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December 2024

  1. The Back Page: Getting the carbon out
  2. Upgrade 544: The 2024 Upgradies
  3. Our 2024 favorites: TV, books, movies, and podcasts
  4. PowerPhotos – the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac
  5. This Week in Apple: Inching up
  6. 1Password
  7. Listen to Dr. Jones
  8. Apple still has some tricks left up its sleeve for 2025
  9. Clockwise 586: Face IDea
  10. Our 2024 favorites: Apps and games
  11. Upgrade 543: In the Pocket of Big Turkey
  12. The infinite loop of security
  13. This Week in Apple: Thanks but no thanks
  14. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  15. Our 2024 favorites: Hardware
  16. Clockwise 585: Way Too Spatial
  17. 2024 predictions in review: Apple Intelligence didn’t surprise, but the M4 sure did
  18. iOS 18.2 Mail is a misfire
  19. The Rebound 526: Instantgram
  20. Acorn 8 brings subject selection, Live Text, Data Merge, more
  21. Upgrade 542: Wellies on the Ground
  22. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  23. The long, strange story of Audio Hijack
  24. This Week in Apple: The sincerest form of flattery
  25. Intelligence .2 arrives and Jason’s next laptop phase
  26. 1Password
  27. The iPhone-as-computer experience
  28. Appearance: Apple Intelligence’s generic humans
  29. Clockwise 584: Hush, We Don’t Have Time
  30. December Backstage Zoom: Apple Intelligence and more
  31. The Rebound 525: I’m Wrong But I Feel Like I Should Be Right
  32. Mic Drop mutes your microphone everywhere
  33. iOS 18.2/macOS 15.2 Review: Picture not so perfect?
  34. These are the Apple stories that were bigger than the iPhone in 2024
  35. Upgrade 541: Nonotexture
  36. Without C-Suite Buy-In, security is just rearranging deck chairs
  37. Simply brings its piano app to Vision Pro
  38. This Week in Apple: Who’s asking?
  39. Rise of the laptops
  40. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  41. Festivitas hangs holiday lights on your Mac
  42. The Rebound 524: Boo All the Way to the Bank
  43. Clockwise 583: In the Car, With My AirPods
  44. What’s better, one Mac or two?
  45. KVM 2024: One switch to rule them all
  46. Upgrade 540: Validation for Shower Jason
  47. Even better command line control for Logitech’s Litra line
  48. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari

November 2024

  1. Take Control of Photos 4.1 on sale
  2. This Week in Apple: The future is (not) here
  3. The Back Page: Thank Tim you’re here!
  4. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  5. Clockwise 582: Good Ol’-Fashioned Googler
  6. The Rebound 523: Beaks!
  7. There may be no company more patient than Apple
  8. Upgrade 539: 98 Yards with My Boys
  9. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  10. This Week in Apple: There’s nothing good on
  11. Time for Apple to take the Smart Home seriously
  12. Sill gives a Nuzzel vibe to Mastodon and Bluesky links
  13. The Mac is the model
  14. 1Password
  15. Wish List: More head gestures
  16. Indecision at the intersection of Mac Studio and Mac mini
  17. Clockwise 581: Visit That Like a Time Period with Dinosaurs
  18. The Rebound 522: I’m All Out of Feelings
  19. The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model
  20. How Does Clean Up Measure Up?
  21. Upgrade 538: A Lot of Mac in Your Face
  22. You can’t ignore GDPR anymore
  23. This Week in Apple: The good ship AI runs aground
  24. Cables, charts, and e-readers
  25. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  26. Apple’s fiscal 2024 in charts
  27. The incredible M4 Macs create Apple’s biggest challenge yet
  28. Clockwise 580: Losing the Competition for Birds
  29. 2024 Kindle Colorsoft and Paperwhite Review: No perfect choices
  30. The Rebound 521: The System Does Not Work
  31. Quick Tip: One-touch Screen Sharing
  32. Report: Apple might ship ‘Home Hub’ in early 2025
  33. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  34. Upgrade 537: Square Minus One
  35. This Week in Apple: Muddling through
  36. New Mac week
  37. 1Password
  38. Review: Belkin Travel Bag and Head Strap for Vision Pro
  39. M4/M4 Pro MacBook Pro review: Brighter, clearer, faster
  40. M4 Mac mini Review: Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty form factor
  41. M4 iMac Review: Gloriously niche
  42. The Rebound 520: The Tim Cookiness of It
  43. Clockwise 579: Live Activities for Bean Sprouts
  44. Where Will Apple Intelligence go next?
  45. iPads being used on college football sidelines
  46. Upgrade 536: The Sleeping Lifestyle
  47. You want to charge how much for SSO???
  48. This Week in Apple: Macs for days
  49. Macs, tax, and the rules of acquisition
  50. 1Password
  51. Apple buys Pixelmator
  52. Apple sinks $1.1 billion into Globalstar’s satellite network, takes ownership stake

October 2024

  1. This is Tim, that was Luca: Apple’s Q4 results phone call, transcribed
  2. Apple’s Q424 results: $95B revenue–with a twist
  3. The Back Page: Tim Cook’s busy schedule
  4. Taking the AirPods Pro hearing test
  5. Clockwise 578: Sadly, No Taste for Blood
  6. The Rebound 519: Maybe: Kamala Harris
  7. The truth behind Apple’s most unpopular decisions: It’s not about you
  8. 16GB for everyone: MacBook Air joins the RAM upgrade party
  9. Apple introduces new MacBook Pros with M4 chips, brighter screen
  10. Why Alexa hasn’t yet become the real computer of the future
  11. The M4 Mac mini: Tricks and treats
  12. New Mac mini shrinks down, gains M4 and M4 Pro chips
  13. Upgrade 535: Little Spicy Peppers
  14. The infinite loop of security
  15. Apple Intelligence .1 Review: A small start of something big?
  16. Apple introduces M4 iMac with revamped colors, nano-texture display option
  17. This Week in Apple: Tune in next week
  18. You can use Clean Up with a clear conscience
  19. Apple Intelligence and Mac anticipation
  20. Magic Lasso Adblock
  21. Use a cloned drive to recover from Mac failures
  22. Choose your coding font
  23. Clockwise 577: Witches Are Doing it for Themselves
  24. Apple releases second wave of Intelligence features via new developer betas
  25. The Rebound 518: Stop Trying to Make Soda Pressing Happen
  26. The new iPad mini is boring, but the next one might be mind-blowing
  27. iPad mini 2024 review: A familiar friend gets an A.I. refresh
  28. Upgrade 534: The 2024 October Event? Draft
  29. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  30. This Week in Apple: What a letdown
  31. It’s Small Devices week!
  32. 1Password
  33. Apple’s strong but “easy” password generation algorithm
  34. Apple Pay turns 10, adds new wrinkles
  35. In Praise of Keith from Sonos
  36. The last Kindle with page-turn buttons is dead
  37. The Rebound 517: MoviePass for Vision Pro
  38. Clockwise 576: Artisanal Yogurt
  39. Review: AirPods 4 with ANC no replacement for AirPods Pro
  40. We’re about to find out if Apple’s big bet is going to pay off
  41. The new iPad mini’s surprising not-new processor
  42. Passkey industry group releases draft standard for import and export
  43. Apple revamps iPad mini with A17 Pro processor, Apple Pencil Pro support
  44. Upgrade 533: A Conversation With Your Teeth
  45. Without C-Suite Buy-In, security is just rearranging deck chairs
  46. This Week in Apple: From very late to too soon
  47. iPhones, “Submerged”, and the Sun
  48. Magic Lasso Adblock
  49. Putting my solar (power) system in my menu bar
  50. “Submerged” brings immersive narrative to Vision Pro
  51. iPhone 16 Pro review: Control before Intelligence
  52. Apple TV+ comes to Amazon Prime Video
  53. The Rebound 516: Incredible Deals on Stuff I Don’t Need
  54. Clockwise 575: There’s Nothing Scarier Than an Open Flame
  55. Apple’s new Messages features are great, but the notifications are overwhelming
  56. Upgrade 532: I Am Foreign Exchange Headwinds
  57. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  58. This Week in Apple: A preview of things to come
  59. Did Godzilla just step on a bad idea?
  60. Lost In Space
  61. Mac Pro emotion and spooky earnings
  62. These three pieces of old Apple tech have overstayed their welcome
  63. Clockwise 574: Is Your Car a Pair of Headphones?
  64. Turning Meta’s smart glasses into instant people identifiers
  65. The Rebound 515: A Warm Hug and Kiss On My Eyeballs
  66. Croissant simplifies social media cross-posting on iOS

