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512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, design, and other fine nerdery, written by Stephen Hackett.

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Apple Announces COO Transition as Jeff Williams Plans...

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2025/07/08

Apple’s Newsroom: Apple today announced Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer later this month to Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations as part of a long-planned succession. Williams will continue reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook and overseeing Apple’s world class design team and Apple Watch alongside the company’s […]

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macOS 26 Developer Beta 3 Includes New Wallpaper:...

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2025/07/08

That brings the total to three “default” wallpapers for the new operating system. The newest is named “Tahoe Day” and is very similar to Apple’s other Aerial images. Download full-sized copies of all three here: Light Tahoe Dark Tahoe Tahoe Day

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It’s Prime Day: Rebuild My Desk

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2025/07/08

Happy Prime Day! In the spirit of the season, I’ve rounded up a bunch of links so you could rebuild my desk, mostly on Amazon. Shameless, I know… Computer 14-inch MacBook Pro CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt Dock Apple Studio Display with Adjustable Display Elgato Stream Deck XL Logitech MX Master 3S Wireless Mouse Apple Magic Keyboard […]

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In macOS Tahoe, Things Are Indeed Dire for FireWire

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2025/07/08

It has been reported that macOS Tahoe doesn’t include support for FireWire devices. To see for myself, I dug out an old FireWire 800 drive I used to use in my Apple service tech days. This baby has a lot of volumes on it, all of which appeared when plugged into my MacBook Pro running […]

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Ten Years Indie

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2025/07/07

A decade ago, I made a major announcement: I’m leaving my 9-5 job to work on Relay FM, 512 Pixels and my freelance business full time. This anniversary snuck up on me, and I think that’s a sign of how well things have gone since I published that blog post. Had you told me ten […]

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Sponsor: DEVONthink: Store, Organize, and Work the...

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2025/07/07

We’re all dealing with more information than ever, and it’s becoming increasingly complex. You need bulletproof financial documents for audits, collaborative tools for your team, and AI that can actually help. DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus1 is here, and it’s designed to work with you, not against you. Its AI integration is incredibly useful — it can […]

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Mac Power Users 804: From NeXT to Liquid Glass, with...

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2025/07/06

This week on the podcast: Ken Case is the CEO at The Omni Group and has been developing for Apple platforms for decades. He shares with Stephen and David how he got his start in technology, what Apple gear he uses, his approach to customer communication, and his thoughts on WWDC. On More Power Users, […]

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‘Memphis Community Against Pollution’ Launching Air...

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2025/07/02

Joseph Mangin, at The Daily Memphian: The nonprofit announced plans to install two different models of air-quality sensors in the Memphis area with a focus on the 38109 ZIP code, which includes Boxtown, where the press conference was held. MCAP’s Wednesday event follows air-quality testing carried out by the City of Memphis. The testing was […]

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Connected 559: Chart Man

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2025/07/02

This week on a jam-packed episode of the podcast: Apple Music is 10 years old, the future of Siri is uncertain, and the A18 Pro may be headed to a Mac. Lastly, the 2024 Ticcilympics are graded.

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Snell, on That A18 Pro MacBook Rumor

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2025/07/02

Writing at Six Colors: The A18 Pro is 46% faster than the M1 in single-core tasks, and almost identical to the M1 on multi-core and graphics tasks. If you wanted to get rid of the M1 MacBook Air but have decided that even today, its performance characteristics make it perfectly suitable as a low-cost Mac […]

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Thoughts on a Possible Low-End MacBook Powered by the...

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2025/07/01

Ming-Chi Kuo is back with a new report, this time concerning a new MacBook Apple is apparently working on behind the scenes: Expected to enter mass production in late 4Q25 or early 1Q26, with an approximately 13-inch display and powered by the A18 Pro processor. Potential casing colors include silver, blue, pink, and yellow Apple […]

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Sponsor: Godspeed, A Fast, 100% Keyboard-Oriented...

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2025/06/30

Godspeed is a task manager built with two priorities in mind: speed and 100% keyboard orientation. Every action in Godspeed can be done from your keyboard and will respond instantly. It’s like Superhuman for your to-do list. Godspeed comes with all the features you need from your task manager, and a few you wouldn’t expect: […]

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Some Random Blog Numbers

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2025/06/29

The other day, my buddy Joe Rossignol wrote this on Threads: Looks like I surpassed 8,000 blog posts at MacRumors recently. My typed word count has probably well exceeded 2 million. Sheesh. That got me wondering about my own output, so here are some random stats: Including this article, there are 11,337 posts on 512 […]

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The Blue Screen of Death is Going Away

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2025/06/26

Tom Warren has the details: The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen […]

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Connected 558: A Podcast Drive-Thru

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2025/06/25

This week on the podcast: Federico has been experimenting with KVMs, I have been fixing macOS between dreams, and Myke finally experienced iOS 26. After those conversations, we turned to a list of questions from listeners about WWDC, Apple’s app strategy, and more. On Connected Pro, we had Federico judge some American “pizza” and then […]

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The City of Memphis Conducted Air Quality Tests in...

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2025/06/25

After months of reporting and community concern, the city of Memphis has released its findings of air quality testing that took place near xAI’s two data centers. The PDF of those results can be seen here, and for more, we turn to Samuel Hardiman: The city tested at Macedonia Missionary Baptist in Boxtown, which is […]

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Pushing Tahoe’s Finder Icon Even Further

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2025/06/25

John Gruber, responding to my article celebrating Tahoe Beta 2’s new Finder icon: I’m going to strongly disagree here. The Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon is slightly better, but seeing it this way makes it obvious that the problem with the Tahoe Finder icon isn’t whether it’s dark/light or light/dark from left to right. It’s that with […]

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Revisiting the Aqua Introduction

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2025/06/24

In the wake of Apple’s Liquid Glass announcements at WWDC, I took some time and rewatched the Macworld San Francisco Keynote from 2000, when Steve Jobs introduced the world to the Aqua user interface: Here’s how Apple PR wrote about it at the time: “Mac OS X will delight consumers with its simplicity and amaze […]

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AI and the Electric Grid

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2025/06/24

Wendover Productions’ video on the subject is really interesting:

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Doug Brown Found a Power Mac G3 Rom Easter Egg Nearly...

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2025/06/24

This is really, really cool: I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. This story starts with me on a lazy Sunday using Hex Fiend in conjunction with Eric Harmon’s Mac ROM template (ROM Fiend) to look through the resources stored in the […]

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