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Protecting Your Privacy While Using Apple Devices

  Matt Cone       September 5, 2021

Macinstruct has been a strong advocate of Apple and its products for over twenty years. Unfortunately, some of Apple’s recent design decisions have undermined our faith in Apple’s commitment to privacy. We’re now encouraging readers to protect their privacy by disabling certain …

Visiting Apple's Campus: What It's Like

  Matt Cone       June 26, 2012

If you’re reading this article, you already know that Apple is much more than a company that creates great products. Apple is a way of life. It’s an inspiration, and to some, a religion. Apple is making history by forever changing the world as we know it. But after you’ve read the …

Steve Wozniak Interview

  Matt Cone       November 28, 2011

Editor’s Note: This “interview” was actually a series of questions that I emailed to Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, on December 31, 1999. While the rest of the world was ringing in the New Year or worrying about Y2K, Woz was typing up his responses. He responded about two …

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Mac Icon Design

  Matt Cone       February 4, 2007

Several months ago, Macinstruct decided to commission a set of custom-designed icons for its new website. We had no idea what we were doing. After researching the heck out of icon designers and emailing more than a dozen of them, we found somebody we liked who managed to create the beautiful icons …

Mac Advocacy in a Windows World

  Erik Kulvinskas       January 14, 2007

This article is not a Windows Platform bashing arena. Nor is it an elitist meeting area to puff each other up and reassure one another. If you want affirmation, find a counseling group. This is a venue to examine how people do what they do on a daily basis. To have people think about how they …