September 2024

  1. Upgrade 531: Notifications in My Eyes
  2. The Back Page: Are your AR glasses half empty or half full?
  3. This Week in Apple: The executive suite, in D minor
  4. Meta and Apple: Same game, different rules
  5. Jet lag and bad passwords
  6. 1Password
  7. New NIST recommendations take aim at bad password policies
  8. iMore is no more
  9. ‘Take Control of Photos, Fourth Edition’
  10. Masimo founder resigns as CEO after removal from board
  11. The Rebound 514: Stockphone Syndrome
  12. Clockwise 573: Five Legs and Way Too Many Fingers
  13. Use Shortcuts to make your Action Button more useful
  14. You can’t ignore GDPR anymore
  15. Upgrade 530: I Am Beyond Recovery
  16. This Week in Apple: Trying out some new things
  17. New iPhone day!
  18. StopTheMadness Pro
  19. The Relay Podcastathon for St. Jude
  20. When it comes to traveling abroad, Apple Maps could use a little direction
  21. iOS 18 is missing more than just Apple Intelligence
  22. EC reviewing Apple’s DMA compliance for third-party accessories
  23. The black Apple Watch Ultra 2 is “sick as hell”
  24. Clockwise 572: Fight, Fight, Fight!
  25. The Rebound 513: Other Than That, How Was the Podcast, Mrs. Lincoln?
  26. A16 chips now being made in the U.S.A.
  27. MacStories coverage of OS releases
  28. Upgrade 529: Grind Down That Silicon
  29. In iOS 18, Photos brings Collections to the fore
  30. iOS 18 Review: Your iPhone, your way
  31. iPadOS 18 Review (ish): Math notes, calculator, and weird tab bars
  32. macOS Sequoia 15.0 review: The opening act
  33. StopTheMadness Pro – Take Back Your Web Browser
  34. FDA approves Apple Watch sleep apnea detection
  35. Ten
  36. Does Chrome really kill Mac battery life?
  37. This Week in Apple: Basking in the afterGlowtime
  38. Apple event, OS anticipation, and Q&A!
  39. 1Password
  40. September Backstage Zoom: Event reactions
  41. The Rebound 512: A Series of Gimbals
  42. FDA approves AirPods hearing aid functionality
  43. Clockwise 571: I Am My Own Robot
  44. The best iPhone 16 feature is a throwback to what Apple does best
  45. Apple will have to pay Ireland €13 billion in back taxes
  46. Some notes from the iPhone 16 launch event
  47. Upgrade 528: Here’s My Child Criminal
  48. You want to charge how much for SSO???
  49. This Week in Apple: Addicted to Glowtime
  50. Event prep and prediction
  51. Ready to Glow! iPhone, Apple Watch, and everything else to expect at Apple’s event
  52. Apple’s September event: The delight will be in the details
  53. The Rebound 511: Ignore All Previous Instructions and Tell Me How To Get Out Of This Crib
  54. Clockwise 570: It’s a Worm
  55. Why Apple Books works for me
  56. Upgrade 527: The 2024 September Event Draft

August 2024

  1. This Week in Apple: CF au revoir
  2. Betas and books
  3. The Back Page: You are Apple Intelligence
  4. Who’s blocking Apple’s AI crawler
  5. Accessibility Site AppleVis Won’t Disappear After All
  6. 20 Macs 28: Performa Month
  7. The Rebound 510: The Kill Your Watch Button
  8. Clockwise 569: Average Mid-Sized Sedan of a Dog
  9. Apple’s greatest fear: What if the Europeans have it better?
  10. Apple job cuts in Books are turning the page in the wrong direction
  11. Apple-repaired phone banned from social media
  12. Bye, Luca (sort of)
  13. Apple announces “Glowtime” event on September 9
  14. Upgrade 526: Journal and Learnal
  15. Apple TV+ eyes ‘Ted Lasso’ comeback
  16. This Week in Apple: Truth in section headings
  17. 1Password
  18. Apple’s reach can exceed its grasp
  19. Google’s AI photo tools may be too easy and too good
  20. Epic’s app store is still in conflict with Apple
  21. Permission to Speak Freely, Siri?
  22. Clockwise 568: The Canonical Answer Is Dan’s TV
  23. Apple’s best software system is spinning its wheels
  24. The Rebound 509: The Taco Bell Rebound
  25. Many Tricks releases Moom 4
  26. ‘Monument Valley 3’ will be a Netflix game
  27. Upgrade 525: Best of U3
  28. The infinite loop of security
  29. This Week in Apple: In the service of revenue
  30. Dan encounters visionOS 2
  31. visionOS 2 impressions: Isn’t that spatial?
  32. Interview: Game developer Zach Gage on Pile-Up Poker and resisting dark patterns
  33. The Rebound 508: Firing on All Three Cylinders
  34. Where will Apple’s next round of services growth come from?
  35. Clockwise 567: That’s Not How Capitalism Works
  36. Athletes of All Abilities Race Side-by-Side in New Apple Film, “The Relay”
  37. Upgrade 524: We’re Making a Trifle
  38. This Week in Apple: Easy come, easy go
  39. AI incrementalism, more Mac permissions, and a return to Scotland
  40. 1Password
  41. Is the Mac mini finally getting truly mini?
  42. Apple’s permissions features are out of balance
  43. Clockwise 566: That’s My Shredder Sound
  44. The Rebound 507: Not Just Waving My Hands Over A Keyboard Like A Cat
  45. Apple’s slow and steady approach to AI will once again win the race
  46. Flighty 4.0 adds delay details
  47. Upgrade 523: I Got It to Hallucinate Already
  48. Disney+ Vision Pro app adds Iceland environment
  49. Without C-Suite Buy-In, security is just rearranging deck chairs
  50. This Week in Apple: With Friends like these
  51. Existential thoughts about Apple’s reliance on Services revenue
  52. Travel tech and Apple results
  53. This is Tim: Complete Q3 2024 analyst call transcript
  54. Apple results: Quarterly record, all-time high in Services
  55. Apple’s puzzling Arcade approach

July 2024

  1. A little more about tech and travel
  2. The Back Page: The Apple Intelligence features still to come
  3. Clockwise 565: Friendship Dots
  4. The Rebound 506: We’re All The Color Guy
  5. Tech wins and losses from a week-plus of traveling abroad
  6. Is Apple Watch stretched too thin to meet Apple’s health goals?
  7. Upgrade 522: Reserve Your Spot
  8. New betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia bring some Apple Intelligence features
  9. Important Apple-focused accessibility site to shut down
  10. This Week in Apple: You’re copying it wrong
  11. 1Password
  12. Clockwise 564: It Was Pokémon Go’s Fault
  13. The Rebound 505: Charlie Ten C Ten
  14. You can’t ignore GDPR anymore
  15. This Week in Apple: No news is good news
  16. Gone to Scotland
  17. Apple announces new immersive Vision Pro content
  18. Overcast turns 10
  19. Clockwise 563: Peripherally Curious
  20. The Rebound 504: Excellent Choices in Whiskey and Stocks
  21. Apple’s AI plans could put power back in the hands of users
  22. Public Betas (and July Q&A)
  23. First look: iPadOS 18 Public Beta
  24. First look: macOS Sequoia Public Beta
  25. First Look: iOS 18 Public Beta
  26. Upgrade 521: I Can Get Pineapple Into Anything
  27. This Week in Apple: The robots are coming
  28. My prescription for Apple: Hire some ombudspeople
  29. Travel prep, HomePod dreams, and making it personal
  30. Apple to enable third party NFC payments in the EU
  31. Accessing inflight Wi-Fi for free via your air miles account’s “name” field
  32. The Rebound 503: At Least 38 Seconds
  33. Clockwise 562: Famously a HomePod Hater
  34. Apple’s next-gen HomePod could change everything we know about Siri
  35. Apple no longer taking OpenAI board seat
  36. TUAW returns as a gross, zombie AI-generated garbage site
  37. Apple outpaces global PC growth
  38. Upgrade 520: Cruel Summer
  39. I’ll have my AI email your AI
  40. This Week in Apple: More like bored meetings, amirite?
  41. Siri Fragmentation and Quadratic Equations
  42. Clockwise 561: Conspiracy Theory Bankruptcy
  43. The Rebound 502: I Don’t Wanna Think About Anything
  44. Hey Siri? No, I didn’t mean you.
  45. MacStories calls for restraints on AI training
  46. Upgrade 519: The Intelligent Trinity

