Apple has released an official extension for the Windows and Mac versions of Chrome that lets you use passwords stored in your iCloud Keychain. For anyone who uses Chrome as their browser and iCloud Keychain in lieu of a dedicated password manager, this could make bouncing between Windows and Mac computers much easier.
This should make life easier for people using this part of iCloud, but it’s not enough to take me away from 1Password.
This update addresses an issue that causes some users of the Apple Thunderbolt Display to experience intermittent black screens. It also includes stability improvements for Thunderbolt devices.
This week on the show, the Queen of Automation drops by to talk about her current gear and use of Plex, as well as how she is using HomeKit and managing files.
On More Power Users, they tied me down to talk about iPhone 12 Pro sizes.
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Yoink for Mac improves your workflow by providing a “shelf" for your files and snippets, and with Yoink for iPad and iPhone, you can store anything you can drag, copy, share or download.
It’s a great app that really shines on each platform. My thanks to Yoink for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week.
Jason Snell is back with the annual Six Colors Report Card, and as always, it was an honor to take part in it.
It was a notable year for the Mac and the Apple TV, but in very different ways.
I’ve used CARROT Weather for several years. I love weather apps, and I love apps that take advantage of everything Apple has to offer on its platforms, and CARROT sits right at the intersection.
The design is all-new, and more liking to my tastes than before, with less artwork and better data density. It comes with several themes, any of which you can customize. Here is how I have my CARROT Weather set up:
The previous version of CARROT Weather was $4.99, with in-app subscriptions available for additional features. With version 5, it is a free download with three tiers of subscriptions:
For more info on how this affects existing users, check out this post on Reddit. In short, users automatically get moved to the new tier that corresponds with the features they were paying for previously.
CARROT is a truly important app to me, and version 5 makes it better than ever. If you’ve never checked it out, now is a great time.
This week on Connected, Myke has a theory, Stephen has a crush and Federico has opinions on olives. Also: a discussion about Tweetbot 6 and what makes app subscriptions worth it.
On Connected Pro, new words are reviewed, then the accents come out to play after the show.
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— Connected (@_connectedfm) January 27, 2021
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Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2021 first quarter ended December 26, 2020. The Company posted all-time record revenue of $111.4 billion, up 21 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.68, up 35 percent. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
This pretty much sums it up:
iPhone revenue was $65.6 billion, up 17% YOY; Mac was $8.7b, up 21%; iPad $8.4b, up 41(!)%; Wearables/Home/Accessories, $13b up 30%; and Services, $15.8b, up 24%. Every geographic segment that Apple reports was up as well. Everything is up, up, up.
— Six Colors liveblog (@sixcolorsevent) January 27, 2021
If you are in need of many charts, head on over to Six Colors.
This time on Liftoff, we’re marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 14:
Less than a year after the disastrous Apollo 13 mission, the program returned to flight when Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell landed on the moon in February, 1971.
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Every president gets to change the decor of the Oval Office, allowing them to personalize and put their own stamp on the room. I found it fascinating that apparently, President Biden requested the loan of a moon rock from NASA to put on display in the Oval Office.
According to NASA, this moon rock was collected on NASA’s last crewed voyage to the Moon, Apollo 17. This mission launched on December 7, 1972, and was crewed by Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, and Ronald Evans (who remained in the command module orbiting the Moon while the other two astronauts touched down on the surface). The sample was collected in the Taurus-Littrow Valley and is 3.9 billion years old.
So, so cool.
HP printers ship by default with either LPD or 9100 Printing as the highest priority printing protocol. If for some reason you’ve configured your HP printer to use IPP, it may not work with Bonjour.
A simple 11-step process will get things rolling again.