Conundrum with Project Infinite
  20. Talkshow: Texting in public
  21. It’s Apple Earnings day!
  22. Low-cost USB audio interfaces review
  23. New watch apps must be native as of June 1
  24. Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard arrives on iPhone
  25. Report: Next Apple Watch to have cellular networking?
  26. The Verge debuts a new gadget blog, Circuit Breaker
  27. Prince, music (and tech) visionary
  28. Siri tells you all about Liam
  29. Why Intel’s problem won’t be Apple’s problem
  30. 15: April 21, 2016
  31. The Rebound 82: Johnny Likes to Get New Stuff
  32. The Apple Car is the company’s road to the future
  33. How iMessage security works
  34. Comcast may finally let me stream TV on my TV
  35. Adios, Xbox 360
  36. Apple, paint and gunpowder
  37. The story behind the Amazon Echo
  38. Netflix to “keep an open mind” about offline viewing
  39. Report: Details of ‘Playstation 4K’
  40. How Serenity Caldwell found her lost iPad
  41. Apple releases government information request report for second half of 2015
  42. RelayCon: WWDC 2016
  43. Apple updates MacBook: rose gold, no Thunderbolt 3
  44. Ahead of WWDC, Apple updates developer resource site
  45. WWDC dates revealed by Siri, confirmed by Apple
  46. Former Apple board member Bill Campbell passes away
  47. Off the charts
  48. Looking up a mountain
  49. iPad Picture in Picture drives video viewing
  50. Typing test: The 12.9-inch iPad Pro advantage
  51. Is Apple ready for a car trip?
  52. 14: April 14, 2016
  53. The Rebound 81: Head Shaved by a Robot
  54. Quick Tip: A keyboard shortcut to bring up the emoji keyboard on iOS
  55. Another sign points towards “MacOS” rename
  56. Screens 4 brings one-touch passwords, groups, redesign
  57. iOS 10 wish list: Support for USB drives and network storage
  58. The Mounties have BlackBerry’s global decryption key
  59. Microsoft sues to tell you when the government seizes your data
  60. Apple kills iTunes Allowances
  61. Amazon’s new Kindle Oasis goes for the thick end of the wedge
  62. Blackbox developer on getting app reviews
  63. A travel database in my photo library
  64. The trouble with 3D Touch
  65. Pencil it in: Apple should bring back handwriting recognition on the iPad
  66. Time Machine Baseball: Old games, computer announcer
  67. The Rebound 80: There’s a Giant Squid in the Kitchen?!
  68. FBI: iPhone crack only works on 5c or earlier running iOS 9
  69. Rogue One trailer: “This is a rebellion, isn’t it?”
  70. 13: April 6, 2016
  71. 9.7-inch iPad Pro Review: Chocolate or vanilla?
  72. Convert MKV files (and others) seamlessly with Permute
  73. Messaging app WhatsApp is now encrypted end-to-end
  74. Streaming Wars, Episode VII: The Fragmentation Continues
  75. HP’s Spectre laptop is an attempt to out-Apple Apple
  76. The Echo Dot: Small size, same features
  77. The inside story on the Amazon Echo
  78. Study: Grammar correctors are ‘jerks’
  79. ‘My uncle works for Nintendo’
  80. A personal history of Apple
  81. Could Apple Pay clean up the in-app purchase mess?
  82. Remembering the early, glorious Mac web
  83. Happy 40th, Apple

