2014 archives

Dec 31

Happy New Year

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Dec 30

William Shatner exposes paid followers on Twitter

Dec 29

Clockwise 68: ‘Genuine Frontier Gibberish’

Upgrade 16: ‘The 2014 Upgradies’

2015 Six Colors sponsorships available

Dec 28

The Incomparable 226: ‘The Europeans Do It Better’

Dec 27

Sponsor: MailRoute

Dec 26

HBO releases ‘The Wire’ in HD

Dec 24

The Six Colors holiday meta-post

Dec 23

‘Yippee Ki Yay’

Upgrade 15: ‘Upgradians of the Galaxy’

No other gatekeeper but me

Dec 22

Would you like this discontinued software?

Dec 21

The Incomparable 226: ‘Stop Circulating the Tapes’

Embiggening English

Dec 19

Sponsor: ChronoSync

Dec 18

Our Favorite Things: iOS Games

Wish List: ‘Download Later’ for music by Dan Moren

The coming cord-cutter apocalypse

Drafts’s Today widget returns by Dan Moren

Dec 17

Clockwise 67: ‘Disapproving Record Clerk’

Federico Viticci’s must-have iPad apps

Dec 16

My Favorite Things: Games (non-software edition)

Favorite third-party mail app for Mac: Mailbox

Dec 15

Holiday Playlist: Philip Michaels by Philip Michaels

Upgrade 14: ‘The Marvel of the Buttermilk Biscuit’

No, let’s not bring back the suits

Dec 14

The Incomparable 225: ‘A Very Different Idea of Fun’

Dec 12

Sponsor: Babble-on App Localization

My Favorite Things: iOS Apps

Dec 11

Podcasting hits Twitter numbers

The new Star Wars characters! Collect ‘em all! by Dan Moren

Wish List: Touch ID for the Mac by Dan Moren

Clockwise 66: ‘Driving Through Magic’

Do you know where your Apple ID recovery key is?

A statistical analysis of 30 years of Top Ten Lists

Workflow is Automator for iOS by Dan Moren

Microsoft makes a power play for HockeyApp by Dan Moren

Dec 10

Holiday deals: Buyer beware

Twitter clients in 2014

Dec 9

My Favorite Things: Geeky Holiday Music

Studio Neat: Behind the syrup

Dec 8

This week’s baffling app rejection: Transmit for iOS 1.1.1

My Favorite Things: Mac apps

Upgrade 13: ‘#askupgrade’

Dec 7

The Incomparable 224: ‘Canonical Space Goo’

Dec 6

Sponsor: Twelve South

YotaPhone 2, the two-sided phone

Dec 5

The Apple TV needs to get back in the picture by Dan Moren

Dec 4

My Favorite Things: Services and stuff

Wish List: Apple Pay your friends by Dan Moren

James Bond will return in ‘Spectre’ by Dan Moren

Dec 3

Holiday Box: An advent calendar in a podcast

Clockwise 65: ‘The Slovenian Perspective’

Dec 2

‘The Wire’ is coming to high definition

Typeset in the Future: Alien

Upgrade 12: ‘Plant and Analyze’

My Favorite Things: Hardware

Getting started with JavaScript for Automation on Yosemite

Dec 1

Sale: One month of Marvel Unlimited for 75 cents

Nov 30

This week on The Incomparable…

Nov 28

Want to do a podcast? Don’t be intimidated

Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer by Dan Moren

Gift Guide: Marvel Unlimited

Nov 27

Wish List: Siri integration with Apple TV by Dan Moren

Web apps, native apps, and app ecosystems by Glenn Fleishman

Nov 26

Sponsor: Things by Cultured Code

Go Play: Crossy Road

Clockwise 64: ‘Disposable Electric Car’

He almost missed the perfect shot… but didn’t.

How Apple can boost my iPad productivity by Chip Sudderth

Nov 25

Attack of the 50-foot Save Sheet

The crashing price of storage by Glenn Fleishman

Nov 24

Upgrade 11: ‘Flexible Shower Schedule’

Colbert and Carell recall a classic bad review

Podcasts swirling, whirling, and moving

Nov 22

The Incomparable 221: ‘Do the Hand-Wavy Thing’

Nov 21

Sponsor: Drafts 4

Amazon Fire TV Stick review by Dan Moren

So what, who cares?

