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Six Colors Feb 10, 2023

This Week in Apple: Pie in the Skynet (Member Post) https://sixcolors.com/member/2023/02/this-week-in-apple-pie-in-the-skynet/

This Week in Apple: Pie in the Skynet

Apple looks to the future as two of its rivals make AI announcements, rumors swirl of an even more expensive iPhone, and the company would like some games for the Mac, please. Bing, where can I dis…

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Six Colors Feb 10, 2023

Audio Hijack (Sponsor) https://sixcolors.com/sponsor/2023/02/audio-hijack/

Audio Hijack

I can’t thank Rogue Amoeba, makers of Audio Hijack, enough for sponsoring the site this week. Rogue Amoeba was our first sponsor, I use their software every day, and I’m so happy that t…

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Six Colors Feb 10, 2023

Report Card, iPad frustration, and HomePod (Member Podcast) https://sixcolors.com/member-podcast/2023/02/report-card-ipad-frustration-and-homepod/

Report Card, iPad frustration, and HomePod

Report card results make Jason sad about the iPad Pro. Dan’s home network is messed up. Jason tests HomePods and sees various colors of disaster.

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Six Colors Feb 9, 2023

Fun With Charts: A 2022 Report Card breakdown https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/02/fun-with-charts-a-2021-report-card-breakdown-2/

Fun With Charts: A 2022 Report Card breakdown

As I did last year, I turned to Six Colors member, Duke University professor, and data visualization expert Kieran Healy that take the initial Report Card scores and slice them in a few interesting…

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Six Colors Feb 9, 2023

Automating podcast transcripts on my Mac with OpenAI Whisper https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/02/automating-podcast-transcripts-on-my-mac-with-openai-whisper/

Automating podcast transcripts on my Mac with OpenAI Whisper

A little section of Upgrade 444 in David Smith’s original Podsearch engine. A while ago, David Smith created a site called Podsearch, a search engine for a few of his favorite podcasts, inclu…

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Six Colors Feb 8, 2023

Checking in on the accessibility of the Dynamic Island (Member Post) https://sixcolors.com/member/2023/02/checking-in-on-the-accessibility-of-the-dynamic-island/

Checking in on the accessibility of the Dynamic Island

With the Dynamic Island expanded as a song plays, you can select the scrubber with VoiceOver, and flick up or down to move through the track. Every hardware innovation from Apple brings some versio…

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Six Colors Feb 8, 2023

Checking in on the accessibility of the Dynamic Island (Member Post) https://sixcolors.com/member/2023/02/checking-in-on-the-accessibility-of-the-dynamic-island/

Checking in on the accessibility of the Dynamic Island

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Six Colors Feb 6, 2023

Apple in 2022: The Six Colors report card https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/02/apple-in-2022-the-six-colors-report-card/

Apple in 2022: The Six Colors report card

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time…

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Six Colors Feb 6, 2023

The Mac’s gaming hurdles are more cultural than technological (Macworld/Dan Moren) https://sixcolors.com/offsite/2023/02/the-macs-gaming-hurdles-are-more-cultural-than-technological/

The Mac’s gaming hurdles are more cultural than technological

Here we are, almost forty years after the debut of the Mac, and if there’s one issue that remains a hot button to this day it’s gaming on the platform. This past week, my colleague Jaso…

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Six Colors Feb 3, 2023

This Week in Apple: Let them fight (Member Post) https://sixcolors.com/member/2023/02/this-week-in-apple-let-them-fight/

This Week in Apple: Let them fight

Cue up your best Ken Watanabe gif because the kaiju of Apple rumors are going head to head! Samsung announces it’s getting into… some kind of reality, but it doesn’t matter because Apple’s going ou…

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