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This week on Mac Power Users:

David has finally roped Stephen into talking about email. Topics include email services, apps and strategies. Later in the show, they are joined by Rosemary Orchard and Myke Hurley to hear about two specific apps they use every day.

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Until AirPower came along (then didn’t), this was the weirdest Apple product story in the company’s modern era.

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Juli Cover, MacRumors:

Some iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max owners have been noticing an unusual green tint to their iPhone displays when first unlocking the device, based on complaints shared on Reddit and the MacRumors forums.

It’s not clear what’s going on, but almost all of the affected users say that the green tint is visible just for a few seconds after unlocking an iPhone . Some users have seen it at night with Dark Mode and Night Shift enabled, while others say it occurs when brightness is at the lowest possible setting.

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This time on Flashback, Quinn and I look at a weird chapter in Apple history:

The Apple II was a big hit, but before the Macintosh took over, Cupertino shipped a couple of duds, the worst of which was the ill-fated Apple III.

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Marcia Smith at Space Policy Online:

The Trump Campaign took down an ad today that included footage from the launch of Crew Dragon on Saturday and touting what it claimed was the President’s role in the program. It included video of the two NASA astronauts, both civil servants, as well as their wives and young children waving goodbye. One of the spouses, a former NASA astronaut, strongly objected to use of the video of her and her son for “political propaganda.”

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This week on the show:

Myke isn’t swayed by the iPad mini faithful, and wonders where Stephen’s Apple Pencil went. Then, thoughts on a possible port-less iPhone and what WWDC could bring for macOS.

When Ticci is off, I get to talk about kernel extensions.

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Big, big week in space news:

The age of Commercial Crew has arrived, with Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken arriving at the International Space Station safely after riding a Falcon 9 there this weekend. Also: tiny CubeSats can do big things and Tom Cruise may be taking a trip.

This weekend, we saw a new era in space travel begin.

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This week’s support document looks to answer the following questions:

What are the possible combinations for the internal drives on a Macintosh SE and SE/30?

Turns out, there are a lot of them:

The Macintosh SE chassis is capable of holding two 3.5-inch storage devices. The Macintosh SE and Macintosh SE/30 logic boards use the same amount of space in the Macintosh SE chassis. The Macintosh SE/30 logic board has only one internal floppy-drive connector.

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This week on MPU:

PCalc developer James Thomson joins David and Stephen to talk about his background with the Mac, and what it take to build and maintain the same application over multiple decades.

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