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Safari’s Date Picker Causing Customer Support Issues

dinsdag 27 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Robin (Robert) Thomas (via Hacker News): There is no option to manually enter the correct date. The only obvious path forward is to tap the left arrow button 924 times to get back to 1945. The not-obvious path forward -- which our elderly users cann…

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Archive of the Twitter Files

dinsdag 27 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

The Twitter Files Archive: This is an archival of the Twitter Files released by Elon Musk, who shared the information with various independent journalists. The purpose of this site is to make the information given by Elon Musk easily accessible to e…

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SimBuddy 1.0

maandag 26 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Hockenberry: The locations show above, and many others, are available from Xcode using the xcrun simctl command. Every application on every device on every platform can be queried. But these lookups are difficult for developers because the inf…

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Gitea Actions Preview

maandag 26 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

xinyu: The aim of Gitea actions is to bring closer integration between Gitea and existing CI/CD systems. Another goal is to expose a unified management inteface for standalone runners to reduce the adminstrative overhead of supporting multiple syste…

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Tesla Wireless Charging Platform

maandag 26 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Tesla today announced the launch of the Tesla Wireless Charging Platform, a $300 wireless charger that is able to charge up to three Qi devices at one time. The concept is somewhat similar to the AirPower that Apple wanted to produce as…

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Gatekeeper’s Achilles Heel

maandag 26 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jonathan Bar Or: Considering symbolic links are preserved in archives and aren’t assigned with quarantine attributes—we looked for a mechanism that could persist different kinds of metadata over archives. After some investigation, we discovered a wa…

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Belkin iPhone Mount With MagSafe for Mac Desktops and Displays

vrijdag 23 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: Now there’s the Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Desktops and Displays, a $40 adapter for other displays. […] I have very few reservations of this new adapter. It works well on my Apple Studio Display but would work just as well…

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LastPass Breach

vrijdag 23 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Goodin: LastPass, one of the leading password managers, said that hackers obtained a wealth of personal information belonging to its customers as well as encrypted and cryptographically hashed passwords and other data stored in customer vaults. …

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Activating Automatic Backtrack in watchOS 9

vrijdag 23 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Smith: The trick was knowing that you have to press that bottom right button in order to discover if an automatic route is being tracked. I imagine this ambiguity is coming from Apple being very circumspect about protecting user privacy. I wou…

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30 Years of PCalc

vrijdag 23 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

James Thomson (Mastodon): At around the same time, we’d started coding using THINK Pascal, and I had begun to explore the Macintosh programming APIs in my own time. […] The Pascal core mathematics code was hand-translated into C, and a new user inte…

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French Court Fines Apple Over Abusive App Store Practices

donderdag 22 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Reuters (via MacRumors): The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros ($1.06 million) for imposing abusive commercial clauses on French app developers for access to the company’s App Store, the court ruling…

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Fixing the “Failed to Enable Personal Hotspot” Error

donderdag 22 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Tempelmann: Some of my older Macs running High Sierra or Mojave were unable to join the Personal Hotspot of one or even two of my iPhones.[…]There is a file called com.apple.airport.preferences.plist in the folder /Library/Preferences/SystemC…

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Problems With Instagram and Flickr Sites on iPad

donderdag 22 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: As of iPadOS 16, some Instagram users who access the iPhone version of the app on their iPad have noticed that it’s not working properly on the iPad’s display, making it impossible to post stories, see the full content of images, access…

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Google Moves Maps to google.com

donderdag 22 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Garrit Franke: I opened Google Maps again, and noticed that maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps. This implies that the permissions I give to Google Maps now apply to all of Googles services hosted under this domain. So far I only identi…

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Ivory

maandag 19 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tapbots: Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory,  is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be develop…

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Epic Settles With FTC Over COPPA Complaint

maandag 19 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

FTC (complaint PDF, Hacker News): The Federal Trade Commission has secured agreements requiring Epic Games, Inc., creator of the popular video game Fortnite, to pay a total of $520 million in relief over allegations the company violated the Children…

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John Carmack Is Leaving Meta

maandag 19 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Carmack (Hacker News): Quest 2 is almost exactly what I wanted to see from the beginning – mobile hardware, inside out tracking, optional PC streaming, 4k (ish) screen, cost effective. […] We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, bu…

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Disabling AWDL to Work Around Ventura Wi-Fi Issues

maandag 19 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hamza Malik (via Felix Krause, Hacker News): Meter is currently tracking an issue that is affecting devices on macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura with M1/M2 Macbooks acutely affected — leading to slow internet connection, drops in Zoom calls, and enti…

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Sunsetting AppCode

vrijdag 16 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Anastasia Kazakova (Hacker News): Since the release of AppCode 1.0 11 years ago, we’ve been applying our expertise to make coding for iOS/macOS more enjoyable. We’ve had many accomplishments, including first-class C++ support (from which CLion, our …

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SuperDuper 3.7.1

vrijdag 16 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dave Nanian: In Ventura, on some systems, we’ve seen some cases where, post-replication (“Erase, then copy” in Big Sur and later), the destination volumes wouldn’t always re-mount. Sometimes an error would occur (referencing the ‘bsd’ info), sometim…

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Publishing an RSS Feed to Mastodon

vrijdag 16 december 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jesse Squires: If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve likely noticed that my blog posts are automatically tweeted for me. There are multiple services you can use to do this, like Zapier and IFTTT. I use both services for various automations. Each has b…

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