March 2016

  1. The Rebound 79: My Diamond Shoes are Too Tight!
  2. The Back Page: Apple events – the darker side
  3. Some podcast and magazine follow-up
  4. By Request: It’s listening
  5. What We Use: Writing tools
  6. Anticipation from afar
  7. Looking back on 40 years of Apple
  8. iOS 9.3.1 is out, with bug fix
  9. iPad Pro accessory odds and ends
  10. iPhone SE review: Smaller can be better
  11. Apple issues 2016 Supplier Responsibility Report
  12. The “Colbert Emoji”
  13. Automatic
  14. Can you use an Amazon Echo on the Sabbath?
  15. Apple rolls out new WebKit features with Safari Technology Preview
  16. The college myth
  17. Fantastical for Mac gets better sync features
  18. 12: March 29, 2016
  19. Review: Smart Keyboard for 9.7-inch iPad Pro
  20. Testing Apple’s 29W USB-C iPad charging
  21. FBI may not disclose iPhone vulnerability to Apple
  22. Stop Safari from animating GIFs
  23. When your sewer pipe makes you go on a diet
  24. Feed Sponsor: Win an Automatic Adapter or Get 20% Off
  25. The Talk Show: “Strict Robot Definer”
  26. Quick Tip: Adding an email alias on OS X El Capitan
  27. Wish List: Better GIF support in iOS and OS X
  28. Holoportation is almost like being there
  29. Igloo, a modern Intranet
  30. FBI vs. Apple: Where is this going?
  31. Recording the Upgrade in-car podcast
  32. Free Siri! Why Apple should make an Echo competitor
  33. Which iPad Pro?
  34. iPad Air 2 or 9.7-inch iPad Pro?
  35. A few Lightning USB 3 Adapter follow-ups
  36. Apple’s Lightning to USB 3 adapter brings iPad podcasting one step closer
  37. Report: Israeli firm helping FBI unlock San Bernardino iPhone
  38. 9.7-inch iPad Pro features internal Apple SIM plus swappable SIM card
  39. The Rebound 78: Dump Truck Full of Phones
  40. Adventures in troubleshooting AirDrop
  41. RSS Sponsor: Igloo, a modern Intranet
  42. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro and the Missing USB 3 Speed
  43. Password-protecting Notes in iOS 9.3 and OS X 10.11.4
  44. Tea and scones in Cupertino: The “Loop You In” Apple event
  45. ’40 years in 40 seconds’ annotated
  46. 9.7-inch iPad Pro hands on: A worthy successor to the iPad Air 2
  47. Andy Grove dies at 79
  48. iPhone SE hands on: Where 2012 meets 2015
  49. FBI says it can unlock iPhone without Apple’s help
  50. Apple shifts focuses from small products to big issues
  51. Apple “In the Loop” event at 10PT/1ET
  52. As tech gets more complex, the best tech stays simple
  53. A look inside Square’s EMV/Apple Pay reader
  54. Apple’s Town Hall: A look back
  55. The art of the Apple event
  56. Why smaller iOS developers would be smart to head back to the Mac
  57. Report: Apple building out cloud infrastructure
  58. The Rebound 77: Usually Schmusally
  59. Tim Cook: Apple is in a ‘bizarre position’ in FBI case
  60. Cookie Monster is a Siri user, just like us
  61. Letterboxd’s native iOS app is one to watch
  62. Sony’s PlayStation VR will be a $399 PS4 add-on
  63. Apple challenges All Writs Act in DOJ case
  64. Quick Tip: Generate random passwords with OS X’s Password Assistant
  65. The Man in the Hat is back…
  66. Last Week Tonight takes on Apple v. FBI encryption debate
  67. Mac Power Users: One Year Indie
  68. Sponsor: MARA.AI
  69. The sadness and beauty of a computer that plays Go
  70. 11: March 11, 2016
  71. Microsoft builds Evernote importer for OneNote
  72. The App Store disconnect
  73. iPhone Bracketology
  74. The smaller iPhone SE could be a really big deal
  75. The Rebound 76: The Apple of Ice Cream
  76. Final ‘Captain America: Civil War’ trailer debuts
  77. Amid layoffs, Sonos seems to embrace Alexa
  78. iBooks Audiobooks can now be redownloaded via iCloud
  79. Ding-dong, the doom is dead
  80. Quick Tip: Finding apps running down your iOS device’s battery
  81. Ta-Nehisi Coates on reviving Black Panther
  82. RSS sponsor: MARA.ai
  83. The Verge interviews FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
  84. ‘Expanding the Twemoji Universe’
  85. Google apps take a baby step forward on iPad
  86. Google Photos adds retroactive support for Live Photos on iOS
  87. Close encounters of the Apple Campus kind
  88. Dr. McCoy was right
  89. Supreme Court refuses to hear Apple ebook case
  90. Serenity Caldwell reviews the Apple Pencil with the Apple Pencil
  91. Federighi op-ed in Washington Post
  92. Transmission Bit Torrent client possibly infected with malware
  93. A marvelous marble-based music machine
  94. Six Colors Subscriptions
  95. Simple automation
  96. Automate This: Connect to the Web with cURL
  97. 3 ways Apple could improve email
  98. The Rebound 75: Siriously?
  99. San Bernardino DA: iPhone may hold “dormant cyber pathogen”
  100. Apple shareholders reject board diversity plan
  101. Amazon Echo Dot and Sonos? Not… yet.
  102. Apple Support now available via Twitter
  103. Apple posts amicus briefs in FBI case
  104. Bustin’ makes me feel good
  105. The Amazon Echo family expands by two
  106. Quick Tip: Push notifications from Mac to Apple Watch
  107. 10: March 2, 2016
  108. Automate This: Turn on your Xbox One from afar
  109. Apple may be about to shake up its naming scheme
  110. ‘Twitter Has Become a Park Filled With Bats and Perverts’
  111. Tim Cook’s relationship with the White House
  112. ‘F.B.I. Error Locked San Bernardino Attacker’s iPhone’
  113. How developers rate Apple’s app review
  114. Live stream: Congressional hearing over iPhone privacy

