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macOS Text Replacement Export/Import

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: What I didn’t know until recently is that Apple provides a hidden—but documented, amazingly!—way to export your replacement pairs to a property list file. All you have to do is select the items to export (Command-A selects all) and drag …

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The Problem With the Touch Bar

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: I know that sounds like a joke but I really do think the biggest problem with the Touch Bar wasn’t that the first crack at it wasn’t good enough, but that they never took a second crack at it. One could argue that the second crack was a…

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GyazMail 1.8

maandag 4 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Goichi Hirakawa: Compatible with Mac with Apple Silicon [i.e. doesn’t require Rosetta]. Updated the app icon. Improved compatibility with macOS Tahoe. Previously: Ending macOS Intel Support GyazMail 1.7

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2026 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card

maandag 4 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell (complete commentary): There weren’t too many radical changes in this year’s survey. Respondents are most positive about Apple’s hardware, with another strong score honoring its commitment to security and privacy. And optimism about the …

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MacBook Neo and How the iPad Could Be

maandag 4 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Mod (Hacker News): The iPad should be radically (though obviously) touch-only. No keyboards. No pointers. No mice. No trackpads. Just your disgusting fingers flopping over the screen and mooshing into icons. It should not have any window’d mod…

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Apple’s Q2 2026 Results

vrijdag 1 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (transcript, MacRumors, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $2.01, up 22 percent year over year. “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quar…

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Claude at Apple

vrijdag 1 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ryan Christoffel (Reddit): Apple recently announced an AI partnership with Google. But reporting indicates the company initially pursued deals with other companies, including Anthropic. Based on new comments from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it’s easy t…

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War on Adobe

vrijdag 1 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News): All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe’s time has come. […] Pricing in particular has given competitors an opening to attack. Some of the best alter…

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Photoshop’s “Modern” Spectrum User Interface

donderdag 30 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Marcin Wichary: The first field is not focused, so you cannot start typing the number after opening this window. You need to immediately move your hand to the mouse. If you click on any field, the value is not pre-selected, so you cannot start typin…

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Zig’s Anti-AI Contribution Policy

donderdag 30 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Simon Willison (Hacker News): Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged,…

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Giving Up on the Vision Pro

donderdag 30 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: From the first time I put on the Vision Pro, I never could get Optic ID to work quite right. I couldn’t set it up to work for the longest time, and when I finally did, using it to unlock the device only worked sporadically. […] Worse, t…

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External Purchase Fee Stay Reversed

donderdag 30 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision letting Apple keep its current zero-fee link-out commission structure in place while it appeals to the Supreme Court. The reversal means Apple now has to retur…

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Retcon 1.6

woensdag 29 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nathan Manceaux-Panot: Cut, copy and paste commits between branches Copy a commit with ⌘C, then paste it on another branch with ⌘V Or, cut the commit with ⌘X, to move rather than duplicate Paste above the selection using ⇧⌘V, or using the context me…

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Acorn 8.5

woensdag 29 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Gus Mueller (release notes): There’s a new “Bendable” type of Arrow shape which lets you add a nice adjustable curve to your arrow. You can also have arrow heads on either end (or both) of the shape. […] SVG importing has been much improved. Drop sh…

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California’s BASED Act Defeated

woensdag 29 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Scott Wiener: Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced SB 1074, the Blocking Anticompetitive Self-preferencing by Entrenched Dominant platforms (BASED) Act, which is sponsored by Y Combinator and Economic Security California Action. The BASE…

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Apple Invites 1.8

woensdag 29 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Following the latest update of Apple’s Invites app, hosts can now manually edit the guest list to update guest responses and adjust the number of additional guests. […] Elsewhere, the dashboard has been expanded with an All Events view…

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The Wide Range of Find My–Compatible Devices

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Glenn Fleishman: I set out a few weeks ago to compile a list of all items with certified Find My. Friends, I thought it would number between 20 and 30 items. It started to become unmanageable, so I built a site—FindYourTag—both for my own reference …

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My Favorite Apple Accessory

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Upgrade: And when that’s done, we finish our Apple at 50 coverage with a vibe-based draft. Dr. Drang: My favorite picks were the oddballs, the products that weren’t Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or Apple IIs. In other words: the accessories. I was pa…

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Fix iPhone Autocoreet Pleaese

dinsdag 28 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joanna Stern chose to use the first post-announcement post on her new site to return to a familiar issue that remains unresolved: Here’s my main question: John Ternus, can you turn-us the iPhone autocorrect around? […] Over the last few months, I’ve…

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Git Tower 16

vrijdag 24 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tower 15: This update introduces Automatic Branch Management, making it easier than ever to keep your repository tidy and clutter-free. We’ve also added significant improvements to the “History” view for better visualization of your work 😎 Tower 16:…

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I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made With iCloud Photos

vrijdag 24 april 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nick Heer (Mac Power Users Talk): Apple’s next iCloud tier is a generous 6 TB, but it costs another $324 per year. I could buy a new 6 TB hard disk annually for that kind of money. […] A better solution is to recognize I do not need instant access t…

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