I recently connected my AirPods Pro to our Apple TV, something I usually do on the occasion that my wife wants to sleep rather than unwind with some show. The resulting sound is always exceptionally good, even when it’s not immersive. In this particular case, the AirPods didn’t try to envelop me in sound because […]
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Someone tried to pull a “shoebox” scam on me while I was traveling in NYC this week for work. By “shoebox” scam, I am referring to Charlotte Cowle’s The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger. If you haven’t done so already, I implore you to read it. […]
The Mac turns 40 today, so I figured I’d use the occasion to write about my first Macintosh. Before he retired, my Dad was a consultant at a firm. What he did was niche, but he was top three in his field. While I was in elementary school, my dad threatened to go independent and […]
Since June, I have been thinking of Vision as being more Mac-like, in part because both were built for multitasking1. The more I think about it however, the more I think that Vision is really a rethinking of how multitasking iPad apps should work. Almost a year ago, I argued that multitasking on iPad suffered […]
Products and features need to resonate with an audience in order to succeed. People feel, sometimes immediately, when a feature resonates with them, and it’s that feeling that gives them a sense of whether a related product is revolutionary and not the other way around. The iPhone was almost immediately and universally recognized as a […]
Joe Rossignol, at MacRumors: When the feature is turned on, iPhone users are required to authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID for additional actions, including viewing passwords or passkeys stored in iCloud Keychain, applying for a new Apple Card, turning off Lost Mode, erasing all content and settings, using payment methods saved in Safari, […]
Inspired by the folks over at MacStories adding a new section dedicated to their setups, I figured now would be a good time to write about my own workspace. It’s actually something I’ve been meaning to write about for some time now as I’ve made several upgrades over the past year and have never been […]
I spent a few minutes on Black Friday messing around with ChatGPT. Given how much I enjoy Columbo, the series of made for TV murder mysteries, I asked ChatGPT the following: Write me the synopsis of the perfect Columbo murder mystery. What I got in return was I think the perfect example of the power […]
According to Walter Isaacson’s1 authorized biography, this is what Steve Jobs had to say about Apple’s lawsuit against HTC in 2011: Our lawsuit is saying, “Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off.” Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny […]
Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge: Nvidia and AMD are both reportedly planning to launch Arm-based CPUs for Windows-based PCs. Reuters reports that Nvidia has started designing Arm-based CPUs in what could be a major expansion of Microsoft’s Windows on Arm work. Nvidia and AMD could both be ready with PC chips as soon as […]