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DuckDuckGo Browser for Mac Beta

dinsdag 12 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Beah Burger-Lenehan (MacRumors): With one download you get our built-in private search engine, powerful tracker blocker, new cookie pop-up protection on approximately 50% of sites (with that % growing significantly throughout beta), Fire Button (one…

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Review of Orion Browser for Mac

dinsdag 12 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Riccardo Mori (Hacker News): Orion’s approach is utilitarian. It doesn’t want to win users with a fancy UI or quirky æsthetics to appear ‘different’. Its user interface is not that different from Safari. Its design philosophy has to do with how the …

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A Tour of Apple’s External LCD Displays

dinsdag 12 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stephen Hackett: In April 1984, Apple introduced a 1-bit, 7-inch LCD for use with the somewhat-portable Apple IIc[…] […] In July of 2000, to coincide with the launch of the Power Mac G4 Cube,1 the Studio Display was reworked to match the larger and …

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Mac S.M.A.R.T. Support: USB-C vs. Thunderbolt

dinsdag 12 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Although macOS has supported storage connected via USB-A ports since 1998 and USB-C since 2015, it has never supported access to S.M.A.R.T. attributes on storage connected using those ports. FireWire support was rather better, and Thu…

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Xcode 13.3.1

dinsdag 12 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Fixed: Exporting an app that uses Swift’s concurrency features from an archive with bitcode might fail when the app targets iOS 13.0–14.7, watchOS 6.0–7.6, or tvOS 13.0–14.7. When you target iOS 13.4 and later and enable bitcode, the bitcode …

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Police Records on AirTag Stalking

maandag 11 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Samantha Cole: Of the 150 total police reports mentioning AirTags, in 50 cases women called the police because they started getting notifications that their whereabouts were being tracked by an AirTag they didn’t own. Of those, 25 could identify a m…

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Studio Display Software Update Failures

maandag 11 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sami Fathi: A growing thread on the Apple Support forum (1, 2) includes owners of the Studio Display reporting that as they try to update the display, they’re being presented with an error message that reads “Apple Studio Display firmware update cou…

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Shipping Services Limit Access for Deliveries App

maandag 11 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Piontek: Many things have changed over the years, and unfortunately we’re no longer able to maintain the same service that so many of you have come to rely on. Deliveries relies on many different shipping companies, and without their help it’s …

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Unable to Establish Secure Connection to idmsa.apple.com

maandag 11 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Godden: If you’re using #macOS #HighSierra or #Sierra, #iCloud has stopped working / can’t log in, and you can’t access iCloud.com in Safari - here’s a solution. Install the Apple IST CA 2 - G1 certificate, and everything will work again. Previ…

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Stephen Wilhite, RIP

maandag 11 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mitchell Clark (tweet, Hacker News): Stephen Wilhite worked on GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, which is now used for reactions, messages, and jokes, while employed at CompuServe in the 1980s. […] Although GIFs are synonymous with animated inter…

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John Roach, RIP

maandag 11 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sam Roberts (via Hacker News): John Roach, a marketing visionary who helped make the home computer ubiquitous in the late 1970s by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80 for $599.95 or less through RadioShack chain stores, died on Sunday in Fo…

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Upgrading to a 14-inch MacBook Pro With a Studio Display

vrijdag 8 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I upgraded my 27-inch iMac (2017) to a 14-inch MacBook Pro (10-core M1 Pro, 32 GB of RAM, 2 TB SSD). Most of the time, I plan to run it in clamshell mode, sitting in a BookArc, connected to a Studio Display and a 30-inch Dell display (non-Retina). I…

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Apple Business Essentials for Small Businesses

woensdag 6 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Apple today announced that Apple Business Essentials is now available to all small businesses in the US. The new service brings together device management, 24/7 Apple support, and iCloud storage into flexible subscription plans. Apple also un…

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2022 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card

woensdag 6 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: Now that there have been two surveys, we can compare last year’s scores with this year’s and see how sentiment has changed. Except for macOS identity management, which took a drop, and security and privacy, which remained the same, all …

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Five Years to Mac Hardware Turnaround

woensdag 6 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Five years ago, the Mac lineup was in a bad state. Over three years had passed since Apple redesigned the Mac Pro with a sleek but constrained “trash can” enclosure, while the iMac, MacBook Air, and Mac mini had also gone years withou…

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Mac Pro Historical Perspective

woensdag 6 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: Below is a historical list of changes in the base price of the Mac Pro and Power Mac.[…]I would argue that the Mac Pro as we software developers knew it was never given a successor after the “trash can”. The Mac Pro was discontinued an…

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Using shellcheck With BBEdit

dinsdag 5 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Armin Briegel: Once you have the shellcheck command installed, you can also invoke from within BBEdit: When you have a script open in BBEdit, verify that the script is recognized as a ‘Unix shell script.’ Then you can select ‘Check Syntax…’ from the…

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Forged Emergency Data Requests

dinsdag 5 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

William Turton: Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests.” […] Cybersecurity researchers suspect that some of the hack…

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Audio Hijack 4

dinsdag 5 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Paul Kafasis (tweet): In Audio Hijack, individual blocks that capture, record, and manipulate audio are combined into powerful pipelines. For version 4, we made improving blocks a major focus. We’ve created brand-new blocks, added new features to th…

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Apple Sitting on Applications and Requests

dinsdag 5 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Lacy: An overlooked point regarding Apple’s stranglehold over iOS developers & their apps is Apple’s one-sided power in approving developers. My company submitted a developer application in Nov ’21. 140+ days later & the enrollment is still “b…

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Charging More for Black Products

dinsdag 5 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stephen Hackett: The black MacBook was sold alongside the more popular — and less expensive — white MacBook. […] The two machines always shared the same specs when it came to the CPU, RAM and optical drive. However, the black MacBook always came wit…

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