Wow, we are really moving along now! I’m back to report the winners of the quarterfinals:
As you can see, both Mac Pro models in the bracket lost out this round, as did the Power Mac G5 and the original Macintosh. Tough day for desktops, as there’s only one left in the fight: the Power Mac G4 Cube!
Apple today released a new screening tool and set of resources to help people stay informed and take the proper steps to protect their health during the spread of COVID-19, based on the latest CDC guidance. The new COVID-19 website, and COVID-19 app available on the App Store, were created in partnership with the CDC, the Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA to make it easy for people across the country to get trusted information and guidance at a time when the US is feeling the heavy burden of COVID-19.
Binging stuff on Netflix is good; tackling a new creative project is better.
This time on Flashback:
With its webOS hardware, including the Pre, Pixi and more, Palm (and later HP) tried to take on the giants of the early smartphone wars. While webOS was hugely innovative, it wasn’t enough to break into the most important market in consumer electronics history.
This has been requested by listeners since we announced the show, and I’m so glad I got to revisit a phone I really loved using.
This week on an extra-long Connected:
The early reviews of the 2020 iPad Pro and new MacBook Air are in, and Myke treats the group with an unboxing experience. Federico asks the world for help, while Stephen is bringing joy — and pain — to the Mac community. Also, our impressions of iOS 13.4 and some media we are enjoying while being stuck at home.
My thanks to our sponsors:
As part of macOS Catalina 10.15.4, Apple has begun displaying a new dialog window message concerning third-party kernel extensions. macOS Catalina is the last macOS to fully support the use of kernel extensions and these messages are meant to notify users of the following:
- macOS had detected that a third-party kernel extension had been loaded.
- The loaded kernel extension would be incompatible with an unspecified future version of macOS
There are some additional details on Apple’s site:
The entire space industry is reeling from effects of the current global pandemic, and NASA remembers Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden.
The current pace of work in the space industry is coming to a screeching halt.
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Voting in Round 2 of Mac Madness has closed, and just shy of 3,000 people voted in this round, picking which Macs were their favorites, sending eight machines into the quarterfinal matches:
Like in Round 1, the raw numbers are at the bottom of this post, but I have to say, I’m sad that both the iMac G3 and G4 have been voted off the island Genius Bar.
macOS 10.15.4 is rolling out now, with a bunch of updates:
Finder:
Screen Time:
Music:
Ryan Christoffel has rounded up the details of the release, which is a huge one for the iPad.
Audio CDs and disc images may not mount on a computer running a version of Mac OS X 10.3. Audio CDs do not appear when you insert them into the drive. Other CDs and DVDs seem to work normally.
You may also notice that disc images do not appear, and double-clicking the disk image results in an error code -536870208.
The solution?
Update to Mac OS X 10.3.2 or later.