Say what you will about the black MacBook, at least it wasn’t as silly as Apple’s pricing for it’s Mac input devices: Magic Mouse:
Magic Trackpad:
Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad:
Audio Hijack has been a central component of my podcasting setup for years. Today, Rogue Amoeba has launched version 4 of the application, and it is full of great features.
The UI has gotten a nice overhaul, complete with a new light theme, a powerful new sidebar and an always-accessible menu bar application that makes starting a new recording session easier than ever.
Here’s the session I use to record all of my podcasts:
From 2006 until 2008, Apple sold one of the coolest Macs ever: the black MacBook.
The black MacBook was sold alongside the more popular — and less expensive — white MacBook.
The price difference between the white and black models is often brought up when discussing Apple’s various strategies around product design and pricing. Many people wrongly believe that the extra cost of the black model just got you a nicer-looking laptop, but that’s not completely true.
This week on the show: clarification about Apple charging more for specific colors on their products, Markdown in Google Docs, the death of Touch ID and a fresh start for the Bill of Rickies.
Like the headline says, the iOS keyboard emoji suggestions suggests two emoji as replacements when you type “Clarus.” The problem is that they are in the wrong order:
Clarus is a dogcow, not a cowdog. If Apple is going to have this VERY EXCELLENT reference in the keyboard, the details should be right.1
Thanks to Jason Robinson for pointing this terrible bug out.
I’ve filed this as Feedback FB9970338 for Apple to fix.
This article provides specific safety tips relating to the new tripod stand used on the Apple Studio Display 21-inch and Apple Studio Display 17-inch displays.
- Lift the display by the indentations on the under-sides near the front of the display. Never lift the display by the tripod stand.
- Likewise, do not adjust the position of the monitor by pulling the stand legs. The tripod stand is subject to damage if mishandled.
- When placing the monitor on a table surface, ensure that all three legs on the tripod stand contact a solid surface. If one of the legs is too close to the table edge, the weight of the monitor could cause the display to fall off the edge.
We had a bunch of these displays at my college newspaper. The stands were … not great.
Want to browse the web quickly, smoothly, and anonymously with no advertising?
Then get the ad blocker made for you – easy to setup, easy to keep up to date and now with best-in-class YouTube ad blocking.
Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient, high performance ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. It simply and easily blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances in Safari. Just enable to browse in bliss.
On this week’s episode of Mac Power Users:
Nick Milo is a creator who is teaching people about Obsidian. This week, he talks with David and Stephen about how he manages his business, creates polished content and, of course, Obsidian and personal knowledge management.
The way we work is changing rapidly. Make work happen wherever you are by saying more in less time and with less effort using TextExpander. TextExpander is available on Mac, Windows, Chrome, iPhone, iPad. 512 Pixels readers get 20% off their first year.
My thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week!
Marco Arment’s excellent podcast client Overcast has been updated today to version 2022.2. The new build includes what he is calling “Phase One” of an app-wide redesign.
As you can see from these screenshots, quite a bit is new:
The biggest improvement comes to the styling of playlists. I’m not a huge playlist user as you can see, but I can appreciate this change. I know some folks have a lot more playlists than I do, and I think the ability to customize the color and icon of each playlist individually really adds a lot of fun to the app.
I’ve long been a fan of the so-called “Moon Watches,” but owning one is way, way beyond my means. Looks like Swatch is trying to change that with a new, limited-run set of watches.
I don’t have a Swatch store anywhere near me, so hopefully a Mercury or Moon edition shows up on eBay at a reasonable price at some point in the future.