Adobe: Lightroom Classic 8.4.1 work with macOS 10.15 (Catalina) but have these known compatibility issues. You may want to remain on your current version of macOS until these issues have been resolved. Adobe: Photoshop 20.0.6 and later versions work…
Lees meerJim Dalrymple: For those that have been following along, 64-bit is not that new. Apple has been talking to developers about the 64-bit transition for several years. Chances are your apps have already been updated to take advantage of the architectur…
Lees meerEric Slivka: Alongside iOS 13.1.3, Apple today also released a supplemental update for macOS Catalina, addressing several bugs from the initial public release version, including a problem with Setup Assistant hanging during Catalina installation. Pr…
Lees meerArmin Briegel: The softwareupdate command has gained a new option in Catalina: % softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer Will download the latest ‘Install macOS’ application to this Mac’s /Applications folder. This is extremely useful for many admin t…
Lees meerTwitter: The new Twitter for Mac app is here! We’re rolling out an updated Twitter experience made especially for those of you on Mac. Available in the App Store. Christopher Wong: The new @Twitter for Mac app is truly one of the funniest (read: wor…
Lees meerpublicspace.net: Version 11 allows you to add multiple file filters to your action list, so that different types of files can finally be renamed differently within a single multi-step rename. You can preview both the file names and the filter criter…
Lees meerAtlassian: Jira Cloud for Mac is a snappy and simple way for software developers to work with tasks and update their team on progress. […] For a powerful product like Jira, building a Mac application from scratch would have taken significantly longe…
Lees meerAlex3917: The new Podcasts app deleted years of downloaded podcasts when I updated, including a lot that are no longer hosted on the web. For some reason the “sensible default” in the new app is to delete anything beyond the most recent ten episodes…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Today’s iOS 13.2 beta introduces a new option that allows iPhone and iPad users to delete their Siri and Dictation history and opt out of sharing audio recordings, features that Apple promised after being called out for its Siri quality…
Lees meerAs a developer, there are a bunch of new APIs that I want to be able to use. And, of course, I’ve been using it for a few months on a couple of auxiliary Macs for testing. But as a user, I see very little to tempt me to upgrade anytime soon. As ATP …
Lees meerI’m working on more posts about the Catalina release, but I wanted to start with a short warning. I’ve heard a bunch of reports of data loss in Apple Mail. Thankfully, none seem to be caused by my apps. (Ironically, one of the bugs I’ve encountered …
Lees meerMikko Kenttälä (via Paul Haddad): We were puzzled because I had killed the Beacon process and it should not be running anymore. I logged in to my Windows test machine to see if the Beacon is still running. But there was nothing. We were confused. Th…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I continue to hold that one of the worst aspects of today’s Apple is their strident antipathy toward error messages. Silent failure is so much worse than an error message, but that’s the way Apple rolls. I don’t know when it started (ma…
Lees meerTim Johnsen: That being said, we didn’t use UIKit’s APIs alone since most developers in the company and our build systems are all still using Xcode 10, and introducing iOS 13 APIs would cause build breakages. We went with the approach of writing thi…
Lees meerSavannah Reising: A big misconception is that your main competitors are the other companies creating similar products to yours. In our case, we viewed Astropad and Luna Display’s biggest competitors as other second display and graphics tablet creato…
Lees meerFederico Viticci (tweet): A few weeks ago, I came across a post on Reddit claiming that Apple had restored the ability to launch specific sections of the Settings app via Shortcuts in iOS and iPadOS 13.1. I was inspired by that discovery to finish w…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Two months later, Apple has shipped major updates to all of their operating systems. Yesterday, macOS 10.15 Catalina was released. And yet, the new bug bounty program has not opened. Perhaps the public assumes that the bug bounty progr…
Lees meerKris Cheng (via Daniel Sinclair): According to an article on Hiraku, a blog about Apple devices, any device model with “CN” or “ZA” region – denoting China and Hong Kong – will not have access to the Taiwan emoji via the keyboard. If users have a de…
Lees meerAdobe (Hacker News, Reddit): The U.S. Government issued Executive Order 13884, the practical effect of which is to prohibit almost all transactions and services between U.S. companies, entities, and individuals in Venezuela. To remain compliant with…
Lees meerNick Heer: It sounded like the information security scoop of the decade — except there’s virtually no proof that any of it is true. At the time of the story’s publication, representatives from the named companies denied Bloomberg’s reporting in stat…
Lees meerGyazMail is now 64-bit, just in time for macOS 10.15 Catalina. This version also improves its SSL support, so it can work with mail servers that have more stringent security requirements. I’ve always been impressed by how many OS versions it support…
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