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macOS 12.6.3 and macOS 11.7.3

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.3. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.3. Previously: macOS 13.2 macOS 12.6.1 and macOS 11.7.1

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iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (security): Security Keys for Apple ID provide users with the option to add a third-party security key to their account, which will be needed for authentication when logging into a new device or otherwise accessing an Apple ID.[…]Advance…

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Ivory 1.0

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tapbots: Ivory is a brand new app that brings 10 years of experience building the award-winning Twitter app, Tweetbot, over to Mastodon. […] Ivory is currently in Early Access, which means there are features missing and we are actively building them…

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Homecoming for Mastodon 1.1

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): I found that the federated structure of Mastodon could make it ridiculously difficult to follow people, especially if you’re not on one of the biggest instances such as mastodon.social (which is often closed for new sign-ups…

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Mimeo Acquires Motif

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mimeo: This acquisition will combine the shared passion for empowering creators and producing top-notch products of both Mimeo and Motif, and strengthens Mimeo’s commitment to delivering best-in-class photo products and innovation for every home and…

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RAW Power 3.4

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Gentlemen Coders: Adjust images with incredible precision and power, using special controls in Apple’s RAW decoder. […] Work with your Photos library or Finder folders. […] Rate and flag images. Filter by four criteria. […] Multiple windows and tabs…

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Twitter Makes It Official

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Karissa Bell: In case there was any doubt about Twitter’s intentions in cutting off the developers of third-party apps, the company has quietly updated its developer agreement to make clear that app makers are no longer permitted to create their own…

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Photos Workbench 1.0

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Houdah Software: Photos Workbench works with Apple Photos to help you organize, name, and compare your photos. […] Batch change titles. Give your photos descriptive names […] One-click apply keywords using keyword palettes […] Photos Workbench has a…

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Identifying Phishing

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: In the past, many phishing attempts were obviously fake, and intentionally so. That’s because they only had to sucker people who were sufficiently inexperienced, credulous, or easily deceived that they would continue to go along with the…

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Local iOS Backups Repeatedly Prompt for Passcode

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: Instead of preventing AppleMobileBackup from backing up to custom locations without additional permission, Apple chose to mitigate the vulnerability by forcing the user to enter the device’s passcode on every backup or sync connection. A…

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Folders With High File Counts

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Bombich (Hacker News): Any time a folder has more than a few thousand items in it, the filesystem is going to be a lot slower when working with that folder. Adding a new file, for example, requires that the filesystem compare the new item name …

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Amazon Closing AmazonSmile

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Amazon (Hacker News): In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to make it easier for customers to support their favorite charities. However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. With so many eli…

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Issues With Apple TV Remotes and iCloud Terms

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Greg Pierce: Maybe just lucky, but since upgrading to the newest Apple TV, with the USB-C remote, we've had to reboot the remote periodically to make it work the TV volume. Despite using Apple TVs for many years, I was not previous aware that you co…

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What About “Log in With Twitter”?

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Chandler: There are many websites, like this one who use Continue with Twitter / Login with Twitter” I assume that many sites responsibly implemented this and still set a password for the user and a user id but one thing I think most of us have…

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HomePod (2nd Generation)

woensdag 18 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Packed with Apple innovations and Siri intelligence, HomePod offers advanced computational audio for a groundbreaking listening experience, including support for immersive Spatial Audio tracks. With convenient new ways to manage…

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iCloud Syncing Limitations & Solutions

woensdag 18 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

NetNewsWire: With Apple’s limits, sync times can take hours and hours as they force limits on data transfer. The exact amount of time is dependent on the amount of data you have in iCloud. Larger numbers of unread articles can cause a lot of data to…

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Reading Twitter and Mastodon in NetNewsWire

woensdag 18 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dr. Drang: Once upon a time, RSS feeds were part of Twitter, but those days have long since passed. Now you have to use either the Twitter features built into your RSS reader or use a specialized service like RSS.app.As a NetNewsWire user, I set up …

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App Store Results in iOS Search

woensdag 18 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Colin Cornaby: Starting to feel super weird about App Store listings in iOS search. It usually just means whenever I’m searching for something some low quality app with the right SEO is now staring me in the face. What’s really weird is that I get t…

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Twitter Claims Apps Blocked for Violating API Rules

dinsdag 17 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Demasi: Here’s a spreadsheet I saw shared around that confirms this targeted a specific set of popular clients[…] Erin Woo: The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional sus…

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Apple M2 Pro and M2 Max

dinsdag 17 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today announced M2 Pro and M2 Max, two next-generation SoCs (systems on a chip) that take the breakthrough power-efficient performance of Apple silicon to new heights. M2 Pro scales up the architecture of M2 to …

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MacBook Pro 2023

dinsdag 17 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Introducing the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini supercharged by the next generation of Apple silicon. Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today announced the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max, Apple’s next-generation …

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