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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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Upgrade 587: My TestFlight Has a TestFlight

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2025/10/27

I had the pleasure of joining Jason Snell on this week’s episode of Upgrade to discuss modem quirks, new iPhone rumors, cutting-edge immersive video production, and the boring march of Apple silicon.

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The Logitech MX Master 4

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2025/10/27

I recently upgraded my mouse to the new Logitech MX Master 4 and have been really happy with it. For years, I used the old Logitech Performance MX, long after it was discontinued. After my last backup copy of it died, I moved to the Logitech MX Master 3S. It was great, and the 4 […]

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Sponsor: Quip, a Supercharged Clipboard Manager With...

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2025/10/27

Clipboard managers are one of those utilities you don’t realize you need until you try one. And for years, they’ve all felt the same—catch-all junk drawers where your copy/paste history goes to die. Quip takes a different approach. It’s a clipboard manager and text expander for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, built to feel native, […]

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Mac Power Users 820: The Apple Productivity Suite...

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2025/10/26

This week on the podcast: David has published a new course covering Apple Reminders, Calendar, Notes, and more. This week, he and Stephen walk through those apps and how they can be used together. Then, a conversation about the M5 and iOS 26 changes.

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The State of Nisus Writer

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2025/10/25

Nisus Writer is a word processor for the Mac that dates back to 1989. It survived basically every major change the platform has ever seen, but its time as a beloved Mac app may be coming to an end, as Joe Kissell writes: For more than a year, we’ve heard scattered complaints: problems with Nisus […]

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Connected 575: The Brooklyn iPad

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2025/10/23

This week on Connected: The M5 has landed, and Federico has thoughts on the present and future workloads it can unlock. Also: Stephen isn’t alone, Myke’s new iPhone has an unexpected accent, and Liquid Glass continues to change. I was robbed during this week’s edition of The Quizzies. #JusticeForStephen

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Steven Aquino on that Liquid Glass Toggle in Beta 4

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2025/10/22

Steven Aquino, writing at Curb Cuts, bouncing off my post about the new Clear/Tinted toggle that appeared in this week’s betas: Hackett notes Apple’s placement of the Liquid Glass control is surprising as he believed “a control like this would land in Accessibility.” However a logical presumption, it’s not really a hardcore accessibility feature. Here’s […]

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I’m Really Starting to Think These OpenAI Folks Are...

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2025/10/22

Rebecca Bellan at TechCrunch: OpenAI reportedly asked the Raine family – whose 16-year-old son Adam Raine died by suicide after prolonged conversations with ChatGPT – for a full list of attendees from the teenager’s memorial, signaling that the AI firm may try to subpoena friends and family. OpenAI also requested “all documents relating to […]

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Boring Is What We Wanted

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2025/10/21

We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way. In December 2020, John Gruber wrote: We knew this to be true: […]

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iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Adds Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle

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2025/10/20

If you go to Settings > Display and Brightness on iOS, or System Settings > Appearance on the Mac, you’ll find a new toggle that lets you swap between two looks: Clear and Tinted. Clear is the look of Liquid Glass since iOS 26 launched, while Tinted adds opacity and contrast. Here’s how the options […]

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Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x Faster Web Browsing in Safari

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2025/10/20

Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – delivering a faster, cleaner and more secure […]

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Mac Power Users 819: The User Interface at 60 MPH

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2025/10/19

This week on a jam-packed feedback episode of MPU, David and I discuss a bunch of listener feedback, the return of Slide Over, the state of iCloud Family Sharing, and check in on his Rivian experience.

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iWeb in 2025

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2025/10/18

Corbin Davenport: I used iWeb back in the day to make early versions of my personal website, as well as websites for friends, before I started learning more about web development and switched to Adobe Dreamweaver. Apple only released two major updates to iWeb, with the last one arriving in the iLife ’09 package. When the […]

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OpenAI Removes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From Sora...

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2025/10/17

Since the launch of Sora 2, the system has been willing to generate video of just about any famous person doing just about anything. Over the last couple of weeks, OpenAI has been clamping down on many examples of this, but this particular one caught my eye: In an unsigned statement on X: The Estate […]

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Connected 574: Inspired by the Pouch

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2025/10/16

This week on the podcast: Clips has joined Music Memos and Cards in the Great Beyond, just as the M5 was announced for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro.

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Apple Announces the M5, Powering an Updated MacBook...

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2025/10/15

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced M5, delivering the next big leap in AI performance and advances to nearly every aspect of the chip. Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster, with over 4x the peak […]

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“I Will Solve Your Problem for You and You Will Pay Me”

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2025/10/14

After seeing my buddies at Studio Neat launch an amazing new patch, I fell down the rabbit hole that is the NeXT logo. Dan and Tom linked to this video, which shows Paul Rand delivering his work to Steve Jobs and his team at NeXT. I hadn’t seen this before, and boy, I wish it […]

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Microsoft’s Windows 10 Support (Mostly) Ends Today

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2025/10/14

Andrew Cunningham, writing at Ars: This end-of-support date comes about a decade after the initial release of Windows 10, which is typical for most Windows versions. But it comes just four years after Windows 10 was replaced by Windows 11, a version with stricter system requirements that left many older-but-still-functional PCs with no officially supported upgrade path. […]

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Apple Renames Apple TV+ to Apple TV

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2025/10/13

As pointed out by Eric Slivka, Apple snuck in a little product news in its press release about F1: The Movie being available for streaming in December: Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity. At this point, none of that vibrant new identity is live, but it’ll be fun to […]

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xAI Breaks Ground on Wastewater Treatment Plant in...

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2025/10/13

For months, the city of Memphis, xAI, and partners have been planning a wastewater plant to provide water for cooling the company’s first supercomputer in Memphis. Last week, ground was broken on the site, as reported by Samuel Hardiman at The Daily Memphian: The plant will take wastewater treated at the City of Memphis’ nearby […]

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