WWDC 2021 Announced and New Developer App

Apple: Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format. Free for all developers, WWDC21 will offer unique insight into the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvO…

Sparse Files Are Common in APFS

Howard Oakley: Increasing numbers of files written by all sorts of different apps and services consist of large voids, between islands of meaningful data. Storing lots of void data is wasteful, so what APFS tries to do is store only the real data.[……

ExpanDrive and File Provider Framework

Jason Snell: Long-time Mac storage utility maker ExpanDrive has launched StrongSync, a $50 utility that… sort of does what ExpanDrive already does? Like its big brother, StrongSync allows you to view cloud storage services as if they were hard drive…

WWDC 2021: June 7–11, Entirely Online Again

Ming-Chi Kuo Says Apple’s AR/VR Headset Will Weigh Less Than 150 Grams

WWDC 2021: June 7–11, Entirely Online Again

Ming-Chi Kuo Says Apple’s AR/VR Headset Will Weigh Less Than 150 Grams

Ming-Chi Kuo Says Apple’s AR/VR Headset Will Weigh Less Than 150 Grams

The Racial Breakdown of U.S. Mass Shooters

China Boycotts Western Clothes Brands Over Xinjiang Cotton

CDC: Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines Are Highly Effective in Real-World Conditions

How to Stop Mac App Store Notifications

Jeff Johnson: Notifications Preferences lists apps in alphabetical order, but it’s missing A! Can you say App Store, kids? […] Enter the following command. defaults write com.apple.appstored LastUpdateNotification -date "2029-12-12 12:00:00 +0000" P…

PHP’s Git Server Compromised

Nikita Popov (via Hacker News): Yesterday (2021-03-28) two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src repo from the names of Rasmus Lerdorf and myself. We don’t yet know how exactly this happened, but everything points towards a compromise of the …

c0design Checker

mikey: Wrapper for codesign, spctl & stapler to check code signing and notarisation of individual or all non system applications.

NetNewsWire 6.0 for Mac

Brent Simmons (tweet): Changes since 5.1.3: Big Sur app icon Big Sur UI (when running on Big Sur) App is now sandboxed Apple Silicon native code Syncing via iCloud Syncing via BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS Share extension…

Medium Buyouts and Leadership Change

Casey Newton (Hacker News): In a blog post, billionaire Medium founder Ev Williams announced the latest pivot for the nearly nine-year old company. Just over two years into an effort to create a subscription-based bundle of publications committed to…

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[Sponsor] Nota -- IOLTA software for small law firms

Thank you to Nota for once again sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month. Nota is a no-cost IOLTA management solution powered by M&T Bank. It was built by working directly with solo and small law firms and is designed to help...

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Essential Apple Podcast 214: What a bunch of bananas!

Recorded 21st March 2021 There never was a “March Event”, Brazil fined Apple over lack of chargers – but it’s pocket change, Apple lets The post Essential Apple Podcast 214: What a bunch of bananas! appeared first on MyMac.com.

TechFan Podcast 453 – Cricut OS X

Tim and David discuss 20 years of Mac OS X, and the storm that was the Cricut community for a good week.    TechFan The post TechFan Podcast 453 – Cricut OS X appeared first on MyMac.com.