Jamie 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…
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