Confessions of a MacBook Pro Touch Bar fan

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The second of my resumed Houston Chronicle columns was posted today, and it’s a look at the Apple’s redesigned MacBook Pro line of notebooks. Sure, the beefed up versions of the already muscular M1 processor – the M1 Pro and M1 Max (what, no Pro Max??) – are the stars of the show, but for me the rollback of the minimalist 2016 MacBook Pro design is just as important. As I wrote, Apple restored key ports that it stripped out five years ago, including the HDMI port, memory card slot and MagSafe, the magnetic charging connection. In the column, veteran … Read more

Music app crashing CarPlay on iPhone 13? Here’s a fix. [Updated x2: PATCHED]

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(Last updated 3:20 pm CDT October 11th, 2021)[See the bottom of this post for details on the fix for this issue.] Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro Max is a beast of a smartphone, but as is often the case with a new hardware release, there are bugs. And if you’re a user of CarPlay – which lets you display and interact with some iPhone apps in your vehicle’s infotainment display – this one will drive you mad. Owners of new iPhone 13 models are finding that CarPlay crashes when they try to play a song in the Music app. All of … Read more

The process is in progress

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(Last updated 3:22 pm CDT September 9th, 2021)Hello! If you are reading this, you’ve found what will likely be Dwight HQ. I’m in the process of choosing and tweaking a theme, then deciding in general what I want to do here. Things will certainly look weird for a while, because my WordPress theming skills are the lamest. In the meantime, if you’re looking for something to read, may I suggest: The archive of my Forbes stories and newsletters. A partial archive of my most recent Houston Chronicle stories. My old TechBlog at Chron.com. Most of the posts are still there. … Read more