Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Third-party VPNs made for iPhones and iPads routinely fail to route all network traffic through a secure tunnel after they have been turned on, something Apple has known about for years, a longtime security researcher has…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Monterey 12.5.1 improves the security of macOS and is recommended for all users. The update addresses kernel and WebKit vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple says th…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli: Today, Apple released updates to their iWork suite of apps that adds actions in Shortcuts for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on macOS, bringing powerful first-party actions that Mac users can take advantage to automate their work[…]…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: In the past, Gatekeeper has primarily been concerned with checking apps and other executable code which have been put in quarantine; once an app has passed those first run checks and its quarantine flag has been cleared, its notarizat…
Lees meerJack Wellborn (tweet): Nightly Time Machine is a collection of bash scripts that limits macOS’s Time Machine to once per night by only mounting Time Machine disks just before backing up and then unmounting them when Time Machine is finished. Prevent…
Lees meerneverminder: i can’t log in to any of my banks without my phone. Most of the systems in my workplace also require phone app authentication. I can’t do any of those things with just a PC or laptop. Smartphones being the smallest and portable are sure…
Lees meerMac Folklore Radio: The story of how “the best-loved application for the Mac” took on Microsoft Works as told by programmer Bob Hearn in 2003. Read Macworld’s roundup of integrated packages to see how ClarisWorks 1.0 stacked up against its competiti…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Anyone who works predominantly in Dark Mode is reminded of this failure in QuickLook every day. There are workarounds, of course, and ignoring those instructions about using NSColor.textColor seems to work for Rich Text generated by a…
Lees meerTakaaki Onishi (via Accidental Tech Podcast): Reorder It! is an iPhone App which helps you reorder the addresses.It’s useful when contact has multiple e-mail address.I don’t know why standard “Contacts.app” or other AddressBook Apps on App Store don…
Lees meerAlex Zamoshchin: Banish is an ultra-efficient Safari Extension that removes annoying ‘Open in App’ banners and other dark patterns on the web. Block annoying popups and save valuable screen real estate. Via John Gruber: If I wanted a long-term lease…
Lees meerLuke Redpath: TIL - if you’re creating your own SwiftUI environment keys where the value is some kind of “action”, modelled as a closure (e.g. () -> Void) you might see unexpected re-renderings of views that use that @Environment property. […] My hu…
Lees meerRich Trouton: With APFS-formatted Time Machine backup drives, only the option to restore files is available. The Delete Backup or Delete All Backups options are not available. […] You can remove unwanted backups using either the Finder, or by using …
Lees meerIn my spitball theory here, App Track Transparency is not the cause of Facebook’s troubles, but just an extra kick in the pants as they stumble downhill toward legacy media irrelevance.
Lees meerNick Heer: An embedded, irreplaceable battery makes a lot of sense in many products. It means devoting less space to connectors and hatches, and does not require designers to work around available battery formats. For the length of time the batterie…
Lees meerAmazon: QGeeM Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station is committed to providing unparalleled simplicity, the highest performance and the most reliable connectivity. Achieve 40Gbps extremely fast data transmission, 60W fast charging, support for outputting 8K/…
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: It’s unbelievable that last year’s ruling has literally hundreds of typos, punctuation mistakes, inconsistencies, and similar errors. Prior to Epic v. Apple, I had never seen anything like that in a high-profile case. Now I’ve final…
Lees meerOn episode 382 of Geekiest Show Ever, Melissa and Elisa discuss some new smart home tech. Melissa reviews her new gear and shares tips
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