Howard Oakley: So the System volume at disk3s1 (your numbers may differ) has a broken seal? To understand why that’s perhaps the wrong question, we need to step through how Big Sur creates the SSV in the first place. During system installation, the …
Lees meerChris Forsythe (tweet, Hacker News, Slashdot): Growl is being retired after surviving for 17 years. With the announcement of Apple’s new hardware platform, a general shift of developers to Apple’s notification system, and a lack of obvious ways to i…
Lees meerKatie Abel (via Hacker News): Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died. He was 46.[…]After Zappos co-founder Nick Sw…
Lees meerThomas Clement (tweet): What seems to still be missing from SwiftUI is the notion of the intrinsic content size: the natural size that a view really wants to be unless it is forced to be something else. This is the size that views should adopt by de…
Lees meerSebastiaan de With: Since the iPhone 12 has a bit more noise, there’s less detail. Still, the detail isn’t easy to spot in bright daylight. Everything changes between the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Max the moment sunset begins. As shadows get darker and l…
Lees meerBecky Hansmeyer (Hacker News): Power and performance aren’t the bottleneck for iPad, and haven’t been for some time. So if raw power isn’t enough, and new display tech isn’t enough, where does the iPad go from here? Will it be abandoned once more, l…
Lees meerBombich Software: We posted CCC 5.1.23 yesterday which includes support for making bootable backups on Intel Macs running Big Sur.🎉CCC runs natively on & is fully compatible with Apple Silicon Macs, but we’re still tracking some macOS issues here. B…
Lees meerRyan Ashcraft: This is not Catalyst. It’s also not the future™ (aka SwiftUI). This is a practical, albeit compromised, solution for today. A solution to give the Mac App Store a kick in the butt, an adrenaline shot, a splash of cold water. […] Most …
Lees meerTim Hardwick: A number of M1 Mac owners are reporting problems with Bluetooth connectivity on the new machines, ranging from intermittent disconnects of wireless peripherals to completely non-functional Bluetooth connections. […] M1 owners have take…
Lees meerDieter Bohn (MacBook Air) Nilay Patel (MacBook Pro, Hacker News) Jason Snell (Hacker News) John Gruber (Hacker News) Patrick Moorhead (tweet) Kay Singh (Hacker News) Raymond Wong John Voorhees (roundup) Previously: Performance of Rosetta 2 on Apple …
Lees meerDavid Smith: The original design of Widgetsmith put configuration of the aesthetic aspects of each widget on equal footing as purely functional aspects. You’d choose the text color in the same way as you’d assign the desired timezone location. This …
Lees meerTim Hardwick: The only problem with this method is that it kicks you to and from the Shortcuts app whenever you open an app with a custom icon, which isn’t a great way to optimize usage and can be annoying. However, thanks to the latest update to La…
Lees meerJason Snell: If there’s a single disappointment in the release of Apple’s first wave of M1 Macs, it’s the lackluster launch of iOS apps running inside of macOS. What should be an amazing unification of Apple’s platforms and a massive expansion of th…
Lees meerThomas Clement: Apple demonstrated the libdispatch and the promise seemed great, they introduced the notion of serial queues and told us that we should stop thinking in term of threads and start thinking in term of queues. We would submit various pr…
Lees meerApple: Until now, TensorFlow has only utilized the CPU for training on Mac. The new tensorflow_macos fork of TensorFlow 2.4 leverages ML Compute to enable machine learning libraries to take full advantage of not only the CPU, but also the GPU in bot…
Lees meerAlex Guyot: Hazel is a classic Mac automation tool which we last covered several years ago for version 4. This week Hazel is back with version 5, a major update which brings the tool out of System Preferences for the first time. […] Hazel 5’s interf…
Lees meerMy apps are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: C-Command Software (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve, ToothFairy) Adobe Creative Cloud Affinity apps All Windows Appear Anker Appfigures (code BLAC…
Lees meerRogue Amoeba (via Peter Steinberger, Jeff Johnson): In MacOS 11 (Big Sur), the initial installation of ACE requires a bit more set-up. The in-app installer provides an overview of the process, and is likely all you need. This page lists the full seq…
Lees meerThomas Reed (tweet): One of the common sub-groups of PUPs we detect are antivirus programs that show unwanted behaviors meeting certain criteria. As an example, a program that requires payment, but the antivirus engine it uses is available for free …
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: I hate to be a downer when it comes to improved technology that actually does what it says on the tin. 5G networks will provide substantial improvements in throughput and availability that we will notice—in a year or maybe two. Unti…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci: When iPhone OS 1.0 was released in 2007, it redefined the smartphone with a limited set of core features. Nowadays iOS 14 contains an incredible amount of components. By looking at them based on their size, we can determine the mo…
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