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This Week in Apple: Spreading the gd:/WORD& (Member Post)
This Week in Apple: Spreading the gd:/WORD&
Happy Black Friday to all and may the blessing of the deals be upon you! This week Apple is on the rise, Apple sells out...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This Week in Apple: Spreading the gd:/WORD& (Member Post)
The Back Page: Keep it secret, Santa (Member Post)
The Back Page: Keep it secret, Santa
The vise-like grip of the holiday season has us in its peppermint-infused clutches once again. Perhaps you, like me, have found yourself once again having...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Back Page: Keep it secret, Santa (Member Post)
The Six Colors Podcast turns 10
The Six Colors Podcast turns 10
Listener Jason M. wrote: I just listened to your recent appearance on John Gruber's The Talk Show. I was glad to hear more about the...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Six Colors Podcast turns 10
Is Apple Podcasts being used as an attack vector? (Link)
Is Apple Podcasts being used as an attack vector?
Joseph Cox of 404 Media reports on an unusual phenomenon when he and other Apple users have seen "both the iOS and Mac versions of...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Is Apple Podcasts being used as an attack vector? (Link)
Fuzzy creatures find an iPhone in Apple’s 2025 holiday film (Link)
Fuzzy creatures find an iPhone in Apple’s 2025 holiday film
Apple's annual tradition of commissioning a special holiday-themed commercial film continues this year with "A Critter Carol," a two-minute long film starring an array of...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Fuzzy creatures find an iPhone in Apple’s 2025 holiday film (Link)
David Lerner, New York’s Mac repair guru, dies at 72 (Link)
David Lerner, New York’s Mac repair guru, dies at 72
Sam Roberts of the New York Times reports on the death of a fixture of Mac and Apple culture in New York, David Lerner of...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
David Lerner, New York’s Mac repair guru, dies at 72 (Link)
Pick a car, any car: Adventures with CarPlay
Pick a car, any car: Adventures with CarPlay
A lot of car stuff happened this month, where we needed to go from a one-car household to two. We bought a new car, but...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Pick a car, any car: Adventures with CarPlay
Festivitas adds snow, Shortcuts, iPhone widgets to its holiday package
Festivitas adds snow, Shortcuts, iPhone widgets to its holiday package
Let it snow! Last year Developer Simon Støvring released Festivitas, a delightful app that lets you adorn your Mac's Dock and Menu Bar with holiday...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Festivitas adds snow, Shortcuts, iPhone widgets to its holiday package
Soaping up Liquid Glass: less transparency, more contrast
Soaping up Liquid Glass: less transparency, more contrast
For those who find the fall 2025 Liquid Glass interface that Apple applied to all its operating systems a bit much—too transparent, too shiny, too...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Soaping up Liquid Glass: less transparency, more contrast
Updated: Folder automation in macOS Tahoe (Link)
Updated: Folder automation in macOS Tahoe
Today I updated a story I wrote back in August about folder automation in macOS Tahoe. One of the great new features in Tahoe is...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Updated: Folder automation in macOS Tahoe (Link)
This Week in Apple: Just another reason to stay home (Member Post)
This Week in Apple: Just another reason to stay home
Apple tells us Tim Cook may be going out for cigarettes soon and he’s not coming back. The Mac Pro may also not be coming...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This Week in Apple: Just another reason to stay home (Member Post)
End of an era? (Member Podcast)
End of an era?
As we reach the potential end of an era, we consider how Apple might manage an orderly executive transition....
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November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
End of an era? (Member Podcast)
AirDrop now compatible with Google Pixel 10 phones (Link)
AirDrop now compatible with Google Pixel 10 phones
Google's blog, The Keyword: Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop. This makes file transfer easier between iPhones and Android...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
AirDrop now compatible with Google Pixel 10 phones (Link)
Apple’s 26.2 betas boost iPad multitasking, AI processing
Apple’s 26.2 betas boost iPad multitasking, AI processing
Apple's been making interesting tweaks to its operating systems after the release of the 26.0 versions in September. Back in October, the 26.1 beta cycle...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Apple’s 26.2 betas boost iPad multitasking, AI processing
Apple launches accessibility-focused iPhone accessory
Apple launches accessibility-focused iPhone accessory
A new iPhone accessory available in the U.S. Apple Store prioritizes accessibility for users with a variety of physical and motor disabilities. The Hikawa MagSafe...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Apple launches accessibility-focused iPhone accessory
Traveling with the iPad Pro, 10 years on
Traveling with the iPad Pro, 10 years on
It's the milestone 10th anniversary of the iPad Pro. iPadOS 26 has dramatically improved the iPad's power-user functionality. And the new M5 iPad Pro has...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Traveling with the iPad Pro, 10 years on
Why does my device stick to the wrong Wi-Fi router?
Why does my device stick to the wrong Wi-Fi router?
You may never have heard the term Extended Service Set Identifier (ESSID), and why should you have? It's a mildly esoteric term in the Wi-Fi...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Why does my device stick to the wrong Wi-Fi router?
This Week in Apple: iPhone Pocket rocket (Member Post)
This Week in Apple: iPhone Pocket rocket
Is Apple an accessory to a fashion do or a fashion don’t? The iPhone Air turns in light results and CarPlay may be coming to...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This Week in Apple: iPhone Pocket rocket (Member Post)
Apple TV, Digital ID, and iPad Pro (Member Podcast)
Apple TV, Digital ID, and iPad Pro
Apple's all-inclusive Apple TV strategy now includes MLS, Dan tries out Apple's new Digital ID system, and it's the 10th anniversary of the first iPad...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Apple TV, Digital ID, and iPad Pro (Member Podcast)
ZenStand (Sponsor)
ZenStand
Meet ZenStand—the artisan wireless charger made for where you actually charge most: the bedroom. A genuine walnut base blends in with your furniture; every piece...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ZenStand (Sponsor)
Report: Apple and MLS make all games available to Apple TV subscribers (Link)
Report: Apple and MLS make all games available to Apple TV subscribers
Paul Tenorio of The Athletic reports that Apple and MLS are putting all MLS games on the standard Apple TV subscription: MLS and Apple have...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Report: Apple and MLS make all games available to Apple TV subscribers (Link)
Bloomberg: Tesla working to add CarPlay (Link)
Bloomberg: Tesla working to add CarPlay
Mark Gurman of Bloomberg has a pretty good scoop, reporting that Tesla is working to add CarPlay to its vehicles: The carmaker has started testing...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bloomberg: Tesla working to add CarPlay (Link)
The iPad Pro, 10 years later (Link)
The iPad Pro, 10 years later
The first iPad Pro came out ten years ago. Last month, on the tenth anniversary of the announcement, I wrote about it at Macworld: In...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The iPad Pro, 10 years later (Link)
Apple rolls out Digital ID in Apple Wallet for U.S. passport holders
Apple rolls out Digital ID in Apple Wallet for U.S. passport holders
If you suffer from that recurring nightmare that you're at the airport but have forgotten your wallet,1 fret no longer: starting today, holders of U.S....
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November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Apple rolls out Digital ID in Apple Wallet for U.S. passport holders
Cue: “No plans” for Apple TV ad tier (Link)
Cue: “No plans” for Apple TV ad tier
In an interview with Screen International, Apple's Eddy Cue directly addressed reports that the company might launch a tier of the Apple TV streaming service...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Cue: “No plans” for Apple TV ad tier (Link)