Dan Moren

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Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Articles

At WWDC 2025, Apple played to its strengths

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

Another Worldwide Developers Conference is in the books, and after a week of keynotes, briefings, and travel, I’ve finally had a chance to sit and zoom out to the 35,000-foot view of the company’s latest announcements. The Apple of 2025 has definitely learned some lessons. In hindsight, last year’s event has seemed even more rocky, with the company hustling to unveil Apple Intelligence, including showing off features that still have yet to ship.
Apple's Shortcuts app is getting a huge upgrade in iOS 26 and macOS 26 - here's how it will help you

2 weeks ago | tomsguide.com | Dan Moren

You may not know it, but there's an app built right into your iPhone, iPad, and Mac that can supercharge your experience using all those products — and it's about to get even more powerful. That app is Shortcuts, and it lets you automate tasks on your devices, even across apps. You can have it do everything from a simple job of creating a GIF of a Live Photo to a complex system that lets you annotate a podcast as you're recording it, and way, way more.
Apple's Shortcuts app is getting a huge upgrade in iOS 26 and macOS 26 — here's how it will help you

2 weeks ago | inkl.com | Dan Moren

Craig Federighi stands in front of the Shortcuts app icon. You may not know it, but there's an app built right into your iPhone, iPad, and Mac that can supercharge your experience using all those products — and it's about to get even more powerful. That app is Shortcuts, and it lets you automate tasks on your devices, even across apps.
Apple’s new interface approach: The choice is yours

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

For a company that’s long been known for its “my way or the highway” philosophy when it comes to design, some of Apple’s latest interface choices have abandoned that approach in favor of the realization that, well, change is hard. So, instead of throwing its users into the deep end, Apple has started more commonly letting them continuing using an older interface if it suits them.
The good, bad, and weird of Apple’s newest platform updates

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

Software is more than just a new version number: at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple rolled out expansive updates across its platforms, with a brand new Liquid Glass design, access to AI models for third-party developers, and new . But you’ve heard about all of that, I’m sure, so we’re not going to rehash it. Instead, let’s get personal: I’m picking out, in my opinion, the best and worst new features of each of Apple’s platforms.
macOS Tahoe is the last release to support Intel

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

It’s the end of an era! Five years after the introduction of Apple Silicon on Macs, and two years after the company fully transitioned its product line to the new architecture, the end of the road is in sight: the company announced on Monday that this year’s release of macOS Tahoe will be the last to support Intel-based Macs. That means the last release to support the architecture will be next year’s macOS 27, whatever California landmark it’s named after.
How North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Tech Jobs

1 month ago | twit.tv | Mikah Sargent |Dan Moren

Category: News Dan Moren joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Apple is rumored to announce a major OS redesign and unified naming scheme at WWDC this year. How YouTube creators are competing against traditional television. Insights into research showing technology use and association with reduced cognitive decline. And how North Koreans have stolen over $6 billion in cryptocurrency through U.S. remote jobs.
Apple rolls out rebranded “CarPlay Ultra” three years after its unveiling

1 month ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

Almost three years after announcing what was then called next-generation CarPlay—or, colloquially, CarPlay 2—Apple on Thursday celebrated rolling out what it now calls “CarPlay Ultra” in a single automaker’s vehicles. If you guessed that automaker was an exceptionally high-end company selling a relatively small number of vehicles, you’d be right: hello, Aston Martin.
Android's New Design Language

1 month ago | twit.tv | Mikah Sargent |Dan Moren

Category: News Dan Moren joins Mikah Sargent this week! A quick preview of Android 16 and Material 3 Expressive ahead of Google I/O with CNET. If you received a 'Lopez Voice Assistant' email, you may be owed a settlement. Apple is finally rolling out its rebranded 'CarPlay Ultra', which was unveiled years ago. And the age of paranoia with deepfakes and scams. Patrick Holland of CNET joins Mikah to talk about his first look into Android 16 and Material 3, ahead of Google I/O on May 20th.
I’ll take “Bucket List” for $400, Ken

1 month ago | sixcolors.com | Dan Moren

Years ago, when I was working my first post-college job in web development and IT, I found myself totally burned out. One day, sitting at my computer, I opened up a blank Word document and just started writing down all the things I wanted to be doing instead. I’ve been lucky enough to check a number of those items off the list, including publishing novels and writing the back page column for Macworld,1 but today I get to knock off one that I was honestly never sure would happen.