At the Core from Serenity Caldwell gets to the heart of what makes iPhones, iPads, Macs, and the Apple community tick. Weekly videos, op-eds, comics, and the occasional song or two — you have to tune in to find out.
26 October 2016135By Serenity CaldwellWho needs a multitouch Mac when a display could support Apple Pencil (and creative professionals, in the process)?
20 January 201667By Serenity CaldwellGoogle Docs and Sheets are must-have tools for many people—but their app-implementations leave much to be desired.
31 October 2015176By Serenity CaldwellThe new Apple TV is pretty stellar. Mostly. Unfortunately, I've also had some time to bump up against some of tvOS's rougher 1.0 edges. These aren't deal-breakers for me, but in the interest of making the couch-potato evenings of myself and many other new Apple TV owners just a bit better, here are some things I wouldn't mind seeing improved upon in subsequent updates.
22 October 201538By Serenity CaldwellThe Hermès-branded Apple Watch not only comes with a custom band, but a custom clock face, too. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Apple's developers built whatever Hermès asked for—even if that included new complications. But I can't help but hope that it's also a hint that custom watch faces are possible—and possibly coming in watchOS 3.
16 October 20153By Serenity CaldwellThis past weekend, I attended and spoke at my last conference of the year: CocoaLove. It's the fifth year in a row I've been to conferences on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. I've essentially been going to these intimate, wonderful three-day experiences since I first started working in the tech sphere, and attending always feels like an anniversary of sorts: A reminder why I love this community as much as I do.
26 August 20155By Serenity CaldwellThere's a sad rumor going around that Apple plans to discontinue its retail One to One service: a $99 add-on that gave them a year's worth of weekly 30-minute and hour-long tutoring sessions on anything Apple-related they wanted to know.
What makes it so sad? As a former One to One instructor, let me tell you how great the program was, and why I'll miss it.
14 July 201521By Serenity CaldwellI hadn't been able to open up iBooks Author in the weeks since the June 30 rollout, due to this tiny little thing called Apple Music you probably haven't heard of.
Today, I did. And boy was I surprised to find that not only can iBooks Author create its special Made for iBooks projects, but it now has two ePub templates. Which, yes, create ePub 3 books.
