Author Archives: Jeff MacArthur

New iPhones & Apple Watches at Apple’s September 2023 Event

Apple’s September 2023 event kept things pretty focused, with a lot of references to the considerable (and impressive and commendable) environment efforts Apple has been making (check out the “Mother Nature” video from the event – it’s pretty entertaining), but came down to just two things: new… Read More

New iPhones, Airpods, and Watches at Apple’s September 2022 Event

Apple’s September 2022 event didn’t have any huge surprises, but it did introduce some great upgrades and cool new features. So let’s start with the most impressive new device, the incredible, completely new Apple Watch Ultra. Apple Watch Ultra The Apple Watch Ultra is geared towards pretty extreme users to… Read More

Apple’s June 2022 Event: WWDC Highlights

Apple’s WWDC 2022 event didn’t reveal much earth-shattering, so it looks like we might have to wait for the fall until we see some more gear (aside from the M2 laptops below – was really hoping for a new HomePod with screen here). To tell the truth,… Read More

Apple’s March 2022 ‘Peek Performance’ Event

Apple snuck out an event on March 8th with a few interesting announcements, including a great iPad Air update, an impressively-chipped iPhone SE, and the new Mac Studio (and Display (and M1 Ultra chip)). Here are the deets (oh, and since I’m being parenthetical, there are also two new iPhone 13… Read More

Apple October 2020 iPhone 12 (+ HomePod Mini) Event

Apple’s October 13, 2020, event took a slightly different form than usual, with the opening focusing on the smarthome-capable HomePod Mini before continuing on to cover the four new iPhone 12 models. I’ll note here that the new iPhones are all 5G capable, but since few of us currently have… Read More

Trivia Night Over Video Conferencing in the Time of COVID-19

Over the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, I began to think about games that would be adaptable to a video conferencing setting (without any burdensome technical add-ons so that they’d be within reach of almost anyone). This is the first one I’ve fleshed out, so I’m sharing it here… Read More