I am loving having Shortcuts on my Mac, but I really do wonder if using SwiftUI to build it was the right call. A lot of the controls are finicky, but this pop-up is just about the saddest looking thing I’ve ever encountered in a first-party Mac app:
I also have no idea why all the URLs in the Value fields don’t line up.
Native Union has made something amazing1 — tiny little knit beanies for AirPods cases, in the spirit of iPod socks.
I mean, just look at these things!
My thanks to Myke Hurley who sent me a link to a 9to5Mac story about these, knowing I would order a set immediately, which I did. ↩︎
The new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are designs that we’ve been waiting for over a year now, ever since Apple had announced the M1 and M1-powered devices. The M1 was a very straightforward jump from a mobile platform to a laptop/desktop platform, but it was undeniably a chip that was oriented towards much lower power devices, with thermal limits. The M1 impressed in single-threaded performance, but still clearly lagged behind the competition in overall performance.
Speaking of Monterey, I’ve added macOS 12 to my macOS Screenshot Library for your viewing pleasure:
John Voorhees is back with his annual macOS review, and always, he’s done a great job with it. Monterey is a bit of a sleepy release in and of itself, but it’s full of promise about the future of the Mac.
Cabel Sasser has blown my mind:
The iPod was really good.
To celebrate, I want to show you something you’ve never seen before. Now, there are a lot of mysteries in the Panic Archives (it’s a closet) but by far one of the most mysterious is what you’re seeing for the first time today: an original early iPod prototype.
We don’t know much about where it came from. But we’ve been waiting 20 years to share it with you.
This season on Flashback, Quinn and I are covering the rise — and fall — of IBM’s PC business.In this episode, we talk about some of the history of IBM, which include some pretty rough stuff, but also mainframes like the System/360.
As with our previous seasons, we’ll be publishing every other week, this time for eight or so total episodes. My thanks to Clean My Mac X for sponsoring this episode.
In my series 2001 Revisited, I’m covering Apple’s major announcements from 20 years ago. Today, we’re talking about the announcement of the original iPod, which took place during a small press event hosted in Apple’s Town Hall venue.
I haven’t been able to find a great copy of the video, but there is a full-length version on YouTube that’s passable:
The event is pretty subdued. 9/11 had taken place just six weeks before and cast a bit of a shadow over everything. Then there’s Jobs presentation, which is casual and friendly.
The story of our new Connected trophies is a lot of fun.
Myke, Federico and Stephen sit down to score their “Unleashed” picks … and unbox something amazing. Then, a special bonus segment featuring some surprising coin flips.
Do not miss the last chapter of this episode.
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This week on Mac Power Users, David and I talk through Apple’s new batch of MacBook Pros, powered by the M1 Pro and M1 Max systems on a chip. These things are seriously impressive.
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If your Mac has a Touch Bar, you can use familiar gestures—like tap, swipe, or slide—directly on the Touch Bar to adjust settings, use Siri, access function keys, and do tasks in different apps.
I would love to know what happened here. It really seems like Apple abandoned the Touch Bar pretty quickly after it launched, and now it’s all but gone.