June 2024

  1. This Week in Apple: Beta times ahead
  2. The Back Page: EU, gross
  3. Laptops, betas, AI, and e-readers
  4. ListenLater.net
  5. Apple’s Vision platform needs to do more than get cheaper
  6. Clockwise 560: I Don’t Like It When I’m Disappointed
  7. The Rebound 501: Mandela Effect Emoji
  8. Review: Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader
  9. Is an Apple Vision SE the key to spatial computing’s success?
  10. Rounding up Bartender alternatives
  11. Preparing for the era of orchestrated apps
  12. Upgrade 518: Having Lots of Money Doesn’t Make You a Bank
  13. Transform Articles Into Podcasts with ListenLater.net
  14. Preliminary ruling from the EC declares Apple is violating the DMA
  15. DMA FOMO, OS Betas, and Apple Photos
  16. This Week in Apple: The Apple Vision vision
  17. Apple: Some new features won’t come to EU due to the DMA
  18. Magic Lasso Adblock
  19. How Sandwich streamed The Talk Show Live in 3D on Vision Pro
  20. Clockwise 559: This Is a Powerful Emoji
  21. The Rebound 500: Episode 1000
  22. Apple’s failures show the limits of its ambition
  23. Apple refuses to notarize emulator apps
  24. Upgrade 517: Maybe It’s Catchier in Japanese
  25. Apple Pay Later where later means never
  26. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  27. This Week in Apple: All In
  28. New York Magazine lauds Vision Pro’s accessibility
  29. WWDC, Fiber disasters, and John Moltz
  30. Magic Lasso Adblock
  31. OK, fine, here’s Apple Intelligence
  32. June Backstage Zoom: WWDC reactions
  33. Excluding your website from Apple’s AI crawler
  34. Casey Liss’s summer project
  35. visionOS 2 offers small, but promising, steps forward
  36. Clockwise 558: Passenger Princess
  37. The Rebound 499: Weapons of Glass Destruction
  38. Sequoia virtual machines allow logging in to iCloud
  39. Apple is finally letting you have it your way–kinda
  40. Upgrade 516: I’m Suppressing My Feelings
  41. Live from (Outside) the Steve Jobs Theater
  42. Magic Lasso Adblock: The Safari ad blocker built for you
  43. Siri’s biggest gains might be found at the edges
  44. This Week in Apple: There’s AI and then there’s AI
  45. AI approaches and packing for WWDC
  46. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  47. Swift 6 will be a big, under the radar change
  48. Clockwise 557: I Love the Whoop
  49. The Rebound 498: The D Is For Disappointment
  50. Microsoft, Apple, and AI
  51. There’s a Thread running through many of Apple’s latest products
  52. Apple’s AI opportunity: Be the adult in the room
  53. Apple’s Screen Time restrictions on websites are easily circumvented
  54. Microsoft’s Recall feature is a security ‘disaster’
  55. Bartender has a new owner
  56. Upgrade 515: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2024
  57. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing

May 2024

  1. This Week in Apple: Refrigerator+
  2. iPad shopping and Vision Pro plotting
  3. Kolide 43
  4. Save the Date: Backstage Zoom June 13
  5. The Back Page: What Apple absolutely won’t announce at WWDC
  6. Making battery replacements easier
  7. Slow Internet at the South Pole
  8. Clockwise 556: Mikah, We Might Fight
  9. Getting a letter from a friend written with AI
  10. Review: “What If?” shows off the Vision Pro’s strengths
  11. The Rebound 497: Between Zero and Never
  12. Apple’s invisible breakthroughs are just as beautiful as the ones you can see
  13. Upgrade 514: European Beard
  14. Struggling to Afford Cybersecurity Insurance? Here’s Why.
  15. Kobo Libra Colour Review: Color, but at what cost?
  16. This Week in Apple: Carl’s Jr.+
  17. Scary stories and weird rumors
  18. Kolide 42
  19. Apple explains resurrected photos bug
  20. Yes, Secure Erase on Mac is secure
  21. Clockwise 555: I Lie to Myself
  22. The Rebound 496: Time Traveling Dad: The Game
  23. The Dos and Don’ts of AI at WWDC
  24. The future of the iPhone is coming, but it’ll cost you dearly
  25. ‘What If?’ for Vision Pro to arrive next week
  26. Upgrade 513: I Do Not Rock Anything
  27. Voice Clones Have Crossed the Uncanny Valley
  28. This Week in Apple: Going hard on the software
  29. New iPads and AI
  30. Kolide 41
  31. It’s forgery all the way down
  32. Clockwise 554: Dealee Bobs
  33. The Rebound 495: Get That Down to One Slice of Cheese
  34. Apple accessibility preview: More for Speech, CarPlay, and Vision Pro
  35. Are we in Apple’s post-iPad era?
  36. ‘Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right’
  37. The iPad Pro manifesto, same as it ever was
  38. Upgrade 512: Pros Are the Little Boats
  39. M4 iPad Pro Review: Here we go again
  40. Looking Past the Smoke and Mirrors of the MGM Hack
  41. This Week in Apple: Ad-itional commentary
  42. New iPads and M4 chips
  43. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  44. How the iPad Pro’s M4 chip sets the iPhone and Mac on a new path
  45. May Backstage Zoom: iPads and more
  46. Clockwise 553: Love, Medical Care, and an Angry Lawyer
  47. The Rebound 494: Ya Burnt, David Copperfield
  48. Does the iPad lineup make sense now? Yes and no
  49. Some hands-on iPad event impressions
  50. Upgrade 511: You’re Nice to Hold
  51. Apple’s binning M4 chips in the new iPad Pro models
  52. What Apple didn’t mention in its iPad keynote
  53. The iPad Pro is no longer the future, so what’s next?
  54. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  55. Parsing Apple’s quarterly statements, from AI to India
  56. This Week in Apple: Event horizon
  57. iPads and colorful charts
  58. Conversation Tree Press
  59. Apple’s Star Wars themed Precision Finding ad
  60. This is Tim: Complete transcript of Apple’s Q2 2024 analyst call
  61. 2024 Q2 Apple Results: $90.8 billion revenue, Services record
  62. Apple tweaks Core Technology Fee terms for free apps and small developers
  63. Conversation Tree Press
  64. Clockwise 552: Spoiler: It’s Always DNS
  65. The Rebound 493: Mark Gurman Honeypot
  66. A new iPad Pro is coming to take the tablet crown (and your money)

April 2024

  1. The Back Page: Meet the new new iPad
  2. Upgrade 510: Jason Is Cool GOTO 10
  3. Emulate all the things, Apple
  4. The iPad joins the iPhone in DMA land
  5. This Week in Apple: Imitation is the highest form of fatuity
  6. iPad anticipation and AI intensification
  7. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  8. Why Apple’s AI push may sell a lot of new hardware
  9. Clockwise 551: Clippy Vibes
  10. The Rebound 492: onlyjames.fans
  11. Logitech somehow takes mouse software to a new low
  12. The undersea cables that keep the Internet afloat
  13. Author and Mac Admin Charles Edge has died
  14. Upgrade 509: Save the Fines
  15. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  16. Review: Zoom H6essential talks the talk and walks the walk
  17. This Week in Apple: Stupid iPhone tricks
  18. Emulation and Apple nudges
  19. Does everything need to be an ad?
  20. Apple’s emulator about-face is good for everyone
  21. Apple in the Enterprise: A 2024 report card
  22. Clockwise 550: Strap In and Forget My Email
  23. The Rebound 491: A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Podcasts
  24. Apple’s parental controls need some guidance
  25. Upgrade 508: You’re Judging It Wrong
  26. April Q&A
  27. Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?
  28. This Week in Apple: Coulda, shoulda, woulda
  29. The (poor) design of Apple Sports
  30. Changing the Tech Giants
  31. Kolide 40
  32. The chain, or opening files in macOS
  33. Gurman: Forget the M3, the M4 is on the way
  34. Want Apple to change? Regulation works.
  35. The Vision Pro isn’t a flop, it’s an ongoing experiment
  36. Clockwise 549: The Sweetness of Adults
  37. Report: DMA’s browser choice requirement benefiting third-party browsers
  38. The Rebound 490: Rescue Robot
  39. MLB iPad app updated, still broken on the Mac
  40. Upgrade 507: Differently Social
  41. Are You Worse at Security Than the TSA?
  42. This Week in Apple: Ghost in the machine
  43. Listen Later
  44. Spatial Personas and Apple TV
  45. Another app switches to a subscription model, angering its users
  46. Apple TV deserves better than tvOS
  47. Clockwise 548: My Partner Is a Ninja
  48. The Rebound 489: What Did I Miss?
  49. Spatial Persona on Vision Pro changes the game
  50. MLB tvOS app adds Multiview, and it’s a winner
  51. Upgrade 506: Legacy When? Legacy Now?
  52. Turn Articles into Podcasts with ListenLater.net
  53. A simple explainer on Threads and federation

