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PowerPhotos 2.0

donderdag 30 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brian Webster (tweet): In PowerPhotos 2.0, it can now see and work with any photos in your iCloud photo library, and will automatically download any photos from iCloud as needed. […] Photos has an export command, but it is fairly limited in what it …

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Swift URL Improvements at WWDC 2022

donderdag 30 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Natalia Panferova (tweet): Previously, to obtain the path to a file in the application folder, we had to use FileManager APIs, which are quite cumbersome. Now, we can get the paths to system folders directly from static properties on URL type. Howev…

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Netherlands and Apple Reach External Payments Agreement

donderdag 30 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Following productive conversations with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), today we’re introducing additional adjustments to Apple’s plan to comply with the regulator’s order pertaining to dating apps on the App Store …

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StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement for South Korea

donderdag 30 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: The Telecommunications Business Act in South Korea was recently amended to mandate that apps distributed by app market operators in South Korea be allowed to offer an alternative payment processing option within their apps. To comply with thi…

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M2 Display Limit

woensdag 29 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Benjamin Mayo (tweet): The move from Intel to Apple Silicon meant Apple’s best-selling machines, the 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, went backwards in one regard. They were no longer capable of driving two external displays. But that was easily…

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German Antitrust Probe Into App Tracking Transparency

woensdag 29 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt, has initiated proceedings against Apple to investigate whether its tracking rules and anti-tracking technology are anti-competitive and self-serving, according to a press release.[…

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Passkeys

woensdag 29 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Meet passkeys (Hacker News): Learn how to add support for passkeys to create a quick and easy sign in experience for people, all while offering a radical increase to account security. Passkeys are simple and strong credentials built to eliminate phi…

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Creating Custom Extension Points for Mac Apps With ExtensionKit

dinsdag 28 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Guilherme Rambo (tweet): We’ve been able to develop extensions for Apple’s apps and operating systems for a while, but Apple never offered a native way for third-party apps to provide custom extension points that other apps can take advantage of.Wit…

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BBEdit 14.5

dinsdag 28 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bare Bones Software: If a language server includes “quick fix” information in a diagnostic (error/warning) that it returns, BBEdit will add a “Fix” button to the diagnostic’s item in the popover list.[…]Added “Tail Mode”: when turned on, BBEdit will…

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OmniFocus Plug-Ins for Deferring Actions

maandag 27 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nicholas Riley: There must be a word for procrastinating by building tools that aid in deferring tasks. […] The idea is that when the defer/due dates have passed, it’s easier to say “I want to do this starting tomorrow, or due tomorrow” rather than …

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WorldWideWeb App

maandag 27 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Hockenberry (Hacker News): About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I eventually found a way to do it using AppleScript, but as A…

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Exporting/Archiving E-mail From Apple Mail

maandag 27 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Miles Wolbe: Mail’s built-in export (and import) methods suffer from various limitations and bugs; the following tests were run under macOS 12.4 and Mail 16.0[…] Of course, I recommend EagleFiler for this, which offers a variety of ways of importing…

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EU and Possibly US to Require USB-C for Phones

maandag 27 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

European Parliament (via Hacker News): By autumn 2024, USB Type-C will become the common charging port for all mobile phones, tablets and cameras in the EU, Parliament and Council negotiators agreed today. […] Under the new rules, consumers will no …

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Xcode 14: High Sierra and Later

vrijdag 24 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Xcode 14 Beta 2 Release Notes: Xcode 14 supports building applications that target macOS 10.13, iOS 11, tvOS 11, watchOS 4, and later. In other words, Xcode 14 is dropping support for macOS 10.9 through 10.12. Note also that Xcode 13 doesn’t run on …

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GitHub Copilot Is Generally Available

vrijdag 24 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Dohmke (Hacker News): Today, I am thrilled to announce that we are making GitHub Copilot generally available to individual developers. Your AI pair programmer is here. With GitHub Copilot, for the first time in the history of software, AI can…

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Customize the Contextual Menu of a Mac WKWebView

vrijdag 24 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alexander Clauss: Under iOS the WKWebView class provides a delegate method which allow to customize the contextual menu of the web engine (the menu which opens when long-pressing a link). Unfortunately under macOS the WKWebView does not provide such…

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Yandex CEO Resigns

vrijdag 24 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Simon Sharwood (Yandex, Hacker News): Arkady Volozh, CEO of Russia’s biggest internet company Yandex, has resigned after being added to the European Union’s list of individuals sanctioned as part of its response to the illegal invasion of Ukraine.Ya…

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Festival of Artisanal Software: Summer 2022

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SummerFest: The new season brings new plans, fresh projects, and great new ideas. Whether you’re mapping out your next novel, finishing your dissertation, planning a product, or writing memories for your grandkids, these great tools will help. As is…

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Finding the “To” Address in iOS Mail

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Birchler: Mail helpfully shortens the “To” value to just me, which is fine, but I would expect to be able to tap on my name and see which email address this was sent to. Instead, I get this[…] It just loads my contact card with all my emails li…

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Testing SwiftUI for Mac After WWDC 2022

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sarah Reichelt: In December 2019, I wrote a series of articles about using SwiftUI to build a Mac app. And in July 2020, I re-visited the sample app to apply the new SwiftUI features made available in macOS BigSur. Now that macOS Ventura and Xcode 1…

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Flag Icons to Change the Input Source

donderdag 23 juni 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: [As] part of a company-wide effort to decouple national flags as icons to denote languages, the Input menu in MacOS now uses two letter codes instead (“US” for U.S. English, “GB” for British, etc.). [The] new policy does make sense for …

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