Juli Clover (tweet): Apple customers unhappy with the butterfly keyboards used in MacBook models from 2015 on will be able to proceed with a lawsuit against the Cupertino company, as the judge overseeing the case has given it class action status [PD…
Lees meerBrent Simmons (Hacker News): Every notification and every callback happens on the main thread. Though a given object (or small system) may use a serial queue internally, it never, ever lets that fact leak out beyond its own boundaries. […] Some deve…
Lees meerBen Cox (Hacker News): @backblaze’s B2 web UI seems to submit all of the names and sizes of my files in my B2 bucket to facebook. I noticed because I saw “waiting for facebook.com” at the bottom while trying to download a backup…?!?!?!?I even opted …
Lees meerSami Fathi: In September of last year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched an investigation into Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store to examine the experiences of consumers, suppliers, and developers in Australia…
Lees meerLife was so much simpler back in the day. You’d grab a microphone, turn on something to record yourself, and you were good to The post MyMac Podcast 841: Must it be so Complicated appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerTim and David discuss the Snyder Cut of Justice League, the start of The Falcon and the Winter Solider, and part two of our The post Geeks Pub – Winter Falcon Justice appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerRecorded 15th March 2021 Apple axe the HomePod in a surprise move – and Guy Serle of the MyMac podcast joins Simon and Nick The post Essential Apple 213: HomePod gets the boot! appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerApple: App Analytics now provides usage metrics for Mac apps, including data on installations, sessions, active devices, crashes, and deletions. And now you can measure user retention to see how often users return to your app after downloading it. N…
Lees meerHacker News is calling this Bash script by Mathias Bynens “Sensible macOS Defaults.” I don’t agree that these are necessarily the particular settings anyone should use, but I endorse the idea of collecting the preferences that one frequently modifie…
Lees meerPhil Stokes (via Patrick Wardle, MacRumors): Threat actors are abusing the Run Script feature in Apple’s Xcode IDE to infect unsuspecting Apple Developers via shared Xcode Projects. XcodeSpy is a malicious Xcode project that installs a custom varian…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: I’ve spent the past 24 hours testing Kensington’s long-anticipated StudioDock, a $400 docking station that aims to turn the iPad Pro into a desktop workstation with support for display rotation, expansion via USB-C, USB-A, and SD c…
Lees meerThey’re advertising like they’re still perched atop Relevancy Mountain when the obvious truth everyone can see is how startlingly far they’ve fallen from that peak.
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet, MacRumors, Hacker News): At the time he began accusing Apple of abetting App Store scams early last month, Eleftheriou revealed that his FlickType app had been targeted by competing software he says either didn’t work well or didn…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Intel has called on the services of former “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long in a series of new ads in which Apple’s latest custom-made M1 processors are cast as inferior to newer laptops powered by Intel processors.[…]In one ad, Long promot…
Lees meerRadioFreeEurope: Russian media are reporting that Apple has agreed to sell its gadgets in Russia with preinstalled Russian-made software to comply with a law that comes into force on April 1. […] The list of Russian government-approved programs for …
Lees meerSE-0306 (forum, Hacker News): Actors allow you as a programmer to declare that a bag of state is held within a concurrency domain and then define multiple operations that act upon it. Each actor protects its own data through data isolation, ensuring…
Lees meerFlying Meat (tweet): Acorn now sports a unified window with a matching toolbar. Gone are the floating palettes everywhere and getting in your way. Palettes are now inspectors and can be brushed away by pressing the TAB key, and brought back the same…
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