Six Colors

It’s a real grab bag of apps in this week’s report, but that seems wholly appropriate somehow. After all, most of us turn to our Macs for a variety of reasons, so why not a selection of apps that speed up image processing, give you new controls over your tunes or help you keep a cleaner, better organized desktop?…

John Ternus on stage introducing the MacBook Neo. The announcement that Apple’s making a home-related announcement on Tuesday was hardly unexpected. Most things Apple does these days are reported in advance, usually by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.…

I had to listen to a bunch of TTS voices to make my final choices. An audio newsletter producer’s job is never done. I got a weird email the other day from OpenAI that ended up causing a great deal of work for me: > As part of our continuous upgrade process, we are deprecating the following legacy audio models: tts-1, tts-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts. …

Sometimes, putting these columns about intriguing macOS and iOS apps together feels a little like improvisational jazz — I’m not always sure where this is going or how it’s going to wind up, but hopefully there’s a note or two that someone gets some enjoyment out of.…

Late last month I got several emails from Spotify, all pretty much the same: > Hello, > > Our automatic review tools determined that this podcast may contain content that infringes the rights of a third party. …