I’ve had a few requests from Labs members asking for ways to globally silence audio notifications on their Macs. There’s an app for that: Serenity…This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
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Does iPad (and Mac) Reliability Explain Slowing Upgrade Cycles?
Apple didn’t release any new iPad hardware this year, but according to Ming-Chi Kuo, that’s changing next year with iPad updates across the board, including the long-awaited OLED iPad Pro. That’s good, and I hope that’s all true. But I also know how easy…
Continue reading →Record Anything with Audio Hijack
With Audio Hijack, you can record any audio on your Mac. Save audio from individual applications such as Safari or Zoom, record from hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, or even capture the audio output of the entire system. Whatever you need to do…
Continue reading →The Future of Mac Reliability
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Apple silicon and its implications for Macintosh reliability. Before the arrival of Apple silicon, a typical Mac logic board included a CPU, separate RAM, an Apple W2 or some other sort of secure enclave, chips to manage…
Continue reading →The Idea of Shortcuts on the Mac
This week Jason Snell wrote an excellent article about the need for Apple to bring Shortcuts to the Mac. I’ve been thinking about that article a lot. My position on Apple bringing Shortcuts to the Mac has always been, “wait”. The reason being that…
Continue reading →Face ID Macs Likely with Apple Silicon
9to5 Mac did some sleuthing in the latest Big Sur beta and found references to the TrueDepth camera system currently found on some iPhones and iPads. Specifically, there are references to “PearlCamera”, which was Apple’s internal code name for the TrueDepth camera. It makes perfect…
Continue reading →ARM-Based Macs Appear Inevitable
This week, Mark Gurman posted that Apple will announce a transition to ARM-based Macs at WWDC later this month. It is interesting how those of us on the outside have slowly arrived at the term “inevitable” concerning Apple putting a variant of the chip…
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