I’ve been saying on the Lab Report for years that Apple needs to own the age of the person holding the device. This year they did something about it. The piece that matters is the new Declared Age Range API. It lets an app…
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HomeKit Secure Video Hits 4K. You’re Welcome.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a whole post complaining that HomeKit Secure Video was still stuck at 1080p in 2026. I never published it. I figured I’d look silly if Apple fixed it the week after I hit send. Then the keynote…
Continue reading →Turn Your Web Apps Into Real Mac Apps with Unite Pro
This post is sponsored by BZG Apps. My thanks to Unite Pro for sponsoring MacSparky this week. I spend a ridiculous amount of time in web apps. My browser has become a second operating system. The trouble is that browser tabs are terrible containers…
Continue reading →Apple Intelligence Table Stakes
Back in 2017, the night before the WWDC keynote, I wrote a short post about table stakes. I’d spent a year living on the iPad, and a lot of it still felt like swimming upstream. My argument was that fixing the iPad’s file management…
Continue reading →Designed in California
Jason Snell and Myke Hurley just put a new podcast on Kickstarter, and the pitch grabbed me right away. It’s called Designed in California, and it tells the story of Apple across all fifty years of the company. Jason did the research and writing.…
Continue reading →My New Podcast: Intentional AI with Chris Bailey
I’m proud to announce I just released a new podcast, and I’ve been wanting to tell you about it for months. It’s called Intentional AI, and it’s a show about using AI to actually get your work done. Not the doom. Not the hype. The…
Listen & read notes →Focused 257: Stephen Robles
On this episode of Focused, I’m joined by Mike and our guest Stephen Robles, the new co-host of Mac Power Users who went fully independent last October. Stephen makes the case for the generalist, the person who’s good at a lot of things instead…
Listen & read notes →Record Any Audio on Your Mac, with Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba
This post is sponsored by Rogue Amoeba. This week, my friends at Rogue Amoeba are back to sponsor MacSparky, and I want to spotlight their flagship recording tool for the Mac: Audio Hijack. Audio Hijack is the tool the pros reach for. Use it…
Continue reading →Marked 3 Is Officially Out
Brett Terpstra just shipped Marked 3. It’s the biggest update in the app’s history. After more than a decade of Marked, that’s impressive. If you’ve never used it, Marked does one job. You write Markdown in whatever editor you like, and Marked shows you…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 851: Feedback
It’s a feedback episode, which means Stephen and I finally crack open the mailbag that’s been piling up. I went hard at Apple Home since we last talked. I nuked my twelve-year-old setup, ran Ethernet cable around the house for Aqara cameras, and put…
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