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Mac mini 2023

dinsdag 17 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Mac mini with M2 features an 8-core CPU with four high-performance and four high-efficiency cores, along with a 10-core GPU — perfect for users looking for superfast performance and incredible productivity at an even …

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Setting the Bozo Bit on Apple

vrijdag 13 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Marcel Weiher (Hacker News): What I wanted to do was simple: I have some practice recordings for my choir and voice lessons that I want on my iPhone and Apple Watch. How hard could it be?[…]iTunes used to be if not the, then certainly a flagship app…

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20 Years of Safari

vrijdag 13 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol (Hacker News, Reddit): Today marks the 20th anniversary of Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs introducing Safari on the Mac at the 2003 Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Apple advertised Safari as the “fastest web browser ever created for the…

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Twitter API Down

vrijdag 13 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Schoon (Hacker News, Tweetbot, Twitterrific, echofon): Around 11 p.m. ET this evening, many Twitter users noticed that third-party clients were throwing back error messages related to the Twitter API. This widespread outage is occurring across a…

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Twitter Breach of 235M E-mail Addresses

vrijdag 13 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lawrence Abrams (via Hacker News): A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2. BleepingComputer has confirmed the validity of many of the email add…

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Favoring Apple Maps Services

donderdag 12 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol (Reddit): A free Business Connect tool announced by Apple today allows businesses to customize their location card in the Maps app with a brand logo, images, and other key information, such as special promotions or seasonal menu items …

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The Tyranny of the Churn Equation

donderdag 12 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Smith (Mastodon): As you can see there is an asymptotic point in this for many configurations where your revenue hits a ceiling that you can’t escape from. This level is the manifestation of the “weight” of your churning users growing over tim…

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Microsoft Acquires Fungible

donderdag 12 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kyle Wiggers: In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. Today, Microsoft confirmed the acquisition but no…

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Apple Transparency Report to Include App Takedowns

donderdag 12 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito: The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that Apple assured activist investors earlier this month that it will discuss why it removes certain apps from the App Store for greater transparency. This follows the removal of many apps f…

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Poor App Rejection Communication

donderdag 12 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stammy (February 2022, via Matthew Bischoff): Want to learn iOS dev & build your first, simple app? Don’t. Apple will just call it spam.App Store called @StocketaApp spam (was going through testflight review) Stammy: The App Store called me on the p…

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Mastodon Client Rejections

woensdag 11 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Simon B. Støvring: As I’m preparing version 1.0.2 of Re: Toot it feels even more bitter that version 1.0.1 for macOS has been rejected.The reviewer said that my metadata cannot refer to Mastodon because doing so can be harmful and misleading to user…

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iCloud Drive Contingency

woensdag 11 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mere Civilian: iCloud Drive has been my files sync solution for over 3 years now. Before that, I was using Dropbox and never had any issues with sync. Dropbox “just works”. Unfortunately, iCloud Drive does not. Randomly, files will not sync or take …

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Sketchy ChatGPT App Soars Up App Store Charts

dinsdag 10 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sami Fathi: A sketchy app claiming to be the bot ChatGPT has soared up App Store charts, charging users a $7.99 weekly subscription to use a service that is entirely free to use on the web and seemingly has no affiliation to the actual bot.[…]The ap…

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iPhone Camera Over Processing

dinsdag 10 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: In his latest video, MKBHD eloquently summarized and explained something that I’ve personally felt for the past few years: pictures taken on modern iPhones often look sort-of washed out and samey, like much of the contrast and high…

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How Popular Is Each Mac Model?

dinsdag 10 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Potuck: CIRP highlights that Apple’s MacBooks are the primary driver of its computer business. MacBook Air and MacBook Pro make up roughly three-quarters of the company’s PC sales while the desktop models only account for 26%.[…]For desktop …

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Visual Feedback for Running Shortcuts

dinsdag 10 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: I’m frustrated because I do have some Shortcuts that take time to run, yet unless I have them beep or display a notification when they reach a certain point in the process, I have no idea what they’re doing or if they’re even working. B…

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ViewFinity S9

vrijdag 6 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Potuck: Samsung announced its new lineup of monitors at CES this morning. Two of the most exciting models for Mac users include the company’s first 5K monitor, the ViewFinity S9 with a slick design not unlike Apple’s Studio Display but with …

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Carl Hewitt, RIP

vrijdag 6 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stanford (via Hacker News): We were saddened to learn of the death of Carl Hewitt, eminent AI researcher and visionary computer scientist. Wikipedia: Hewitt was best known for his work on the actor model of computation. For the last decade, his work…

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User Stylesheets

vrijdag 6 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nick Heer: As Kyrnin writes, web designers usually do a better job these days, and most browsers no longer support user stylesheets by default. Google removed them from Chrome nine years ago and they were made optional in Firefox in 2019. But Safari…

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Memory Safe Languages in Android 13

vrijdag 6 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeffrey Vander Stoep: For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerabilities across products, and across the industry. On Android, we’re now seeing something different - a significant dro…

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Dell UltraSharp 32 6K

donderdag 5 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Scharon Harding (via Hacker News): Dell announced a beefed-up monitor to expand the limited options available to creative professionals who want more pixels. With 6144×3456 resolution, the Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor (U3224KB) places itself firmly…

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