Davo: The Macintosh Repository is a community driven effort to preserve old software from the classic Mac OS era.It has ~18k entries of software images from floppys & cds, scans, fonts, icons and everything in between. The Macintosh Repository: If y…
Lees meerDamien Erambert (via Hacker News): Mac Themes Garden is dedicated to showcasing schemes made for Kaleidoscope and celebrating the customization and expressiveness it enabled on Classic Mac OS.[…]What I call “recording” here involves taking “live” sc…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: Is NSCache still a thing we like to use? I’ve discussed this several times, but I don’t think I ever blogged about it. The problem I have with NSCache is that its eviction strategy is not defined, and it’s definitely not LRU. When …
Lees meerFatbobman: In the process of creating predicates for Core Data, the predicate expressions do not have a direct link to the type code. The properties used in these expressions correspond to those defined within the model editor (data model), and thei…
Lees meerConnor Jones: Stenberg said the amount of time it takes project maintainers to triage each AI-assisted vulnerability report made via HackerOne, only for them to be deemed invalid, is tantamount to a DDoS attack on the project.Citing a specific recen…
Lees meerRiley Testut: Guess what — you can now self-publish your apps on AltStore PAL completely FREE! Just connect your Apple Developer account with PAL and make an AltStore source. Then you can distribute notarized apps by simply uploading them to your we…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to allow developers to use alternative p…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: The problem is that what Apple means here by “free” as opposed to “paid” is simply that you don’t have to pay before downloading the app, but Apple’s counterintuitive definition tends to obscure what is most important to consumers: how…
Lees meerSarah Perez: Creator platform Patreon has rolled out an updated version of its app that now allows users to make purchases via the web, in the wake of the Apple-Epic court ruling that forced Apple to allow app developers to include links to alternat…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said over the weekend (via The Verge) that Epic will use its Epic Games Sweden account to submit Fortnite to the App Store in the U.S. Apparently, Sweeney has spoken to Apple about the issue, and based on his …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today said that iPadOS 19 will be “more like macOS.”Gurman said that iPadOS 19 will be “more like a Mac” in three ways:Improved productivityImproved multitaskingImproved app window management Previous discussio…
Lees meerAndrew Liszewski: Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange “Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings.[…]Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a feature you’d find in the Kindle mobile app following app store rule ch…
Lees meerJuli Clover: PayPal today announced that it is planning to debut contactless payments in Germany, allowing German iPhone users to make tap-to-pay purchases in stores using their PayPal accounts.PayPal is able to offer this feature because Europe’s D…
Lees meerRosyna Keller (Mastodon, tweet): At the time, Apple only allowlisted specific menu extras by class name (checked in -[SUISStartupObject _canLoadClass:]). Any attempt to load a menu extra that advertised a different class name in its Info.plist’s NSP…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Sharon started writing professionally about the Macintosh at its inception in 1984, with articles in the earliest issues of Macworld and the premiere issue of MacUser. She contributed to The Macintosh Bible for its second edition in 1989…
Lees meerScott Morrison: For a number of years we have been working on MailMaven: A new macOS email client that picks up where we left off after Apple killed Mail Plugins. Today we are opening access to a wider audience than our small group of private beta t…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: The first release of Hyperspace mitigated these risks, in part, by entirely avoiding certain files and file system locations. I knew lifting these limitations would be a common request from potential customers. My plan was to launch 1…
Lees meerAnybox: Quick look extension for folders. […] USD$1.99 to get the app and all of it. […] Preview ZIP files as folders. It does what it says on the tin. This is a new-style Quick Look extension, so it uses a real outline view and a real path bar, rat…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple is working with Anthropic on an updated version of Xcode that will support AI code writing, editing, and testing, reports Bloomberg. Anthropic is best known for its “Claude” large language model and chatbot that competes with Open…
Lees meerApple (e-mail, Hacker News): The App Review Guidelines have been updated for compliance with a United States court decision regarding buttons, external links, and other calls to action in apps. These changes affect apps distributed on the United Sta…
Lees meerApple (transcript, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion, up 5 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $1.65, up 8 percent year over year. […] The board of directors has also authorized an addi…
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