Dan Moren
Six Colors
Somerville, MA, United States
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Inside the changes to macOS cloud storage –
After three days of research on the subject, Adam Engst of TidBITS has provided a detailed explanation of what’s happening with cloud-storage providers on macOS Ventura: My understanding is t… → Read More
Four iPhone 15 upgrades that will make you want one right now
Even if you've bought an iPhone recently, the phone coming this fall will feel like a big step up. → Read More
Apple Music Classical arrives later this month –
Nineteen months after Apple bought classic-music app Primephonic and promised a new dedicated app in 2022, and three months after the end of 2022, Apple is poised to finally deliver the app that cl… → Read More
Video: Live with the yellow iPhone –
Apple sent me the new iPhone. Well, “new.” It’s the same old iPhone 14 but in yellow. And it came with a purple case. Anyway, to celebrate the color yellow I did a livestream: Yel… → Read More
It’s not a classic era for classic movies –
Defensive collecting in Plex. It happens to most of us: You search your streaming services or an aggregator site for a movie you remember fondly, or somehow never saw when it was new, only to come … → Read More
Why Apple is about to supercharge its Mac chip development –
The release of the M1 processor was a milestone. Apple finally migrated the Mac to its fast, low-power mobile processors, and the results were incredible. They were a hard act to follow–and a… → Read More
The game that killed SimCity –
Callum Bains, writing for PCGamer, recounts the disastrous launch of a SimCity reboot in 2013 and how it spelled the end for the storied franchise: When SimCity launched on March 6, it required pla… → Read More
The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus now come in yellow –
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a new yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, adding even more color choices to the lineup this spring. […] The new yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus will… → Read More
One song is all it takes –
Jay Weinberg, E Street Drummer Max Weinberg’s kid, about that moment when Bruce Springsteen asked him to drum with the band while his dad was off in L.A. doing The Tonight Show With Conan O&#… → Read More
It’s no fun if you’re Fnu –
George Joseph at UX Collective with a fascinating, hilarious, frustrating, and sweet story about what happens when the government paperwork gets your name wrong: A few years later I met another Fnu… → Read More
‘The cursed universes of Dana Sibera’ –
PowerBook G5, by Dana Sibera. Marcin Wichary, whose amazing Shift Happens kickstarter is wrapping up in a few days, posted an excellent newsletter item honoring Dana Sibera, who posts extremely str… → Read More
Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card –
The folks at AppleVis have used the Six Colors Report Card as inspiration for their own survey: We are thrilled to unveil our inaugural Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card, which provides valuab… → Read More
If Apple loves music so much, why can’t it get streaming right? –
Over the last two decades, technology has reinvented much of what we do in our everyday lives, but the first major domino to fall was probably the advent of digital music. Next month will mark twen… → Read More
This Week in Apple: Cocaine Bear –
This week we wonder what the Apple headset will look like, hope that Apple will improve the Apple Watch’s battery life, and sigh loudly again at Twitter. Looks aren’t everything, but they’re someth… → Read More
Kolide –
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide offers a more nuanced approach to setting and enforcing sensitive data policies. At most companies, employees can download sensitive … → Read More
Passcode security, Twitter client refunds, and grain –
Dan is joined by special guest Guy English to discuss iPhone passcode security, App Store refunds for third-party Twitter clients, and the rising costs of grain. → Read More
The Back Page: Inside Apple’s most secret secret research & development group –
Apple is a notoriously secretive company. A company so secretive that, in the past, when information has leaked out, it has stridently told its employees that it’s doubling down on its alread… → Read More
Apple’s machines are learning more intelligently than Bard and Bing –
There’s an age-old take when it comes to Apple and hot new technologies: if the company hasn’t shipped whatever everybody else in the industry is currently focusing on, it must be behin… → Read More
This Week in Apple: A stopped Watch –
Is the Apple Watch about to become as scarce as woke liberal elites at Elon Musk’s birthday party? Meanwhile rumors about the iPhone 15 and the Apple headset are heating up, hopefully not like the … → Read More
Blood glucose monitoring and machine learning –
With Jason off on assignment, Dan recruits his Clockwise co-host Mikah Sargent to talk about reports of Apple’s latest medical device and how the company uses machine learning. → Read More