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New Mac Studio and Studio Display Change Mac Buying Calculus

vrijdag 11 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: The 27-inch iMac has been such a bastion of the Mac lineup—and the computer I’ve used nonstop for almost 8 years—that I couldn’t even conceive of Apple dropping it. But drop it Apple did, replacing it with the Studio Display and your cho…

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Studio Display

woensdag 9 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Studio Display, the perfect complement to Mac Studio, also pairs beautifully with any Mac. It features an expansive 27-inch 5K Retina display, a 12MP Ultra Wide camera with Center Stage, and a high-fidelity six-speake…

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Mac Studio

woensdag 9 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): With the power and efficiency of Apple silicon, Mac Studio completely reimagines what a high-performance desktop looks like. Every element inside Mac Studio was designed to optimize the performance of M1 Max and M1 Ul…

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Apple M1 Ultra

woensdag 9 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Featuring UltraFusion — Apple’s innovative packaging architecture that interconnects the die of two M1 Max chips to create a system on a chip (SoC) with unprecedented levels of performance and capabilities — M1 Ultra delivers br…

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iPad Air 2022

woensdag 9 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): Apple today introduced the new iPad Air with the Apple-designed M1 chip, delivering a massive leap in performance. Available in a new array of colors, iPad Air also features the new Ultra Wide front camera with Center Stage for a …

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iPhone SE 2022

woensdag 9 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): The new iPhone SE features impressive upgrades including the performance of A15 Bionic, which powers advanced camera capabilities and makes nearly every experience better, from photo editing to power-intensive operations like ga…

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Mac Software Stagnation

maandag 7 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Riccardo Mori (tweet): In other words, if I open my toolbox with all the essential Mac apps I use on a daily basis for everything I do, what I see are old (some very old), tried-and-trusted applications[…] […] This may be a completely subjective obs…

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Blurry Text on a Scaled 4K Display

maandag 7 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jack Wellborn: Here are three pictures of the letter “a”. The first is from my 5k iMac at native resolution, the second is from my 4k display also at native resolution, and the last is from my 4k display scaled to pseudo 5k resolution. Do you notice…

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Apple Employees Returning to Offices

maandag 7 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kim Lyons (Hacker News): Apple will begin phasing in its planned hybrid work pilot on April 11th, bringing employees back to the office one day a week to start, according to an email from CEO Tim Cook to Apple employees, which was seen by The Verge.…

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Solo iOS Developer Tips

maandag 7 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Zach: If you ever plan on selling your app, things will be a lot more complicated if you have an iCloud entitlement because then you can’t transfer an app. Try to avoid using iCloud or CloudKit don’t make your app a paid up front app. If you can con…

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ChronoSync 10

maandag 7 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Econ Technologies (release notes): ChronoSync is now a Universal binary that natively supports both Intel and Apple Silicon platforms. […] ChronoSync now allows you to sync to and from iCloud storage. One benefit of syncing to iCloud storage is that…

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Pure Paste 1.1

vrijdag 4 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sindre Sorhus (tweet, via Ryan Jones): How many times have you pasted some text into an email and ended up with a mess of different font sizes? Pure Text lets you paste as plain text by default. It sits in the menu bar and clears formatting (fonts, …

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On the Origin of the iPhone

vrijdag 4 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: Fadell’s story adds up; Businessweek’s description of the embedded Linux project being led by Fadell does not. (Businessweek’s description of Forstall and Fadell as political rivals definitely adds up, though. The cutthroat internal pol…

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Transcend JetDrive Lite 330

vrijdag 4 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Transcend has begun offering its JetDrive Lite 330 expansion cards for 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, providing users of Apple’s latest Macs with an affordable way to increase storage capacity. The cards provide up to 512GB of…

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Open Web Advocacy

vrijdag 4 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Open Web Advocacy (via Tim Hardwick, tweet): Apple’s ban of third party browsers on iOS is deeply anti-competitive, starves the Safari/WebKit team of funding and has stalled innovation for the past 10 years and prevented Web Apps from taking off on …

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Emulating 1998-Vintage Mac Compilers

donderdag 3 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ninji (tweet): All of the tools I needed could be accessed via MPW. Could I get these to run externally somehow? […] The obvious choice to start with here is Unicorn Engine, which is essentially the CPU emulator from QEMU made into an embeddable lib…

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David Boggs, RIP

donderdag 3 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Cade Metz: After saving up for a radio operator’s license, David began building ham radios, spending his nights chatting with other operators across the country. His brother remembered the two of them stringing antennas from a second-floor bedroom t…

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Goodreads Data Loss

donderdag 3 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nelson Minar (tweet): Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I’ve never encoun…

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Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1

woensdag 2 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bombich Software: Added navigation buttons to the CCC toolbar to make it easier to get back to a task after making volume configuration changes (e.g. when adjusting snapshot settings). […] The Source and Destination selectors are now enabled while a…

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Playdate SDK

woensdag 2 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Panic (Hacker News): The full Playdate SDK is for folks already comfortable with coding — but we’ve worked hard to make it as easy and approachable as we can. It gives you two choices of languages: Lua, for a higher-level scripting language experien…

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iCloud+ Custom E-mail Domains

woensdag 2 maart 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dominic Lautner (via Hacker News): So far, this is the first paid service I’ve encountered that doesn’t support a catch-all. […] Even after you set up your domain for iCloud Mail, it’ll actively prevent any management actions you want to take if any…

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