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2023 Six Colors Apple Report Card

vrijdag 23 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell (Hacker News): John Gruber wrote: “By the end of the year, every single Mac in the lineup, save one [the Mac Pro], is arguably in the best shape that model has ever been. […] Matt Deatherage wrote: “It’s difficult to ding Apple’s Mac per…

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2023 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card

vrijdag 23 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

AppleVis (via Shelly Brisbin): The 2023 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card reveals slightly decreasing satisfaction with VoiceOver features and user experience across iOS, iPadOS and macOS compared to 2022, contrasted by mostly improved ratings …

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iMessage With PQ3

woensdag 21 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (via Ivan Krstić, because there is no RSS feed, Hacker News, MacRumors): Today we are announcing the most significant cryptographic security upgrade in iMessage history with the introduction of PQ3, a groundbreaking post-quantum cryptographic …

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Signal Usernames

woensdag 21 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Randall Sarafa (Mastodon, Hacker News): If you use Signal, your phone number will no longer be visible to everyone you chat with by default. […] If you don’t want to hand out your phone number to chat with someone on Signal, you can now create a uni…

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Kaleidoscope 4.3.1

woensdag 21 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Albrecht: Now I have several pieces of text in Kaleidoscope, each represented by an entry in the File Shelf. In this case, we can see that “files” in File Shelf can also be temporary clipboard content. Further on in this post, we will also s…

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VirnetX v. Apple Over Because VPN Patents Invalidated

woensdag 21 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (2023): Apple has been embroiled in a patent dispute with VirnetX for well over a decade, and the company today won an appeals verdict that could ultimately save it from having to pay VirnetX $502.8 million in patent infringement fees.[……

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1Password Acquires Kolide

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Shiner: Why would 1Password acquire a device health and contextual access management solution? The reality is that access isn’t secure if the device doing the access isn’t secure. This is part of the complexity of the modern way we work. Every …

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Epic Gets New Developer Account

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Epic Games today announced plans to bring the Epic Games Store to iOS in the European Union, with Apple reinstating the company’s developer account.[…]The Epic Games Store will launch on iOS in the EU at some point in 2024, and it will …

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Sonar 1.1.2

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Made by Windmill (via John Gruber): A native Mac app for GitHub and GitLab Issues. […] Change task titles, assignees, and labels, all on one line. No need to leave your keyboard — just enter “@” for assignees and “#” for labels. […] Intuitively chan…

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EU to Fine Apple Over Anti-Steering Rules

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Apple is set to be hit with a €500 million ($538 million) fine for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, according to a Financial Times report.The focus of the European Commission’s investigat…

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Fraudulent Rabby Wallet App

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito: As shared by Rabby Wallet on X (via CoinTelegraph), there’s an imposter app available on the App Store using the platform’s name and identity. Named “Rabby Wallet & Crypto Solution,” the app has been available on the App Store for a…

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Hidden Messages Features in iOS 17

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: If you press and hold the + button, you will be dropped straight into your photo library, ready to select the pictures you want to send.[…]Thankfully, in iOS 17, Apple improved the search function so that you can combine search queries…

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iOS RCS Support Due to China

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber (9to5Mac, Hacker News): So even if iMessage had been deemed a “gatekeeper” messaging platform by the European Commission — which it was not — adding RCS support to the iPhone Messages app would not have mattered a whit when it came to DM…

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Reporting a Full Disk Access Bug to Apple

dinsdag 20 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Beatrix Willius: Update from Ventura to Sonoma. […] It is still possible to access the Mail folder even though FDA has been revoked. This also happens for other apps like Find Any File. I revoked FDA for Find Any File and was still able to search fo…

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The SwiftUI Field Guide

vrijdag 16 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Eidhof: We built this website to visually explain how the SwiftUI layout system works, and we hope you find it useful. To make the examples work, we ported large parts of SwiftUI’s layout system to TypeScript. While we’ve tested our implementa…

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Meta to Pass Along Fee for Boosted Posts

vrijdag 16 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Meta: To support the millions of small businesses that use boosted posts on Facebook and Instagram, advertisers can now go to Instagram.com and Facebook.com on mobile and desktop to boost their content and avoid a 30% Apple service charge.The Apple …

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iOS 17: Assistive Access

vrijdag 16 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Rockwell: Assistive Access gives you a simplified, focused interface with access to only the apps and features you choose to enable. It was designed for people with cognitive disabilities, but there are plenty of other uses. […] Some applicatio…

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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of E-mails

vrijdag 16 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brian Krebs: The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. Bu…

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On the Insecurity of Software Bloat

vrijdag 16 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bert Hubert (via Hacker News): The really short version: the way we build/ship software these days is mostly ridiculous, leading to 350MB packages that draw graphs, and simple products importing 1600 dependencies of unknown provenance. Software secu…

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Slack at 10

donderdag 15 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Elizabeth Lopatto: That’s one reason why Slack, the workplace chat app that formally launched 10 years ago today, is so unusual. Slack was the rare piece of enterprise software that spread through word of mouth, because it was actually, you know, go…

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Mac App Launches Slowed by Malware Scan

donderdag 15 februari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: macOS is periodically scanning FileMerge for malware on launch, which causes very slow app launches. I don’t know what the exact period is between scans, but rebooting the Mac seems to reset the cache[…]. I’ve noticed the same syspolic…

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