Glenn Fleishman

3 days ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

Six Colors subscriber Ampsonic—an excellent source of questions—asks: Why do some names turn red in Messages when a non-iOS user is added? It’s all about hegemony! Ok, not quite, but it is about the tricky issue of how Apple deals with email addresses connected or not connected to iCloud accounts. Outside looking inWhen you enter an email address or type one into the address field in Messages, the software does a quick behind-the-scenes check.

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

Six Colors reader Philip asked some specific networking questions that centered on this dilemma: How does the choice between using Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi get made? Does one particular transaction solely use Ethernet or Wi-Fi, or can it be a mixture of the two? Home, home on the range of choicesOne of the joys of the modern Mac is that you can attach all sorts of networks to it, and macOS just figures it out. Gone are the days of installing drivers or digging deep into network configuration settings.

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

Six Colors subscriber Brandon Minich asked: I haven’t been able to keep track of…what is the current status of the emulation of Windows on the Mac after the changeover to Apple silicon? Is this even worth doing like it used to be in the Intel days? And how does the ARM-based Windows work with Mac emulation, if at all?

3 weeks ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

Apple automatically performs math and offers suggested results in Messages for iPhone and iPad when you type in patterns it recognizes, such as formulas and units, after you type = (equals sign). These suggestions are grayed out inline in the message field until you tap the suggestion in the field or in the QuickType bar. What if you don’t like these solutions?

3 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Glenn Fleishman

I fell in love with Apple with the first Mac I used. My forward-thinking journalism teacher in high school could tell in 1985 that desktop publishing was about to sweep over the world. She bought one, and a copy of Aldus PageMaker, for the newspaper. As the paper’s (paid) typesetter, then using a phototypesetter, she sent me home for a couple weeks of winter break with the Mac and a manual. I never looked back.