Adobe streams Photoshop to Chromebooks

Nov 20

Wish List: Handoff for iTunes and Music by Dan Moren

The sad state of state plates

Clockwise 63: ‘Uber, what’s up with it?’

Apple may include Beats app in iOS by Dan Moren

Nov 19

iPad Air 2 review

There’s no such thing as a Get lunch (or app)

The science of not believing science

Twitter search archive contains every tweet ever

Nov 18

What you need to know about WatchKit

Developers get Apple Watch peek

Nov 17

Upgrade 10: ‘Podcasting, It’s Great!’

Putting podcasting over the top

Nov 15

The Incomparable 220: ‘Authentic Cop Mustache’

Nov 14

Sponsor: Kifi

The Forgotten Shores of App Store pricing

The brutal world of the supply chain

Twitter to the rescue: A systemwide shortcut for pasting as plain text by Dan Moren

One week with my Retina iMac

Nov 13

Flashlight makes Spotlight shine brighter by Dan Moren

Clockwise 62: ‘Light at the End of the Pipe’

Space Age is finally upon us by Dan Moren

Nov 12

More Monument Valley for $2

Philae lands on a comet

Nov 11

What’s on my desk

Nov 10

Upgrade 9: ‘A Brain and a Drill’

Net neutrality for some, large ISPs for others!

The Prophet

In-flight entertainment gets personal

Nov 9

Apple releases web tool to remove phones from iMessage

Nov 8

The Incomparable 219: ‘Terrible Things for Awful Reasons’

Nov 7

Sponsor: Billings Pro

Grand Unified Theory of Baseball

Monument Valley expansion on the way

Nov 6

Siri, Cortana, OK Google, meet Amazon Echo by Dan Moren

The Force, awakened! by Dan Moren

Microsoft making Office free for iOS, Android: Too little, too late? by Dan Moren

Don’t worry about WireLurker malware by Dan Moren

Nov 5

Clockwise 61: ‘Chancellor of Burberry’

Kindle Voyage review

Nov 4

Upgrade 8: ‘With special offers’

‘RIP Mac OS X Hints’

Nov 3

How to make TV sports announcers shut up

‘Six’

Dan Frakes’s favorite iOS 8 features

CNET launches a print magazine

Nov 1

The Incomparable 218: ‘Three Dads and a Superfast Baby’

Oct 31

Sponsor: PCalc

Thirty days of creative abandon

Roger Angell: ‘The Best’

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crashes

Thank you, Tim Cook

Oct 30

Resize and upload images with Acorn and Transmit

Clockwise 60: ‘Spite corporation’

Apple no longer rejecting calculator widgets

Oct 29

A week of Apple Pay: Chips, PINs, and… signatures? by Glenn Fleishman

Apple: Don’t do math in iOS 8’s Notification Center

Oct 28

Could the FCC open up TV to Internet competition?

Bigger than a Tweet

Begun, these superhero movie wars have

Samsung dims the lights on LEDs

The real reason merchants are blocking Apple Pay

Oct 27

Upgrade 7: ‘Hot Dog Allergy’

A day at the ballpark

Oct 26

The Incomparable 217: ‘Weird Reverse Hidden Charisma’

Oct 24

Sponsor: Squarespace

Clockwise 59: ‘Everything’s weird’

Review: 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display

Oct 23

‘The city where grown-ups live’

Nuzzel uses your social network to find news

Oct 22

The original Mac screen in a Retina 5K iMac display

Twitterrific 5.8

BBEdit 11 arrives

Google Inbox: Because we didn’t buy Mailbox

Fantastical 2.2 brings iOS 8 features

Oct 21

Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and… Google Fiber? by Glenn Fleishman

Upgrade 6: ‘The Enemy Discount’

Oct 20

This is Tim: Apple’s CEO answers the analysts

Apple Q4 2014: $42.1B revenue, $8.5B profit, record Mac sales

Local man uses Apple Pay to buy groceries

Apple releases iOS 8.1

Oct 18

‘Maps of London’

