Six Colors

My friend Lex Friedman wrote an app, Gnome, that makes it easy to post GIFs:

Gnome lives in your Mac’s menubar. You hit a hotkey. A little search window appears. You type what you’re looking for — weird al, shrug, nailed it, that’s a paddlin’ ...

My belated thanks to ZenStand for sponsoring Six Colors last week.

ZenStand is a charger that doesn’t feel like a tech product. It sits on a desk or nightstand...

Recently, I tripped over a headline for an article I wrote for Six Colors in 2015: “How I stopped using RSS and didn’t even notice.”

I could hardly remember writing it. But write it I did, at a time when we were deep ...

The battle for the Mac menu bar has raged for decades, and shows no signs of letting up.

As the number of apps and controls in the menu bar have continued to proliferate, users have had to constantly find ways to keep them in check. For years, the de facto solution was the Mac app Bartender, but after an

We revisit the Ultra and Neo names, consider the future of Apple’s processor manufacturing strategy, and try to imagine why possible use case there could be for AirPods with built-in cameras.

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