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Inside Apple’s Design Team

vrijdag 10 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jonathan Bell (Hacker News): Ive was intensely involved with the building’s design (as was Steve Jobs during the project’s early stages). The team before us now very much reflect the realisation of the two men’s aspirations for a bespoke Apple build…

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OSLogStore on Monterey

vrijdag 10 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Quinn the Eskimo: So, let’s start with some history: macOS programs have been able to read log messages since the introduction of OSLogStore on macOS 10.15. This API is not available on iOS-based platforms. In iOS 14 beta we added the OSLog framewor…

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The State of External Retina Displays

dinsdag 7 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Casey Liss (tweet): In [effectively] 2022, there are four options for retina-quality monitors to attach to your Mac. […] Only two are 5K or greater. The LG still seems to have problems, and the Apple Pro Display XDR costs $6,000. Over the last year …

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Life360 Sells Precise User Location Data

dinsdag 7 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng (Hacker News, Reddit, MacRumors): Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their children’s movements using their cellphones. The Markup …

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Apple Accounts “Permanently” Blocked

dinsdag 7 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Quinn Comendant (Hacker News, Reddit, 2): Apple permanently disabled my account today. I’ve lost access to $1200+ of apps that I have purchased through the App Store, my App Store balance, and my music collection of thousands of CDs uploaded to iTun…

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Apple Opposes Mentions of External Payment Options in Russia

dinsdag 7 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton: Apple is undertaking legal action in Russia to prevent developers from promoting alternative payment methods for in-app purchases that bypass the company’s payment system, RT reports.Apple’s lawsuit attempts to challenge Russia’s F…

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DOJ Investigates Apple’s Treatment of Roblox

dinsdag 7 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Josh Sisco: As the U.S. government tries to put together an antitrust case against Apple for the way it controls iPhones, prosecutors are looking for instances in which the company is unevenly enforcing rules for app developers in ways that could hu…

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Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking

dinsdag 7 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Luc P. Beaudoin et al.: We recognize that an immense amount of useful information is available digitally, and that tremendous value can be gained by connecting this information. Connected knowledge enables people to create great products, solve impo…

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Cocoa Culture

dinsdag 7 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Gordon Bell (Hacker News): The team where people roll their eyes at UX feedback will not have as simple of a product as a team where the user experience is highly valued. If software performance isn’t valued, the end result won’t be performant.…

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Car Thieves Using AirTags

vrijdag 3 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Laura Nicolle (via MacRumors, Hacker News): Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Brand name ‘air tags’ are pla…

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Microsoft Directing Users Away From Chrome

vrijdag 3 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sayan Sen (Hacker News): In the latest related news, when someone is trying to download Google Chrome from Edge, Microsoft seems to be reminding such users with a popup (image below) that its own browser is built upon the same (Chromium) technology …

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Triple Tap to Capture From OmniFocus

vrijdag 3 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tyler Hall: At any time, from any app, whenever I need to remember something, I can tap the back of my phone three times. An input dialog will appear, wait for me to type in what I need to do, and file away those items into OmniFocus for later. What…

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M1 Mac Mini EC2 Preview

vrijdag 3 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Amazon (MacRumors, Hacker News): The availability (in preview) of EC2 M1 Mac instances lets you access machines built around the Apple-designed M1 System on Chip (SoC). If you are a Mac developer and re-architecting your apps to natively support Mac…

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Apple Wants Fee for Alternate Billing Systems

donderdag 2 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Benjamin Mayo (motion): Although the appeal of the Apple-Epic lawsuit is ongoing, Apple is currently subject to the judge’s decision and will have to allow app developers to show links to external payment platforms inside from December 9, unless the…

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Twitter’s New Photo-Removing, Anti-Doxxing Privacy Policy

donderdag 2 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Twitter (via Dave Mark, Hacker News): As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we’re updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.” Under our existing …

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Inside Apple’s Chat Support

donderdag 2 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Zoe Schiffer: While Apple’s corporate offices take a proactive, deliberate approach to product development, Apple’s customer support function operates in a reactive mania, using a vast array of processes and metrics to keep employees on task. If wor…

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Luau Programming Language

donderdag 2 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Roblox (via Hacker News): Luau (lowercase u, /ˈlu.aʊ/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.It is designed to be backwards compatible with Lua 5.1, as well as incorporating some features from future …

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William Cook, RIP

donderdag 2 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hamish Sanderson: Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57. Shriram Krishnamurthi: Much of 1990s OOP was defined by his seminal papers. When he …

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Firefox’s Optimized Zip Format

woensdag 1 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Taras Glek: Unfortunately reading files started from ending precludes readahead. It is also suboptimal to read files from zip in random order. The following creative interpretation of Zip spec results in optimized zip files[…] […] Thus we have a seq…

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Thunderbolt 4 Docks

woensdag 1 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rob Mayoff: In case you’re looking for a Thunderbolt 4 dock for your new MacBook Pro, here’s the list I made when I was shopping for one. I bought with the Kensington. It’s fine but the OWC is what I’d buy now (it’s $50 less for the same ports but w…

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Batch Converting Shortcuts to Scripts and Applets

woensdag 1 december 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Voorhees: To streamline the process, I turned, of course, to Shortcuts itself. In total, I’ve created four shortcuts to help me deploy my favorite shortcuts across macOS:Script Builder: Generates .scpt files that can be incorporated in other ap…

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