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Apple’s One Remaining Use of the Word ‘Macintosh’

macOS Filename Homoglyphs Revisited

Adam Chester (tweet): Last year I posted a few tricks to help when targeting MacOS users, and included a technique useful for spoofing file extensions with the aim of taking advantage of Finder’s removal of the .app extension from certain filenames.…

Lambda the Ultimate Pattern Factory

thma (via Heath Matlock): One of my earliest findings was that several of the GoF-Patterns had a stark resemblance of structures that are built into in functional languages: for instance the strategy pattern corresponds to higher order functions in …

iPod and Other History via Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell: It took 4+ yrs to ship Magic Cap v1.0 - our leaders wanted to avoid making the same mistakes they had made with MacOS v1.0 We all learned how important it is to stick to a schedule. The “new” internet crushed GM. Real artists ship - fas…

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MyMac Podcast 784: Fumbling the Future

Gaz is not feeling well but like a trooper makes it to the show. They discuss their holidays, what potential directions the Mac might The post MyMac Podcast 784: Fumbling the Future appeared first on MyMac.com.

Our Holiday Haul – Episode 138 – Three Geeky Ladies

Happy New Year! We talk about our holiday gifts and our thoughts about some of the Apple TV+ shows. Apologies for the on and The post Our Holiday Haul – Episode 138 – Three Geeky Ladies appeared first on MyMac.com.

Geeks Pub – On the Left Pub

Tim and David chat about The Mandolorian, Birds of Prey, the next Ghostbusters, WonderWoman 1984, and much more. The post Geeks Pub – On the Left Pub appeared first on MyMac.com.

★ Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS

Now I can wildly stab at ⌘W to close tabs without a care in the world.

★ Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS

Now I can wildly stab at ⌘W to close tabs without a care in the world.

★ Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS

Now I can wildly stab at ⌘W to close tabs without a care in the world.

★ Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS

Now I can wildly stab at ⌘W to close tabs without a care in the world.

Apple’s One Remaining Use of the Word ‘Macintosh’

Project Zero Remote iPhone Exploitation

Samuel Groß (Hacker News): This is the first blog post in a three-part series that will detail how a vulnerability in iMessage can be exploited remotely without any user interaction on iOS 12.4 (fixed in iOS 12.4.1 in August 2019). […] This research…

Observing Appearance Changes

Jesse Squires: I needed to get notified when the system appearance changed. On iOS, this is very straight-forward and a first-class API. On iOS 13, the interface style is part of UITraitCollection.[…][On macOS,] you can KVO on NSApp.effectiveappeara…

KVO, My Enemy

Brent Simmons: One of the keys to the stability of the shipping versions of NetNewsWire is that we don’t allow KVO (Key-Value Observing). KVO is a false convenience — it’s often easier than setting up a delegate or old-fashioned notification. But to…

How to Downgrade a New Mac to Mojave From Catalina

Armin Briegel: Apple has started shipping Mac models that used to come with Mojave pre-installed with Catalina. If your organization has blockers for Catalina (incompatible software, etc.) you may want to install Mojave on these Macs. Unfortunately,…