February 2016

  1. The next generation of Emoji: Gender, hair color, and more flags
  2. The Back Page: Depersonal tech
  3. By Request: Future tech
  4. What We Use: Tea
  5. Complex systems
  6. Quick Tip: Stop Gmail from auto-importing events to calendar
  7. Quick Tip: Override Gatekeeper with one click
  8. On the Mac, Siri has room to grow
  9. Igloo Software
  10. So my iMac’s Ethernet port stopped working…
  11. 9: February 26, 2016
  12. New member of the Golden Key Wizard Society
  13. iPad vs. Mac: I’m on Team Both
  14. RSS Sponsor: Igloo Software
  15. The Rebound 74: Terrorists are Bad
  16. Apple, FBI sit down for congressional hearing
  17. Why slowness is killing the Apple Watch
  18. Blackbox is an iOS puzzle game with no touching required
  19. Report: Apple beefing up security measures in case of future requests
  20. Tim Cook talks to ABC
  21. ‘The $500 Freewrite word processor is pretentious hipster nonsense’
  22. Apple, the FBI, and Security
  23. Report: Siri coming to Mac in OS X 10.12
  24. Pencil’ers rejoice: Apple restoring gesture navigation
  25. Apple: The Pencil won’t lose features after all
  26. Every color scheme in MLB history
  27. Apple, don’t de-power the Pencil in iOS 9.3
  28. More about ebook conversions
  29. Where the smartphone growth happens
  30. Keeping on top of peak TV with Television Time
  31. Law enforcement circling a dozen more iPhone unlocking cases
  32. Calibre: How I put epub books on my Kindle
  33. How the FCC’s moves could give Apple TV a new lease on life
  34. Tim Cook’s letter to Apple employees
  35. FBI-Apple fight would have been moot with device management
  36. Apple posts FAQ about FBI request
  37. Instant App 3.0 by Emberify
  38. 8: February 19, 2016
  39. How a streaming video service could solve Apple’s biggest problem
  40. Tim Cook’s stand and the FBI’s grandstanding
  41. What the FBI already knows
  42. The Rebound 73: It’s the Best Show We’ve Ever Made
  43. Getting Sonos to work with AirPlay (and Overcast)
  44. Apple issues iOS update to fix phones bricked by Error 53
  45. Chips, ahoy! A look inside Apple’s hardware technologies division
  46. The Secure Enclave is no protection from a court order
  47. Rich Mogull on Apple’s fight with the FBI
  48. Apple versus the FBI
  49. RSS Sponsor: Instant App 3.0
  50. Tim Cook: Government requirement for a backdoor is an “overreach”
  51. Dr. Dre series aims to “extend” Apple Music
  52. Quick Tip: Retrieve a forgotten password for a Wi-Fi network
  53. Prompt 2.5 is a terminal multitasker’s dream
  54. Stephen Fry gives up on Twitter
  55. Mattel’s new 3D printer lets kids make toys
  56. Quick Tip: Adjust startup sound volume
  57. 6 essential tips for working smarter with Slack
  58. Fat Battery
  59. John Gruber interviews Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi
  60. Dr. Dre filming scripted TV series for Apple
  61. Gravitational Waves
  62. RSS Sponsor: Fat Battery
  63. The Smart Home isn’t yet where Apple’s heart is
  64. The Rebound 72: Small, Childlike Hands
  65. 7: February 11, 2016
  66. Forbidden Desert comes to the iPad
  67. NASA Goes Social to Take Its Case Directly to the People
  68. Taking screenshots of iOS features in motion
  69. Twitter launches algorithmic timeline as an opt-in feature
  70. Apple Music coming to Sonos tomorrow
  71. Wish List: Document security via Touch ID
  72. Campo Santo/Panic joint Firewatch out now
  73. Bryan Fuller to helm new Star Trek series
  74. The mysterious case of the undead iMac
  75. A proposed adapter for the eventual death of the iPhone headphone port
  76. tvOS 9.2 bringing Dictation to the mix
  77. This Week in Space: Weird Pluto and No Plan for Mars
  78. ‘Error 53’: Security measure or devious plot?
  79. Apple Watch as gateway drug
  80. A Mac for all seasons: Why the Mac has so much staying power
  81. The Rebound 71: The Smirror
  82. 6: February 4, 2016
  83. Amazon’s take on an iOS music app
  84. ‘Hulu Minus’
  85. Jason answers questions!
  86. How far can the iPad fall?
  87. Stream Spotify via your Amazon Echo
  88. Mossberg: Apple’s software has problems
  89. New Kindle software update revises home screen
  90. Exterminate… the shows?
  91. Habitica lets you kill monsters, get loot, be productive
  92. App rot
  93. How Screen Sharing saved my bacon
  94. Copy files back into a Photos for Mac library
  95. iTunes Match subscribers lose free Radio stations

