Bloonface: A lot of that influx has not stuck around. Everyone is very aware at this point that active user numbers have dropped off a cliff.[…]These are people and organisations who were engaged with Mastodon and fediverse to the point of investing…
Lees meerShane Stanley: We are pleased to announce the release of SD Notary 2, the application for notarizing applets and other files. SD Notary 2 replaces SD Notary, which is still available but uses a method Apple intends to discontinue in the near future.…
Lees meerjimthing: Just wondered if Preview (and other PDF apps for that matter) are considered “stable” at the moment? I know the story above is from some time ago, but still in 2022 I have editing issues in all my PDF applications where markup gets screwed…
Lees meerTower: We understand how much developers value syntax highlighting, so we took our time to make sure we got it right. This update supports nearly 200 languages, ensuring comprehensive syntax coloring coverage. I’d like to see support for .plist, .st…
Lees meerWWDC 2023 session 10054: NSViews clip their drawing contents to their bounds. That sometimes leads to drawing not displaying the way you want, like the bottom of this Hindi glyph in a FreeForm alert window.Common places this can occur is with font r…
Lees meerMiles Kruppa: Google recently invited employees to begin testing a new YouTube product called Playables, which gives users access to games on mobile devices or desktop computers, according to the email, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. T…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Most of the flurry of updates is in response to recent reports from Kaspersky about malware, in what they refer to as Triangulation or TriangleDB. Its researchers have discovered evidence of infection of iOS devices going back as long…
Lees meerNeil Long: “The way to solve that inconsistency – and I hate to say it – is: let’s take a page from Google,” he told us. “Especially now with the AI tools that are out there. You can do probably 80% of the work the review team does.” […] “Phil [Schi…
Lees meerLateNite Films: Transfer Toolbox allows you to convert Final Cut Pro (for Mac) Libraries into Final Cut Pro (for iPad) Projects! LateNite Films: Apple approved Transfer Toolbox v1.0.0 on 26th May 2023 at 08:57, but then claimed “Developer Removed fr…
Lees meerKeaton Brandt (Reddit): To the old-school Mac community, installing some shitty cross-platform Java app on their pristine Macbook was an admission of defeat. Even web apps were avoided whenever possible. They saw the use of such software as a tacit …
Lees meermacOS 13 Release Notes (2022): ATS and ATSUI APIs are fully deprecated. Code using these APIs will fail to compile and link when the deployment target is set to 13. Code targeting earlier versions of macOS will continue to compile, link, and run. ma…
Lees meerI recently received an e-mail from Adobe: Your Adobe account will expire soon.Dear Adobe customer,We’ve noticed you have not logged in to your Adobe account in more than a year. In keeping with our policies, we are contacting you to let you know you…
Lees meerMike Masnick: People forget that when Bezos introduced Amazon Prime, Wall St. flipped out, because they insisted that it would cost way too much for too little benefit. But, through it all Amazon survived (and thrived) because Bezos just kept tellin…
Lees meerAnnie Palmer (via Hacker News): The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the nation’s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and “sabotaged” their atte…
Lees meerWWDC 2023 session 10120: Discover web apps for Mac — a powerful way to experience your website from the Dock. Learn how you can customize your web app to give people the best experience when they add your site. Thomas Steiner (via Hacker News): The …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Apple today announced the availability of new software tools and technologies that enable developers to create groundbreaking app experiences for Apple Vision Pro — Apple’s first spatial computer. Featuring visionOS, the world’s…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, the update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See also: Mr. Macintosh and Howard Oakley. Previou…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security): According to Apple’s notes for the update, the update includes important security fixes and is recommended for all users. It also addresses a bug that could prevent charging with the Lightning to USB 3 Camera A…
Lees meerApple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.7. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.8. See also: Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 13.4.1 macOS 12.6…
Lees meerCollin Donnell (Mastodon, Hacker News): In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphical user inter…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: My tip for scanning QR codes is not to use the Camera app at all. Instead, enable iOS’s hidden built-in Code Scanner app in Contol Center. Go to Settings → Control Center, and under More Controls, enable Code Scanner. […] Worth keeping …
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