March 2024

  1. PSA: The MLB app doesn’t work on the Mac anymore
  2. This Week in Apple: Good Friday? Best Friday.
  3. Apple’s Immersive Video problem
  4. Legal zoom, Sports corner
  5. Kolide 39
  6. The Back Page: Department of Just Calling to Say I’m Sorry
  7. MLB for visionOS strikes out on Opening Day
  8. Apple’s immersive MLS highlight reel to debut
  9. March Backstage Zoom: iPad, Vision Pro, and AI
  10. The Rebound 488: I’ve Already Forgotten What We Were Talking About
  11. Clockwise 547: Chaos???
  12. Who wins when regulators take on Apple?
  13. Apple announces WWDC 2024 takes place June 10-14
  14. A disk so full, it couldn’t be restored
  15. Upgrade 505: Abolish Drafts: The 2024 iPad Draft
  16. Struggling to Afford Cybersecurity Insurance? Here’s Why.
  17. EC investigates Apple and other tech gatekeepers over DMA compliance
  18. This Week in Apple: The bill comes due
  19. Lawsuits…
  20. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  21. Apple’s M-series processors have a cryptographic flaw
  22. U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
  23. MLB app will slow itself down, let your media stream catch up
  24. Clockwise 546: Taco iPad
  25. The Rebound 487: Have You Tried NOT Going Viral
  26. It’s time for a new AirPort
  27. AI is coming to the iPhone–and it could change everything
  28. Seeking entries in the Apple in the Enterprise 2024 report card survey
  29. Apple’s still thinking about the Core Technology Fee in Europe
  30. Apple may work with Google on A.I. features
  31. Upgrade 504: Tone 47
  32. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  33. This Week in Apple: Things continue to happen
  34. Kolide 38
  35. Regulations and ceiling fans
  36. Former Meta exec Hugo Barra on Vision Pro
  37. Using Panic’s Nova for remote Python scripting
  38. The Rebound 486: I’m Eating a Turtleneck
  39. Clockwise 545: Cake and Cookies
  40. Apple’s approach to EU regulations means the drama won’t end soon
  41. Apple adds Web Distribution for iOS apps in EU, loosens other restrictions
  42. Upgrade 503: We Own the Refs, the Stadium, and the Field
  43. Voice Clones Have Crossed the Uncanny Valley
  44. I put my dumb space heater on HomeKit
  45. March 2024 Q&A
  46. This Week in Apple: Closing your rings with exercises in futility
  47. M3 MacBook Air and Podcast transcripts
  48. Epic’s App Store developer account restored in Europe once again
  49. Magic Lasso Adblock
  50. My Windows white whale now runs on my Mac
  51. visionOS 1.1 improves Personas, adds MDM support
  52. Europe gives Apple a chance to change its tune…but will it?
  53. Federico Viticci’s self-made Mac convertible
  54. M3 MacBook Air Review: More of a good thing
  55. The inside story of Apple’s failed car project
  56. Clockwise 544: I Would Like It To Actually Be Good
  57. The Rebound 485: EeeeeeeUuuuuuuu
  58. We haven’t seen the last of the Apple Car
  59. Creating higher-resolution Vision Pro panoramas
  60. Full transcripts arrive on Apple podcasts
  61. Upgrade 502: It’s the Way Towards Colour
  62. Magic Lasso Adblock: The Safari ad blocker built for you
  63. Apple updates 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chips, support for two external displays
  64. RIP Apple Car: Not all gambles pay off
  65. This Week in Apple: Apple cancels car project!
  66. Kolide 37
  67. Mysteries, Apple cars, and web apps

February 2024

  1. To embrace gaming, Apple needs to level up its game porting toolkit
  2. The Back Page: The Apple Car does not remain a product in our lineup
  3. Clockwise 543: I Hear The Boxes Are Much Bigger
  4. The Rebound 484: What Breed Of Dog Is Biting Me?
  5. Apple is selling Vision Pro all wrong
  6. Apple’s mixed-up Messages
  7. Upgrade 501: The Perfect Noodling Computer
  8. Looking Past the Smoke and Mirrors of the MGM Hack
  9. This Week in Apple: Taking your Mac to CrAIg’s house
  10. Kolide 2 23
  11. Simple complexity: Apple’s trio of sports apps
  12. Sports scores and report cards
  13. Clockwise 542: You Should Not Toss Leprechauns
  14. The lonely death of Voyager 1
  15. The Rebound 483: Dial the 9 and the 1
  16. Apple Sports: A free iPhone app to get you the score, fast
  17. Even if Vision Pro fails, these 3 features need to live on in Apple’s other devices
  18. A graphical 2023 Report Card breakdown
  19. MLS Season Pass returns with Multiview and more Messi
  20. Gaming on the Apple Vision Pro
  21. ‘Vision Accessibility on Apple Vision Pro’
  22. Upgrade 500: Core Face/Peripheral Face
  23. Are You Worse at Security Than the TSA?
  24. Apple in 2023: The Six Colors report card
  25. This Week in Apple: Returns of the Red Eyes
  26. Report card prep and DMA fallout
  27. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  28. The Rebound 482: Two Out of Three Hosts Say Yes
  29. Clockwise 541: Peripherereral Free
  30. The Vision Pro shows that it’s time for Apple to get weird
  31. Vision Pro Accessibility in the Real(ish) World
  32. Upgrade 499: We Have All the Cushions
  33. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  34. This Week in Apple: Infinitim War
  35. Kolide 36
  36. Vision Pro reactions and potential
  37. February 2024 Video Q&A
  38. Apple Vision Pro review: Eyes on the future
  39. Clockwise 540: I Did Something Bad
  40. The Rebound 481: You’re Doing A Great Job (Abridged)
  41. Vision Pro’s biggest shortcomings are its clearest path to success
  42. Upgrade 498: Leap the Uncanny Valley
  43. Struggling to Afford Cybersecurity Insurance? Here’s Why.
  44. Answering a few early Vision Pro questions
  45. This Week in Apple: Gooooood mornnnnnning, Vision Pro!
  46. Whisper Memos
  47. Dan’s Vision Pro demo and Apple results
  48. Tim Cook teases AI, but won’t pick favorites
  49. This is Tim: Full transcript of Apple’s Q1 2024 analyst call
  50. Apple reports nearly $120B quarter: Full charts

January 2024

  1. The Rebound 480: You Like Developers? Name Three
  2. Clockwise 539: You Folks Need Some Help
  3. It’s 40 years of Macworld, too
  4. Upgrade 497: The Poison Pill
  5. Review: Level Lock+ brings Apple home key support to the stealth smart lock
  6. Record a voice memo, receive it as an email
  7. Breaking down Apple’s DMA response
  8. This Week in Apple: New rules, same game
  9. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  10. Apple Podcasts needs timestamp linking
  11. Apple changes App Store rules in the EU, and the world watches
  12. Full, automatic podcast transcripts coming to iOS 17.4
  13. Apple changes game streaming rules on iOS
  14. Mac at 40 and Vision Pro planning
  15. iPhones need to understand that their users are mobile, too
  16. Greg Joswiak on the Mac’s enduring appeal
  17. January Backstage Zoom: Mac at 40 and Vision Pro
  18. Clockwise 538: If I Lose It, I’ll Die
  19. The Rebound 479: $3500 Worth of FOMO
  20. We don’t fully understand the 1984 Mac
  21. Mac at 40: The eras tour
  22. ‘A continuous stream of random Macs’
  23. The Mac turns 40 — and keeps on moving
  24. After 40 years, the Mac is immortal
  25. Now playing: Customizable Mac music status via Sleeve 2
  26. Upgrade 496: 40th Anniversary of the Mac Draft
  27. Two e-readers that made me reconsider why I use e-readers
  28. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  29. Inside the New York Times’s puzzle team
  30. This Week in Apple: Apple giveth and Apple taketh away
  31. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  32. Order up: Vision Pro storage tier and accessory options
  33. Vision Pro compatible apps at launch may be thin
  34. Vision Pro orders and Mac memories
  35. The Rebound 478: Skizzy
  36. Artifact’s killer feature was rewriting bad headlines
  37. Clockwise 537: All I Found Were Three Apple TV Remotes
  38. How I automate Focus Modes to keep distractions to a minimum
  39. The one feature that would make an OLED iPad Pro worth it for me
  40. AppleVis releases Apple accessibility report card
  41. Apple details Vision Pro entertainment experiences
  42. AirDrop security weakness exploited by China
  43. Upgrade 495: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
  44. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  45. This Week in Apple: Are you getting it?
  46. GPT and prepping for Vision Pro
  47. The Rebound 477: Brrreeeeoooooouuuuuuuggghhh
  48. Clockwise 536: Spay and Neuter Your Pets
  49. Vision Pro is a different kind of product, with a different kind of launch
  50. Installing Rogue Amoeba apps is about to get a lot easier
  51. BBEdit 15 adds ChatGPT support
  52. Cutting out the RSS middleman
  53. Upgrade 494: Copyright Violation Machine
  54. Sonos and other speakers: Revitalizing my music system
  55. iPhone that fell out of Alaska Airlines plane in flight still operable
  56. Apple Vision Pro launches on February 2, preorders next week
  57. There and Back Again: Foregoing Fantastical
  58. This Week in Apple: All the wrong answers
  59. Grief and a Photo Shuffle
  60. Rolling out Vision Pro (and giving thanks)
  61. January 2024 Video Q&A
  62. Clockwise 535: It’s Even Embarrassing in Metric
  63. The Rebound 476: Vision Pro No Show
  64. Succeed or fail, 2024 will be the year of Vision Pro
  65. Upgrade 493: Upgradies Hall of Fame

