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Exporting Kindle Highlights for Personal Documents

dinsdag 5 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I’ve long used the Send to Kindle app to upload documents for reading on my Kindle Oasis. Unlike with books, I usually don’t care about saving notes and highlights for these, so I haven’t tried doing that in a while. However, I recently read a long …

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Paddle’s Single-Click Apple Pay

dinsdag 5 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Paddle writes: Previously, to initiate Apple Pay, customers were redirected to a secondary page due to Apple constraints with top-level domains. But now, Apple has updated their framework, allowing us to provide a seamless, single-click Apple Pay ex…

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How to Use Cursor for iOS Development

maandag 4 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Ricouard: Recently, there’s been much talk and fuss about AI, and whether or not it can improve your development workflow. I wanted to touch base about how AI and its implementation in Cursor have been significantly improving my speed and eff…

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Why Alexa Hasn’t Yet Become the Real Computer of the Future

maandag 4 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy: Fast-forward to today, and there are over 40 million Echo smart speakers in US households, with Alexa processing billions of commands a week globally. But despite this proliferation of products and popularity, the “superhuma…

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Playing Purchased Music on HomePod

maandag 4 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ruffin Bailey: I often buy from what at least used to be called the iTunes Music Store. The biggest advantage for me for doing so over, say, buying from Amazon or directly from the artist’s site (which I often do, or buy from Bandcamp if available),…

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Reddit Is Finally Profitable

maandag 4 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Emma Roth (Slashdot): Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase yea…

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Apple Acquires Pixelmator

vrijdag 1 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Pixelmator (Hacker News): Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple. […] Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes to the P…

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Fantastical 4 and Windows Version

vrijdag 1 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Flexibits (MacRumors): We’ve spent the last 4 years making Fantastical better than ever across Apple devices, and with version 4.0 we decided to go even bigger by finally bringing the world’s best calendar app to a Windows PC near you. For the Mac a…

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Apple’s Q4 2024 Results

vrijdag 1 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (transcript, MacRumors, MacStories): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year over year when…

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CoverSutra Is Back

vrijdag 1 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sophia Teutschler (Reddit): Hello, it’s me again! 👋 Did you hear? CoverSutra 4.0.1 is now available on the Mac App Store! Sophia Teutschler: It is a free upgrade for Version 3 customers. Previously: CoverSutra Open Source

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GitHub Copilot for Xcode

donderdag 31 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Frederic Lardinois (MacRumors, Hacker News): Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for the first time. Now in public preview, this will allow developers who build apps in Apple’s IDE with the assistance of Copilot. …

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Xcode 16.1

donderdag 31 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (downloads): Xcode 16.1 includes SDKs for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, tvOS 18.1, watchOS 11.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1, and visionOS 2.1. The Xcode 16.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 7 and later, an…

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iOS Apple Intelligence in EU in April 2025

donderdag 31 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Romain Dillet (Hacker News, MacRumors): Remember when Apple blamed EU tech rules — and more specifically the Digital Markets Act — to justify the fact that Apple Intelligence wouldn’t be available in the European Union? Maybe that was just an attemp…

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MacBook Pro 2024

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): With M4, MacBook Pro is up to 1.8x faster than the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 for tasks like editing gigapixel photos, and even more demanding workloads like rendering complex scenes in Blender are up to 3.4x faster.…

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Apple M4 Pro and M4 Max

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): All three chips are built using industry-leading, second-generation 3-nanometer technology, which improves performance and power efficiency. The CPUs across the M4 family feature the world’s fastest CPU core, deliveri…

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Use a Cloned Drive to Recover From Mac Failures

woensdag 30 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: I got up and running in no time because I keep a USB drive permanently attached to my Mac Studio, and make sure it’s a complete clone of my drive. When I reinstalled macOS Sequoia, I was able to use Migration Assistant to restore from m…

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Mac mini 2024

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon to pack an incredible amount of performance into an even smaller form of just 5 by 5 inches. […] Fo…

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iMac 2024

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, Slashdot): With M4, iMac is up to 1.7x faster for daily productivity, and up to 2.1x faster for demanding workflows like photo editing and gaming, compared to iMac with M1. With the Neural Engine in M4, iMac is the world’s best a…

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USB-C Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad

dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Alongside the new iMac, Apple announced updated versions of the Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad. The accessories are now equipped with USB-C charging ports, whereas the previous models used Lightning. Apple includes th…

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macOS 15.1

maandag 28 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sequoia 15.1 introduces the first Apple Intelligence features for Macs that are equipped with an M-series chip. Not all Apple Intelligence features are avai…

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macOS 14.7.1 and macOS 13.7.1

maandag 28 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (release notes, full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.7.1. Apple (release notes, full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.7.1. See also: Howard Oakley. Previou…

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