Apple Officially Discontinues the iPod Touch

MacTalk June 2022 JOSH CENTERS 11 May 20228 comments Apple Officially Discontinues the iPod touch Earlier this year, we asked, “Has Apple Abandoned the iPod touch?” (22 February 2022). It turns out the answer is yes. In an Apple Newsroom post titled “The music lives...

Use Apple’s networkQuality Tool to Test Internet Responsiveness

MacTalk May 2022 ADAM ENGST 22 April 202223 comments Use Apple’s networkQuality Tool to Test Internet Responsiveness   Videoconferencing has revealed to all of us how good—or poor—our Internet connections really are. However, if you’re just loading Web pages or...

Understand Cryptocurrency, but Don’t Invest in It

MacTalk May 2022 GLENN FLEISHMAN 20 April 202216 comments Understand Cryptocurrency, but Don’t Invest in It   Cryptocurrency is on everyone’s lips, but it should be in no one’s virtual pockets. An overhyped form of imaginary value storage, it has all the...

Going Beyond Wordle: Oodles of *dle Games

MacTalk May 2022 ADAM ENGST 20 April 20227 comments Going Beyond Wordle: Oodles of *dle Games   Wordle has taken the Internet by storm. It skyrocketed from a handful of players late last year to millions today, with the New York Times acquiring the game from...

Five Solutions for Pasting Plain Text on a Mac

MacTalk May 2022 JOSH CENTERS 18 April 202234 comments Five Solutions for Pasting Plain Text on a Mac   Tell me if you’ve had this problem: you copy some text and paste it into a word processor, a spreadsheet, or any other app that supports stylized text and end...