Rogue Amoeba opened its doors on September 30, 2002, and they’re celebrating 24 years with a birthday sale: 24% off anything in their store with the code 24YEARS. The discount runs through October 4. I use Rogue Amoeba apps every day. Audio Hijack, Fission,…
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For Those of Us Particular About the Things on Our Desks…
Last week Apple updated the Magic Keyboard, replacing text key labels with glyphs, which is kind of nice. I have a similar keyboard on my laptop, and I like it. However, I was hoping they would fix a different injustice that’s been around for…
Continue reading →New M5 Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini
We got a nice surprise from Apple this morning with some new Macs. Those of you waiting for that M5 Ultra Mac Studio are finally going to get your wish. You can get the M5 Ultra with up to 36 CPU cores and up…
Continue reading →Bitrig, An AI Development Assistant from SwiftUl Team Members
Four members of the SwiftUI team at Apple left the company, and now they’ve started a company that writes SwiftUI for you. The product is Bitrig. You describe an app in plain English, and it generates real Swift and SwiftUI code. What comes out…
Continue reading →Susan Kare Revisits the Original Mac Icons
Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac points to Susan Kare’s talk at this year’s Startup School, where she goes back through the icons and graphics she made for the original Macintosh. Y Combinator has the video up on YouTube. Kare drew bitmaps on a grid, one…
Continue reading →TerminalWidget by Brett Terpstra
Brett Terpstra recently shipped TerminalWidget, a useful, nerdy little utility right in line with that we’ve all come to love from Brett. TerminalWidget takes the output from a shell script, a Shortcut, an AppleScript, or a plain URL, and turns it into a widget…
Continue reading →Where Apple’s Price Increases Landed
Last week I wrote that Apple’s price increases were coming and bet the high end would take the hit while the cheap stuff stayed cheap. The prices landed this week, and I was half right. The high end did take it. The M3 Ultra…
Continue reading →Where Apple’s Price Increases Will Land
Tim Cook just told the Wall Street Journal that Apple is raising prices. The cause is a memory chip shortage. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” Cook said. He added that Apple has been trying to shield its customers, “but the situation has become unsustainable”.…
Continue reading →The MacBook Neo’s Unfair Advantage
Steven Sinofsky, who ran the Windows division at Microsoft, picked up a MacBook Neo on launch day and wrote a long, reflective piece about it on his Substack. He called it “a paradigm shifting computer”. Coming from the guy who shipped Windows 8 and…
Continue reading →MacBook Neo First Impressions
Apple announced the MacBook Neo today, and I think it’s a bigger deal than most people realize. The headline is the price. $599. That’s it. And if you’re a student, $499. Yesterday, the cheapest way to get a Mac laptop was north of a…
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