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Apple Vision Pro Available February 2

maandag 8 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced Apple Vision Pro will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online. Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that transforms …

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Xcode 15.2

maandag 8 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (downloads): Xcode 15.2 includes SDKs for iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2, and visionOS. The Xcode 15.2 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 12 and later, tvOS 12 and later, and watchOS 4 and later. Xco…

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Clicks Hardware Keyboard for iPhone

vrijdag 5 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (Hacker News): BlackBerry fans that miss having a physical keyboard on their smartphones may want to check out Clicks, a company that has developed a keyboard case that’s designed for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro models.Clicks is …

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Automatic Grammar Agreement

vrijdag 5 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

WWDC 2021: Discover how the latest updates to Foundation can help you improve your app's localization and internationalization support. Find out about the new AttributedString, designed specifically for Swift, and learn how you can use Markdown to a…

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HEY Calendar Rejected From the App Store

vrijdag 5 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Heinemeier Hansson: We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! David Heinemeier Hansson (Hacker News, 9to5Mac): Apple didn’t even bother to give us a reason this time! I mean, at…

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Taxatio Rejected From the App Store

vrijdag 5 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jesse Squires: Taxatio is a universal app for iOS and macOS. I submitted the same update (version 1.3.0) for both platforms on December 30. The iOS app was accepted within a few hours, which was excellent. However, the macOS update was delayed for a…

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Niklaus Wirth, RIP

donderdag 4 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bertrand Meyer (Hacker News, Slashdot, Reddit): We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and…

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How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now

donderdag 4 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nick Heer: If you measure your level of optimism by how much course-correction has been working, then 2023 was a pretty hopeful year. In the span of about a decade, a handful of U.S. technology firms have solidified their place among the biggest and…

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Doom at 30

donderdag 4 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Wouter Groeneveld: On 10 December 1993, John Carmack, John Romero, Sandy Petersen, and the rest of the id Software crew completely changed the world by releasing the most violent and satisfying DOS shooter ever created. Hundreds of so-called “DOOM c…

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Apple’s Mac Gaming Push

donderdag 4 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Raymond Wong (MacRumors, Slashdot): No doubt “losing” in gaming for decades has not been fun for Apple. It’s certainly painful and disappointing for Mac users both new and old, who have to buy a separate PC or console to play AAA games. But in 2023,…

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David Feldman Obituary, RIP

donderdag 4 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Legacy: He earned a BS in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2023, he served as Distinguished Visiting Technologist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, and received an honorary Doctor of …

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Devices That Are Not USB C in My Life

woensdag 3 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mere Civilian: First, I give my appreciation to the European Union for their efforts in nudging (we all know it was more than a nudge) Apple to support USB C. However, there are still devices in my life that I use daily that are not USB C. Strangely…

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3-in-1 Charging Stations

woensdag 3 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Fernando Silva: I have been on the lookout for a 3-in-1 charging station for my Apple products that doesn’t break the bank. Don’t get me wrong – there are many options for 3-in-1 chargers, but it seems you have to spend upward of $100 or even $200 f…

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Gitea Cloud

woensdag 3 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Gitea (Hacker New): With just a few clicks, you can easily deploy your own Gitea instance on Gitea Cloud. Our team will handle all the maintenance, including backups, upgrades, and more. This allows you to focus on business development without worry…

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Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs

woensdag 3 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Goldsmith (1994, PDF, via Hacker News): If you browse the computer section of any technical bookstore, you’ll find many good books offering advice on how to do object-oriented design—books dealing both with general design principles and with d…

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Sketch Returns to the Mac App Store

woensdag 3 januari 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sindre Sorhus (Hacker News): Seems like Sketch is back on the App Store, after leaving it in 2015. They seem be using the original SKU, because the Mac App Store shows it as 4+ years old, but it currently has only 7 ratings with an average of 3 star…

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Apple’s Ferret MLLM

vrijdag 29 december 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Wheatley (Hacker News, Reddit): Artificial intelligence researchers from Apple Inc. and Cornell University quietly unveiled an open-source and multimodal large language model last October known as Ferret, which is said to use parts of images as…

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Mellel 6 Leaves the Mac App Store

vrijdag 29 december 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mellel (via Agen Schmitz): This significant update, more than a year and half in the making, brings Dark Appearance support, Split View, improved Find & Replace and a multitude of enhancements to Mellel’s user interface, rendering and features. A sw…

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Beeper and the Centurion Lounge

vrijdag 29 december 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: Here’s the analogy I’ve been thinking best applies. American Express operates Centurion Lounges at a few dozen airports around the world, exclusively for the use of their Platinum Card holders. Other premium credit cards offer similar a…

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Japanese Consumption Tax and the App Store

vrijdag 29 december 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Smith (2012): The Japanese government requires that Apple withhold 20% of your profits from App Store sales unless you have filed forms demonstrating that you are a foreign company and taxable there instead. The forms are a bit complex and the…

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Operation Triangulation Details

donderdag 28 december 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Goodin (Hacker News): Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersk…

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