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Sam Altman’s lobtailing (Link) https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/08/sam-altmans-lobtailing/

Sam Altman’s lobtailing

At the MIT Technology Review, my old colleague Mat Honan has a great piece about the simultaneous promise and overpromise of AI: In some ways, the AI hype cycle has to be out of hand. It has to jus…

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Backing up iCloud photos in other ways https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/08/work-around-icloud-photos-optimized-limitations/

Backing up iCloud photos in other ways

I recently wrote about duplicating iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos to a network-attached storage (NAS) system. This struck a nerve for folks who want to keep full-resolution backups of their Photos …

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Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97 (Link) https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/08/apollo-13-astronaut-jim-lovell-dies-at-97/

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97

Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and one of three men to have gone around the moon twice, died on Thursday: The plight of Apollo 13 in 1970 transfixed Americans. The capsule was nearly 56 hou…

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Six Colors 4d ago

This Week in Apple: Forget it Jake, it’s Glasstown (Member Post) https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/08/this-week-in-apple-forget-it-jake-its-glasstown/

This Week in Apple: Forget it Jake, it’s Glasstown

Apple bestows a prestigious award, acquisition speculation continues, and set the date: new iPhones are coming. Presidential Participation Awards Apple has upped the ante in its bid to please our p…

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Six Colors 4d ago

Shortcuts and skunks (Member Podcast) https://sixcolors.com/member-podcast/2025/08/shortcuts-and-skunks/

Shortcuts and skunks

Shortcuts is broken in the latest betas and it’s bumming us out.

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Six Colors 4d ago

Magic Lasso Adblock: Block ads in iPhone, iPad and Mac apps (Sponsor) https://sixcolors.com/sponsor/2025/08/magic-lasso-adblock-block-ads-in-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps-4/

Magic Lasso Adblock: Block ads in iPhone, iPad and Mac apps

My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. And …

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The pico-mac-nano is glorious, useless, and you’ll have to assemble it yourself https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/08/the-pico-mac-nano-is-glorious-useless-and-youll-have-to-assemble-it-yourself/

The pico-mac-nano is glorious, useless, and you’ll have to assemble it yourself

Back in May on MacBreak Weekly, Andy Ihnatko recommended an incredibly clever project called pico-mac-nano, a seemingly impossible complete emulation of the original Mac in a case only 2.4 inches/6…

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Six Colors Aug 5

David Pogue’s new book: 50 years of Apple (Link) https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/08/david-pogues-new-book-50-years-of-apple/

David Pogue’s new book: 50 years of Apple

Longtime Macworld and New York Times columnist and prolific author David Pogue has a new project: a 600-page book about Apple’s history: In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, “CBS Sunday Morn…

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Six Colors Aug 4

Sideloading audiobooks to an iPhone https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/08/apple-makes-it-hard-to-load-audiobooks-purchased-elsewhere/

Sideloading audiobooks to an iPhone

I released an audiobook a few weeks ago, the first time I had done so. This was the counterpart to the print and ebook editions of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a work that explores the evo…

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Six Colors Aug 1

This Week in Apple: Book reportgate (Member Post) https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/08/this-week-in-apple-book-reportgate/

This Week in Apple: Book reportgate

Another Apple employee is careless with an iPhone, Tim Cook answers questions, and some former Apple AI employees need new business cards. Maybe AI can design them for them. iPhones gone wild Move …

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