The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting

AppleScript support with popular Mac calendar apps is surprisingly limited. With Apple Mail, it’s easy to write a script that operates on the selected e-mail messages, and I’ve written many such scripts. I’d like to do this same with calendar events…

Qbix Calendar Apps and the Mac App Store

A reader shared a story about the confusing and unfortunate situation with Qbix’s calendar apps on the Mac App Store. There are two separate apps: Calendars (which used to be called Calendar 2, previously discussed) and Calendar Plus. Calendar Plus …

Intuit’s PR Team Has Seemingly Never Heard of the Streisand Effect

On the Cusp of Apple Intelligence’s Launch, Joanna Stern Interviews Craig Federighi

Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator

★ The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings

The real story is — shocker — a scandal. An embarrassment for the Yankees, but almost certainly a crime on Giuliani’s part.

Rudy Giuliani Is Losing Everything to the Georgia Election Workers He Defamed

iPhone 16 Adds JPEG XL

Jeremy Gray (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple and its various software iterations have supported JPEG XL for at least a year, including in Finder, Preview, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Photos, Mail, Safari, and more. Adobe has also supported the format for a wh…

Lightroom Classic 14

Agen Schmitz (release notes): Adobe has issued Lightroom Classic 14.0, a big update with several new features. The release enhances the Generative Remove feature with improved selection and object detection for easier removal of unwanted objects and…

Time Machine in Sequoia

Der Teilweise: Backing up to a NAS currently says 3 days (!) left, after having backed up ~160GB. Was using WiFi with TX rate 133MBit. Now I connected using Gigabit Ethernet, does not seem to be faster. Plus: CPU usage is ridiculously high, fans spi…

EU Considers Calculating X Corp Fines by Including Revenue From Elon Musk’s Other Firms

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Yours Truly on the ‘Rad History’ Podcast to Talk About GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64

Yankees and Dodgers Resume the Best World Series Rivalry, Finally

Leaky macOS VPN After System Update

Mullvad VPN (Hacker News): We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.In this scenario th…

TCC and Gatekeeper Bypasses

Wojciech Reguła (September 2021, tweet): I was looking for code injection opportunities that may allow reaching TCC bypasses. My simple shell script discovered a potential victim - /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Directory Utility.app. It …

Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die

Cory Doctorow (July 2023, Hacker News): Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.[…]The ca…

GSE426 iUSB-C Clearly Now

On episode 426 of Geekiest Show Ever, Melissa tells Elisa all about her new tech toys and how she’s achieved USB-C zen in the The post GSE426 iUSB-C Clearly Now appeared first on MyMac.com.

MyMac Podcast 992: Might as well jump

As hard as it may be to believe now, but once upon a time the rivalry was so embittered between Mac and Windows users The post MyMac Podcast 992: Might as well jump appeared first on MyMac.com.

TechFan 513 – 13 Year Old Panasonic Lumix SZ1 vs iPhone 16

David and Tim look at the a Panasonic Lumix SZ1 compared to an iPhone 16 in image quality, Meta firing people over mean vouchers, The post TechFan 513 – 13 Year Old Panasonic Lumix SZ1 vs iPhone 16 appeared first on MyMac.com.