Joe Nelson (via Hacker News): The most natural first attempt is to add an auto-incrementing integer column to track each item’s position[…] It requires updating a bunch of rows to insert one between others. […] What if we store the position of each …
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet): At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari. But with a catch[…] You have to adapt it for WebKit, join Apple’s $99/year developer program, learn how to …
Lees meerCabel Sasser: You know what’s a really good Mac app? CleanShot. By far the best and most feature-rich screenshot/screen recording app I’ve used. Oddly, despite being sold directly, there’s no trial version. However, they have a money-back guarantee,…
Lees meerWalt Mossberg: FYI, all 6 of Steve Jobs’s appearances at the @allthingsd conferences - including the joint session with Bill Gates - are available for free in both pristine video and audio on @ApplePodcasts. We donated them after his death as a memo…
Lees meerJuli Clover (via Paul Haddad, Hacker News): According to Kuo, Apple is developing two models in 14 and 16-inch size options. The new MacBook Pro machines will feature a flat-edged design, which Kuo describes as “similar to the iPhone 12" with no cur…
Lees meerOmar Rizwan: TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.The files inside a tab’s folder directly reflect (and can control) the state of that tab in your browser. […]This gives you a ton of power, beca…
Lees meerHector Martin: So I’m working in understanding the Apple Silicon boot/OS provisioning process. This is all subject to change, but here are some takeaways according to my current understanding.[…]This means that in order to set up an Apple Silicon de…
Lees meerPatrick Wardle (tweet, Hacker News): Unfortunately, Apple (without telling anybody) decided to “exclude” or exempt over 50 of its own applications (such as the App Store) and daemons from being routed thru the Network Extension Framework.[…]Due to t…
Lees meerDavid Heinemeier Hansson (Hacker News): If you use iCloud Backup AT ALL, which is the default, your use of iMessage is not E2E because Apple has a backup of the encryption keys 🤯. And even if you turn off this backup, your recipient probably didn’t.…
Lees meerJosh Holtz (tweet, 9To5Mac): An Otter RSS doesn’t do much but it does everything I want it to. My goals were:Subscribe to RSS feeds (sync over iCloud)List new articles for each feed (sync over iCloud)Show read/unread status of articles (sync over iC…
Lees meerDavid Sparks: At any particular time, there is a curve for hard drive storage in price. Ideally, you want your backup to fit within that sweet spot where it can be contained on an affordable drive. If you have more data to back up than will fit on t…
Lees meerSusan Hogan and Meredith Royster: Seventeen Amazon packages have been delivered to Catherine Mayfield’s home in Temple Hills, Maryland, since October. She didn’t order any of them. […] According to Alex Hamerstone, a cybercrime expert from TrustedSe…
Lees meerTom Warren (Slashdot): The PC was supposed to die 10 years ago, but it’s just experienced its first big growth in a decade. Market research firm Canalys reports that PC shipments reached 297 million units in 2020, up an impressive 11 percent from 20…
Lees meerShane Stanley: Native code for Apple silicon Macs has a new, inviolable, requirement: it will not run unless it is code-signed. In practice, that means all universal apps have to be code-signed. […] Script Editor running on Big Sur will produce univ…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: macOS 11 Big Sur has a bug that prevents some apps from appearing in the “Default web browser” menu in the General pane of System Preferences, which of course makes it difficult to set one of those apps as your default web browser.[…]T…
Lees meerNathaniel Popper (via Matt Levine): The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is s…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: On January 10, 2001, Steve Jobs went on the stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco and presented a new app that would change the course of Apple. iTunes would become Apple’s most important app, not only because it was the companion …
Lees meerThe Economist (via Hacker News): The site has no shareholders, has generated no billionaires and sells no advertising. Today’s aspiring tech giants burn vast quantities of investors’ money subsidising taxi rides (Uber) or millennial messaging (Snap)…
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger that claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, is giving its 2 billion plus users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with the social network or delete th…
Lees meerAdobe (MacRumors): Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Fl…
Lees meerJuli Clover: The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable NVMe SSD offers up to 2000MB/s read and write speeds, and its aluminum chassis serves as a heatsink to deliver higher sustained speeds. The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD will be available later this q…
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