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We are flying through September, and our St. Jude campaign is rocking and rolling. As of this writing, we are knocking on the door of $450,000 raised this month! St. Jude cares for some of the world’s...

Life is full of trade-offs. I often think about this in terms of vehicles. If you have a big family, a minivan is probably the right call, even if it means sacrificing performance. A luxury sedan may ...

Moof!

This is why indie media is important.

Thoughts on the iPad mini in a foldable iPhone’s world.

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One step forward.

Myke Hurley, marking the 12th anniversary of our company: The versions of myself and Stephen who started this podcast network in 2014 feel incredibly different to me. We’ve learned a lot, changed a lo...

We are so back.

The best day to buy a laptop was yesterday.

This week on the podcast: Myke questions Stephen about his home network, then discusses the ups and downs of having an LLM power Siri. Also: a love letter to the iPhone Air and questions about Snap’s new AR glasses. On Connected Pro, I trained Myke to be a technology historian. That’s the longer, ad-free version of the show that you should sign up for!

Hartley Charlton at MacRumors: macOS 27 Golden Gate removes AFP support, ending Time Machine compatibility with Time Capsule after nearly two decades, but a community project from a Microsoft engineer...

“What I’m up to right now.”

Every year, the new version of macOS ships with at least one new default wallpaper. macOS 27 Golden Gate continues that tradition. Unlike previous years, this wallpaper is just a single image, without...

This page is intended to serve as a running log of things I have going on, both professionally and in life. It’s a bit like social media, just with an older vibe. Updated May 26, 2026. View the change...

OpenAI is adding a new personal finance feature to ChatGPT, letting people connect their financial accounts to the chatbot to get budgeting advice. Through a partnership with Plaid, ChatGPT users can ...

Blogs are better than social media.

Tim Cook, writing on apple.com: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the wor...

Whatever your feelings are today, they are valid, even if they are messy.

It has happened: the Mac Pro is gone, and Apple will not be replacing it. Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac: It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It h...

Apple announces June 8th - June 12th for WWDC 2026. Tim Cook announces that the Mac had its best launch week for first-time Mac customers. And a dispute is brewing between the

I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters […]

Stephen has been a menace all week with Lil Finder, Myke keeps thinking about the MacBook Neo, and Federico shares his most recent thoughts on foldable phones.

I was just going about my day then James Thomson of PCalc and other fine applications dropped these images on me and said I could share. They are all 5K, so they’re ready to go; just click to open up the full-res image.

Huge news for Apple’s biggest computer: the $699 Mac Pro Wheels Kit can be picked up for $199 on Woot for the next 13 hours or until they are sold out. (They go for about $300 a set on eBay these days…)

Apple has released an avalanche of new and updated products, and the guys come up for air to judge their predictions.