Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It’s an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock.…

James Chang has built a project that upgrades the file-sharing stack on Apple’s long-discontinued Time Capsule hardware so that it will work on modern OS versions:

This is a modern Samba setup that runs directly on the Time Capsule itself; macOS 27 can connect to the Time Capsule as a network share, and use it for Time Machine backups…

You get the full Apple experience reproduced: after you install this, you do not have to worry about it again, even if the device IP address changes.

Snap’s latest smart glasses, whether we’ve tried Apple’s new Shortcuts creation feature, AI-powered pets, and who wants a dumb phone?…

In this episode we describe pictures to the listener for maximum hilarity.…

Back from WWDC, Jason and Myke have had more time to think about Apple’s announcements—and to try many of them in beta releases. Siri AI impresses, we have Snow Leopard vibes, and much more.…

I have a Mac Studio M2 Max with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD in front of me. While not the most powerful personal computer you can purchase today, it is among the most computationally capable ever made—a vastly capable machine.…

Do you want an all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers and annoyances across all your Apple devices?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.…

Adam Engst at TidBITS took the time to extract every item on the WWDC 2026 keynote slide that captured our attention last week. Even better, Adam grouped the changes into operating systems, apps, and other categories.…

My thanks to Unite Pro for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

Safari web apps and PWAs are a nice start, but they’re limited. Browser tabs are messy.…

Apple’s pattern of updates is often described as two beats, maybe like the lub-dub sound of your heart: a year of big changes, followed by a year of tweaks that feature just a couple of marquee improvements.…

This soundbite has been making the rounds this morning, from an interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on the show Mostly Human:

I mean, the way that we have designed Siri, Siri really wants to say ‘Listen, that’s not what I’m here for, right?

Our hopes for fixes in the ’27 platform updates, what we’ll do with our Intel Macs now that they’ve reached end of the road, whether we’ll trust the new Siri AI, and how we feel about Apple’s child safety and age verification answers.…

Here’s a beautiful essay by Federico Viticci about covering WWDC for 10 years:

I look at the content creators who are possibly experiencing their first WWDC, and realize: how am I still here, and still taking notes on an iPad, while these younger folks are shooting videos that millions of people will watch?

In a preview of our new Designed in California podcast, we travel to the summer of 1976, as Apple travels to Atlantic City for a computer trade show, the Apple II begins to form, and the fellowship between the two Steves shows signs of breaking.…

The last two years at WWDC, Apple has felt like it’s been in a hurry. In 2024, in a hurry to catch the AI wave before it entirely passed them by.…

I’m home after two and a half days down in the South Bay for WWDC.…

Apple’s annual software updates have implications throughout time. They reach back to older devices, some years making them more performant and usable or, alternatively, removing support for them altogether; they deal, obviously, with the products people are using and buying right now; and, perhaps most interestingly, they hint at what we might see from the company down the road.…

Nice overview from Jonathan Reed at MacStories of Apple’s watchOS 27 updates. Like some of Apple’s other platforms—cough, cough, tvOS—the Watch didn’t get a huge amount of time during the keynote, but there are some good tweaks there.…

Live from Apple Park just hours after the WWDC keynote, Jason and Myke offer their in-person reactions to Apple’s announcements, including Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, platform improvements and refinements, and features for kids.…

We discuss Apple’s WWDC 2026 announcements. Some of them weren’t even about AI.…

Siri’s long-awaited overhaul made its public debut today during Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote, as Apple outlined its vision for a more capable version of its virtual assistant that’s powered by a new generation of Apple Intelligence.…

One of my favorite bits of most Apple events is picking out the little things that Apple doesn’t talk about in its keynotes. At WWDC 2026, however, a lot of those little details did get mentioned—but if you blinked, you might have missed them.…

Safari web apps and PWAs are a nice start, but they’re limited. Browser tabs are messy. And most tools for turning websites into apps still feel more like wrappers than real Mac software.…

Apple’s built-in screen sharing support for Mac-to-Mac connections has always been a help for those of us with remote setups: headless Macs acting as servers, an office and home Mac, or the laziness of having Macs in different parts of your house you want to access without standing up.…

I noted Jason’s post awhile back about his reading routine with interest. My ears perked up again at the announcement of the audio newsletter for Six Colors members.…

This week, Rogue Amoeba is sponsoring Six Colors. Their strange name has been synonymous with audio software on the Mac for over two decades. (How did I not could come up with the response AMOEBA when I was on Jeopardy!…

I’m a bit in awe of Parish Khan’s Mac Cable Bandwidth Calculator, an interactive web site that lets you visualize the combination of cable and Mac you need to drive particular displays, based on their resolution, color depth, and refresh rate.…

In a preview of our new Designed in California podcast, we take you back to 1976 and recount Steve Jobs’s numerous attempts to sell Apple or, at the very least, get someone to make an investment in the fledgling company.…

Next week is WWDC, which has always represented Apple’s connection to its community of third-party developers, and in recent years has also served as the official start of Apple’s annual operating-system cycle.…

WWDC expectations, how we squeeze more life out of older gadgets, our search engine habits, and the next craft projects tech will help us with.…