100 Writerly Posts Tagged Apple
Macs, iThings, OS X, Steve Jobs, and the company.

Aug 19, 21 Apple’s messy podcast subscription service
May 24, 21 Working with iPadOS is like wearing oven mitts
May 24, 21 Apple finally fixes the app update bug
May 5, 21 The M1 clones are coming
Apr 15, 21 “Unable to Download App”
Jan 5, 21 Impossible to efficiently remove video data from Apple’s “Live” Photos
Dec 14, 20 The M1 MacBook Air: Amazing hardware, shitty software
Sep 3, 20 Down with tracking!
Jun 23, 20 Wanted: A Mac app for repeating to-dos
Jun 16, 20 Impressive machine learning for plant identification
Apr 29, 20 AirPods Pro not as good for me as AirPods Amateur
Apr 29, 20 Dongletown
Feb 19, 20 Symlinks finally supported properly by Dropbox (at the expense of handy support for external symlinks)
Jan 15, 20 macOS still can’t shuffle a slideshow
Nov 19, 19 Apple Arcade games hopelessly buggy
Jan 2, 19 iPhone speed bump
Dec 28, 18 So many dusty old “apps for that”!
Mar 30, 18 Bad Apple
Feb 13, 18 Five Apple TV bugs that make this gadget hard to recommend
Jan 3, 18 I wish I could have a simple iPhone again
Nov 29, 17 Worst ever Mac security bug found and fixed in a day
Mar 9, 17 You will use system text replacements in macOS whether you like it or not
Feb 22, 17 That Controversial New MacBook Pro (Touch Bar): A pretty good review
Dec 29, 16 Apple’s Universal Clipboard feature “just works” only when it’s in the mood
Sep 17, 16 iPhone “delivery”
Mar 16, 16 The absurdity of loving and hating tech brands
Feb 18, 16 Instant Hotspot My Ass: Apple’s super slow and unreliable “Instant Hotspot” feature
Apr 17, 15 No Apple Watch yet: One deal-breaker to rule them all
Feb 17, 15 Tile review: meh
Jan 13, 15 The madness of iTunes
Dec 22, 14 “Notification storm”
Sep 2, 14 Hyperlapse
Jun 7, 14 iPhoto pain again
Apr 1, 14 A virtual flea market
Feb 16, 14 Organizing iCloud accounts for the whole family
Nov 17, 13 A less glowing OS X Mavericks review
Oct 24, 13 Honey, I’m home! But you knew that already…
Oct 16, 13 Tomorrow, the world
Sep 25, 13 What’s useful in iOS 7 (and not one word about aesthetics)
Sep 3, 13 Yet another Pebble review (but this one mentions things I didn’t read about anywhere else)
Aug 27, 13 Things that talk to you in the night
Aug 9, 13 iOS and photo backups
Jul 26, 13 BBEdit release notes
May 4, 13 Shayne's 1st tweet
Feb 12, 13 Daisy-chaining with thunderbolt
Feb 8, 13 Spell Tower addiction
Feb 8, 13 Get The Room
Dec 24, 12 OS X’s LaunchPad: actually kind of great
Dec 20, 12 Mail search and “smart” mailboxes in Mac OS X Lion: the biggest promise and the biggest letdown
Dec 13, 12 Time Machine: still a janky mess
Dec 10, 12 So you think you want some AirPlay speakers
Nov 20, 12 Evernote, you’re going the wrong way
Sep 30, 12 Dragon Dictate ★★☆☆☆
Sep 22, 12 Maps perspective
Sep 10, 12 Bluetooth pairing is random
Aug 29, 12 The future is friendly
Aug 4, 12 Mountain Lion review in (26) bullet points
Aug 3, 12 Siri failures
Jul 12, 12 First Retina Mac
Jul 9, 12 Fine-grained control is back
Jun 13, 12 Getting “The Future” Right
May 12, 12 Pairing Apple wireless keyboards, mice, trackpads: always a hassle
Apr 19, 12 Astronomy hobby rebooted!
Apr 8, 12 No on-device data plan activation on the 4G iPad
Mar 31, 12 iPad 3 ★★★★☆
Mar 28, 12 F.lux ★★★★★ Perfect little thing
Mar 25, 12 The deep cosmos at 264 pixels per inch: a monster astrophoto on the new iPad
Mar 15, 12 No more skimping on web image quality
Mar 13, 12 iOS iPhoto ★★☆☆☆ Cryptic, balky, unsynced
Mar 4, 12 xScope ★★★★★
Mar 2, 12 The user-unfriendly future of books
Feb 17, 12 My NY Times Subscription decision
Feb 5, 12 “Natural” beauty
Jan 30, 12 Apple’s Address
Jan 10, 12 Final OS X Lion review (shotgun) blast: a little bit of everything
Jan 10, 12 Micro-review of iCloud: Better than its sucky predecessor
Dec 28, 11 Some of Mac OS X Lion’s animations really miss the mark
Dec 5, 11 Help! I’m in love with my unreliable assistant! Siri's stability issues (not recognition), after her debut
Dec 4, 11 Finder & Mail: Core apps that still suck in Mac OS X Lion
Nov 22, 11 The law of low tech standards
Nov 20, 11 Mac OS X Lion: An allegedly mature OS?
Nov 19, 11 AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER TAP TO SET A TIMER AGAIN!
Nov 14, 11 Three giant Apple displays and how (and why) I manage and use them, especially the brightness problem
Oct 21, 11 Reserving judgement on Steve Jobs’ health choices
Oct 6, 11 Skeptics, please reserve judgement about Steve Jobs’ alleged use of alternative medicine
Jul 20, 11 Before you install a new version of OS X: important safety tips!
Jun 15, 11 My first tech prediction wins! Apple “loses” scrap over subscriptions
Mar 31, 11 Solar System Ebook/App for the iPad
Mar 11, 11 I, Pad: The First Year
Mar 5, 11 Techspective
Feb 18, 11 Forge your own future
Feb 2, 11 Gruber gushes about ebook app
Dec 29, 10 Mac Tip: Set a primary email address for a contact
Dec 3, 10 Rage HD ★★★★☆ How do they get all those mutants in there?
Nov 16, 10 The Beatles on iTunes? Meh
Nov 5, 10 IMDb app micro-review
Oct 5, 10 iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player
Sep 26, 10 So meta!