Jason Snell

4 days ago | twit.tv | Leo Laporte |Alex Lindsay |Andy Ihnatko |Jason Snell

Apple silicon was announced five years ago this week. Apple held internal talks about purchasing AI startup Perplexity. New camera features could be coming to the iPhone 17 Pro later this fall. And why did Apple pull its recent ad campaign video after just one day? Intel to Apple silicon transition for Mac was announced five years ago. The infamous Apple typewriter memo is 40 years old. RIP Mickey Mouse glove: macOS Tahoe has a new set of cursors.

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

A couple of years ago, I recalled that in the early days of Mac OS X, I built up an entire array of utilities that allowed me to use my Mac just how I wanted it. I felt utterly naked on a Mac without LaunchBar, for example. But in the intervening two decades since OS X’s early days, Apple has just kept improving the base features of macOS to the point where most of my old “must-have Mac utilities” had become ones I kept around more out of habit than necessity.

1 week ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

John Voorhees of MacStories took Apple’s new Speech framework, available to all developers, for a spin in the macOS 26 beta and got great results in making audio transcripts: It’s still early days for these technologies, but I’m here to tell you that their speed alone is a game changer for anyone who uses voice transcription to create text from lectures, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more.

1 week ago | twit.tv | Leo Laporte |Alex Lindsay |Andy Ihnatko |Jason Snell

Category: News This week's episode dives deep into the post-WWDC hangover, exploring Apple's remarkable software improvements across platforms. The hosts examine the first third-party immersive video production using Blackmagic's new camera, celebrate major Vision Pro persona upgrades, and discuss Apple's complete re-architecture of iPad windowing.

2 weeks ago | sixcolors.com | Jason Snell

Some of us have spent an awful lot of time pondering the iPad’s use cases as a professional productivity device. As a heavy user of the iPad, I’ve frequently wanted to push it into areas where it wasn’t designed to go because if I could get it to do what I wanted, it would fit in my life better than going back to the Mac. As I pushed, the iPad pushed back. In recent years, I’ve come to accept that most of the time I travel, I have to bring both my iPad and my MacBook.