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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: PowerPhotos by Fat Cat Software

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2024/12/16

PowerPhotos is the ultimate toolbox for Photos on the Mac. It works with the Apple Photos app, filling in missing features that Photos itself doesn’t provide. PowerPhotos allows you to work with multiple Photo libraries and store them wherever you want, including on an external drive or a network drive. Split up your giant library […]

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Mac Power Users 775: File Automation with Hazel and...

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2024/12/15

Many people have more PDFs and files than they’d like. This week on MPU, David and I explore two great applications that make managing files more straightforward and efficient.

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The Story Behind Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Engine and...

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2024/12/13

I use several of Rogue Amoeba’s apps on a near-daily basis. They are critical to my work as a podcaster, and my Mac would be noticeably less useful without them. With the transition to Apple silicon, installing these programs became much more complicated, and I feared that Apple was pushing tools like Audio Hijack, Loopback, […]

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Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries Generating...

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2024/12/13

Graham Fraser at the BBC: This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. He has not. A spokesperson from the BBC said the corporation had contacted Apple […]

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Conduit 90: “Big Theme Guy,” with Stephen Hackett

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2024/12/12

This week’s Conduit had a pretty mediocre guest: Jay is gone away again, so Kathy brings in Stephen Hackett as a guest host and they can actually talk about Yearly Themes!

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Connected 531: Gill Sands

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2024/12/11

This week: Myke shares some news, Federico covers iOS 18.2, and I launch a new awards program.

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A Look at Apple Intelligence’s Image Creation Tools

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2024/12/11

iOS 18.2 is rolling out today, bringing the next wave of Apple Intelligence features with it.1 The splashiest feature is Image Playgrounds, which allows users to create images based on photos in their image libraries: (Don’t look too closely at my hand in the image on the right.) Apple’s system will not create realistic images, […]

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The Power Mac 4400

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2024/12/10

In November 1996, Apple released the Power Macintosh 4400 with a starting price of $1,725. Also sold as the Power Macintosh 7220, it’d be easy to write this machine off as just another grain of sand on the beige beach that was Apple’s product line in the 1990s. I mean, just look at this thing, […]

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Sponsor: Unite 5 Turns Web Apps Into Supercharged...

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2024/12/09

Unite 5 for macOS takes your web experience to the next level, transforming websites into feature-rich Mac apps. Powered by a completely redesigned WebKit browser, Unite 5 offers a more immersive and customizable browsing experience. What sets Unite 5 apart? We’ve gone beyond just app conversion. Our new intricate link-forwarding rules give you unparalleled control […]

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Mac Power Users 774: Answering Common Tech Support...

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2024/12/08

It’s that time of year again: when relatives come to the family get-together armed with tech questions. On this episode, David and I tackle some of the most common issues asked around the dinner table.

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Goodbye, Surface Studio

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2024/12/06

For years, Apple fans have looked at the Surface Studio longingly, wondering what a version of a tilting Mac desktop could look like. Many wondered if Apple would ever do anything like this machine, adding Apple Pencil and touch support to macOS, or doing some wild Mac/iPad hybrid. I fear Apple won’t ever get that […]

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Connected 530: I Merely Adopted the Flip Flop

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2024/12/04

This week on Connected: With Myke out this week, Stephen and Federico bravely carry on, discussing the future of web browsers, how iOS 18.2 is shaping up, and a Kickstarter that seems a bit unusual.

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Festivitas

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2024/12/04

Simon B. Støvring has launched a new app: Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak their appearance to match your preferences. I love this, and not just because it reminds me of the old Holiday Lights app.

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Strategic Linear Contextual Bandits

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2024/12/04

Thomas Kleine Buening, Aadirupa Saha, Christos Dimitrakakis, Haifeng Xu, on Apple’s “Machine Learning Research” blog: Motivated by the phenomenon of strategic agents gaming a recommendation system to maximize the number of times they are recommended to users, we study a strategic variant of the linear contextual bandit problem, where the arms strategically misreport privately observed […]

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Focused 218: Turning Down the Volume, with Stephen...

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2024/12/03

In my week of guesting on other people’s Relay podcasts, I’m on today’s episode of Focused, talking about my recent sabbatical. I found the topic surprisingly weird to talk about, but David and Mike helped make it much more comfortable to do so.

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The Verge Launches Its Subscription

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2024/12/03

Nilay Patel: Today we’re launching a Verge subscription that lets you get rid of a bunch of ads, gets you unlimited access to our top-notch reporting and analysis across the site and our killer premium newsletters, and generally lets you support independent tech journalism in a world of sponsored influencer content. It’ll cost $7 / month or $50 […]

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The Flexbar

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2024/12/03

Andrew Liszewski, writing at The Verge, about a thing that should probably not be made: Apple may have said goodbye to the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar last year, but a team of four engineers believes the concept deserves a second chance. They’ve created the Flexbar, which is essentially a standalone version of the MBP’s thin touchscreen display that […]

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Upgrade 540: Validation for Shower Jason

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2024/12/02

Myke Hurley was out this week, so I joined Jason Snell for today’s episode of Upgrade: Stephen Hackett joins Jason to discuss emergency calls, reaction to Jason’s “The Mac is the Model” piece, iPhone metals, our innate troubleshooting powers, Jason’s laptop dilemma, the ChatGPT Mac app, and some very old Vision Pro news. On Upgrade+, […]

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Sponsor: Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource

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2024/12/02

Do you use audio on your Mac, in any way at all? Then SoundSource is for you. SoundSource provides superior control over all audio, right from your menu bar. With SoundSource, you get: Per-application control: Change the volume of any app relative to others, and play individual apps to different audio devices. Audio effects, anywhere: […]

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Mac Power Users 773: 2024 State of the Platforms Part...

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2024/12/01

On this week’s Mac Power Users, David and I make it through the rest of Apple’s platforms this week, including a speed round of the company’s entertainment portfolio. On More Power Users, we covered the state of HomeKit, both in our own homes and more generally. You can sign up for a year of the […]

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