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December 2023

  1. This Week in Apple: Tick-tocking into the future
  2. The Back Page: 2024’s all right for fighting
  3. New calendars and patent disputes
  4. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  5. Shocked—shocked!—to find that Amazon is putting ads in Prime Video
  6. End-of-year check-in: Where I’m working
  7. Jason’s favorites of 2023: Apps, movies, TV, books
  8. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  9. Upgrade 492: The 2023 Upgrade Holiday Special
  10. This Week in Apple: Year-end closeouts
  11. Kolide 35
  12. Zoom on tvOS: Big screen video chatting needs some work
  13. Clockwise 534: Live From the North Pole
  14. The Rebound 475: Mortgage Krampus
  15. Apple had a quiet 2023–but it could be the calm before the storm
  16. Apple adds The Athletic to News+, Wirecutter coming soon
  17. Add to Dock: Safari’s sweet solution
  18. Upgrade 491: The 2023 Upgradies
  19. The Dirty Secret of OS Updates
  20. Apple halting sales of Series 9 Apple Watch, Apple Ultra Watch 2
  21. This Week in Apple: Like tears in rain
  22. December Backstage Zoom: Security and Apple TV+
  23. Clipboards, Journal, and Mail logs
  24. Kolide 34
  25. The case for clipboard managers
  26. The iPhone 15 was a big deal in 2023 but these three moves were even bigger
  27. Clockwise 533: I’m the App
  28. The Rebound 474: Always Be Smirching
  29. How to stop Mail logs from eating your disk space
  30. Upgrade 490: The Cat Has a Team of Lawyers
  31. iOS 17.2’s Journal app offers introspection, surface-deep
  32. Stupid Companies Make AI Promises. Smart Companies Have AI Policies.
  33. This Week in Apple: The haves and the have nots
  34. Audio Hijack
  35. Riding astride a giant beast
  36. Clockwise 532: Oh, My Poor Nose!
  37. The Rebound 473: Totally Flim-Flam-Flobbable
  38. Apple will now disclose government requests for push notification data
  39. Studios need to stop lying about CGI
  40. On macOS, it’s best to start with the default
  41. Empathy for the user experience, not Apple’s business strategy
  42. Beeper brings on-device iMessage to Android–for now
  43. Upgrade 489: The Future Is on CompuServe
  44. Audio Hijack: The Mac’s Best Audio Recorder and More
  45. This Week in Apple: Money doesn’t solve everything
  46. Year-end lists and iCloud Desktop
  47. Kolide 33

November 2023

  1. The Back Page: The Apple features you should be worried about
  2. A French company is building an alternative e-reader ecosystem
  3. How Apple can take on Amazon in books—and win
  4. Apple releases Taika Waititi-directed film promoting speech accessibility tools
  5. The cops think iOS 17’s NameDrop is dangerous
  6. In a sign of the times, podcast app Castro may be dying
  7. Clockwise 531: I, Too, Like You
  8. The Rebound 472: I’ve Seen The War
  9. It’s end-of-year list season for Apple
  10. Upgrade 488: The New Numbers
  11. The Dirty Secret of OS Updates
  12. This Week in Apple: That math doesn’t check out
  13. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  14. Ihnatko: Deconstructing Apple’s weirdly empathetic “Fuzzy Feelings”
  15. How Apple learns (or doesn’t) from its failures
  16. Clockwise 530: The Noise of the Youth
  17. The Rebound 471: The Orgasmic Who-Ha
  18. Upgrade 487: Under the Thumb of Qualcomm
  19. Magic Lasso Adblock: incredibly private and secure Safari web browsing
  20. Going in-depth on iPhone Spatial Video
  21. This Week in Apple: Bad looks
  22. November Video Q&A
  23. Kicking the can and upgrading green bubbles
  24. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  25. Apple will add RCS support to Messages
  26. Clockwise 529: Dear Tim Apple, You Fix It
  27. The Rebound 470: Daddy Bigbucks!
  28. Apple extends Emergency SOS coverage for iPhone 14 users
  29. How AI could take iOS 18 and macOS 15 to the next level
  30. I’ll pin my hopes on AI assistants
  31. The Secret History of Hawkeye’s Dog Tags
  32. Upgrade 486: On the Side of Reality
  33. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  34. This Week in Apple: Sweet solutions
  35. Mac stasis and AI potential
  36. Kolide 32
  37. Apple’s fiscal 2023 in charts
  38. Inside Apple’s evasive talk about Mac sales and Services success
  39. Clockwise 528: The Jeweled Dung Beetle
  40. The Rebound 469: Do You Know How Many Adapters There Are In The Post-Apocalyptic Future?
  41. A picture is worth a thousand permissions requests
  42. Sam Byford on ‘Chinese knockoffs’
  43. Upgrade 485: Best Witch and Beast Feature
  44. November Backstage Zoom: New Macs and chips
  45. Stupid Companies Make AI Promises. Smart Companies Have AI Policies.
  46. M3 iMac Review: Keep playing the hits
  47. M3 MacBook Pro review: Peak performance
  48. This Week in Apple: Bread and Services
  49. M3 Macs and Apple results
  50. Kolide 31
  51. This is Tim: Apple Q4 2023 analyst call transcript
  52. Apple Q4 2023 financial results and charts
  53. Audio Hijack adds automatic transcription
  54. Apple’s event was shot on the iPhone 15, and that’s still impressive
  55. Clockwise 527: Mature Advice to Everyone Out There
  56. The Rebound 468: The Hulk is Very Upset
  57. Three ‘Scary’ details Apple didn’t want to tell you during its Mac event
  58. The Back Page: The horror, the horror

October 2023

  1. Upgrade 484: Space Grayer
  2. A magic number: New MacBook Pros and iMacs usher in the M3 era
  3. The Dirty Secret of OS Updates
  4. Loopback by Rogue Amoeba
  5. This Week in Apple: Jump Scares
  6. iMazing
  7. Upgrade 483: The 2023 October Event Draft
  8. M3 vessels and sticker shocks
  9. iOS 17.2 beta sticker reactions: 👎🏻
  10. Is there in communication no beauty?
  11. A Mac event is the perfect time for Apple to show off its peripheral vision
  12. The Rebound 467: Doing Hobo Things
  13. Clockwise 526: Return to Me the Inverted T
  14. The iPhone 15 Pro brings tangible accessibility benefits
  15. Apple hikes prices for Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+ and Apple One bundles
  16. “Scary fast” looks like an M3 Mac treat
  17. Spooktacular Apple Event on Halloween Eve
  18. Upgrade 482: It’s Covered in Soap!
  19. iMazing is the ultimate local iPhone manager for Mac and Windows. Try it today!
  20. Amazon joins the passkey revolution
  21. Quick Tip: macOS Sonoma/iOS 17’s AutoFill everywhere is a lifesaver
  22. This Week in Apple: Non-starting lineups
  23. Pencils, iPads, and Balloons
  24. Apple has an iCloud problem
  25. Inadvertent balloon drops (or, the default conundrum)
  26. The Rebound 466: Number 2 Pencil
  27. Clockwise 525: My Co-Ghost
  28. Take Control of Photos version 3.3 released
  29. The price of Apple’s old-products strategy
  30. Apple announces new Apple Pencil with magnetic storage and USB-C port
  31. Upgrade 481: What If… Octobox?
  32. Loopback from Rogue Amoeba
  33. This Week in Apple: Big business bucks
  34. Security, utilities, and cloud services
  35. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  36. Glenn Fleishman on troubleshooting iCloud Drive
  37. Boox Palma review: A phone-shaped e-reader
  38. Clockwise 524: It’s Hurting Me, Mikah
  39. Hands on with Bartender 5
  40. The Rebound 465: Monocle Sunglasses
  41. Apple is destroying the Mac by trying to make it safer
  42. ScreenSharingMenulet gives you quick access to Screen Sharing
  43. Worth a Thousand Lies
  44. Upgrade 480: Never Do a Deal with the Preference Daemon
  45. Glenn Fleishman dives into Check In
  46. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  47. This Week in Apple: Nothing can stay gold
  48. October Video Q&A
  49. Tech support challenge!
  50. Kolide 30
  51. Review: iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max
  52. The USB-C transition has some bumps in the road
  53. Bitten by the black box of iCloud
  54. Clockwise 523: It Stops Too Much Madness
  55. The Rebound 464: Did You Try Unplugging Your iCloud?
  56. Upgrade 479: The Three Oranges
  57. Stupid Companies Make AI Promises. Smart Companies Have AI Policies.

