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Apple Dominating Shipping Capacity Out of China with New iPhones

Speaking of Apple’s recent press event, Matthew Panzarino writes for TechCrunch about the sheer volume of Apple’s product shipments: According to several sources, Apple has already begun flexing its...

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A Series of Unfortunate (Apple) Events

Apple prides itself on producing consumer products that ‘just work’ by successfully combining hardware, software, and services. Unfortunately, the company has experienced a series of high-profile...

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Delete2Archive for OS X 10.9.5

Yesterday, Apple released OS X 10.9.5, the fifth update to Mavericks. Interestingly, this update appears to contain the exact same version of Mail.app as the prior version of OS X so the Delete2Archive...

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iPhone camera evolution

Lisa Bettany, co-founder of the popular mobile photography app Camera+: In this follow-up post to my iPhone 4s and iPhone 5 comparisons, I present an 8 iPhone comparison from all iPhone versions taken...

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Get Natural Scrolling in Windows Without Administrator Access

I use a Mac at home but a PC running Windows 7 at work. By default, the two operating systems scroll in the opposite direction in response to the same mouse input and trying to switch between the two...

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Easy capitalization using iOS 8’s predictive typing

John-Michael Bond, writing for The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Let’s say that I forgot to capitalize the word “church” in the text below, and want to do that after the fact. To do this, I simply select...

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Apple announces an iMac with Retina Display

Apple: Apple today unveiled the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display, featuring the world’s highest resolution display with a breathtaking 14.7 million pixels. At this amazing resolution, text appears...

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Delete2Archive for OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Late last week, Apple released OS X 10.10 Yosemite. I’ve released a new version of Delete2Archive that is compatible with the latest version of Mail. Follow the installation instructions and download...

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iOS 8: The iMore Review

Rene Ritchie wrote a comprehensive review of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 8. Here are a few of the new features that impress me the most: Handoff: With Handoff, as long as your iPhone...

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The Difference 30 Years Makes: iMac with Retina 5K display vs. the Original...

When first released in 1984, the Apple Macintosh shipped with a black-and-white 512 x 342 display. Fast forward 30 years to the release of the iMac with Retina 5K display, which ships with a 5,120 x...

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Show Full URLs in Safari for OS X Yosemite

Paul Horowitz, writing for OSXDaily: The newest version of Safari in OS X Yosemite defaults to only displaying the domain name of the website you are visiting, rather than the complete URL that many...

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OS X Yosemite Adoption

From GoSquared’s real-time OS X version distribution page: The graph shows the percentage of visits tracked by GoSquared on over 50,000 sites. Just over a week since its launch, Yosemite is already...

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Tim Cook Speaks Up

Tim Cook, in an essay published by Bloomberg Businessweek: […] I believe deeply in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, who said: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for...

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OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

John Siracusa wrote over 26,000 words across 25 pages detailing OS X Yosemite for Ars Technica. Here are a few of the new features that impress me: Spotlight: Following in the footsteps of venerable...

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Catching Digital Lightning in a Bottle

I was thrilled when Apple announced the iMac with Retina 5K display. They fulfilled one of my ‘Hopes for WWDC 2014‘ in a big way, opting for a display resolution of 5,120-by-2,880 when something in the...

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Delete2Archive for OS X 10.10.1

Yesterday Apple released OS X 10.10.1, the first update to Yosemite. As was done for prior versions of the operating system, I’ve released a new version of Delete2Archive that is compatible with the...

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The Shazam Effect

Derek Thompson, writing for The Atlantic: Shazam became available in 2002. (In the days before smartphones, users would dial a number, play the song through their phones, and then wait for Shazam to...

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Jason Snell Reviews the iPad Air 2

Jason Snell: Yes, Apple has shaved 1.4 millimeters off the thickness of the original iPad Air, and roughly 33 grams off the weight. There’s a nice commercial where a laser beam cuts off part of that...

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Revisiting My ‘Hopes for WWDC 2014’

Back in May, during the lead up to Apple’s annual developer conference, I wrote an article detailing my ‘Hopes for WWDC 2014.’ During the conference there were a lot of announcements for developers1...

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Quotes of Interest – Steve Wozniak

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

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