An austere, handsome stand for the Apple Watch. Twelve South stands apart from many peripheral vendors for their singular focus on making products designed to complement Apple's aesthetic. They make cases, stands and other accessories that look beautiful with Apple computers and mobile devices. I've used their gear for a long time and I love almost everything I've tried. When Twelve...
Grovemade's new accessories for the Mac — the Keyboard Tray and Trackpad Tray — aim to add some warmth and comfort to your office setup.
Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller surprised the assembled throng gathered to watch John Gruber record a live episode of his Talk Show podcast for Daring Fireball,
WWDC week isn't necessarily about learning the latest Apple tech. It's about having an opportunity to talk with the people who make the products we rely on, and understand better what makes them tick.
Now in its fourth year, AltConf has become the place to be if want to be in San Francisco but don't have a ticket to WWDC. AltConf 2015 is something to see. It remains absolutely free to attend, but has grown now to occupy three movie theaters at the AMC Metreon in downtown San Francisco. Two theaters show live talks from dozens of speakers on a range of topics that span the gamut from...
The Apple Watch is the first watch some of us have put on our wrists for years. In some cases, ever. That means there are some skills we have to relearn. One bad habit I've gotten into, and some of you have, judging from my email, is letting my wrists touch the palm rest area on my MacBook. C.R. writes: I'm worried that the clasp on my Apple Watch is going to start scratching up...
There are a lot of hidden OS X tricks you can unlock using the command line and the Terminal app. These apps keep you from having to memorize complicated UNIX commands by giving you a comfortable Mac-like interface.
Remember, developers: It's very tempting. But please don't install beta software like the new OS X 10.11 and iOS 9 unless you can afford to live without your Mac or iOS device if something goes horribly wrong.
You may be tempted, based on what you're seeing in the Finder, to delete your old iPhoto or Aperture library once you've migrated to Photos. Don't do it. Photos actually manages your photos very effectively, so even though it looks like you're wasting gobs of disk space, you're really not.
If you'd like to have instant access to recently used apps, docs, servers and other items from the Dock, some quick command line wizardry in Terminal is the ticket.
National Donut Day is upon us, so we've rounded up some fun apps to celebrate the day. We have games, apps and iBooks for you to enjoy, all donut-themed!
Gatekeeper is one of the Mac's main lines of defense against malware. Gatekeeper has been built into OS X since the days of Mountain Lion, but if you open up Spotlight and search for it, you won't find an app or system preference by that name. Gatekeeper is what Apple calls OS X's defense against "malware" — malicious software. Gatekeeper restricts how software from third-party...
In many ways, Apple is a more open, forthcoming company than it used to be. But in key areas the company is still troublingly closed. I've been making a living with Macs long enough to remember the era before Steve Jobs returned to Apple. It was a bad time: Apple made a lot of poorly differentiated, crappy computers, and its operating system wasn't great, either. But before Steve came...
There are two prominent commercial packages to help run Windows 10 on your Mac: VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop.
It's easy to view and re-download the apps you've already purchased from the Mac App Store. If you want to view the apps currently installed on your Mac, you can always open your Applications folder or Launchpad. But what about apps you purchased at one point but deleted, or apps you bought on another Mac? The Mac App Store gives you an easy and convenient way to look at all the apps...
If you check the contents of your Mac's hard drive (or flash storage), you might see a certain amount described as "Other." All of your audio is accounted for distinctly. So is the space used to store apps, photos, movies, even backup files that get queued up when your Mac is away from its Time Capsule or Time Machine backup drive. So what's "Other?" D.M. writes: I have 15.51GB...
Intel has announced Thunderbolt 3 will use the USB-C connector we've already seen on the MacBook. Thunderbolt 3 arrives later this year once computer makers start shipping devices equipped with Intel's "Skylake" microprocessor. Skylake is the successor to Broadwell, the fifth-generation Intel Core processor that saw its debut on the Mac earlier this year. Thunderbolt 3 offers twice the...
Don't worry about running out of drive space on your Mac, just learn to check it out. Especially now that most new Macs — especially laptops — have flash-based storage, the average amount of space on the Mac's boot volume is smaller than it has been in past years. If you're worried that you might be running out of space on your Mac, OS X makes it easy to figure out how much space you...
Be careful when you're cleaning out old computer gear — it might be worth more than you know. A California recycling firm is holding a check for $100,000. That represents half the proceeds from the sale of a rare Apple I computer recently donated to the company by a woman cleaning out what she thought was old junk from her deceased husband. Long before the Macintosh was a thing —...
Are you looking for a pint-sized speaker with gallons of sound? Time to get your Soundfreaq on. Portable Bluetooth speakers are a dime-a-dozen these days, which makes differentiating them even more difficult. At a reader's behest, I recently checked out Soundfreaq's offerings; their Pocket Kick is an impressive speaker that's truly small enough to fit in your pocket. The Pocket Kick...