Craig Hockenberry: Now that you know what Xcode is using, you’ll wonder where it’s getting the disk image. It’s located in a sibling directory: /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Images. That folder also contains an images.plist file that contains met…
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Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi: Smart Folders Are BackThese are folders that automatically update their content according to the search criteria you specify.It can also send you notifications, and a unique icon can be selected for each one.[…]The text size of the …
Lees meerAlejandro Alonso: I propose adding a new module to the Swift toolchain named Reflection that provides high level APIs for reflection in Swift. This makes use of reflective information that has always been available, but was never exposed as API unti…
Lees meerJesse Grosjean: There isn’t much documentation of the macOS implementation. Much of the following behavior was discovered by experimenting with TextEdit. […] When text is deleted by certain actions it gets added to the kill ring. By default the kill…
Lees meerCory Doctorow (via Bruce Schneier): Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Joseph Menn published an in-depth investigation into Trustcor, a certificate authority that is trusted by default by Safari, Chrome and Firefox:Menn’s report is alarming. Working f…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Apple today released iOS 16.1.1 for all users. While the release notes for the update say nothing about new features or major changes, there’s a significant one coming for users in China. Jess Weatherbed: Apple has placed time restr…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 16.1.1 fixes a few unspecified bugs that iPhone users have been dealing with, according to Apple’s release notes. Users have been afflicted with widespread Wi-Fi bug, for example. The Wi-Fi bug resulted in random disconnects, with s…
Lees meerJuli Clover (full installer, IPSW): macOS Ventura 13.0.1 is a bug fix update, and it addresses two security vulnerabilities that could allow for unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution by a remote user. Neither was known to have been …
Lees meerAffinity (Hacker News): Wielding hundreds of timesaving improvements and a completely redesigned UI that will optimise your workflow, V2 is heralding in a new creative era. […] Experience the full power of Version 2 of Affinity apps with the Univers…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: At the time, I suggested a workaround involving manual ejection of Time Machine backup snapshots[…] Looking in the hidden folder of snapshots on that Mac, there were no longer any listed as mounted for backups. Although that may not b…
Lees meerJason Snell: [There’s] no way to share albums in iCloud Shared Photos. All the photos can be shared, but the concept of an album is currently limited to a single Apple ID. […] Every item in the Photos library can be assigned a keyword, and keywords …
Lees meerThomas Germain: The iPhone Analytics setting makes an explicit promise. Turn it off, and Apple says that it will “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether.” However, Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, two app developers and security researche…
Lees meerTwitter has lots of problems, but it also has the advantages of lots of users I want to follow and some great client apps. I also haven’t been impressed with the alternatives. However, some people I follow are leaving for Mastodon and cohost, so I’m…
Lees meerJoel Bruner: Lockdown mode is new feature for macOS Ventura and for many MacAdmins we’ve been wondering how to detect this state. Why? Lockdown mode affects how macOS and Mac apps behave. This is something a helpdesk might like to know when trying t…
Lees meerRoger González Gutiérrez (via Hacker News): Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint slides.[…]Make a new slide with a title of your choice. Choose “Designer.” Look at your network traffic as you do.It makes sense: the tool is readin…
Lees meerWojciech Kulik (Hacker News): If you add @MainActor attribute to a function, it is not the same as wrapping the whole method in DispatchQueue.main.async. If your method contains await keyword, the code will be split into two pieces – one before awai…
Lees meerCharles Edge: Sierra (Mac OS X 10.12) had a minimum drive capacity of 8.8 GB but really needed more like 12 GB; however there wasn’t a hard number sanity check that I personally ran into. This was 2016 and the amount of free space required to do an …
Lees meerRich Trouton: One of the changes made between macOS Monterey’s System Preferences and macOS Ventura’s System Settings is that the Hide checkbox in System Preferences’ Login Items has disappeared from System Settings’ Login Items. […] Fortunately for…
Lees meerWWDC 2022: In addition to an integrity check, Gatekeeper will also prevent your app from being modified in certain ways. The most common way apps are modified is for updates. Apps validly signed by the same developer account or team will continue to…
Lees meerBen Thompson (Hacker News): Meta, née Facebook, is now, incredibly enough, worth 42% less than it was when I wrote Facebook Lenses, hitting levels not seen since January 2016. It seems the company’s many critics are finally right: Facebook is dying,…
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