A solid update to one of the most powerful backup applications on the Mac. Version 6 includes official support for APFS, the ability to run multiple backup tasks at once and more powerful scheduling options.
April 11 Update: After seeing this thread on the MPU Forums, it seems that the update to version 6 isn’t going super well.
Underscore David Smith has launched a new Apple watch app that — quite frankly — blows my mind. Named Watchsmith, it makes Complications a lot more useful and flexible, as he writes on his blog:
First, it provides a wide array of complications. Each of these is completely customizable, with controls for things like font, color, hand type and location. The initial set is just over 50 unique complications, with dozens more planned down the road. My goal is to provide a complication for just about every use and let you make it look just how you want. In the absence of 3rd-party watch faces, this is the closest I can get to making my own watch faces.
I didn’t expect this, but here they are, in both 11-inch and 12.9-inch sizes.1 Amazon doesn’t list a ship date, but Apple has said the new keyboard/trackpad combo will arrive in May.
These pages show the weights of the new keyboards at 1.81 pounds (822 grams) for the small one, and a whopping 2.41 pounds (1,093 grams) for the 12.9-inch model.
If we assume that these weights include the iPads in their totals (and doesn’t include the box), the new Magic Keyboards should weigh in at:
A very important episode of Liftoff this week, marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13:
In the spring of 1970, NASA launched what would be the third mission to walk on the moon, but almost nothing went to plan, putting the crew in peril until the moment they splashed down.
It is a true miracle that this crew made it home alive.
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Apple is hard at work making 1 million face shields a week for medical workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
So, naturally, there’s a new support page up detailing how to assemble them, complete with a video:
This time on Ungeniused, things get salty:
Not all bodies of water are blue, and not all saltwater is the same. On this episode, Myke and Stephen belly flop into the weird world of pink lakes.
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Apple Support, explaining a problem no one has had or thought about in a long time:
In a multi-zone network, when you select the last zone, the list of printers in the “Printers” box does not get updated and continues to display the printers that belong to the previous zone that was selected.
The fix?
The original Apple Printer Utility v1.0 had an issue working with printers in the last zone of a multi-zone network, as well as networks that only have one zone (as that zone is effectively the last zone).
All of a sudden, many people are working from their homes for the first time. This week, Stephen and David tap into their combined decade of experience to share some of what has worked well for them at home.
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If you use audio on your Mac in any way, SoundSource is for you. It lives in your menu bar, and provides you with superior control over all your audio.
Take control of audio on a per-application basis. Now you can change the volume of any app relative to others, and play individual apps to different audio devices.
Add effects to any audio too. The Magic Boost and Volume Overdrive features, let you hear your audio even in loud environments, and the built-in equalizer can sweeten the sound. Advanced users will love the ability to apply Audio Units to any audio.
The original NASA insignia is one of the most powerful symbols in the world. A bold, patriotic red chevron wing piercing a blue sphere, representing a planet, with white stars, and an orbiting spacecraft. Today, we know it as “the meatball.” However, with 1970’s technology, it was a difficult icon to reproduce, print, and many people considered it a complicated metaphor in what was considered, then, a modern aerospace era.
Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring the site this week. It makes creating and using snippers across all of your devices super easy, making you more productive and accurate across all sorts of work. I’ve used it for years, and don’t want a Mac without it. As a 512 Pixels reader, you’ll get 20% off by signing up here.
I would hate to be someone with a repaired product locked up inside one of these stores.