Juli Clover: The 6TB and 12TB iCloud + plans can now be purchased through the iCloud + interface as higher-tier options that join the existing 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB storage plans.The 6TB plan is priced at $29.99 per month, while the 12TB plan is pric…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Sonoma fixes a long-standing bug in whether local files can be ‘evicted’ to iCloud, or the download removed from your Mac’s local storage. In some circumstances you could find Sonoma downloading everything you have removed from your l…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci (Hacker News): Unsurprisingly, there has been a significant increase in the number of apps adopting SwiftUI this year. Notable mentions include: The Preferences app with several of its bundles (StorageSettingsUI, WallpaperSettings,…
Lees meerBenjamin Mullin, John Koblin, and Tripp Mickle (Hacker News): Jon Stewart’s show on Apple’s streaming service is abruptly coming to an end, according to several people with knowledge of the decision, the result of creative differences between the te…
Lees meerIsabel Rubio (via Hacker News): While Marcos Fernández managed to last six years with his previous device, the average lifespan of a smartphone is much lower. In Europe, for instance, it’s about three years, according to the European Environment Off…
Lees meerQuinn: Apple’s library technology has a long and glorious history, dating all the way back to the origins of Unix. This does, however, mean that it can be a bit confusing to newcomers. This is my attempt to clarify some terminology.[…]The linker has…
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.0.1 fixes almost all of the known issues with version 3.0. It also improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. So everything that the Mail extension does now has a fallback implementation …
Lees meerShashank Prasanna (Hacker News): Mojo is now available on Mac (Apple silicon) 🎉In this blog post, we’ll discuss how you can get started with the Mojo SDK on Mac. We’ll take a closer look at how to download and install the Mojo SDK on your Mac, and s…
Lees meerApple: Xcode 15.0.1 includes SDKs for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma. The Xcode 15.0.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 12 and later, tvOS 12 and later, and watchOS 4 and later. Xcode 15.0.1 requires a Mac runnin…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Today, Apple is bringing more choice to iPad users with a new, more affordable Apple Pencil. With pixel-perfect accuracy, low latency, and tilt sensitivity, the new Apple Pencil is ideal for note taking, sketching, annotating, j…
Lees meerlumafield (via Hacker News): Does Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 cable really warrant its $129 price tag? Or does a $5 cable get the job done just as well? We’ve used our Neptune industrial X-ray CT scanner to uncover the hidden engineering differences betwe…
Lees meerChip Loder: In previous versions of macOS, if you wanted to hide all running apps containing a UI on your display, you could simply Option-click anywhere on the Finder’s Desktop. This would hide all other visible running apps and display only the De…
Lees meerNathan Manceaux-Panot (Mastodon): Retcon makes rewriting git history effortless.Move a commit back in time with a single drag-and-drop. Squash, edit or delete in a few keystrokes. In place—no need to enter a special mode and lose all context. Skip r…
Lees meerPrashanth Chandrasekar (Hacker News): This is why we have been so focused on our path to profitability, even as we commit to the continued product innovation of Stack Overflow for Teams and the health of the public platform by building out our AI/ML…
Lees meerSimon Sharwood (Hacker News): Atlassian once offered its wares in three forms. The preferred option is from the cloud, in conventional software-as-a-service style that sees Atlassian manage software and infrastructure. Users can also buy datacenter …
Lees meerPaul McMahon (via Hacker News): About 30 minutes before my flight was boarding, I pulled out my laptop to do some last minute work. But when I opened it up, a stranger’s profile greeted me. Evidently we had swapped laptops going through security.[…]…
Lees meerWesley Moore: The first challenge was finding a decent specification for the three versions of MacBinary. I was eventually I was able to dig up the following: MacBinary I MacBinary II MacBinary III I then set about building the parser. I reused the …
Lees meerSeth Willits (in 2022): The new “ips” crash reports in macOS do not contain assert() information!(Assertion failed: (myVar != nil), function fooBarTest(), file code.m, line 100)Problematic because symbolication is often finicky, so it takes a LOT mo…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen (Hacker News): Mark Gurman claims that Apple has a system that can update the operating system of iPhones before they get sold. Crucially, it can do so without opening the box.Consisting of a “pad-like device,” store employees place uno…
Lees meerAndrew Cunningham: The look of the macOS login screen has been tweaked a bunch over the years, but it hasn’t been substantially rearranged since Lion (version 10.7) in 2011. Sonoma rejiggers things, moving the login field to the bottom of the screen…
Lees meerQuinn: The SecItem API seems very simple. After all, it only has four function calls, how hard can it be? In reality, things are not that easy. Various factors contribute to making this API much trickier than it might seem at first glance.This post …
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