System Preferences is a pretty old part of macOS, and while we can’t fix some its more troublesome characteristics, customizing its main user interface is pretty easy:
Category: Video
Comparing the M1 iMac to the G3 ⇢
No one asked for this comparison, but I delivered anyway:
Live Stream: Taking Apart Some Mac minis ⇢
Today on Twitch, I took a look at five of the Mac minis in my collection, and took apart two of them. It was a lot of fun, and is up for rewatching now.
Video: Putting Mac Pro Wheels on my New Streaming PC ⇢
I needed better access to the back of my new streaming PC, and then I realized I already had the perfect solution: Mac Pro wheels.
Somewhere, Jony Ive is dying inside.
Video: Unboxing Three Pickup Trucks’ Worth of Apple and NeXT Gear ⇢
My studio is a disaster, but this was a lot of fun. Thank you to Relay FM listener and all-around nice guy Scott for the massive addition to my collection.
Upgrading a Titanium PowerBook with an SSD ⇢
I spent my morning cracking open my all-time favorite Apple notebook to make it a lot faster by installing an SSD. The video is up on Twitch now, and proved to be quite the adventure.
Video: Identifying iPods By Feel ⇢
In episode 3 of “Stephen touches things,” the iPod is up:
I honestly did better than I thought I would, but I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
Inside my Tech Bag ⇢
This is the first Twitch stream I’ve put on my YouTube channel. I’m not sure how often I will double-post things, but this video felt like a good one to share:
Re-watching the Intel Announcement ⇢
Yesterday I re-watched the Intel announcement from WWDC 2005 over on my Twitch channel. On Friday at 11 AM Eastern, I’ll be doing another stream, this time of Macworld 2006, where the first two Intel Macs were unveiled.
Video: Identifying Laptops By Feel ⇢
My wife Merri joined me for another installment of “Stephen touches Apple hardware while wearing a blindfold.”
The Weird Story of the White iPhone 4 ⇢
Until AirPower came along (then didn’t), this was the weirdest Apple product story in the company’s modern era.
Video: What’s in my Tech Bag (2020 Update) ⇢
It’s been a few years since I did one of these, and I was surprised at how much has changed.