Tom Parker (Reddit): The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, has announced that it has started down-ranking sites based on whether they’re deemed to be associated with Ru…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although Apple has made a big thing of protecting privacy, macOS has one hole which Apple acknowledged over a year ago, promised to fix, and hasn’t fulfilled its promises. Every time you open an app, macOS checks the validity of its d…
Lees meerThere were so many interesting topics to cover in this week's episode of the In the News podcast! We spend most of the time talking about Apple’s recent announcements, including Apple’s new Mac offerings (and what is missing), the fabulous...
Lees meerThere were so many interesting topics to cover this week's episode of the In the News podcast! We spend most of the time talking about Apple’s recent announcements, including Apple’s new Mac offerings (and what is missing), the fabulous new...
Lees meerJay Peters: The design change, which lets you swipe between your Home (algorithmically served) and Latest (reverse chronological) timelines, was announced Thursday. To set it up, you tap the sparkle icon in the top right corner, and you’ll see the o…
Lees meerGreg Wilson: I spent most of an afternoon last week tracking down a bug caused by having two decorators stacked on a function in the wrong order. The fix was small, but the impact was not. Reading this paper has got me wondering how often this happe…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Late last year I was commissioned to write a group test of NAS systems intended primarily for Time Machine network backups. I’m delighted to report that my review has now been published, in two of Future’s magazines, MacFormat (issue …
Lees meerGoogle (via MacRumors): We’re excited to announce that in M99, Chrome on Mac has achieved the highest score to date of any browser – 300 – in Apple’s Speedometer browser responsiveness benchmark. Building on many performance changes over the last ye…
Lees meerAdam Engst: What I am a little miffed about is the implication that if you don’t need all the power of a MacBook Pro with an M1 Max chip and 64 GB of unified memory, you’re not a pro user. And that extreme performance and massive storage are the onl…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet): The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today published Apple’s response to its Interim Report on mobile ecosystems, as well responses from dozens of other companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Epic Games.[…]…
Lees meerIan Lynch Smith: Apple needs to do better. Yesterdays “Game of the Day” has a 2022 biz model of $120/year. The “no thanks” is color hidden in upper left, the red “free trial” is actually the same as the “subscribe” button. Apples’s #1 app store push…
Lees meerBriksoftware (via Karsten Kusche): Symbolizer is the easiest way of converting vector graphics to bitmap graphics. Drag a vector graphic to Symbolizer and it'll show a detailed preview of the image. On the righthand side there's a list of preconfigu…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The 27-inch iMac has been such a bastion of the Mac lineup—and the computer I’ve used nonstop for almost 8 years—that I couldn’t even conceive of Apple dropping it. But drop it Apple did, replacing it with the Studio Display and your cho…
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