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Evernote Goes Electron

vrijdag 13 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Evernote: We’re excited to share the all-new Evernote app for Mac. The new app provides a more modern appearance and streamlined Evernote experience. Ilja A. Iwas: If you have been relying on AppleScript to export your data from @evernote, you might…

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Apple M1 Benchmarks

donderdag 12 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (tweet, Hacker News): In comparison to Macs, the single-core performance is better than any other available Mac, and the multi-core performance beats out all of the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro models, including the 10th-generation high-end …

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Google Photos to End Unlimited Storage

donderdag 12 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Shimrit Ben-Yair: Starting June 1, 2021, any new photos and videos you upload will count toward the free 15 GB of storage that comes with every Google Account or the additional storage you’ve purchased as a Google One member. Amber Neely: When Googl…

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Hide My Bar 1.5

donderdag 12 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

ClemStation (via Dave Teare): Double press a control key to Turn off the Touch Bar and keep focusing on your current task. Don’t let an accidental tap on the Touch Bar slow you down or ruin your work. With Hide My Bar never hit the Touch Bar by acci…

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Mask-wearing Sticker Apps Now Approved

donderdag 12 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sean Hollister: How could a friendly sticker wearing a mask be an inappropriate reference to COVID-19, particularly when Apple has its very own mask-wearing emoji? That was the question on my mind, so I reached out to Apple yesterday. This morning, …

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The Apple Silicon M1

donderdag 12 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Andrei Frumusanu o: The new processor is called the Apple M1, the company’s first SoC designed with Macs in mind. With four large performance cores, four efficiency cores, and an 8-GPU core GPU, it features 16 billion transistors on a 5nm process no…

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On Apple’s SwiftUI Header File Documentation

donderdag 12 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Conrad Stoll: The Swift programming language may have gotten rid of the compiler’s need to define a real header file but it didn’t get rid of the programmer’s need to have clear and orderly descriptions of types and what they can do. When I started …

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Apple Silicon: The Roads Not Taken

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jesper: Raspberry Pi-like, “tinkerer-friendly” Mac, for under $100. […] A Mac mini the size of the Apple TV, for $199, with 4GB RAM, 64/128 GB of iPhone-like storage, hardly any I/O, and probably an A12, A13 or A14. […] Take the current Mac mini, ma…

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One More Thing: Apple Silicon Macs

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac. M1 is optimized for Mac systems in which small size and power efficiency are critically import…

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On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Casey Liss (tweet, Hacker News): For the last year or two, I’ve come to realize that the number one thing that makes it harder for me to do my job is documentation. Or, more specifically, the utter dearth of documentation that Apple provides for its…

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Apple Developing Web Search Technology?

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Bradshaw and Patrick McGee: In a little-noticed change to the latest version of the iPhone operating system, iOS 14, Apple has begun to show its own search results and link directly to websites when users type queries from its home screen. That …

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Slingbox Discontinued

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Walt Mossberg: The @slingbox, which let you view your home cable TV on a PC anywhere, has been discontinued. It was an innovative, exciting product from a small startup. […] Its time has now gone, but it was the very kind of small company innovation…

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iSH and a-Shell vs. the App Store

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

iSH: iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator. I saw lots of people raving about this app over the last several days but assumed it would not be allowed to stay in the App St…

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Updating to Catalina, Finally

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Yesterday, I finally updated to Catalina, straight to 10.15.7 with the supplemental update. It still has issues, but they no longer outweigh not being able to run Xcode 12 directly from 10.14. The best part so far is being able to run NetNewsWire 5.…

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MagSafe Duo Charger

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthew Panzarino: It’s a folding dual travel charger that will hold both an iPhone using MagSafe and an Apple Watch using its more traditional magnetic charger. […] For context, you have to understand that this thing is $129 but feels like it shoul…

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Fragile Spotlight Comments

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Finder Comments, also known as Spotlight Comments, are such a good idea. […] The worst possible place you can store metadata is in a separate file, such as a hidden file of proprietary format located in the same folder. But that’s exa…

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Fortnite to Return via Streaming

dinsdag 10 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton: Plans are in place to allow users to play Epic Games’ “Fortnite” on iOS and iPadOS again using Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service in Safari, the BBC has discovered.[…]Using an online streaming service will allow Epic Games t…

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HP Reneges on Free Instant Ink

vrijdag 6 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Cory Doctorow (via Hacker News): What they didn’t know was that they’ve been given an asymptomatic infection – a malicious update that only kicked in five months later, after everyone had had a good long time to update. That update’s real purpose wa…

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iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max

vrijdag 6 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chaim Gartenberg: And that smaller size is really nice to hold. iOS scales well to the 5.4-inch display, and the iPhone 12 design looks and feels just as nice on the slightly more compact version as it does on the full-sized model. If you liked the …

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Slow Swift Compilation of Boolean Comparisons

vrijdag 6 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

DeskA: Since we moved parts of our codebase to swift, our compile times have effectively quadrupled. Trying to combat this, we’ve used the function and expression debug time flags to figure out if there’s something to be saved by simplifying express…

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DoNotPay IAP Shakedown

vrijdag 6 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joshua Browder (Hacker News): Just got a call from Apple. The DoNotPay App will be removed by them in 5 minutes because “the app is too App Store like.” Each @DoNotPayLaw service needs to be a separate app and give 30% to Apple, violating guidelines…

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