Joining Bart this month is Ken Ray from Mac OS Ken. The show starts with a the usual followups and updates on long-running stories, The post Let’s Talk Apple 88: December 2020 appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerHoward Oakley: APFS has developed rapidly since we first started getting to know it in High Sierra. By the time it has reached version 1677.60.23 in Big Sur, it has grown many new features, of which most support the new Sealed System Volume, and Tim…
Lees meerWilliam C. Gustafson (tweet): Amphetamine is a free app that helps keep your Mac awake. Amphetamine has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and it’s been downloaded over 432,800 times. It currently has over 1,400 reviews and a 4.8 out of 5.0 rating…
Lees meerTom Angistalis: It was surprising to be honest that it was approved on first try. I was expecting some changes to be made around the subscription stuff. Nice to have it ready for release! Tom Angistalis (via Dave Wood): I spoke too soon. I seriously…
Lees meerBeware Apple’s lookalike 18W/20W and 29W/30W power adapters.
Lees meerBeware Apple’s lookalike 18W/20W and 29W/30W power adapters.
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann (tweet): So, if a user on a Linux system creates a folder that contains an Umlaut such as “ü”, it’ll end up precomposed on the (ext4) file system.Now, I can nicely access files in such a folder from macOS, as long as I only use POS…
Lees meerJon Gotow: Yes, the Open and Save dialogs keep appearing at their smallest possible sizes in Big Sur 11.1. It’s not just you, and it’s not something you’ve done wrong – it’s a bug in Big Sur. […] Sadly, resizing the dialog so it’s larger only works …
Lees meerTrieu Pham v. Apple (PDF, via Llyod Chambers): After plaintiff Pham approved the Guo Media App, the Chinese government contacted defendant Apple and demanded that the Guo Media App be removed from defendant Apple’s App store. Defendant Apple then pe…
Lees meerJohn Blair: I reported my discovery to the integrator and the chip vendor (look, it’s the Android Thread scheduler!), but they continued to push back on the Netflix behavior. Why don’t you just copy more data each time the handler is called? This wa…
Lees meerOliver Haslam: Google Authenticator for iPhone has had some attention lavished on it, with the new app featuring a redesigned interface that also includes support for dark mode for the first time. Alongside the new look, Google has also added a new …
Lees meerJason Snell (Hacker News): But Mac OS X wouldn’t ship for another two years, and it would be a painful years-long transition away from the classic Mac OS. In the meantime Apple needed to start making money again, needed that infusion of cash that wo…
Lees meerWill Shanklin: Gazelle is ending its entire device trade-in and buy-back program, with the closure effective February 1, 2021. Founded in 2006, Gazelle had been one of the most popular online services for trading in used iPhones, iPads, and other mo…
Lees meerNiko Matsakis: As of Jan 4th, I’m starting at Amazon as the tech lead of their new Rust team. Working at Mozilla has been a great experience, but I’m pretty excited about this change. It’s a chance to help shape what I hope to be an exciting new pha…
Lees meerTimothy B. Lee: So I went to Amazon.com, searched for “children’s drone,” and sorted by “average customer review,” figuring the best-reviewed drones were likely to be high quality. They weren’t.[…]When I sorted the reviews by date, I saw that the mo…
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: A quick follow up on macOS Automatic Update Snapshots. The feature was introduced in High Sierra and removed in Catalina 10.15.3. Mojave still creates automatic snapshots before the security update is installed. This was such a great …
Lees meerMr. Macintosh (tweet): Starting in early December, macOS Big Sur Internet Recovery was replaced by Catalina as the newest version available. […] Why did Apple make this change? I didn’t report on this earlier because I figured it was a server side i…
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