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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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Sponsor: MarsEdit 5

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2025/03/17

MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs. The new Microposting feature makes it “as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to social media.” When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just press a […]

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Mac Power Users 788: Travel Tech

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2025/03/16

This week on Mac Power Users: All aboard! David and Stephen talk about the tech, bags, and planning that go into their travel.

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Just 12 Hours Left to Order a Connected Shirt

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2025/03/14

With Myke on paternity leave, Federico and I put just about every shirt Connected has ever had back on sale. This is the final call to get an order in!

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Dream

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2025/03/13

Nearly 16 years ago, my wife Merri and I sat in silence as we were told that our six-month old son likely had brain cancer. That Sunday afternoon changed our lives forever. Josiah underwent numerous operations, and then 18 rounds of chemotherapy at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In the years since, he has undergone […]

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The Best iPad Apps are PWAs

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2025/03/13

Federico Viticci, bringing the fire: In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, I’ve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps I’m using – the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences – aren’t native iPad apps. They’re web apps. When the iPad starts […]

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Something Is Rotten

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2025/03/13

John Gruber, bringing the fire: In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I should […]

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Connected 543: Brought Into Equilibrium with a...

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2025/03/12

This week on the podcast: Is the Vision Pro the perfect night computer? Will this year bring a sweeping redesign to Apple’s operating systems? Has Apple (accidentally?) built the ultimate desktop computer for AI? Are questions a bad way to write an episode description?

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Dropbox Adds Live Photo Support

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2025/03/12

No, you did not read that wrong. Better late than never?

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iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence

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2025/03/11

Juli Clover: With new iOS software updates, Apple has been automatically turning Apple Intelligence on again even for users who have disabled it, a decision that has become increasingly frustrating for those that don’t want to use Apple Intelligence . This is gross. Update: Chance Miller reports that this is happening with today’s macOS release, […]

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x Faster Web...

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2025/03/10

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 787: Revisiting Our Mac Menu Bars

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2025/03/09

It’s been a while, so on this week’s episode, David and I share what is in our Macs’ menu bars, touching on some all-time great macOS apps.

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Siri’s Future Has Been Delayed

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2025/03/07

In a comment to John Gruber, Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy said: Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been […]

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Phoenix

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2025/03/05

There’s a new social app on the horizon: Here’s The Iconfactory: Twitterrific for Mac was the very first Twitter client, but it has fallen out of date. Help us bring it back to the future! STATIC BREAKS INTO MY AIRPODS Oh, I’m being told that this blog post is supposed to be about another Phoenix. […]

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Connected 542: face with tired

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2025/03/05

This week on the podcast, there are new iPads and Macs to discuss, as well as new emoji whose names are unknown to one particular host.

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It Seems Like There’s Never Gonna Be an M4 Ultra

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2025/03/05

Joe Rossignol, writing at MacRumors: A spokesperson for Apple has told French technology website Numerama that its M4 Max chip lacks an UltraFusion connector, which would have paved the way for the release of a doubled-up M4 Ultra chip in the future. As we recently covered, Apple told Ars Technica that not every generation of M-series chips for Macs will include […]

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Mac Studio Updated with the M4 Max and … M3 Ultra

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2025/03/05

In addition to the new MacBook Air, Apple also updated the Mac Studio today: Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip. The ultimate pro desktop delivers groundbreaking pro performance, extensive connectivity now with Thunderbolt 5, and new capabilities in its compact […]

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M4 MacBook Air Introduced

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2025/03/05

As foretold, there’s a new MacBook Air out today, powered by the M4. Apple: Apple today announced the new MacBook Air, featuring the blazing-fast performance of the M4 chip, up to 18 hours of battery life, a new 12MP Center Stage camera, and a lower starting price. It also offers support for up to two external displays […]

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Apple Updates iPad & iPad Air

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2025/03/04

Apple Newsroom, a day after Tim Cook posted his “There’s Something in the Air” tweet: Apple today introduced the faster, more powerful iPad Air with the M3 chip and built for Apple Intelligence. iPad Air with M3 brings Apple’s advanced graphics architecture to iPad Air for the first time — taking its incredible combination of […]

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There’s Something in the Air

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2025/03/03

Tim Cook teased a product release coming this week with an old — but perfectly clear — reference to an old Apple event, saying on X — ugh — that “There’s something in the air.” That tagline was used way back in 2008 when the first MacBook Air was introduced: Rumor has it that the M4 MacBook […]

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

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2025/03/03

Today more than ever we’re all drowning in a flood of information. News, research, social media. And while most of it is probably less important, we need to identify what actually is, keep it, and organize it. Only then it becomes “knowledge” that we can work with to create something new. DEVONthink is the tool […]

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