Stephen talks a bit about what has been going on in Memphis, Federico gets folded up over rumors and Myke has a surprise.
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Looking Back at Columbia, Twenty Years Later
Two decades ago, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry. I was in high school, and remember it well, feeling the connection with the shuttle disaster that took place the day I was born.
There’s a lot of great stuff out there marking the anniversary:
- Eric Berger: Two decades after the Columbia disaster, is NASA’s safety culture fixed?
- Lee Hutchinson: The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
- Daisy Dobrijevic, Elizabeth Howell: Columbia Disaster: What happened and what NASA learned
If you’ve never heard the Song Exploder episode on The Long Winters song “The Commander Thinks Aloud,” it’s a great listen.
Kbase Article of the Week: Boot Camp: FireWire Devices May Affect Windows 7 Responsiveness if Connected to an Apple Thunderbolt Display⇢
When using Boot Camp and Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices may affect system responsiveness if they are connected to the FireWire port of an Apple Thunderbolt display.
Apple includes directions on how to update the FireWire driver within Windows.
Last 2001-Era Apple Store Getting Renovated⇢
Updates are coming to Apple Tice’s Corner in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. The store will be temporarily closed from January 31. I’m a little bit nervous about this renovation because Apple Tice’s Corner is the last location in the world with an original 2001 storefront design, and I wish for it to remain intact perpetually.
I can’t imagine the original design will remain after the remodel, so it’s a good time to soak in this iconic design:
Sponsor: Record Anything With Audio Hijack⇢
With Audio Hijack, you can record any audio on your Mac. Whether you want to save audio from individual applications like Safari or Skype, hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, and even the entire system audio output, Audio Hijack can handle it.
Simply put, if it can be heard on MacOS, Audio Hijack can record it.
- Record conversations from Skype, Zoom, and other VoIP apps
- Save streaming audio from the web
- Create podcasts, both remote and in-studio
- Digitize vinyl
- And so much more
Audio Hijack 4.1 just shipped, and it adds over 50 enhancements on top of the award-winning version 4.0.
Mac Power Users #677: Software Club: Fantastical⇢
This week on Mac Power Users, David Sparks and I return to our “Software Club” episode format and talk about Fantastical before being joined by one of the people behind the app. Michael Simmons discusses Fantastical’s history and the changes he’s seen in the Apple software ecosystem over the years. It was a really interesting conversation about an app that has been a mainstay for Apple users for a long time.
Apple Increasing App Store Prices in 14 Countries Starting February 13⇢
Ah yes, a Friday evening news dump from Apple:
On February 13, 2023, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Colombia, Egypt, Hungary, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Prices in Uzbekistan will decrease to reflect a reduction of the value-added tax rate from 15% to 12%. Your proceeds will be adjusted accordingly and will be calculated based on the tax-exclusive price.
Mac 30th Anniversary Icons⇢
Remember the 30th Anniversary Mac font from a few years ago? Robb Knight has recreated those glyphs as SVGs and they are glorious.
Connected #434: You Won’t Believe This New Scam⇢
This week on Connected, I read some poetry, some Macs got reviewed and Federico makes a confession about his computing life.
On the longer ad-free version of the show, Federico tells me about running Ethernet through his new home.
HiDock⇢
If you use a portable Mac with an external display, this free app looks like it’d be a lifesaver.
Inside the M2 Pro Mac mini⇢
As Brian Stucki has discovered, the guts of the most powerful Mac mini ever help explain why the M1 model was mostly empty.
They’ll Leave the Light on For You
The lights at Massachusetts’ Minnechaug Regional High School burn ever bright. They actually never turn off. They can’t turn off. The smart lighting system for the entire building is broken, and it’s stuck in the “on” position. It has apparently been this way for over a year now, and the electric bills are really starting to pile up.
“We are very much aware this is costing taxpayers a significant amount of money,” the school district’s assistant superintendent of finance, Aaron Osborne, told NBC News. “And we have been doing everything we can to get this problem solved.”