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woensdag 1 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lemke Software (product page): With the new Metadata Juggler dialog you can effortlessly combine several editing steps, save them and open them again at any time, just as you already know from the actions. Your advantage: You can, for example, delet…

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Pagi Rejected From the App Store

dinsdag 28 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lucas (Hacker News): I found my submission rejected with the following message citing guideline 4.3 Design: Spam of the App Store Review Guidelines[…] I can see how Pagi is similar to other apps in the App Store as it features a full screen text edi…

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URL Confirmations in Preview

dinsdag 28 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: This permission prompt is new in macOS 13 Ventura. To see it, just Print this web page, Open in Preview, and click any link.Preview app shipped with Mac OS X 10.0. In fact, Preview was carried over to Mac from NeXTSTEP. I don’t know wh…

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PayPal Friends & Family Payments

dinsdag 28 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mia Sato (in June 2022): PayPal is putting new limits on a feature in its payment system that allows people to receive money without paying extra fees, the company recently announced. Starting July 28th, only personal PayPal accounts will be able to…

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Changing Apple ID Password Using Only a Device and Passcode

maandag 27 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Using a remarkably low-tech trick, thieves watch iPhone owners tap their passcodes, then steal their targets’ phones—and their digital lives. […] With only the iPhone and its passcode, …

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John J. Boyer, RIP

maandag 27 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

James R. Hagerty: John J. Boyer, raised on a Minnesota farm family with 12 children, was born blind and lost most of his hearing by the time he was 10 years old. Kelly Meyerhofer (via Hacker News): Boyer went on to develop a software program that co…

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Mammoth 1.0.2

maandag 27 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito: And now iOS and macOS users will have another great third-party option for accessing the social network from their devices with Mammoth, a new free client for Mastodon. […] Unsurprisingly, those who have used Aviary in the past will…

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KextViewr 2.0

maandag 27 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Objective-See: KextViewr is a utility with a simply goal; display all currently loaded kernel modules (or “kexts”). While Apple’s commandline tool kmutil can provide similar information, it’s nice to have a UI version, with filter, search, and expor…

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What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?

vrijdag 24 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stephen Wolfram (via Hacker News): And the remarkable thing is that when ChatGPT does something like write an essay what it’s essentially doing is just asking over and over again “given the text so far, what should the next word be?”—and each time a…

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Quora’s Poe

vrijdag 24 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sarah Perez (via John Gruber): Q&A platform Quora has opened up public access to its new AI chatbot app, Poe, which lets users ask questions and get answers from a range of AI chatbots, including those from ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, and other companies…

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Google’s Bard

vrijdag 24 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sundar Pichai (via John Gruber, Hacker News): We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard. And today, we’re taking another step forward by opening it up to trusted testers ahead of makin…

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ChatGPT in Bing and Edge

vrijdag 24 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

James Vincent (Hacker News): In demos today the company showed what it’s calling “the new Bing” working in various configurations. One of these shows traditional search results side-by-side with AI annotations (above), while another mode lets users …

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ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets

vrijdag 24 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Noor Al-Sibai (Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorit…

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ChatGPT for Apple Platforms Development

vrijdag 24 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Steve Troughton-Smith: At this point, I really would appreciate a tool that just parses an Xcode SceneKit .scn scene and spits out a built-in-code representation of it. Xcode’s SceneKit editor has been a liability for years, and it exhausts all my e…

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“Volume contains a macOS or OS X installation which may be damaged”

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I was recently setting up a High Sierra test partition, and this error popped up after the installer had rebooted the Mac to complete the installation. At first, I thought it was another variant of the “This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan appli…

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Feedbro

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nodetics (via Jason Pester): With Feedbro you can read RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and thanks to built-in integration also content from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, VK, Telegram, Rumble, Yammer, YouTube Channels, YouTube Search, LinkedIn Groups, Linked…

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Wi-Fi Sync Spyware

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Certo: There is a little-known feature on all iOS devices called ‘WiFi Sync’, which essentially allows for a backup of the device to regularly be downloaded onto a nearby computer over a WiFi connection. […] Unfortunately, this ease of set up and la…

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macOS 13.2.x and Recovery, a Sad Tale

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Robert Hammen: Apple’s latest updates to macOS Ventura can lead to your FileVault-encrypted Mac booting into Recovery, and, potentially, prompts to enter one or more of […][…]As far as what’s happening, without having intimate knowledge (and logs/bu…

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Speeding Up Scanner in Swift

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

My first tip goes back to when I started using NSScanner in the Puma days. In short, you should never call scanCharacters(from:into:) in a loop because every time it’s called it creates an inverted copy of the character set. It then delegates to sca…

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The Making of Ice Cubes

woensdag 22 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Ricouard: With Mastodon it was time, I could finally make my own social network app, and with iOS 16 and all the great new SwiftUI API that came with it, it was the perfect timing. […] The pinning and reading remote timelines feature was ship…

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The Story Behind Apple’s Newton

woensdag 22 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tom Hormby (in 2010, via Dave Mark): Steve Jobs hired Sakoman in 1984 to help work on a laptop version of the Macintosh after the successful release of the HP Portable. When Jobs left Apple, these laptop plans were scrapped, and Sakoman helped lead …

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