{$lblSkipToContent|ucfirst}

iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1

maandag 28 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli CLover (no iOS or iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): Apple Intelligence is the main draw in iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1, and some of the first Apple Intelligence features are available on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Ma…

Lees meer

watchOS 11.1

maandag 28 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, watchOS 11.1 adds improvements and bug fixes, including a fix for an issue with writing breathing disturbances data to HealthKit for some users. Previously: wat…

Lees meer

tvOS 18.1

maandag 28 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): tvOS updates are often minor in scale, and tvOS 18.1 doesn’t seem to be an exception.Apple still hasn’t added the 21:9 aspect ratio for projectors or the new Snoopy screensavers that it promised a…

Lees meer

visionOS 2.1

maandag 28 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (no release notes, developer, security, no enterprise): According to Apple’s release notes, visionOS 2.1 includes bug fixes and security updates, and the software is recommended for all users. Previously: visionOS 2.0.1

Lees meer

audioOS 18.1

maandag 28 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

My HomePod is reporting this update as available with the following amazing release notes: This update includes performance and stability improvements. It’s not yet listed on Apple’s page, and I haven’t seen any press coverage yet. Here’s a Reddit t…

Lees meer

Security Research on Private Cloud Compute

vrijdag 25 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): In the weeks after we announced Apple Intelligence and PCC, we provided third-party auditors and select security researchers early access to the resources we created to enable this inspection, including the PCC…

Lees meer

Testing EU iOS Features in iOS 18.2

vrijdag 25 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: As previewed earlier this year, changes to the browser choice screen, default apps, and app deletion for EU users, as well as support in Safari for exporting user data and for web browsers to import that data, are now available in the beta ve…

Lees meer

Disney+ and Hulu Drop IAP

vrijdag 25 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: The change was noted on Reddit over the weekend, and there are details on the Disney+ and Hulu websites. Both the Disney+ and Hulu websites say that new and returning subscribers cannot sign up for and pay through Apple, but existing Ap…

Lees meer

Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.2 and iOS 18.2

donderdag 24 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Six Colors: On Wednesday, Apple rolled out developer betas of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2, which run Apple Intelligence features previously seen only in Apple’s own marketing materials and product announcements: Three different kinds of im…

Lees meer

Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.1 and iOS 18.1

donderdag 24 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joanna Stern: Apple will launch iOS 18.1 next week, bringing its much anticipated generative-AI tools to the iPhone 15 Pro models and the new iPhone 16 lineup. It will be available for most newer iPads and Macs, too.If you’re expecting AI fireworks,…

Lees meer

Postbox Discontinued

donderdag 24 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst (Hacker News, MacRumors Forum): Sad news. The longstanding email client Postbox has been acquired and shut down by eM Client, described by the announcement as “a leading email platform for Windows and macOS that combines email, calendars,…

Lees meer

TouchArcade Is Shutting Down

woensdag 23 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jared Nelson (Hacker News): Many of you who have followed TouchArcade for a long time are well aware that we’ve had financial troubles for many years now, and to be frank I think it’s a miracle that we’ve been able to last as long as we have. The tr…

Lees meer

The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting

woensdag 23 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

AppleScript support with popular Mac calendar apps is surprisingly limited. With Apple Mail, it’s easy to write a script that operates on the selected e-mail messages, and I’ve written many such scripts. I’d like to do this same with calendar events…

Lees meer

Qbix Calendar Apps and the Mac App Store

woensdag 23 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

A reader shared a story about the confusing and unfortunate situation with Qbix’s calendar apps on the Mac App Store. There are two separate apps: Calendars (which used to be called Calendar 2, previously discussed) and Calendar Plus. Calendar Plus …

Lees meer

iPhone 16 Adds JPEG XL

dinsdag 22 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeremy Gray (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple and its various software iterations have supported JPEG XL for at least a year, including in Finder, Preview, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Photos, Mail, Safari, and more. Adobe has also supported the format for a wh…

Lees meer

Lightroom Classic 14

dinsdag 22 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Agen Schmitz (release notes): Adobe has issued Lightroom Classic 14.0, a big update with several new features. The release enhances the Generative Remove feature with improved selection and object detection for easier removal of unwanted objects and…

Lees meer

Time Machine in Sequoia

dinsdag 22 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Der Teilweise: Backing up to a NAS currently says 3 days (!) left, after having backed up ~160GB. Was using WiFi with TX rate 133MBit. Now I connected using Gigabit Ethernet, does not seem to be faster. Plus: CPU usage is ridiculously high, fans spi…

Lees meer

Leaky macOS VPN After System Update

maandag 21 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mullvad VPN (Hacker News): We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.In this scenario th…

Lees meer

TCC and Gatekeeper Bypasses

maandag 21 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Wojciech Reguła (September 2021, tweet): I was looking for code injection opportunities that may allow reaching TCC bypasses. My simple shell script discovered a potential victim - /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Directory Utility.app. It …

Lees meer

Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die

maandag 21 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Cory Doctorow (July 2023, Hacker News): Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.[…]The ca…

Lees meer

exit(173) Receipt Fetching Deprecated on Sequoia

vrijdag 18 oktober 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): [If] you compile your app with the macOS 15 SDK in Xcode 16, and your app exits with the status 173—the traditional way to handle Mac App Store receipt validation failure—then macOS 15 Sequoia will show the user an alert[…]T…

Lees meer

Internet - WiFi • e-mail • Software • Hardware • Reparatie • (Geheugen - SSD) Upgrades • Advies • Netwerken • Routers • Beheer op afstand (Teamviewer) • Onderhoud (Online Backup's) • Data Recovery • OSX Server • Synology NAS • Bootcamp - Parallels - VMWare

• 20 jaar ervaring •