After I got off the beta waitlist, I went to enable Apple Intelligence, and it wouldn’t let me do so without also enabling Siri. I don’t find Siri to be useful on my Macs and tend to restrict it to my iPhone to prevent accidentally triggering the wr…
Lees meerApple (transcript, MacRumors, MacStories, ArsTechnica): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $85.8 billion, up 5 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.40, up 11 percent year over year. […] “During the quarter, our…
Lees meerTim Sweeney (MacRumors): This feature is super creepy surveillance tech and shouldn’t exist. Years ago, a kid stole a Mac laptop out of my car. Years later, I was checking out Find My and it showed a map with the house where the kid who stole my Mac…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: In addition to Sequoia VMs on Apple silicon Macs being able to use services such as iCloud using Apple ID, they now appear able to support full-strength FileVault when Apple ID is activated. This contrasts with FileVault supported by …
Lees meerJohn Brayton: Unread for Mac is a native Mac app. The user interface is built with AppKit and a touch of SwiftUI. […] Like on iPhone and iPad, on Mac you can easily switch between showing feed text, webpage text, or both for an individual article. T…
Lees meerQuinn: I don’t think we ever documented this officially, but to understand this choice you have to look at the history of macOS. Traditional Mac OS did not use paths a lot. Rather, files were identified by an FSSpec, which contains a volume identifi…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: What is different is that restoring a whole volume from a snapshot is a one-way trip, and there is no undo. This is because snapshots subsequent to that used to restore from will be removed, and you won’t then be able to ‘roll forward…
Lees meerMarc Edwards: What’s new? Everything. iStat Menus 7 is a full reboot, sporting an all-new design with hundreds of big and small improvements. Bjango (version history): New menu bar modes, including stacked labels and values. New menu bar items, like…
Lees meerMatt Sephton: Many years ago I found ContextMenu ($4.99) which solves all of the issues I have with the Automator approach [to adding file commands to Finder’s contextual menu]. There’s also a free version, ContextMenu Lite, that supports up to 3 ac…
Lees meerZigZag: Still, no matter how often I use an alternate file manager and constantly tracking progress of development of most of them, I still find myself manipulating files in Finder very often. Finder is just convenient. It’s always there, ready to b…
Lees meerKaleidoscope 4.5 (tweet): Recently, we have spent a lot of time on many aspects of the folder comparison feature for Kaleidoscope 4.4 and 4.5. We have overhauled some of the underpinnings and worked hard to improve reliability and speed. But we also…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There are no notable features in the iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 updates, with Apple adding unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Nothing new was discovered during the beta testing process. Eric d…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The watchOS 10.6 update does not add any new features, and instead focuses on bug fixes and security improvements. Previously: watchOS 10.5
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There were no new features found during the beta testing process. Previously: tvOS 17.5.1
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There are no new features in the visionOS 1.3 update, but it does bring small bug fixes and security improvements. Previously: visionOS 2 Announced
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sonoma 14.6 includes bug fixes and security improvements, and it is recommended for all Macs that run the macOS Sonoma operating system. Juli Clover: The macOS…
Lees meerApple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.8. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.6. Adam Engst: Our general advice is that these updates are all…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed: Specifically, the new additions include iTorrent, an iOS torrent client that can be used without jailbreaking iPhones or iPads, and qBitControl, a qBittorrent remote client for iOS devices. PeopleDrop is a dating-focused “social dis…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Spain’s competition authority has launched an investigation into Apple’s App Store over potential anti-competitive practices that could result in hefty fines (via Reuters).[…]If the CNMC’s investigation confirms these allegations, …
Lees meerC. Scott Brown: Meta is now scraping Facebook posts to train its AI model. While this isn’t surprising on its own, what is surprising is just how difficult Meta is making it for users to opt out of this process. Via X Daily News: Instagram is traini…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple Intelligence is still not available as of the fourth developer beta of iOS 18 this week, leading some to wonder if the features have been delayed. However, we have confirmed that Apple still plans to add some of the new Apple In…
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