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macOS 15.4

maandag 31 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): With macOS 15.4, Apple is bringing Mail Categorization to the Mac. The Mail app features dedicated categories like transactions, updates, and promotions, with import…

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macOS 14.7.5 and macOS 13.7.5

maandag 31 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

macOS 14.7.5 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 13.7.5 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. Previou…

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iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4

maandag 31 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.4 adds Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence-capable devices, showing you your most notification first. There’s a dedicated Apple Vision Pro app for Vision…

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tvOS 18.4

maandag 31 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple shares full release notes for tvOS in its tvOS support document, which is updated after each new version of tvOS comes out. But all it says is “performance and stability improvements.” Previ…

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watchOS 11.4

maandag 31 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ryan Christoffel (no release notes, no security, no developer): After initially listing watchOS 11.4 on its website as released, the site has since been updated to remove the update. It’s unknown when it will return. Previously: watchOS 11.3.1

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visionOS 2.4

maandag 31 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer, enterprise): The visionOS 2.4 update brings Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro for the first time, putting it on par with the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. […] Along with Apple Intelligence, Apple added…

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audioOS 18.4

maandag 31 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: This update includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 18.3

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macOS 15.4 Adds TCC Events to Endpoint Security

vrijdag 28 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Patrick Wardle (tweet): Since TCC is designed to protect these resources, it poses a challenge for malware that often tries to access them. Generally malware takes one of two approaches: exploiting TCC bugs, or obtaining explicit user permission acc…

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ChangeTheHeaders 1.0

vrijdag 28 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: ChangeTheHeaders is a Safari extension for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS that allows you to customize HTTP request headers such as Accept, Accept-Language, Cookie, and User-Agent. ChangeTheHeaders is available now in the App Store. …

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Controlling Launch Services in Sequoia

vrijdag 28 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: LaunchServices compiles a large registry database of apps and their associations with and capabilities for handling different document types. Its records determine which app opens a document when you double-click on its icon in the Fi…

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Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia

vrijdag 28 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Timothy R. Butler (Hacker News, Slashdot): The latest releases — MacOS Sequoia and iOS/iPadOS 18 — are screaming for such a reset. Yes, they work and are still smoother and less glitchy than Windows 11, but they feel like software developed by peopl…

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SuperDuper 3.10 Beta Works Around asr Bug

donderdag 27 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dave Nanian (Mastodon): Since a given APFS container can hold multiple copies of the OS, Preboot and Recovery have folder structures that include UUIDs corresponding to the volume that “owns” that part of their shared volumes in the group. Inside th…

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Double-Tap Kindle to Turn Page

donderdag 27 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Andrew Liszewski: Amazon has released a software update for the current-generation Colorsoft and Paperwhite that lets you double-tap on the sides or back of your Kindle to turn the page. The new feature, as spotted by The eBook Reader, is listed in …

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Google Moves Android Development to Internal Branches

donderdag 27 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Schoon (via Hacker News): The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has left most of Google’s work in developing Android as an operating system visible to the public eye. But, starting next week, Google is moving that work behind closed doors.Googl…

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The Future of Swift Serialization and Deserialization APIs

woensdag 26 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kevin Perry: It’s clear from community adoption and feedback that Codable has had a lot of success in the years since it was added to Swift 4, but that it doesn’t satisfy some important needs. One of the foremost of those needs is performance more i…

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Apple TV+ Losing $1 Billion Per Year

woensdag 26 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ryan Christoffel: Wayne Ma writes today at The Information about the state of Apple TV+ as a business, analyzing where the streamer stands in terms of revenue and subscribers after five years.In the heavily-paywalled article, Ma reports that Apple’s…

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Updates on HP Printers

woensdag 26 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nathan Edwards (2023, via Nick Heer): It was fine until my yellow ink cartridge (allegedly) ran out, and the printer stopped printing in color. I soldiered on with the black cartridge. Until one day I tried to print a return label (in black and whit…

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Apple’s Dormant CUPS

woensdag 26 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Wikipedia: Michael Sweet, who owned Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997 and the first public betas appeared in 1999. The original design of CUPS used the Line Printer Daemon protocol (LPD), but due to limitations in LPD and vendo…

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AirPods Max Lossless and Low Latency Audio Over USB-C

dinsdag 25 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Apple will bring lossless audio and ulta-low latency audio to AirPods Max in its upcoming iOS 18.4 software update arriving in April, according to the company.[…]Apple also said that today it is making a USB-C to 3.5mm audio cable avai…

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Error 702 Installing macOS on an External Drive

dinsdag 25 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

My Intel MacBook Pro died, and even though I have an M1 MacBookAir ready to replace it, it’s taken several days to get back to the point where I can run older versions of macOS for testing my apps. I had all the old versions installed in separate pa…

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Please Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face

dinsdag 25 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Drew DeVault: Over the past few months, instead of working on our priorities at SourceHut, I have spent anywhere from 20-100% of my time in any given week mitigating hyper-aggressive LLM crawlers at scale. […] If you think these crawlers respect rob…

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