macOS Window Management

Mac Power Users: Since the dawn of multitasking, users have needed to juggle things on their screens. Apple has taken several swings at building good window management tools into macOS, but better solutions can be found in a long list of third-party…

iOS App Setup for Remote Push Notifications

Natalia Panferova (Mastodon): Remote push notifications are messages that app developers can send to users directly on their devices from a remote server. These notifications can appear even if the app is not open, making them a powerful tool for re…

Twitter Media Datacide

Tom Coates (Hacker News): Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. That’s - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service. […] This is what Twitter pre-2014 looks like - every image and vi…

[Sponsor] The Dirty Secret of OS Updates

John Warnock, RIP

Adobe (via Reuters, Hacker News): Dr. Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, groundbreaking technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution.…

Bypassing App Management With TextEdit

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): In retrospect, I regret participating in the Apple Security Bounty program. It has been a giant, frustrating waste of time, and I wish I had just dropped this 0day on October 24 of last year when Ventura was released. I susp…

Fake Steve Jobs and Letters from BILL G

Matt Sephton: On 9th August 2006, “Fake Steve (Jobs)” started blogging at The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. The blog featured scathing criticism of Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large, a pinch of political satire, along with many in-jokes an…

Twitter to Remove Block Feature

Juli Clover: Twitter or “X” owner Elon Musk today said that the option to block people on Twitter is going to be “deleted as a feature” in the future, as it “makes no sense.”Musk made the comment in response to a tweet asking whether there was a rea…

Essential Apple Podcast 275: This and that, and other stuff…

Late again but there we go – apologies for that. Anyway Simon and Nick got together as usual to chat about the news stories

Rewatch

25th Anniversary of the iMac

Amazon Pulls the Rug on ‘The Peripheral’ Season 2

Changing Its Name Tanked X’s Downloads in App Store and Play Store

Little Musk Who Cries ‘Wolf’ Daily Claims X Will ‘Delete’ the Block Feature, But No One Knows What That Even Means

Trump Thinks Fox News Makes Him Look Fat and Orange

★ Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts

Disney was, and should remain, a serious engineering company.

‘All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on Where He Was. What He Was Doing. What’s Coming Out Just Next Month.’

‘All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on Where He Was.’

Watch Bands Get Dirty, Headlines Get Clickbaity

★ Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts

Disney was, and should remain, a serious engineering company.

★ Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree

I don’t think Apple has any such interest or appetite. Nor do I think Disney envisions its own future as anything but the independent company it has been since Walt and Roy Disney founded The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio 100 years ago.