Howard Oakley: The assumption is that, if you follow Apple’s guidance with automatic updates enabled, when Software Update reports your Mac is up to date, then everything is hunky dory. […] In my case, as with many, when any of my Macs tries to down…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: This is what Safari’s download window has looked like for years on macOS. It’s pretty well laid out, but I always have trouble reading it at a glance. Matt Birchler: Today I’m back complaining about contrast and legibility again with …
Lees meerSteve Streza: To make a small app for a friend, Mac: Send a .app, maybe right-click > Open Windows: Send a .exe or .msi installer Linux: Send a .appimage Android: Enable dev mode, send a .apk iOS: Spend $100/year, set up TestFlight, make a new build…
Lees meerBrandon Williams and Stephen Celis: An interesting feature of NavigationPath is that it is capable of encoding and decoding itself to JSON, even though all of its type information has been erased. This is powerful because it makes state restoration …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I believe this issue started with iOS 14 and macOS 11, but in any case it definitely happens now with every iOS 15 and macOS 12 update, including today’s iOS 15.6 and macOS 12.5 updates, on every device I own. (I think Apple stopped re…
Lees meerCatherine Thorbecke (via Hacker News): In the two decades since it was first included in products available to the general public, Bluetooth has become so widespread that an entire generation of consumers may not be able to remember a time without i…
Lees meerSAP: Privileges for macOS is designed to allow users to work as a standard user for day-to-day use, by providing a quick and easy way to get administrator rights when needed. When you do need admin rights, you can get them by clicking on the Privile…
Lees meerTextExpander: TextExpander, a developer of productivity software, today announced a $41.4 million financing round and the addition of SaaS industry leader J.D. Mullin as the company’s new CEO. The financing is led by global growth equity investor Su…
Lees meerReuters, in February: Zendesk Inc (ZEN.N), the software company under activist shareholder pressure to abandon its $3.9 billion all-stock acquisition of the parent of online survey portal SurveyMonkey, said on Thursday it had rejected an acquisition…
Lees meerTomas Kafka: Interactive chart, just in time for summer trips! Need to know the exact conditions for a given hour? Long press the chart to show all the data, or press and slide your finger over the chart to “scrub” through the forecast. Between this…
Lees meerJuli Clover: macOS Monterey 12.5 adds a bug fix for a Safari tab issue and it adds the option to restart, pause, rewind, or fast-forward a live sports game that’s in progress. Apple’s release notes for the update are below. You can download the inst…
Lees meerGannon Burgett: Drobo was founded in San Jose, California back in May 2005 under the name Data Robotics. Over the years, its line of Drobo products took hold in the data storage market, offering simple solutions for anyone needing to store and back …
Lees meerIgniteTech (via Rich Siegel, Hacker News): IgniteTech™, the company “Where Software Goes to Live™,” today announced a transition of two software products from the ESW Capital portfolio to IgniteTech. Two solutions previously managed under the DevGra…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple will pay $50 million to settle a 2018 class-action lawsuit over the faulty butterfly keyboards that were used in MacBook machines between 2015 and 2019, reports Reuters. […] The lawsuit covers only customers in the above-mentioned…
Lees meerJune Bash: didDelete?(deleteItem(Item())) […] This was surprising to me because i was thinking the order of operations would be: Evaluate function parameters Pass parameter into function if available But instead it acts more like an @autoclosure. It…
Lees meerAndrew Cunningham: The end result is a spreadsheet full of dozens of Macs, with multiple metrics for determining how long each one received official software support from Apple.[…]For all Mac models tracked, the average Mac receives almost exactly s…
Lees meerCYME: Opening Peakto is like opening all your catalogs at once and seeing all your images in ONE app. No matter what editing software you use. Peakto is the control tower that regroups your catalogs from Apple Photos, Aperture, Lightroom Classic, Lu…
Lees meerKen Case: OmniFocus 3.13 provides a wide range of improvements to Omni Automation—perhaps most notably adding support for Speech Synthesis, but also a number of other improvements as well. With these automation enhancements, OmniFocus 3.13 can now t…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Some sites, including Facebook, add parameters to the web address for tracking purposes. These parameters have no functionality that is relevant to the user, but sites rely on them to track users across pages and properties. Martin B…
Lees meerLloyd Chambers: The thoughtless design of providing no facility to defer/delay Spotlight indexing is bad enough. But to perform intensive Spotlight indexing when the user is needs the machine to perform well—that is design incompetence to the point …
Lees meerEv Williams (via Hacker News): Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO reins. Casey Newton: As I wrote at the time, by some measures Medium was succeeding…
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