Apple Is No Longer Selling the MagSafe Battery Pack and MagSafe Duo Folding Charger

★ Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event

The Super Bowl of technology.

Why the iPhones 15 Pro Feel So Much Lighter

★ Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event

The Super Bowl of technology.

★ Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event

The Super Bowl of technology.

Automatically Pausing Animated Images

Apple: Pause animated images by default, such as GIFs in Messages and Safari for your visual comfort. Via Jeff Johnson: In my opinion, the feature should have been highlighted in the WWDC keynote. It’s that huge. […] It would be better if you could …

New Apple ID Sign-In Options

Joe Rossignol: First, it is now possible to sign into an Apple ID with any phone number or secondary email address on file with the account. We were able to sign into an Apple ID with a phone number on the Apple ID website using a Mac running macOS …

Limitations on macOS Virtual Machines

Howard Oakley: This is a draft summary of the limitations of lightweight virtualisation of macOS on Apple silicon Macs, using the macOS API in late versions of Ventura and early Sonoma, VMs designated VirtualMac2,1.[…]Shared folders are only availab…

Core Data Lab 2.4 Beta

Betamagic: However, the data model of a SwiftData project is based on Swift class files with a Model macro notation, instead of entities in a Core Data Object Model designer file. As a consequence of this, compiled SwiftData apps don’t have an embed…

Hermès Still Sells Leather Apple Watch Straps, But Only Through Their Own Store

The Verge’s 17-Minute Summary of the iPhone 15 Event

GSE402 Rusty Roadtripper

On episode 404 of Geekiest Show Ever, Elisa and Melissa answer listener feedback and share their thoughts on Apple’s September Event dubbed “Wonderlust.” Check

Unity Runtime Fee

Unity Technologies (via Rune Skovbo Johansen, Hacker News): We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user. We chose this because each time a game is downloaded, the Unity Runtime i…

Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1.7

Bombich Software: This version of CCC adds official support for macOS 14 Sonoma.[…]Added support for temporarily downloading cloud-only files from services like Dropbox, OneDrive and GoogleDrive (any cloud-backed service that uses Apple’s FileProvid…

SuperDuper 3.8 Beta

Dave Nanian: We’re back and we’re happy to be bringing full Sonoma support to SuperDuper.[…]Apple has not improved its support for bootable backups. Their tool, required for copying the OS, remains quite fussy, sometimes doesn’t work, etc. It’s some…

iOS 17 Shipping Soon

Joe Rossignol: Apple today shared in-depth lists of all new features coming with the iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma software updates, which are all set to be released later this month. The lists are available as PDFs on Apple’s website. Joe Ros…

‘Feedback’

Inflation-Adjusted iPhone Pricing

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iPhone 12 Radiation

ANFR (via Hacker News): As market surveillance authority for radio equipment and responsible for controlling public exposure to electromagnetic fields, the ANFR runs inspections on mobile phones placed on the French market. 141 mobile phones, includ…

macOS 14 Sonoma Shipping Soon

Tim Hardwick: Apple today at its “Wonderlust” event announced that macOS Sonoma, the latest version of its Mac operating system, will be available to all users with compatible Mac models starting on Tuesday, September 26. Brian Webster: Wow, this is…