January 2016

  1. The Back Page: Privacy trade
  2. By Request: Apple Report Card
  3. What I Use: Hawaii edition
  4. The life of a server
  5. Igloo Software
  6. Chartopia: More charts about Apple
  7. RSS Sponsor: Igloo Software
  8. It’s interesting that Apple would mention virtual reality
  9. The persistence of iPhone
  10. The Rebound 70: Unknown Unknowns
  11. Open up your Xbox One’s NAT via AirPort Utility
  12. Three more observations about Apple’s conference call
  13. Apple issues Snow Leopard update (not a typo)
  14. Canary, meet Alexa and WeMo
  15. Google: Did we say use Hangouts for SMS? We meant DON’T use it for SMS
  16. The 5 key moments in Apple’s Q1 2016 earnings call
  17. VMware Fusion virtualization app may be dead
  18. Have we hit peak iPhone? It doesn’t really matter.
  19. Apple Q1 2016 results
  20. Apple results: Congratulations, I’m sorry
  21. The good and bad of Microsoft’s NFL marketing deal
  22. Rowmote Pro, for your Mac remote controlling needs
  23. Enter the clicky keyboard
  24. Donald Rumsfeld helps create a solitaire app (with a little help from Churchill)
  25. Watermarker
  26. RSS Sponsor: Watermarker
  27. What would make the Apple Watch 2 compelling?
  28. The Rebound 69: Five Minutes of Magic
  29. Why Apple Defends Encryption
  30. The case for (and against) a Mac home server
  31. Old Sport helps you build cocktails with a missing ingredient
  32. Apple opening iOS App Development Center in Italy
  33. 5: January 20, 2016
  34. Planet Nine? Evidence grows for big addition to solar system
  35. On iPad Pro, Google apps are a second-class citizen
  36. Apple’s iOS audio apps get an update
  37. Ad-supported iTunes Radio stations going off the air
  38. Apple releases 2015 diversity numbers
  39. SpaceX landing: So close…
  40. Happy 30th birthday, Mac Plus
  41. Timing – Automatic time tracking for your Mac
  42. Apple’s diversity distraction
  43. This Week in Space: Crowdsourcing Jupiter, Blue Pluto, and Future Telescopes
  44. Does iOS 9.3 herald a new release strategy?
  45. The Rebound 68: Flux You
  46. NY State Assembly bill would fine smartphone makers who don’t provide a backdoor
  47. An app generates Netflix viewership ratings… sort of
  48. Cars, trucks, iPads, and laptops
  49. Emoji report: Slight changes in iOS 9.3
  50. 4: January 13, 2016
  51. Report: Apple shifting to automated iAd platform
  52. RSS Sponsor: Timing – Automatic time tracking for your Mac
  53. iOS gestures you may not have known
  54. Report: Apple eyeing Time Warner sale
  55. Adventures in DVD authoring
  56. Amazon is working on a portable Echo
  57. Loopback extends Mac audio flexibility
  58. iOS 9.3 Preview
  59. David Bowie’s beautiful life
  60. BusyMac
  61. Apple in 2015: The Six Colors report card
  62. The Rebound 67: Bug Harness
  63. Thoughts on an iPhone 6C
  64. Why supply chain rumors don’t necessarily mean bad news for the iPhone
  65. Netflix expands widely
  66. SF’s Yellow Cab may file for bankruptcy
  67. Vidyo, a screen recorder for iOS
  68. RSS Sponsor: BusyMac
  69. Notes.app: Everyone’s favorite Twitter extender
  70. Twitter pondering 10,000-character limit
  71. Griffin’s BreakSafe USB-C cable
  72. Yahoo Screen to shut down
  73. Puzzle solved: A faster Mac mini server
  74. BoomStick punches up headphone audio, if you like that sort of thing
  75. TiVo demos Apple Watch remote
  76. PowerPhotos

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