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Apple Watch at 10

donderdag 24 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the original Apple Watch launching in the United States and eight other countries around the world. Adrienne So (Hacker News): While it seems hard now to recall a time when the Apple Watch, or so…

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TypeIt4Me 7

donderdag 24 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ettore Software (Reddit): As previously teased, we’ve rebuilt our flagship app from scratch in Swift – fully sandboxed – with a speedy new engine, a revamped interface and a slew of new features. Our hair is a lot thinner and greyer than it was 3 ye…

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EU Fines Apple and Meta Over DMA Violations

woensdag 23 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Foo Yun Chee and Jan Strupczewski (European Commission, MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under la…

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DOJ Wins Google Ads Antitrust Case

woensdag 23 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David McCabe (PDF, via Hacker News): Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in aruling that Google had broken the law to build its dominance over the largely invisible system of technology that pla…

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Elegy for the Video Screenshot

dinsdag 22 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nora Deligter: It was around this time when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot. At first, there were workarounds: users could continue to screenshot by using t…

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DeskMat 1.0

dinsdag 22 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthias Gansrigler: I have a new app out that lets you sweep things under the rug – virtually: DeskMat for Mac.With DeskMat, you cover the mess of files and folders on your Desktop with a single click – and show them again in just the same way.It m…

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Framous 1.0 and Shareshot

dinsdag 22 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: Some people, whether you’re in the media or software development or technical support, take and publish a lot of device screenshots. And while an image straight from an iPhone or Apple Watch looks fine, it often looks much better to be …

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Automating Screenshots for the Mac App Store

dinsdag 22 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jesse Squires: Meeting the requirements for screenshots is a frustrating experience. On iOS, tooling like SimulatorStatusMagic, Nine41, and fastlane snapshot help make the process easier. However, on macOS there is much less support (and, sadly, dem…

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macOS 15.4.1

maandag 21 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 includes important bug fixes and security updates, and is recommended for all users. The enterprise relea…

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iOS 18.4.1 and iPadOS 18.4.1

maandag 21 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): There have been complaints about issues with CarPlay and deleted apps being restored, and iOS 18.4.1 includes several bug fixes. According to Apple’s release notes, the u…

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tvOS 18.4.1

maandag 21 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple today released tvOS 18.4.1, a minor update to the tvOS 18 operating system that came out last September. It fixes the same security bugs as iOS 18.4.1. Previously: tvOS 18.4

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audioOS 18.4.1

maandag 21 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: This update includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 18.4

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visionOS 2.4.1

maandag 21 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer, no enterprise): According to Apple’s release notes, visionOS 2.4.1 includes bug fixes and security updates, and the software is recommended for all users. Previously: visionOS 2.4

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Returning to macOS After 20+ Years on Windows

vrijdag 18 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Randy Parker (via TidBITS-Talk): For longer replies in Messages, I would often compose my message on my computer, email it to myself, and then copy and paste it from the Mail app on my iPhone into the Messages app.As a Windows user, I’d have to live…

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Investigating MacPaint’s Source Code

vrijdag 18 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeffrey Starr (via Stephen Hackett): One of two launch applications for the Apple Macintosh in 1984, MacPaint is emblematic of the Macintosh’s early quirky revolutionary branding, focus on ease of use, and appeal to artistic customers. Using the sou…

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The Invalid 68030 Instruction That Accidentally Allowed the Mac Classic II to Successfully Boot Up

vrijdag 18 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Doug Brown (via Uli Kusterer): This is the story of how Apple made a mistake in the ROM of the Macintosh Classic II that probably should have prevented it from booting, but instead, miraculously, its Motorola MC68030 CPU accidentally prevented a cra…

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ARC Optimization vs. -fstack-protector

donderdag 17 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Samuel Giddins: After months of painstaking work, we’ve got our apps building, and most of our tests building, and almost most of them passing.Except for some tests that use test fixtures. And assert that those test fixtures get deallocated. And the…

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Performance of the Python 3.14 Tail-Call Interpreter

donderdag 17 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nelson Elhage (via Hacker News): Unfortunately, as I will document in this post, these impressive performance gains turned out to be primarily due to inadvertently working around a regression in LLVM 19. When benchmarked against a better baseline (s…

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Amazon Web Services Dark Patterns

donderdag 17 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: As far as I can tell, the confusingly named Aurora PostgreSQL is not actually PostgreSQL but rather an Amazon-specific database designed with one overriding goal: to be infinitely more expensive than PostgreSQL, which is free. In any c…

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Carbon Copy Cloner 7.1

woensdag 16 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bombich Software: For Sonoma and Sequoia users, CCC now offers an option to set a custom icon on locally-attached source and destination volumes. Select an image of your own, or get creative with Apple’s new Image Playground. I’ve been doing this ma…

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India’s Repair Culture Gives New Life to Dead Laptops

woensdag 16 april 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Peter Mommsen: Around the globe, governments are increasingly committed to making the right to repair the law of the land. India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs is developing a set of rules requiring manufacturers of electronics, farm equipment, and …

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