September 2023

  1. This Week in Apple: The foreSEeable future
  2. The Back Page: Everything is fine until it isn’t
  3. macOS update and new iPhones
  4. Kolide 29
  5. Craig Hockenberry on the watchOS 10 Timer
  6. FineWoven hot take: It’s fine?
  7. Why is the iPhone so successful? It’s simple
  8. Clockwise 522: Take That, Jason Snell!
  9. The Rebound 463: Mmm, Persona Grata
  10. macOS Sonoma Review: Small moves
  11. Upgrade 478: Hi, We’re the Weirdos
  12. The Dirty Secret of OS Updates
  13. This Week in Apple: Money talks, FineWoven walks
  14. Relay FM Podcastathon
  15. Unite 5
  16. iPhone delivery anxiety
  17. Clockwise 521: You’re Right, It’s Yarn
  18. The Rebound 462: The Token Rings
  19. 3 new Apple features I’d literally be lost without
  20. Designing the Snoopy watchOS 10 face
  21. Unite 5 – Turn Web Apps into Supercharged macOS apps
  22. Upgrade 477: Tails O’Clock
  23. iOS 17 Review: We’ve got a live one
  24. iPadOS 17 Review: A fitting stage, at last
  25. Review: Apple’s 2023 multi-platform features
  26. This Week in Apple: Always leave them wanting more
  27. iPhone buying and event reflections
  28. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  29. My easter basket of reactions to Apple’s iPhone event
  30. Clockwise 520: Grime and Nonsense
  31. Dr. Drang does the math on Apple’s titanium phones
  32. September Backstage Zoom: Apple event reactions
  33. Upgrade 476: Friends in the Couch Cushions
  34. Hands on with iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, and Apple Watch DoubleTap
  35. The Rebound 461: The Thickness Is Not What I Care About
  36. A few things not mentioned in Apple’s iPhone keynote
  37. Intel announces Thunderbolt 5: fast new speeds, same great port
  38. Apple re-signs with Qualcomm for three more years
  39. Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube ad blocker for Safari
  40. This Week in Apple: Highly dubious!
  41. Review: 27-inch Samsung ViewFinity S9
  42. Event anticipation and Mac minimalism
  43. Kolide 28
  44. RIP Lightning: In lieu of flowers, please send dongles
  45. Clockwise 519: Chaotic and Retro
  46. The Rebound 460: Wrong Faster
  47. About that low-cost MacBook rumor…
  48. Upgrade 475: The 2023 September Event Draft
  49. Stupid Companies Make AI Promises. Smart Companies Have AI Policies.
  50. This Week in Apple: A soupçon of color
  51. Relay FM for St. Jude
  52. iPhone prep and iPad travel
  53. Newest right to repair objectors: Scientologists?

August 2023

  1. The Back Page: Chaaaarge!
  2. Automate this: Moving Audio Hijack recordings to a folder in the cloud
  3. Longplay 2.0
  4. Ultra or not? The evolving world of iPhone marketing
  5. Clockwise 518: Expose My Guilt
  6. ‘The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge’
  7. The Rebound 459: 10 Rules is Enough for Anyone
  8. Anticipating the coming USB-C iPhone backlash
  9. Introducing our new Q&A videos
  10. How will Apple redesign the iPad Magic Keyboard?
  11. The Talk Show 383: A Photocopy of a Fax
  12. Upgrade 474: I’m Not a Doctor, I’m an Auditor
  13. This Week in Apple: Press release excitement
  14. Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
  15. Kolide 27
  16. Do we need a bigger iMac?
  17. After 25 years, where does the iMac go next?
  18. Apple talks to Vision Pro developers
  19. The Rebound 458: This Old Network
  20. Clockwise 517: Nobody Wants to Get Ringworm
  21. Shake it off: Remembering Apple’s Academy Award–winning failure
  22. Editing the sound of silence
  23. Upgrade 473: I Can Talk About the George Foreman Grill Now
  24. The Dirty Secret of OS Updates
  25. This Week in Apple: Band of bothers
  26. iMac anniversaries and Disney’s value to Apple
  27. ‘A brief history of the corporate presentation’
  28. In macOS Sonoma, Touch ID for sudo can survive updates
  29. iOS 17 beta walkthrough: StandBy
  30. Clockwise 516: I Can See All the Electrons in the Universe!
  31. The Rebound 457: The Drawback is Electrocution
  32. Why Apple might actually buy Disney after all
  33. How the iMac saved Apple
  34. Upgrade 472: Step Aside, Bob!
  35. The controversy over unlimited digital lending is anything but simple
  36. Generation gap: Using Shortcuts with Folder Actions
  37. This Week in Apple: An onmouseover Event
  38. Transcripts, Personal Voice, and Galactic Starcruiser
  39. Kolide 26
  40. In iOS 17, Siri can make the web speak
  41. The USB-C iPhone won’t clean up Apple’s Lightning mess
  42. August Backstage Zoom: Disney, iPhone, and more
  43. The Rebound 456: Cricket Curious
  44. Clockwise 515: Wrong Me Four Times
  45. We weren’t prepared for the Galactic Starcruiser
  46. Could Apple really buy Disney?
  47. Callsheet provides a clean alternative to IMDB
  48. macOS utility NightOwl now contains shady botnet code
  49. Apple’s college football TV deal, and a century-old athletic conference, fall apart
  50. Upgrade 471: A Technological 23rd Century Star Trek Thing
  51. Stupid Companies Make AI Promises. Smart Companies Have AI Policies.
  52. This Week in Apple: Only competing against yourself
  53. Apple results and 360 videos
  54. Apple’s shaky quarter hides big profits and expense cuts
  55. This is Tim: Apple’s Q3 2023 analyst call, transcribed
  56. Apple Q3 2023 Charts: $81.8B revenue, down 1%
  57. Clockwise 514: Hey, Stop! That’s Mine!
  58. The Rebound 455: Is a Foldable Phone a Sandwich?
  59. Creating podcast video with a 360-degree camera
  60. Report: Apple close to college football broadcast deal
  61. 57 app icons and nothing good on
  62. The Back Page: Credit where credit is due

July 2023

  1. Exploring 360 Video with Final Cut Pro and Keyboard Maestro
  2. Upgrade 470: Magic Titanium
  3. This Week in Apple: Banish the bezel
  4. Summer is two-computer season on my desk
  5. The right Mac laptop for students (2023 edition)
  6. Switching to Mac and building automations
  7. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  8. Three built-in Apple apps that deserve a second look
  9. Clockwise 513: Cow Moo Pig Oink
  10. The Rebound 454: Strong Old Man Energy
  11. I switched to a Mac after decades on Windows
  12. Upgrade 469: Bring in the Boffins
  13. Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari
  14. This Week in Apple: Take my word for it
  15. Kolide 25
  16. Bloomberg, LLMs, and Apple Maps
  17. Why you should install Apple’s public betas
  18. Bloomberg: No, really, Apple’s working on language AI
  19. Clockwise 512: A Chonky Boy
  20. The Rebound 453: Downtime at the Cap’n Crunch Factory
  21. The Dirty Secret of OS Updates
  22. Users are turning around on Apple Maps
  23. Unity adds visionOS beta program
  24. Upgrade 468: Nonstop Bangers Involving Saxophone Solos
  25. This Week in Apple: Driving Mr. Brimley
  26. Public Beta download
  27. Three Apple features that hint that the Vision Pro isn’t the endgame
  28. First Look: watchOS 10 Public Beta
  29. Clockwise 511: The Magic of Dealiday
  30. The Rebound 452: Echosystem
  31. First Look: iPadOS 17 Public Beta
  32. First Look: iOS 17 Public Beta
  33. First Look: macOS Sonoma Public Beta
  34. First Look: 2023 Public Beta platform features
  35. Upgrade 467: The Least Important Mac
  36. Kolide 24
  37. This Week in Apple: Too many socials
  38. macOS beta impressions
  39. The Rebound 451: Comcast Survivor
  40. Clockwise 510: Grumpy About Changes
  41. Wish List: Keep apps from being offloaded
  42. Five Vision Pro features Apple doesn’t want to talk about
  43. Upgrade 466: Try to Stop Me Now, Batman
  44. Stupid Companies Make AI Promises. Smart Companies Have AI Policies.

