Howard Oakley: [From] Ventura onwards property lists that previously had to be installed in Library LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents folders can now be kept inside their app, making them even harder to locate. […] If your Mac has been in use some year…
Lees meerJuli Clover: In iOS 17, Family Passwords is designed to let you share your passwords and passkeys with friends and family members. Using the Passwords section of the Settings app, you can create a group of people to share passwords with.Using a setu…
Lees meerNick Heer: Reddit user “horizontalhole” discovered something curious:From 2017–2022 the Vatican flag SVG on Wikimedia Commons contained a mistake. You can now tell which flag manufacturers/emoji platforms used the file.[…]Indeed, Becker includes a s…
Lees meerHarry McCracken (2022, via Hacker News): It’s a milestone that only a few of today’s highest-profile tech companies—such as Apple and Microsoft—have reached. And much of Adobe’s long history is tangibly present in its current business, which is full…
Lees meerAmanda Silberling: Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store data, it’s expected to launch on July 6.It’s a good time for Instagram to enter the fr…
Lees meerAdam Engst: These attempts to phish you by notification are malware, plain and simple—the form known as adware. The alerts try to trick users into visiting a fake website and entering login credentials or credit card information to facilitate identi…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs has an excellent video about the trouble with gaming on the Mac. The video’s title says it all: “Macs Can Game. But Apple Can’t.” As Nelson explains, it’s not the hardware or the software that’s holding the…
Lees meerSteve Johnson (in 2016): Hidden in amongst a bunch of the usual highly dubious subscription statements from Carl Bass is an announcement that spells doom for Autodesk perpetual license owners. […] Translation: Autodesk is going to drive up prices of…
Lees meerI’d be all in favor of the FTC pursuing and enforcing laws that require *all* subscription services to have clear, discoverable cancellation options online.
Lees meerAnders Borum: Today I’m launching S3 Files, a client for S3 compatible storage inside the Files app, share sheet, shortcuts and the Finder on Mac. It’s a universal app that costs $14.99 (lifetime) or $2.99 monthly: Our innovative “Smart Upload” feat…
Lees meerLoris Cro and Andrew Kelley (in 2020): In the early days, Zig was but a thin frontend in front of LLVM. This was instrumental for getting started quickly and filling in gaps of Andrew’s knowledge as a compiler developer. Now, the training wheels of …
Lees meerStephanie Bodoni: Apple Inc. is set for a showdown with European Union antitrust regulators, insisting it doesn’t need to make any more changes to its App Store after it was hit by formal charges over its treatment of music streaming rivals such as …
Lees meerJess Weatherbed: If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to eit…
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