Thomas Claburn (MacRumors): The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a final “click-to-cancel” rule that aims to simplify the process of ending unwanted subscriptions to products and services.[…]“Too often, businesses make people jump …
Lees meerJamie Zawinski: According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late t…
Lees meerToothFairy 2.8.5 is a maintenance update of my Bluetooth menu bar utility. It fixes a bug where sometimes ToothFairy wouldn’t auto-launch at login. An interesting bug was: ToothFairy uses SMLoginItemSetEnabled(), which, instead of launching the app …
Lees meerAmazon (Hacker News, MacRumors): The all-new Kindle Colorsoft brings color to Kindle without compromise. It has everything customers love about Kindle today—high contrast, fast page turns, an auto-adjusting front light, and weeks of battery life. It…
Lees meerThomas Claburn (Hacker News): Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform.[…]“Astonishingly, Digital River continued to take sales from our loyal customers…
Lees meerFatbobman: However, the release of iOS 18 cast a shadow over this beautiful vision. A year after its first appearance, SwiftData underwent a major underlying refactoring. Although this adjustment was aimed at shifting from a strong coupling with Cor…
Lees meerAzad Balabanian (via Federico Viticci): The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune o…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (Hacker News, MacRumors, Dan Moren): As just announced by the FIDO Alliance, the new specifications aim to promote user choice by offering a way to import and export passkeys. The draft of the new specifications establishes the Crede…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When you create the disk image, macOS creates and attaches its container, and creates and mounts the file system within that. This is then saved to disk as a regular file occupying the full size of the disk image, plus the overhead in…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): With a beloved ultraportable design, the new iPad mini is available in four gorgeous finishes, including a new blue and purple, and features the brilliant 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display. A17 Pro delivers a huge perfor…
Lees meerBenj Edwards (Hacker News): Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), has died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. He was found deceased at his home on Friday after friends requested a wellness check. Christensen…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple sells two external displays, including the Pro Display XDR and the Studio Display, but neither has received hardware upgrades in years. In fact, the Pro Display XDR is nearly five years old, having been released all the way back…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): The study, published on arXiv, outlines Apple’s evaluation of a range of leading language models, including those from OpenAI, Meta, and other prominent developers, to determine how well these models could handle math…
Lees meerApp ahead (Reddit): PolyCapture for Mac lets you to record webcams, microphones, screens, and apps — individually or simultaneously. […] Filter apps from your recordings on the fly, ensuring nothing gets in your way. […] Capture voiceovers, podcasts…
Lees meerJoshua Long: For nearly six years, Apple has neglected to fix a bug that enables anyone to effectively create false or misleading news headlines that appear to come from credible sources. […] Apple’s Safari browser includes a feature related to link…
Lees meerBen Cohen: The keynote from Tony [Parker] and me at ServerSideSwift2024 is up. Hear about how Swift interoperability allowed Foundation to make the switch to Swift, and about the latest direction for interoperability: from Swift to Java. Apple has r…
Lees meerMoriz Büsing (via Hacker News): It turns out that splitting up, or dynamically constructing identifiers is a bad idea. […] Don’t rename fields at application boundaries to match naming schemes. An obvious example is then importing postgres-style sna…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: All storage media, including memory, SSDs and rotating hard disks, can develop fragmentation, but most serious attention has been paid to the problem on hard disks. This is because of their electro-mechanical mechanism for seeking to …
Lees meerMario Guzmán (Mastodon): Customizing an application’s Dock tile when the application itself is not running requires that you write a plug-in. The plug-in’s principal class must implement the NSDockTilePlugIn protocol.The name of the plugin is indica…
Lees meerKevin Yank: When I import a large batch of shots from my camera into Photos, I usually want them in an album, sorted in the order I shot them. The Keep Sorted By Oldest First option would seem to be what I want, but unfortunately its sorting is only…
Lees meerNick Botticelli (via Hacker News): Now, to get started, a strategy for approaching the daunting task of running iOS on vma2 is needed. I found the most success with reusing a fully macOS 12.0.1 bootchain and simply replacing the system (OS) image, a…
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