June 2023

  1. The Back Page: Hot beta summer
  2. This Week in Apple: You can’t spell “Grimace” without “iMac”
  3. Is Apple ready for some college football?
  4. Clean installs and beta tourism
  5. Kolide 23
  6. My new macOS server marks the end of Mac OS X Server
  7. July Backstage Zoom: Apple Vision, betas, and more
  8. Clockwise 509: I’ve Got Socks That Have Lifetime Guarantees
  9. The Rebound 450: Each Object is an Object
  10. iOS 17 is finally tapping into the iPhone 6’s full potential
  11. Google Assistant crosses openness off its list
  12. Apple’s Fitness streaks need more humanity
  13. Vision Pro accessibility: Great potential, but many unknowns
  14. Upgrade 465: No Dark Modes, Only Dark Rooms
  15. That Ticking Noise is Your End Users’ Laptops
  16. Vision Pro and the challenge of 3D movies
  17. This Week in Apple: The mode less traveled
  18. Passkeys, voicemails, and discoverability
  19. Kolide 22
  20. Pro tip: The iPhone has a discoverability problem
  21. iOS 17’s Live Voicemail finally makes this iOS 13 feature useful for me
  22. Clockwise 508: Text Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
  23. Why.are.there.periods.in.my.iPhone.searches
  24. The Rebound 449: Viral Marketing
  25. Apple adds passkeys to Apple ID, iCloud logins
  26. Upgrade 464: Godzilla Is Always There
  27. Can Zero Trust Be Saved?
  28. WWDC 2023: More responsive iOS camera apps
  29. This Week in Apple: Fractionally cheaper
  30. Audio Hijack
  31. New Macs, game porting, and betas
  32. Does Apple’s porting toolkit change the game?
  33. Clockwise 507: Help My Kid Find the Cat
  34. The Rebound 448: The Nerve™
  35. Three WWDC software announcements that hint at new Apple home gear
  36. Other views of Apple Vision Pro
  37. The original AppleVision
  38. Upgrade 463: Respect the Tripod
  39. M2 Ultra Mac Studio review: Top of the line
  40. Record Any Audio With Audio Hijack
  41. 15-inch MacBook Air review: Sometimes bigger is better
  42. This Week in Apple: Polarizing lenses
  43. Apple’s vision, and surprising new Macs
  44. Unite 4
  45. Apollo to shut down; developer has receipts
  46. The Mac is the big winner of WWDC 2023
  47. The Rebound 447: Exploit For Goodness
  48. Apple highlights new services features coming later this year
  49. WWDC 2023: watchOS 10’s redesign
  50. Eyes (and head) on with the Apple Vision Pro
  51. Upgrade 462: Time Moves the Sun
  52. Clockwise 506: I Want To Be Able to Ducking Type
  53. From a golf cart at Apple Park
  54. The new Apple OS features I want right now
  55. The features that didn’t get discussed onstage at WWDC
  56. Unite 4 – Turn websites into apps on your Mac
  57. This Week in Apple: The keys to the note
  58. What I’m watching for at the WWDC keynote
  59. Six Centuries of Type & Printing
  60. Packing for WWDC and marketing challenges

May 2023

  1. Clockwise 505: That Satisfying Click
  2. The Rebound 446: Seven Minutes in Heaven (Take 2)
  3. Reddit has it in for third-party clients
  4. The Back Page: Release Notes for Apple Reality 1.0.1
  5. How I edit podcasts (2023 update)
  6. The Rebound 446: Seven Minutes in Heaven
  7. ‘MLB to produce and broadcast Padres games’
  8. A lot will be announced at WWDC, but wearables will steal the show
  9. Apple Classical launches on Android before Mac and iPad
  10. Upgrade 461: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2023
  11. Type and printing history told in a letterpress volume by tech journalist Glenn Fleishman
  12. This Week in Apple: The flaw of averages
  13. Kolide 21
  14. Hands on with pro iPad apps, Mimestream 1.0
  15. Apple TV’s multiview feature is so good, I want it everywhere
  16. Clockwise 504: I Have No Business Being This Glamorous
  17. Backstage Live Chat: May 24, 2023
  18. The Rebound 445: Siracusian Level Complaint
  19. Why Apple hasn’t missed the boat in AI… yet
  20. The Talk Show 375: No False Humidity
  21. Hands on with Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad
  22. Anticipating Apple’s VR sports strategy
  23. Baseball and magicians, but not Bluetooth
  24. Upgrade 460: Mr. QuickTime is Now Mr. Headset
  25. That Ticking Noise is Your End Users’ Laptops
  26. Mac Gmail client Mimestream reaches 1.0
  27. This Week in Apple: Could go either way
  28. iMazing
  29. Headset narratives and accessibility drops
  30. How I Podcast: Recording (2023 edition)
  31. Behind Apple’s new voice cloning feature
  32. Software subscriptions feel weird, but they work
  33. Clockwise 503: I Still Think He’s a Mutant
  34. The Rebound 444: I Do Not Really Do Outside Work
  35. On the heels of new pro apps, where does the iPad go from here?
  36. iMazing is the ultimate local iPhone manager for Mac and Windows. Try it today!
  37. Apple previews new accessibility features, including AI-generated voice clone
  38. Upgrade 459: I Appreciate Whopping
  39. Tracking the many social-media migrations
  40. This Week in Apple: Finally Cut Pro
  41. One podcast wedding, two pro iPad apps
  42. Kolide 20
  43. Clockwise 502: Cirque-du-Soleil-Style Verbal Gymnastics
  44. The Rebound 443: Myke Hurley
  45. The must-have accessory for Apple’s AR headset will be an Apple One subscription
  46. Final Cut and Logic arrive on iPad: Questions and (some) answers
  47. Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro come to the iPad at last
  48. Upgrade 458: Weaving on a Thoughtful Basis
  49. Can Zero Trust Be Saved?
  50. This Week in Apple: Remember to tip your Genius
  51. Apple’s weird quarter and Passkey progress
  52. Reacting to Apple’s “sigh of relief” quarter
  53. 25 years ago, Apple introduced the product that changed everything
  54. Accessory maker Brydge ceases operations
  55. Video: Apple Q2 2023 results, charts
  56. This is Tim: Apple’s Q2 2023 analyst call, transcribed
  57. Apple Q2 2023 results: $94.8B revenue, better than expected (with charts!)
  58. Move messages from Slack to Discord
  59. Clockwise 501: The Atomic Energy of Personal Location Security
  60. The Rebound 442: If You Like It Then You Shoulda Put an AirTag On It
  61. Google adds passkeys for accounts
  62. Apple, Google propose ‘unwanted tracking’ standard
  63. Upgrade 457: Subtle & Vibrant
  64. Wish List: Auto-resume for walking workouts in watchOS
  65. The juice jacking isn’t worth the squeeze

April 2023

  1. The Back Page: The many moods of Tim Cook
  2. This Week in Apple: A system of operating
  3. Streaming ads and home servers
  4. The endless uses for an always-on Mac
  5. I really don’t want to read the comments
  6. Clockwise 500: The Windows Vista of the Future
  7. The Rebound 441: Feed The Rebound
  8. Why ads on Apple TV+ are inevitable
  9. Upgrade 456: The Official Journal of Journaling
  10. Are you ready to give Apple all of your money?
  11. This Week in Apple: SurpriSE!
  12. Apple in India, cameras in our pockets
  13. Kolide 19
  14. Adjust the text size of individual iOS apps
  15. Have you considered using a camera?
  16. Clockwise 499: Weeping Quietly Into My Headset
  17. The Rebound 440: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  18. Why Apple’s competition can never measure up
  19. Get the most out of macOS screenshots
  20. Upgrade 455: QUADBOX!
  21. That Ticking Noise is Your End Users’ Laptops
  22. Apple’s quad box arrives in new tvOS beta
  23. Apple Cash becomes Apple savings account
  24. How dicey rumors get from Apple’s secret labs to your computer screen
  25. The end of the computer magazine
  26. SoundSource
  27. Migrations and modem sounds
  28. ‘Make Something Wonderful’
  29. Clockwise 498: Divisive About Devices
  30. The Rebound 439: Maybe If I Spend More Money
  31. What’s bugging Mac users? Bugs, bad base models, and expensive upgrades
  32. Upgrade 454: The Home Home
  33. If you use audio on your Mac, you need SoundSource
  34. Kolide 18
  35. Andy Baio on designing for colorblindness
  36. This Week in Apple: Exactly the right amount of Cooks
  37. Friday Night Baseball’s radio overlay really works
  38. CarPlay coping, Easter eggs, and the Lisa
  39. General Motors hates your iPhone
  40. The Bitcoin Whitepaper is on your Mac
  41. The Rebound 438: Your Daily Dare
  42. Clockwise 497: Mounting My Phone Like an Uber Driver
  43. Fantastical adds broader Shortcuts support
  44. I don’t need another touchscreen
  45. Upgrade 453: At Large at Apple Park
  46. Can Zero Trust Be Saved?
  47. How Apple can use small OS upgrades to make a big splash at WWDC
  48. The Back Page: We got nothing

