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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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Mac Power Users 782: Apple Intelligence Review

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2025/02/02

This week on MPU: Stephen and David have been using Apple’s AI features since they showed up in betas last year. Today, they share their findings and talk about what’s worth your time — and what’s not — when it comes to Apple Intelligence.

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CHARTS CHARTS CHARTS

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2025/01/30

Jason Snell: Apple reported its financial results on Thursday for its first fiscal quarter of 2025, which covers the last three months of 2024. As expected, it was an all-time revenue record at $124.3 billion, up 4% from the year-ago previous recordholder. Probably most notable is that iPhone revenue was down 1% from the year-ago quarter, which […]

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Connected 537: Do You Know Apple?

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2025/01/29

This week on the podcast: Legacy Stephen is back, and Federico has been wired in to the saga of DeepSeek.

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Karl Lagerfeld’s Collection of Wild iPods is for Sale

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2025/01/27

John Voorhees, writing at MacStories: Sotheby’s is auctioning the estate of renowned designer Karl Lagerfeld. The auction house, which is auctioning the estate’s assets in multiple lots includes several collections of classic iPods and custom iPods… Just look at some of these things: Sotheby’s posted this video to Instagram, highlighting the collection: View this post on […]

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Pebble Poised for Comeback

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2025/01/27

David Pierce, with some news that is going to make some folks very excited. Here he is, writing about Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky: He sold his most recent startup, a messaging app called Beeper, to Automattic last year and left the company in the fall. Since then, he’d thought about starting a Pebble-like product from scratch, figuring […]

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Mac Power Users 781: The 2025 Productivity Field Guide

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2025/01/26

This week on the podcast: David has updated the Productivity Field Guide for 2025. This week, he and Stephen discuss what’s new in the course, what changes he has made to his various production workflows, and more.

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A New Look for the Next Decade of Relay

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2025/01/25

I am so happy with how Relay’s brand refresh went. We’ve been working on this for a long time. We even dropped the FM which I used to swear we would never do, but as soon as we tried it, I knew it had to go.

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Welcome, Tim C.

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2025/01/24

There’s a new employee on the severed floor. I wonder if the innie or the outie attended Trump’s inauguration earlier this week after helping pay for it.

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‘Our Homes Burned Down’

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2025/01/24

Colin and Samir host some very interesting interviews on their YouTube channel. They each lost their homes in the L.A. fires and their video talking about it is really tough, but puts a real human voice to the tragedy so many people are facing right now. As expected, a good bit of the 28 minutes […]

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Connected 536: Dad Draws a Bath and Plays Mario Kart

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2025/01/22

This week on an unhinged episode of Connected: Federico has a new mail client, Myke is concerned about software releases, and Stephen shares a recent interaction with AppleCare’s iCloud support team. On Connected Pro, we designed the Hurleys the perfect iPad for use their baby nursery.

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Project 8086 Part II: Real Mode Productivity; or,...

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2025/01/20

MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last with you, we discussed the Pocket 8086. If you don’t remember what the Pocket 8086 is, or who I am, or what any of this has to do with everyone’s favorite Apple blog, I’d refer you to part one […]

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2025/01/20

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Mac Power Users 780: Our Home Screens & Focus Modes

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2025/01/19

This week on Mac Power Users: Our iPhones are always with us, making the Home Screen very valuable real estate in our lives. This week, the guys share their home screens and Focus modes and how their devices help keep them on track. On More Power Users, we talked through our Control Center screens.

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Apple Intelligence Really Wants Joanna Stern to Have...

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2025/01/17

Joanna Stern has written about this before, but in her email newsletter this week, she addresses the fact that Apple Intelligence continues to misgender her spouse: Here’s a notification for you, Apple: There is no husband. Despite what my iPhone’s frequent notification summaries report, my husband isn’t messy, he isn’t sad and he definitely didn’t […]

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Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries Tweaked in...

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2025/01/17

Apple’s “intelligent” notification summaries have been …uhhhhh… making things up as LLMs often do, and after repeated complaints from the likes of the BBC, Apple is changing how they work. Chance Miller has details: Here are the changes included in iOS 18.3 for Apple Intelligence notification summaries: When you enable notification summaries, iOS 18.3 will […]

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CARROT Weather 6.2

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2025/01/16

I’m pumped about this version of my favorite weather app: Live Activities Now you can opt to have Live Activities start automatically when precipitation is in the area! They’ll be started via a notification about 15 minutes before rain or snow begins, then you’ll continue to receive updates until precipitation stops, at which point the […]

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Connected 535: Proper Governance

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2025/01/15

This week on the podcast: Federico, Myke, and Stephen consider turning their podcast over to a non-profit for all decision-making. Other points of business include Unifi networking, Focus modes, daily notes, and other items.

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My UniFi Experience, Thus Far

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2025/01/13

After years of waiting, AT&T Fiber finally became available on my side of the street,1 giving me access to sweet, sweet gigabit speed both to and from the Internet. This became the impetus for me to replace most of my home network. I was using a set of pretty old eero base stations, back from […]

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Mastodon Moving Assets to a Non-Profit Organization

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2025/01/13

From the Mastodon blog: Mastodon was founded on the principles that people should be able to control their social circle online, curate their own timeline, and convene freely with any community of their choosing. We believe social media should help users build bridges, not walls. And we believe this is best achieved through federation. Today, […]

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Sponsor: FastScripts 3

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2025/01/13

Automation on the Mac is alive and well and FastScripts 3 from Red Sweater makes it easy to organize and run your favorite scripts. With FastScripts you can set up powerful keyboard shortcuts to run your scripts, or select and run your scripts from a menu bar icon. The app supports AppleScript, Automator, and shell […]

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