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altool 4.0

woensdag 3 juli 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rosyna Keller: Xcode 11.0b3 includes a major update to altool (used for notarization), altool 4.0, with some awesome new features. […] First, altool actually has a man page now (man altool) accessible after new Xcode 11b3 is installed. altool suppor…

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Superhuman Embeds Tracking Pixels in User E-mails

woensdag 3 juli 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Davidson (via Hacker News): It is disappointing then that one of the most hyped new email clients, Superhuman, has decided to embed hidden tracking pixels inside of the emails its customers send out. Superhuman calls this feature “Read Receipts…

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UIStackView and NSStackView

woensdag 3 juli 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Reda Lemeden: The UIStackView class provides axis-specific properties to define the layout: distribution for the main axis, and alignment for the cross axis. […] Unlike NSStackView, UIStackView doesn’t support gravity-based distribution. This soluti…

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Catalyst Deep Dive

maandag 1 juli 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Samuel Axon (MacRumors): Ars spoke with key members of the Apple team responsible for developing and promoting Project Catalyst at WWDC, as well as with a handful of app developers who have already made Mac apps this way. We asked them about how Cat…

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Gaming With a MacBook Pro and eGPU

maandag 1 juli 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Justin Searls (tweet): So, it’s thanks to the trash can Mac Pro that in 2019, it can truthfully be said: instead of putting a beefy graphics card inside your computer, you are now able to take a top-of-the-line gaming GPU, seat it inside an external…

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SwiftWebUI

maandag 1 juli 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Helge Heß (Hacker News): So what exactly is SwiftWebUI? It allows you to write SwiftUI Views which display in a web browser[…] […] Unlike some other efforts this doesn’t just render SwiftUI Views as HTML. It also sets up a connection between the bro…

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Using Combine

maandag 1 juli 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joseph Heck: The book is being made available at no cost. The content for this book, including sample code and tests is available on GitHub at https://github.com/heckj/swiftui-notes. […] The contents of this book are available as HTML, PDF, and ePub…

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Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple

vrijdag 28 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Apple today announced that Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, will depart the company as an employee later this year to form an independent design company which will count Apple among its primary clients. While he pursu…

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Proxyman 1.4.3

donderdag 27 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Proxyman (via Felix Krause): Proxyman is a high-performance macOS app, which enables developers to view HTTP/HTTPS requests from apps and domains. […] Organize your workflow by drag, drop and pin specific apps or domains. All other irrelevant ones w…

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Web Confidential 5

donderdag 27 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alco Blom: Web Confidential 5 is a 64-bit Cocoa macOS application. As you perhaps know, Apple’s next version of macOS (Catalina) will not support 32-bit applications. So, therefore if you plan to upgrade later this year to Apple’s latest macOS, you …

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Bill Gates’ Mea Culpa

donderdag 27 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: At a recent event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global, highlighted by TechCrunch, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates lamented on losing to Android, calling it “one of the greatest mistakes of all time.” […] Gates added that the…

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Cheesegraters and Crystals

donderdag 27 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dr. Drang: The [Mac Pro’s grill holes] are a negative-space representation of a common atomic arrangement in metallic crystals, something that most engineers learn about in their introductory materials science class. […] A frame capture from the vid…

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The Great Monitor Search Continues

woensdag 26 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Zornek: The LG 49 inch UltraWide monitor is pretty cool, but not very Mac compatible (specifics defects below). Next up for me is the Apple Store approved, 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display, which will trade screen real estate for retina, bette…

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Catalyst vs. SwiftUI for Building a New App

woensdag 26 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Martin Pilkington: The problem I had with porting it to iOS in the first place became even more stark when it was “ported back” using Catalyst. UIKit is still not powerful enough to create a UI that feels great on the Mac. I can’t use NSColorWell an…

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Swift Property Wrappers

dinsdag 25 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mattt Thompson: SE-0258: Property Wrappers is currently in its third review (scheduled to end yesterday, at the time of publication), and it promises to make open up functionality like lazy so that library authors can implement similar functionality…

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SuperDuper 3.2.5

dinsdag 25 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dave Nanian: So if that code was right, why the heck were some users getting occasional multiple runs? And why wasn’t it happening to us here at Shirt Pocket HQ?[…]Previously, in order to work around problems with Clean My Mac (which, for some reaso…

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StorCentric Acquires Retrospect

dinsdag 25 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Retrospect: StorCentric, parent company of Drobo and Nexsan, today announced that it has acquired privately owned backup software company, Retrospect, Inc. Retrospect, Inc. is a leading provider of backup and recovery tools for consumers, profession…

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Catalyst Can Rescue the Mac and Grow the iPad

dinsdag 25 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Voorhees: By contrast, Catalyst is a shorter-term initiative designed to address two soft spots in Apple’s lineup: the stagnation of the Mac app ecosystem, and the slow growth of pro iPad apps. The unstated assumption underlying the realignment…

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The Day the Duplicates Died

maandag 24 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Cieplinski: So, the big question: Would this bug still be present in Music, despite all the work Apple had put into rebranding and reworking it? […] Well, at first, the duplicates appeared again. I was despondent. I could not believe Apple didn’…

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macOS 10.15 Public Beta 1

maandag 24 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Catalina update to its public beta testing group, giving non-developers a chance to try out the software ahead of its fall public release. It seems to be essentially the same as Dev…

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The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone

maandag 24 juni 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Smith: When I look at the iPhone distribution for Pedometer++ the four most popular devices are all that size. Together they account for nearly 50% of all devices I see in use. […] The next most popular screen size is the 5.5″ Plus size at aro…

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