Apple (MacRumors): Today Apple unveiled a redesigned Apple TV app that makes it even easier for users to watch Apple’s award-winning original series and films, as well as live sports, movies, and television shows across their favorite Apple devices,…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I installed Beeper Mini on my Pixel 4, and it worked like a charm. In addition to working seamlessly — including support for group chats, tapbacks (albeit substituting animated emoji in place of Apple’s monochromatic badges), undoing se…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When writing about network tools available in macOS just eight years ago, I identified three GUI apps:Network Utility, tucked away in /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications,Wireless Diagnostics, accessed via the WiFi menu,Network D…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: WhatsApp is rolling out a new option that lets users on iPhone share photos and video over the messaging platform in their original quality.[…]WhatsApp’s latest feature avoids compression altogether by allowing photos and video to be s…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: The problem with using both private and public windows is that when I open a URL in Safari from another app, such as Mail app, or such as my own Link Unshortener, which I use as my default web browser, I can’t control where exactly the…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: When users get directions for driving, walking, or cycling, Google Maps now offers a “multidimensional experience” that can be used to preview bike lanes, sidewalks, intersections, and parking along the route, according to Google.A tim…
Lees meerCasey Newton: Google this morning announced the rollout of Gemini, its largest and most capable large language model to date. Starting today, the company’s Bard chatbot will be powered by a version of Gemini, and will be available in English in more…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (video): Just like making multiple selections in a list view, Shift-click will select an entire range at once, and Command-clicking lets you select (and deselect) noncontiguous tabs. […] Once you have multiple tabs selected, you can drag…
Lees meerJesse Squires (Mastodon): On my 13” Intel MacBook Pro, the icons reached to about halfway across the screen. On the 14” M3 MacBook Pro, ironically a machine with a larger display, at least 3 icons get hidden. This “design” (or lack thereof) is so du…
Lees meerSurtees Studios: With support for macOS Sonoma and a multitude of innovative features, Bartender 5 represents the pinnacle of Mac menu bar mastery. […] Conceal select menu bar items while retaining quick and easy access through intuitive methods. Sw…
Lees meerLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (Hacker News): On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hack…
Lees meerJon Millican and Reed Riley (Hacker News): We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default.Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption:Our Messenger e…
Lees meerApple: Starting in spring 2024, if your new app or app update submission adds a third-party SDK that is commonly used in apps on the App Store, you’ll need to include the privacy manifest for the SDK. Signatures are also required when the SDK is use…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo (MacRumors): Apple will discontinue the standalone iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps on the Apple TV box, starting with tvOS 17.2 The warning message seen above has started appearing in the release candidate version of tvOS 17.2 b…
Lees meerRob Griffiths: I ran into this while working on a Keyboard Maestro macro that creates hard links: The macOS version of cp won’t create links, at least not in Sonoma. In Ventura, it works even though it throws the same error as it does in Sonoma.[…]I…
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: Why do I care about the “Pro” chip so much? Despite the name the Pro is really the middle chip, but there’s no middle laptop for it. The base M2 and M3 can be configured with more RAM (to a point) but they can’t be configured with ex…
Lees meerAdam Tow: As I continue to investigate how to bring MsgFiler to macOS Sonoma, here’s a tip from a user that allows you to file messages via the keyboard on Sonoma. It also works on previous versions of macOS dating back to 2011.Select a message to f…
Lees meerI received a pair of e-mails from one of my payment processors, FastSpring, which included this text: Our implemented process is designed to ensure full alignment and compliance with regulatory standards, including KYC/KYB (Know Your Customer/Know Y…
Lees meerBeeper (Hacker News, MacRumors): It’s our beautiful new Android app built specifically to send and receive blue bubble messages to friends with iPhones.[…]Full end-to-end encryption.It’s a standalone Android app - no server, laptop, Mac or iPhone re…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Hacker News): Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from the tech giants to track smartphones. The traffic flowing from apps that send push notifications put the companies “in a unique position to facilitate …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Back in August I ran a poll on Mastodon, asking my followers if they have iCloud Advanced Data Protection enabled. iCloud Advanced Data Protection was announced two years ago this week, alongside support for security keys (e.g. Yubico).…
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