Juli Clover (also: Mr. Macintosh, Hacker News): According to the security notes for the update, it addresses a security flaw that could allow an application to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. This is the same vulnerability that has be…
Lees meerPhilipp Defner (also: Hacker News): Since macOS 10.12 there’s a bug in Apple Mail that causes it to randomly become the frontmost application. If you are in full screen mode — like when you are giving a talk or watching a movie — it opens itself up …
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (tweet): InterposeKit is a modern library to swizzle elegantly in Swift. It is well-documented, tested, written in “pure” Swift 5.2 and works on @objc dynamic Swift functions or Objective-C instance methods. The Inspiration for Int…
Lees meerBhavuk Jain (via MacRumors, Hacker News): In the month of April, I found a zero-day in Sign in with Apple that affected third-party applications which were using it and didn’t implement their own additional security measures. This bug could have res…
Lees meerPaul Rosania: Amazon order confirmations and shipment notifications no longer include any item details. I could not for the life of me figure out why they would do this. They’re not scored on MAUs, they don’t need me to click through. Then I realize…
Lees meerJosh Centers (tweet): There aren’t many products that I try and instantly say, “Wow, this is awesome, I can’t wait to tell TidBITS readers about it!” But the Combo Touch, which comes in models appropriate for the seventh-generation iPad, third-gener…
Lees meerTom Doron (also: Hacker News): It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift AWS Lambda Runtime. Distributed as a Swift package, the Swift AWS Lambda Runtime is designed to help Swift developers build …
Lees meerTom Harrington: Once you use this method, the persistent store you migrated is removed from the persistent store coordinator. It also adds the newly-migrated store to the coordinator. So now the store is using the new copy instead of the old one. Th…
Lees meerRosemary Orchard (also: release notes): Omni Automation plugins and automation in OmniFocus Pro offer a level of customized automation previously not available on iOS. While the Mac has had support for AppleScript since it’s earliest days (and was s…
Lees meerReincubate (tweet, via Joe Cieplinski): Want to look your best on video calls? The camera on your iPhone or iPad is leagues ahead of any webcam on the market, and Camo makes it easy to use your iPhone as a webcam. iPhone cameras are getting better w…
Lees meerJames Cham: I don’t think that people appreciate how different the voice to text experience on a Pixel is from an iPhone. So here is a little head to head example. The Pixel is so responsive it feels like it is reading my mind! Speed has its own qua…
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith: When macOS bugs, completely out of developer control, translate into bad reviews 😭 Anybody on the StoreKit team know why SKStoreReviewController can get stuck in a loop on macOS Catalina and keep presenting incessant ratings d…
Lees meerRic Ford (MacRumors): Claris FileMaker Pro 19 was announced today, the latest step in Apple’s many transformations of database management software originally acquired many years ago from Nashoba Systems. Apple now licenses the software almost entire…
Lees meerHelge Heß (tweet): ZeeZide GmbH is happy to announce the release of Shrugs.app, a native macOS Slack client[…] […] Shrugs complements the capable official Slack client by providing deep integration with the macOS system: Multiple windows, trackpad g…
Lees meerRalf Herrmann: Apple has recently licensed fonts from type foundries such as Commercial Type, Klim Type Foundry and Mark Simonson Studio to be used as system fonts on Mac OS Catalina. But since these fonts are an optional download, many users of Mac…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger: Since we first purchased the displays, we’ve been having issues with them, starting with delayed shipping, ghosting, and Wi-Fi interference, and moving on to compatibility — there’s no HDMI, DisplayPort, or similar. The only way t…
Lees meerApple (TidBITS, MacRumors, Hacker News, Mr. Macintosh, Howard Oakley): macOS Catalina 10.15.5 introduces battery health management in the Energy Saver settings for notebooks, an option to control automatic prominence of video tiles on Group FaceTime…
Lees meerKaren Hao (via John Gruber): Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots and influence campaigns for a long time. Across US and foreign elections, natur…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger: Jailbreaking has a bad taste because it can be used to pirate apps. But there are many other, much more noble or interesting reasons why it’s worth exploring, like enhancing accessibility[…] This is a great collection of apps, twe…
Lees meerDylan Johnston (Hacker News): Repository-Level Tabs - use tabs to quickly navigate between multiple repositories Upgraded Commit UI - focus on what’s important with an upgraded commit UI Flexible Layouts - adapt the layout to fit your context and wo…
Lees meerEric Slivka: Over the past few hours, a number of MacRumors readers have reported seeing dozens or even hundreds of pending app updates showing in the App Store on their iOS devices, including for many apps that were already recently updated by the …
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