Oct 17

Sponsor: Many Tricks

Taking Apple’s lead

‘The iPad zombie’

Lickable no more

Falling out of the Mac Pro market

Oct 16

Apple’s iPad/Mac event: First thoughts

Images from the Apple event

OS X Yosemite Review

Apple Event - Live Blog/Tweet Stream

Oct 15

Apple Event, October 16, Cupertino

The Untimely Death of IE6 by Glenn Fleishman

Warner Bros. plans ‘Wonder Woman,’ ‘Justice League’

HBO says it’s going ‘beyond the wall’

Oct 14

Woman who thinks critically threatened with death

Upgrade 5: ‘Macworld Cosplay’

Macworld Expo is over

The day the Series stopped

Why can’t Mobile Safari upload and download?

Do you want Apple Pay with that?

Oct 13

It hasn’t been ‘way too long’ for the MacBook Air

Clockwise 58: ‘All My Money Is Gone’

‘Someone Is Threatening My Whales’

Oct 12

BBEdit at Max Q

Oct 10

Sponsor: Tinderbox

Oct 9

A leather-clad robotic core

Unannounced product delayed by success, doom sure to follow

Oct 8

Clockwise 57: Piegate

Apple event set for Oct. 16

Strong encryption is not a luxury

Oct 7

Upgrade 4: ‘I Regret My Endorsement of You’

‘Ancillary Sword’

Oct 6

How do you compete with the Apple Watch? Don’t.

‘Twin Peaks’ will return

Oct 5

How many outs? Design and the Fox Box

October 5, 2011

Oct 4

‘Fun is Underrated’

Oct 3

Sponsor: Zoompf

Windows X

Oct 2

Clockwise 56: ‘Niche of Awesomeness’

Do not look directly at the Retina iMac

Oct 1

In an Uber all graphite and glitter

The man behind the Apple Watch

Sep 30

MacBreak Weekly: ‘Designed by Aggle’

What it’s like to fly Singapore Airlines Suites Class

‘Nimona’ reaches its end

Project Photoshop streaming

Sep 29

Upgrade #3: ‘I Think You’ll Find It’s Bazqux’

Brent Simmons goes to Omni Group

Retina iMacs in late testing, could launch soon

Stream your podcast audio live from your iOS device

Sep 28

‘What’s next?’

‘You Need an Agent of Chaos’

Sep 27

What I make is caring about accessibility by Steven Aquino

Sep 26

Sponsor: Rogue Amoeba

And they have a plan… to remove your shows

Sympathy for the tester

Sep 25

Here we go again: iOS 8.0.2 released

Why 2015 for Apple Watch?

Sep 24

When Apple forces an app to be less secure

‘Journalistic standards’

NBC developing ‘Real Genius’ sitcom

iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn (updated)

Clockwise 55: ‘Extreme physical butt force’

Sep 23

The Dropbox terabyte conundrum

Yosemite, by CocoaConf

Manual brings camera control to iOS 8

Sep 22

Upgrade #2: You Start From Zero

How fast is that iPhone 6 processor?

Hey, Siri… no, the other Siri

iPhone 6 Plus tops DisplayMate tests

iOS Favorite Features

Sep 21

‘A MacGyver in the Making’

Sep 20

Electric Shadow: A cinematic analysis of Apple

Sep 19

Big week, huge week!

Clockwise 54: Government in exile

The luxury of the Apple Watch Edition

Andy Ihnatko unboxes the iPhone 6

Sep 18

Why I bought the iPhone 6 Plus by Dan Frakes

The Rebound

Jason’s Umpteenth Kindle

Looking at Accessibility in iOS 8

Sponsor: Rogue Amoeba

Sep 17

iPhone 6 Plus: It’s not an iPad nano

iOS 8 Changed How I Work on My iPhone and iPad

Goodbye Macworld

The Apple Watch is computing at its most personal by Dan Moren

PCalc makes Notification Center into a calculation center

Sep 16

Upgrade #1: Fly Casual

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus: A tale of scale

U.S.S. Enterprise to Boldly Go Back to the Workshop

Sep 10

September 10, 2014: A Personal Announcement