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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 816: iOS & iPadOS 26

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2025/09/28

This week on Mac Power Users: iOS and iPadOS 26 bring many changes, including Liquid Glass, updated first-party apps, and new multitasking features for iPad users. This week, the guys talk through these changes and share impressions of Apple’s latest iPhones, AirPods, and Watches.

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Mr. Liss Goes to Memphis

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2025/09/26

For the second year in a row, Casey Liss joined us for the Podcastathon. He just published an amazing piece about the show and his time at St. Jude: This was my fourth time in Memphis; it’s staring to feel — to a degree — like a home away from home. Having been on campus […]

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My Interview with Coding in Public

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2025/09/26

Chris Pennington over at Coding in Public has been running a community fundraiser with Relay for St. Jude for a few years, and yesterday, we sat down to talk about my St. Jude story, and how the hospital is serving sick kids — and their families — around the world. Speaking for our St. Jude fundraiser, we […]

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Connected 571: Touch Bar It Out of Existence

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2025/09/25

This week on the podcast: The guys reunite to share their impressions of the iPhone 17 Pros, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and Imran Chaudhri’s current position at HP.

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Federal Goverment Partners with xAI

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2025/09/25

Amrith Ramkumar at The Wall Street Journal (Apple News), writing about a new partnership between the Trump administration and his on-again, off-again bestie Elon Musk: Under the agreement with the General Services Administration, which oversees technology procurement for the federal government, agencies will get access to models such as Grok 4 and a new fast […]

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The A19 Pro

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2025/09/24

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: One of the first things I did when I got the new iPhones into Six Colors global HQ was to get the iPhone 17 Pro Max up and running and run Geekbench 6. (I know there are a lot of Geekbench scores out there, but I like to run […]

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‘Benjamin Button Reviews macOS’

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2025/09/22

Rakhim Davletkali has written a delightful blog post, reviewing macOS releases in reverse: Apple’s first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was […]

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A Transparent Tale as Old as Time

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2025/09/22

512 Pixels reader Brian sent me a screenshot they took way back on Mac OS X 10.0, showing that Apple’s current struggle with transparent user interface elements isn’t anything new:

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Sponsor: Quip: A Supercharged Clipboard Manager with...

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2025/09/22

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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Five Years of Widgetsmith

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2025/09/22

Underscore, writing last week: Five years ago, a TikTok video changed my life. And I can say that without any hyperbole. I remember watching Widgetsmith rocket to the top of the App Store, and I could not have been more excited for Dave as it was happening. It’s a thrill to work on such a […]

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Podcastathon 7

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2025/09/16

Our 7th annual 12-hour live show raising money for St. Jude is coming up on Friday! Please tune in and donate:

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Our iOS 26 Updates

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2025/09/15

Today, Apple launched iOS 26. Over at Cross Forward, we’ve got major updates to three of our apps today: Widgetsmith 8 This is a big one. Widgetsmith’s design has been updated for Liquid Glass, but we took that opportunity to make meaningful improvements across the app: New main screen that makes it easier to find […]

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Jason’s Tahoe Review

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2025/09/15

I think Snell nails it: macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It’s the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral damage from Apple’s broader design ambitions on its other platforms. It features the biggest update to Spotlight ever, including direct access to app actions and Apple’s first-ever […]

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Federico’s iOS 26 Review

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2025/09/15

Ticci is back with a comprehensive look at iOS and iPadOS 26: There was a lot riding on Apple’s software strategy in 2025. Now that we’re entering the final phase of the Apple product launch year, I believe that, in hindsight, their three key moves from the first half of 2025 are – at least […]

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Tahoe Added to the 512 Pixels macOS Screenshot Library

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2025/09/13

I spent a large part of my weekend making over 150 screenshots, just for you. I mostly like Liquid Glass on iOS and iPadOS, but it feels like macOS got a lot less time in the oven than the mobile operating systems did. For example, toolbar buttons still really stick out, and I wish app […]

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A History of AppleWorks

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2025/09/13

I know this puts me in a very specific age bracket, but I did almost of all my writing in high school in AppleWorks 6 and still miss it.

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With Its New iPhones, Apple is Returning to Its...

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2025/09/11

It’s wild that we’ve been watching iPhone events for nearly two decades now, but it’s true, and over that time, things have fallen into a predictable pattern: Rumors about features and designs start to leak Parts photos show up online Invites go out Apple announces something that a lot of folks have already seen That […]

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Connected 569: Swept Away for 72 Hours

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2025/09/11

This week on Connected: With the dust settling from Apple’s event, the guys score their picks, covering the iPhone Air, 17, and 17 Pro, as well as new AirPods and Apple Watches.

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Building a Rack-Mounted Macintosh Plus

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2025/09/11

Identity 4 has had a Macintosh Plus for years, but was unhappy with its bulk and heat generation, so they did something wild: I ought to make a rack-mounted version of this computer so it can fit cleanly in my studio rack cabinets along with all my other conveniently packaged gear. I will even give […]

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Joz and Ternus Discuss the iPhone Air

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2025/09/11

Come for some interesting tidbits, stay for Joz throwing the phone across the studio and two guys trying to bend it:

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