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SuperDuper 3.7 Beta 1

vrijdag 21 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dave Nanian: [Until] those problems are fixed by Apple, you won’t be able to boot from a backup.[…]That said, your Smart Updates are going to work fine, and remain fully restorable. As explained previously, you need only reinstall the OS and point a…

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iOS 16.1: Per-App Copy-and-Paste Permissions

vrijdag 21 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Apple has continued to refine the copy-and-paste feature in the weeks since. In the Settings app on the fourth beta of iOS 16.1 and later, a new “Paste from Other Apps” menu appears for apps that have previously asked for permission t…

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Google Ads’ Dark Money

vrijdag 21 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin: Why are there so many mystery accounts on Google’s Ad Network? Because Google has a long-standing practice of letting publishers monetize their websites without revealing their identity to advertisers. And there are a…

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SOS in the iPhone Status Bar

vrijdag 21 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: Anyway, if you see SOS or SOS Only in your iPhone’s status bar when it should be working normally, there are two likely possibilities:Your carrier has no accessible service, but another carrier’s cell towers would still enable you to pla…

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Apple Mail’s First Importers

vrijdag 21 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Hynes: It turns out that Eudora and Netscape were the only major clients that used mbox format, BUT they had their own variations[…] […] And speaking of reverse engineering, there were two very popular clients that didn’t use the mbox file for…

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Forty Years of the CD

vrijdag 21 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Daryl Worthington (via Nick Heer): On 1 October, 1982, the first album to be released on CD, Billy Joel’s 52nd Street went on sale in Japan, Sony’s CDP-101 CD player hitting the shelves on the same day. Early the following year, they hit Europe and …

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Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Notebooks

woensdag 19 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Priced at $29.95 on Apple’s online store, the mount attaches to the iPhone with MagSafe and can then be affixed to the top lid of a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro for use with Continuity Camera. When not connected to a Mac, the mount doub…

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Awair Removing Features and Support for Older Devices

woensdag 19 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I recently received this e-mail from Awair: Awair is experiencing healthy growth that puts an additional workload and cost on our platform. In order to scale our core functionality cost-effectively, we are prioritizing our resources into rewriting a…

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Apple Restores VK and Mail.ru Apps to the App Store

woensdag 19 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Apple has restored Russian apps for social network VKontakte and webmail provider Mail.ru to the App Store, three weeks after removing them and other VK-owned apps in response to UK sanctions (via The Guardian).[…] A spokesperson for A…

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DuckDuckGo Browser for Mac Public Beta

woensdag 19 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

DuckDuckGo (via Hacker News): Enjoy browsing again with a fast, sleek browsing app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo’s unique built-in privacy protections.New since the closed beta: Duck Player, a YouTube player that helps p…

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Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Notebooks

woensdag 19 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Priced at $29.95 on Apple’s online store, the mount attaches to the iPhone with MagSafe and can then be affixed to the top lid of a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro for use with Continuity Camera. When not connected to a Mac, the mount doub…

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Apple TV 4K 2022

dinsdag 18 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Driven by the A15 Bionic chip that delivers faster performance and more fluid gameplay, the new Apple TV 4K features endless entertainment options for everyone to enjoy on the biggest screen in the home. HDR10+ support joins Dolby Vision on A…

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iPad Pro (6th Generation)

dinsdag 18 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Apple today announced the new iPad Pro with the M2 chip, delivering the ultimate combination of portability, versatility, and unbelievable performance. The new iPad Pro features a next-level Apple Pencil hover experience and sup…

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iPad (10th Generation)

dinsdag 18 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Apple today introduced the new iPad with an all-screen design featuring a large 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display. The new iPad is powered by the A14 Bionic chip, which delivers even faster performance with incredible power effici…

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A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift

maandag 17 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Douglas Gregor (via Joe Groff): Macros can offer a way out of this conundrum, because they allow one to introduce boilerplate-reducing facilities without requiring a bespoke language extension or a separate source-manipulating tool to do so. A good …

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Compiling Swift Generics

maandag 17 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Slava Pestov (tweet): Well, I finally got around to starting a write up about how generics work last year, and I think I its finally in good enough shape that I can release the first part of what is going to be a three part series. So here it is:PDF…

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WhatsApp More Private Than iMessage

maandag 17 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sami Fathi: In a post sharing a Meta billboard in New York City promoting WhatsApp over SMS or iMessage, Zuckerberg said WhatsApp is far better for privacy-concerned users thanks to its end-to-end encryption, ability to set messages to disappear aft…

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Ending Support for Facebook Instant Articles

maandag 17 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nick Heer: Sara Fischer, of Axios, is reporting today that Meta’s proprietary Instant Articles format will go away in April. This should not be a surprise — Instant Articles does nothing for Meta’s virtual reality efforts, Meta is cutting costs, and…

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iOS 16 Includes Dvorak Keyboard

vrijdag 14 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Antranig Vartanian (via Hacker News): [The] main reason I never moved to Dvorak properly was always a device not having a proper keyboard. Sometimes it was my Android phone with a weird ROM, but most of times it was my iPhone. However, I just learne…

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Safari Web Extension Storage Callbacks in the Wrong Order

vrijdag 14 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (tweet): “In a Safari web extension on both macOS 12 and iOS 15 (I filed this bug under Mac because there was no cross-platform category), if you call storage.local.set and then storage.local.get, the callbacks are called in the opposit…

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Charts Guidelines

vrijdag 14 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Stern: Not one but two (!) new pages in the HIG about charts. Patterns > Charting Data Components > Charts Linda Dong: The Human Interface Guidelines now has searchable ✨CHANGELOGS✨ Previously: SwiftUI Changes at WWDC 2022 Swift Charts Old Appl…

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