March 2023

  1. This Week in Apple: Who wants this stuff?
  2. Kandji 9
  3. WWDC, digital photo frames, and automaker arrogance
  4. Review: Aura’s digital photo frame is solid, if not quite picture perfect
  5. Video: Using VoiceOver with the Weather app
  6. Apple in the Enterprise: A 2023 report card
  7. Kirk McElhearn takes Apple Music Classical for a spin
  8. Clockwise 496: I Just Wanna Know What Outer Space Tastes Like
  9. March Backstage Video Chat
  10. Apple announces WWDC 2023 for June 5-9
  11. The Rebound 437: C’mon, Six Eyes
  12. The case for an iPhone action button
  13. iOS and macOS’s Passwords feature needs an app
  14. First Look: Apple Classical is tuned for the genre, but hits a few false notes
  15. Upgrade 452: Schrödinger’s Killer App
  16. This Week in Apple: Congrats, Russian kids!
  17. Unite 4
  18. ‘The RIAA v. Steve Jobs’
  19. Rip, Mix, Burn, Stream, Play Ball
  20. Pivoting to Numbers
  21. When bank runs run faster than banks
  22. Clockwise 495: That’s Never Stopped Me
  23. Boox Leaf 2: Hitting the limits of e-reader multitasking
  24. Apple’s “Friday Night Baseball” adds local radio
  25. The Rebound 436: How RAM Doubler Works
  26. Upgrade 451: I’ve Come Around to Reality
  27. How Apple’s AI project could bring a long-overdue Siri breakthrough
  28. Unite 4 – Turn websites into apps on your Mac
  29. This Week in Apple: The Lasso Cinematic Universe
  30. Landmarks, screenshots, and chatbots
  31. A (not so) brief review of Apple Maps’s Boston landmarks
  32. Camo Studio 2 supports any webcam, including Continuity Camera
  33. Clockwise 494: Beware the Pies of March
  34. The Rebound 435: The Podcast Region of France
  35. For the Mac and iPad Pro to advance, they need to come together
  36. Upgrade 450: Funko Classicals
  37. Inside the changes to macOS cloud storage
  38. That Ticking Noise is Your End Users’ Laptops
  39. Four iPhone 15 upgrades that will make you want one right now
  40. This Week in Apple: Stumbling into the future
  41. MLB app updated with Live Activities support
  42. By the way, Alexa, you’ve been replaced
  43. Apple Music Classical and travel notes
  44. Apple Music Classical arrives later this month
  45. Video: Live with the yellow iPhone
  46. Clockwise 493: A Game of Hot and Cold With My Ears
  47. The Rebound 434: Sweating and Crying
  48. It’s not a classic era for classic movies
  49. Why Apple is about to supercharge its Mac chip development
  50. The game that killed SimCity
  51. The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus now come in yellow
  52. Upgrade 449: Dynamic Submarine
  53. One song is all it takes
  54. It’s no fun if you’re Fnu
  55. ‘The cursed universes of Dana Sibera’
  56. Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card
  57. Can Zero Trust Be Saved?
  58. If Apple loves music so much, why can’t it get streaming right?
  59. This Week in Apple: Cocaine Bear
  60. Kolide 17
  61. Passcode security, Twitter client refunds, and grain
  62. The Rebound 433: I Don’t Know Why Either Of You Said The Things That You Said
  63. Clockwise 492: Hacked or Tracked or Cracked
  64. Tweetbot and Twitterrific updated with option to opt-out of subscription refund

February 2023

  1. The Back Page: Inside Apple’s most secret secret research & development group
  2. Upgrade 448: I’m Choosing Optimism
  3. Apple’s machines are learning more intelligently than Bard and Bing
  4. That Ticking Noise is Your End Users’ Laptops
  5. This Week in Apple: A stopped Watch
  6. Blood glucose monitoring and machine learning
  7. The Rebound 432: 2 Tired 2 Early
  8. Clockwise 491: A Doggy Jukebox
  9. Report: Apple working on non-invasive glucose testing device
  10. Music to no one’s ears
  11. If Apple is making a bigger MacBook Air, why not a smaller one too?
  12. Upgrade 447: I’ve Got a Lot of Code in the Catalogue
  13. Setting up iOS’s two-factor authentication for Twitter
  14. This Week in Apple: Delayed gratification
  15. Packing for vacation, Mac Pro, beta updates
  16. Windows on ARM comes to the Mac… officially
  17. New Apple betas bring new emojis
  18. Clockwise 490: Smoothie Dan
  19. The Rebound 431: $100 An Inch
  20. Is Apple making a Mac Pro nobody wants?
  21. Upgrade 446: The iPhone Abides
  22. HomePod (second generation) review: More of the same
  23. This Week in Apple: Pie in the Skynet
  24. Audio Hijack
  25. Report Card, iPad frustration, and HomePod
  26. Fun With Charts: A 2022 Report Card breakdown
  27. Automating podcast transcripts on my Mac with OpenAI Whisper
  28. Clockwise 489: It Will Automatically Punch You
  29. The Rebound 430: Give Up On Your Dreams, Kids
  30. Checking in on the accessibility of the Dynamic Island
  31. Imagining Apple’s biggest potential threats
  32. Upgrade 445: Headwinds
  33. Apple in 2022: The Six Colors report card
  34. Record Any Audio on Your Mac, With Audio Hijack
  35. The Mac’s gaming hurdles are more cultural than technological
  36. This Week in Apple: Let them fight
  37. Parsing a PDF in Shortcuts… using Live Text
  38. HomePods and Apple results
  39. Apple sails into the macroeconomic headwinds
  40. This is Tim: Apple Q1 2023 analyst call transcript
  41. Apple results and charts: $117.2B quarter is still a step back
  42. Clockwise 488: The Instagram of Shoes
  43. The Rebound 429: PRAM vs PRAM
  44. The Talk Show #368: Tweeter and the Monkey Man

January 2023

  1. The Back Page: M2, Brute?
  2. Upgrade 444: Greg
  3. Apple’s collaboration tools need some work
  4. This Week in Apple: Feel the elephant
  5. Clay
  6. New Mac reviews and chip choices
  7. New tool generates more useful Mastodon link previews in Messages
  8. Clockwise 487: A Trebillionty Menu Bar Apps
  9. The Rebound 428: The Cobra System
  10. M2 Pro vs M2 Max: It comes down to memory–and money
  11. Tapbots’s Ivory client for Mastodon launches for iOS, iPadOS
  12. Apple’s privacy push extends to retail (and Nick Mohammed)
  13. Upgrade 443: Core Variations
  14. Video: M2 MacBook Pro and Mac mini
  15. Apple ID security key support added in iOS 16.3, macOS 13.2
  16. Hi Dock lets you tweak your Mac’s Dock for multiple displays
  17. Clay – A Beautiful Relationship Manager for iOS and macOS
  18. 2023 MacBook Pro Review: More of the same, in a good way
  19. M2 Mac mini Review: Whatever you want it to be
  20. Are Apple’s Macs getting too powerful?
  21. This Week in Apple: Non-events
  22. New Macs and new M2 chip options
  23. Twitterrific is gone
  24. Apple releases Lisa source code
  25. Customizing the Six Colors RSS feed
  26. Clockwise 486: Stop Trying To Take My Job, Robots
  27. The Rebound 427: Basement Tim
  28. Apple announces the second-generation HomePod
  29. Phishing for clues
  30. How many Home updates does it take to turn off a light bulb?
  31. Apple announces M2 Pro and M2 Max-powered MacBook Pros, Mac mini
  32. Upgrade 442: Zombie Arms and Toaster Fridge
  33. The end of the Twitter client era
  34. This Week in Apple: The king of content
  35. Eddy Cue’s blog and touchscreen Macs
  36. The real secrets of iOS and accessibility
  37. Gurman: Apple working on touchscreen Macs
  38. The two paths forward for Apple’s headset
  39. A look at per-app accessibility features in iOS
  40. Clockwise 485: Comfortable in My Overkill
  41. Tapbots shares road map for Mastodon client Ivory’s development
  42. The Rebound 426: Receipt for Funyuns
  43. Eddy Cue celebrates 2022 in services
  44. Upgrade 441: Qi2: Qi Harder
  45. Three small ways Apple can make a big impact in 2023
  46. This Week in Apple: Physical challenge
  47. This podcast wasn’t generated by AI
  48. Kolide 16
  49. When two calendars are not better than one
  50. Create visual feedback for running Shortcuts
  51. My writing finances, 2022
  52. Apple launches AI narrators for some audiobooks
  53. Scott McNulty’s replacement for Dark Sky
  54. Tuning in to the Channels app
  55. Clockwise 484: Help, I Can’t Dock!
  56. Why Apple’s most baffling decisions aren’t as weird as they seem
  57. The Rebound 425: 2400 Baud
  58. Upcoming Qi2 standard to be based on MagSafe
  59. Miss Dark Sky? CARROT Weather has you (cloud) covered
  60. Upgrade 440: Apple Bricked My House!
  61. Kindle Scribe review: Big, beautiful, and… buttonless?
  62. Kolide–Endpoint Security For People, Not Paper Clips

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