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The Lab Report for November 29, 2024
The Opal C1 Webcam is meant to be the webcam everybody actually wants to use. It\’s got tons of software features and a better lens system than anything you\’d find in most (all?) other webcams. It\’s time for me to kick the tires…
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The Lab Report for November 22, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Should there be an Apple television set? More on the iOS .2 beta software features, rumor of a refreshed Pro Display XDR, and Sparky has a recommendation to up your Shortcuts game.
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The Lab Report for November 15, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: A new Vision Pro-focused immersive video is out, big updates to two of Apple’s Pro Apps, the top 100 Apple Music albums collected in a coffee table book, and Sparky shares his Apple Watch band purchase story.
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The Lab Report for November 8, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Apple is set to acquire popular image and graphics design software company Pixelmator, we’ve got accessories for colored iMac, and you can now search with ChatGPT.
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The Lab Report for November 1, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: The new M4-powered Mac computers are here! You can get on the Apple Intelligence waitlist, Anthropic’s Claude now has a Mac app, and Oliver Burkeman’s latest book, one chapter per day.
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The Lab Report for October 25, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Phase 2 of Apple Intelligence, two interesting interviews with Apple executives, Perplexity’s Mac app, and a feel-good music track from Roy Hargrove.
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Ending the Automators Podcast
Yesterday the announcement went public that we’ll be wrapping up the Automators podcast, with our last episode being released on Friday, November 15.
It’s strange for me to be closing down a podcast; I’ve never done that before. Indeed, it took me a long time to come around to the idea of shutting down Automators, but I do believe it’s for the best.
We are ramping up the content on Mac Power Users so there is increasing overlap between the two shows. Moreover, Rose and I both have a lot of irons in the fire, and that show requires a lot of work to prepare.
As I’m starting to think about 2025, I want to focus on the MacSparky Labs even more, so something had to give. Of all my commitments, Automators seemed the right one to give up. I know this is disappointing for some of you, but I will continue to cover automation topics in the Labs and on the Mac Power Users podcast as well, and I hope you can understand.
The Lab Report for October 18, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: We finally have a new iPad mini, CleanMyMac gets a nice update (and drops the “X”), Sparky experiences being submerged, thanks to Vision Pro, and Jon Batiste shares his rendition of a Beethoven piano favorite.
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The Lab Report for October 11, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: New Controls for Control Center, rumored AirTag 2, I talk about the current state of Apple Intelligence, and watch my video about the PDF fill-in feature that’s now part of macOS.
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