David Barnard: I decided to try and tune the my niece’s Disney princess guitar and went to the App Store looking for a tuner. Top result is an ad for an app by MVM, the company I called out last week for shady onboarding and $400+/yr subscriptions. …
Lees meerHere in New Orleans, we are preparing for our first hurricane of the season, Hurricane Barry. Hopefully it will not cause much damage, but with risks of flooding and the loss of electricity, folks in this area are preparing for...
Lees meerHow long do you keep a Mac around before upgrading to a new model? Three years? Five years? Longer? A quick check of the past decade of my Mac purchases indicates that each model lasts about six years, but we get a new Mac every couple of years– the…
Lees meerWho controls what runs on your Mac? You do, right? I once thought the same thing but a few recent events have me wondering how much control I really have over my Mac. After all, who installs third party apps on your ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Since constantly requiring confirmation is obviously incredibly annoying, Apple has conveniently exempted some of its own apps from the requirement. For example, macappstore and macappstores URLs will automatically open App Store app w…
Lees meerMax Seelemann: Whereas in recent years, it was pretty safe to install preview versions early on, this year that’s definitely not the case (see for example this report on Cult of Mac). Most impactful for us, however, is that the (great, great) update…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple News+ seems to be floundering just months after its launch, according to new details from participating magazine publishers shared by Business Insider.Multiple publishers have been unimpressed with the revenue generated from Apple…
Lees meerApple: Take advantage of transcripts to quickly discover and share information presented in WWDC19 videos. You can search by keyword, see all instances where the keyword is mentioned in the video, go straight to the time it was mentioned, and even s…
Lees meerCogSci Apps: Hook supplies the missing links in macOS, to allow users to access the documents that are most relevant to the task at hand. The app, based on cognitive science, allows users to instantly create notes linked to a document, or other info…
Lees meerDoug Lhotka: In the past few days, Marriott and BA were both hit with $100M+ fines for breaches. While both are going to appeal, the benchmark has been set, and we now know that the regulators are serious about enforcement. One interesting fact – if…
Lees meerSarun Wongpatcharapakorn (via Andy Bargh): All the answers you found here don’t mean to be complete or detail, the purpose here is to act as a cheat sheet or a place that you can pick up keywords you can use to search for more detail. kateinoigaku (…
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