This Week in Apple: Silent consonants and partners
Good people release good apps, OpenAI has complaints and Apple comes to the aid of some frenemies. G as in Indigo Remember when tech coverage was mostly just talking about cool new hardware and sof…
Vibe-coded apps and missed Mac opportunities
Third-party Macs apps clean up Apple’s half-finished work; an influx of Mac utilities seems to stem from the rise of AI-assisted coding.
Magic Lasso Adblock: Block ads in iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV 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 ad and tracker blocker for your iPhone, iPad, Mac and…
Apple escalates macOS defenses while honoring its open nature
Gatekeeper gets in the way of non-notarized software. One of the big differences between the Mac and Apple’s other platforms is that, by design, it’s an old-school “general comput…
Indigo unifies the Mastodon and Bluesky timelines
Indigo, from Soapbox Software, is a new social media client that combines Bluesky and Mastodon timelines in one place. I’ve been using it for the last month or so as my primary social-media c…
35 years ago, the Mac got an era-defining upgrade
Multitasking! Aliases! File sharing! System 7 had it all. A lot of Mac users don’t remember a time before Mac OS X (or macOS, or OS X, depending on the era), but before OS X arrived on the sc…
Get GIFs fast with Gnome
My friend Lex Friedman wrote an app, Gnome, that makes it easy to post GIFs: Gnome lives in your Mac’s menubar. You hit a hotkey. A little search window appears. You type what you’re looking for — …
How I restarted using RSS, and actually noticed!
Recently, I tripped over a headline for an article I wrote for Six Colors in 2015: “How I stopped using RSS and didn’t even notice.” I could hardly remember writing it. But write it I d…
Bartender 6’s new pro feature turns the MacBook notch into a dynamic peninsula
The battle for the Mac menu bar has raged for decades, and shows no signs of letting up. As the number of apps and controls in the menu bar have continued to proliferate, users have had to constant…
