Chance Miller: In total, using its own data and data from other companies, BankRoll concludes that iPhone loyalty has hit its lowest point since 2011, falling to 73 percent. This compares to loyalty in 2017 of 92 percent. […] There are several thing…
Lees meerThe SummerFest festival of artisanal software is ending tomorrow. Besides the apps I previously mentioned, it includes HoudahSpot (better Spotlight searching), Nisus Writer Pro (my favorite word processor), Panorama X (RAM-based database), TaskPaper…
Lees meerStuart Schechter: Your master password should be at least 12 lowercase characters or five words. Why use lowercase characters or words when you’ve probably been told (and coerced) to use uppercase characters and symbols in the past? If you have to e…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou (tweet): A problem presents itself, however. You need to build a feature that takes 1,000 lines of code, but you’d like to merge it in in smaller chunks. How can you merge the code in if it’s not finished?Broadly, the strategy is cal…
Lees meerChris Lamb (via Hacker News): Accessing mirrors over HTTPS would not prevent a compromised mirror tampering with packages, so APT already has other mechanisms to guard against this. Also, HTTPS would not stop a determined attacker deducing which apt…
Lees meerSt. Clair Software: macOS 10.15 Catalina will not run 32-bit Mac applications. At all. Once you upgrade to Catalina, those apps won’t even launch. To prepare, I wrote Go64, a free application that scans your system for 32-bit apps and shows them all…
Lees meerLucas Shaw and Mark Gurman (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple Inc. plans to fund original podcasts that would be exclusive to its audio service, according to people familiar with the matter, increasing its investment in the industry to keep competitors…
Lees meerBenson Leung (via Hacker News): We have a matrix of 2 x 3, with 2 current rating levels (3A max current, or 5A max current), and 3 data speeds (480mbps, 5gbps, 10gpbs). Adding a bit more detail, cables 3-6, in fact, have 10 more wires that connect e…
Lees meerSimon Migliano: Unfortunately, the majority of apps appearing in the top results for “VPN” searches are free products from obscure and highly secretive companies that deliberately make it very difficult for consumers to find out anything about them.…
Lees meerRobert Wiblin (via Hacker News): Whenever you share a photo with a specific person or account on Google Photos, it creates a link that will allow anyone in the world to view those photos, forever, until you go and manually deactivate that link in an…
Lees meerRetrocomputing (via Devon Zuegel): Windows 95 applications often use asynchronous I/O, that is they ask for some file operation like a copy to be performed and then tell the OS that they can be put to sleep until that operation finishes. By sleeping…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (tweet, Reddit): Airmail for iOS is now free to download on the App Store, but push notifications and multi-account support have become premium features priced at $2.99 per month or $9.99 per year in the United States. The app was prev…
Lees meerKatie Hafner (via Rodney Brooks): Dr. Corbató, who spent his entire career at M.I.T., oversaw a project in the early 1960s called the Compatible Time-Sharing System, or C.T.S.S., which allowed multiple users in different locations to access a single…
Lees meerRyan Singer (Ryan Singer): This book is a guide to how we do product development at Basecamp. It’s also a toolbox full of techniques that you can apply in your own way to your own process. […] First, we work in six-week cycles. Six weeks is long eno…
Lees meerAustin Johnsen (via Ashley Bischoff): TIL that if you go North of the Arctic Circle in the summer and bring a MacBook with Night Shift set to be triggered by sunrise/sunset, the process will go into an infinite loop because the sun never sets... I n…
Lees meerJonathan Grynspan: As promised, API for macOS browsers to adopt universal links! Please review the header for details on how to adopt—ADC hasn’t got them yet. 🤐 Universal Links let certain HTTP links (e.g. Dropbox and Twitter, or hypothetically Zoom…
Lees meerEric Slivka: If accurate, Gartner’s estimates would put Apple with its lowest share of the U.S. PC market since the first quarter of 2014 and the lowest recorded on a global basis since Gartner started including Apple as a top global vendor in the t…
Lees meergross (via Hacker News): I have a workflow where I use 1Password on my phone - locally, no sync, do not want sync, can not use sync. Obviously this is not my main way of using 1Password, which I have been using now since 2011, mostly on Mac and iOS.…
Lees meerDavid Barnard: I decided to try and tune the my niece’s Disney princess guitar and went to the App Store looking for a tuner. Top result is an ad for an app by MVM, the company I called out last week for shady onboarding and $400+/yr subscriptions. …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Since constantly requiring confirmation is obviously incredibly annoying, Apple has conveniently exempted some of its own apps from the requirement. For example, macappstore and macappstores URLs will automatically open App Store app w…
Lees meerMax Seelemann: Whereas in recent years, it was pretty safe to install preview versions early on, this year that’s definitely not the case (see for example this report on Cult of Mac). Most impactful for us, however, is that the (great, great) update…
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