In your podcast feed today, you’ll find a short summary of the MacSparky Labs Meetup for March 2024… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
Date Archives → 2024
Mac Power Users 736: Maintaining & Caring For Your Apple Hardware
Join Stephen and me on this episode of Mac Power Users as we offer advice on how to best care for Macs, iPhones, iPads, and more, from cleaning to battery management and beyond. Then, we reflect on recent news, including the new MacBook Air…
Listen & read notes →The Lab Report for March 15, 2024
It’s time for the Lab Report, covering this week’s Apple news, rumors, and more… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
M3 MacBook Air has Faster SSD Speeds
A bit of good news from iFixit on the teardown of the new M3 MacBook Air: they have now switched to two 128 GB storage modules. You may know that in the first two iterations of the Apple silicon MacBook Air, the base storage models…
Continue reading →Focused 199: Repotting and Retirement, with Jim Eagar
Jim Eagar joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about how to navigate the four phases of retirement with meaning and purpose. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Vitally: A new era for customer success productivity. Get a free pair of…
Listen & read notes →Who’s Responsible For Age Verification?
There seems to be a lot of finger-pointing going on about age verification between software and hardware developers. Facebook (and now Tinder) argue that it’s up to the hardware seller to verify a user’s age. (Ben Lovejoy covers this over at 9to5Mac.) In a lot…
Continue reading →Local vs. Cloud Transcription Experiment
It’s experiment day in the MacSparky Labs. I wanted to find out if there’s a difference in quality between having your recordings transcribed in the cloud versus local Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.… This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
The New M3 MacBook Air
Recently, Apple released new M3-based MacBook Air computers in 13- and 15-inch sizes. In addition to the faster processors, the new machines can run two monitors simultaneously. Specifically, they can run one 6k and one 5k monitor, provided the lid on the MacBook Air is…
Continue reading →Apple Takes a Patent on a Tiltable iMac Similar to the Microsoft Surface Studio
I know it’s just a patent, but be still my heart.
Continue reading →Sparky’s New Travel Charger
I bought a new compact travel charger that juices up iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch all with just one cable and USB-C adapter. … This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?