MarsEdit 5 brings microposting, Markdown highlighting
If you’ve been blogging on the Mac for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with Red Sweater Software’s excellent MarsEdit blogging software. The new…
Category: Six Colors
Apple starts actively diversifying from China ↦
Yang Jie and Aaron Tilley, reporting over the weekend for the Wall Street Journal (Apple News link): In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans…
It’s Karaoke night on your iPhone ↦
On Tuesday, Apple announced a new Music feature for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV (but not Mac!) that combines Apple Music’s live lyrics with the…
My social media is in an Mac app, or it’s nowhere
Twitterrific for Mac—still going strong. My explorations with Mastodon have thus far been undertaken largely with the service’s web app. It’s fine, as far as…
(Podcast) Upgrade 436: I Bend So Many Spoons
John Siracusa returns to the show to chat about Jason’s recent visit to his house, Mac app development, Apple’s brain drain, TSMC breaking ground in…
To beat Google in the speaker war, Apple needs to deploy its secret mini weapon (Macworld/Dan Moren)
Apple tends not to be a first mover when it comes to new technologies, which often leads to the popular phenomenon of pundits declaring that…
Shortcuts and social media (6C Podcast)
Jason joins Dan in person at Dan’s desk to discuss projects in progress, automations, and Twitter and Mastodon.… This story is for Six Colors members…
Harkening back to the era of the BBS ↦
Fun story from Macworld contributor Benj Edwards over at Ars Technica about running a BBS1 when he was 11, which he still runs over the…
iPhone 14 Emergency SOS via Satellite arrives ↦
Promised “later this year” when it was introduced in September, Apple announced on Tuesday that it has turned on its Emergency SOS via Satellite feature…
(Podcast) Upgrade 433: The Lava Lamp is Not Responding
Let’s get real about the Apple VR headset. Is it really coming next year? What’s it going to look like? What features should it have?…
Redirect Web for Safari takes me to the right places
For a while now, I’ve been frustrated by the fact that some local reporters I follow on Twitter invariably tweet links to their stories at…
With 2022 running out, Apple might miss these promised deadlines (Macworld/Dan Moren)
Brace yourself for a scary fact: 2022 is coming to a close. Yes, there’s a little time yet before we have to flip the calendar…