Yours truly in The Daily Helmsman newsroom as a freshman in August 2004. Names and phone numbers have been redacted to ...

This week on Mac Power Users, David and I reflect on what went well in their tech stacks, touching on Apple silicon, the ...

I have a soft spot for 1960s space hardware, but the lunar rover is my favorite. It was designed to meet a ridiculous set of limitations, and achieved amazing success. Jared Owen’s new video breaks ...

With the 2022 Apple Studio Display, the company has returned to the display business in a big way. To celebrate, I thought we could walk through the history of Apple’s standalone flat displays. In ...

Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. You can see that in the image below. On the left is macOS Sequoia, and on the right is ...

If you missed my previous post on the topic, the first version of Tahoe had the dark blue on the right side of the Finder icon, which was criminal. Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of ...

I recently noticed a new folder in the root level of my Home directory, named ai_overlay_tmp: In preparation for a Mac Power Users episode, I’ve been playing with a bunch of AI software, and I assumed ...

We’re all familiar with the Mac’s startup chime. While it has changed over the years, it has greeted users with its friendly tone for decades. What you may not know is that for years, the Mac also ...

A year before the Macintosh was released, Apple’s Lisa introduced the concept of a GUI and mouse to Apple’s customers. Often considered to be ahead of its time, the Lisa also offered protected memory, ...

Building a new operating system is a monumental challenge, and in January 2000 when Aqua was introduced, Apple was in the thick of the transition to OS X. Beyond the staggering amount of development ...

One of the more interesting debates in the nerd community is around how Apple views itself. Is it a software company that happens to make hardware? Is it a device manufacturer that also offers sort of ...