MyMac Podcast 903: Same old, Same old

It’s being said that the iPhone 14 will have the same look and processor as its predecessor and in order to get the best

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Gurman: This Year’s iPhone/Apple Watch Event to Be Held Wednesday, September 7

Let’s Talk Photography 107: Allison Sheridan’s Post-DSRL World

In last month’s solo show Bart shared his thoughts on the end of the SLR era, and why he thought the mirrorless future was

GeeksPub – Greatest American Hero

Tim is joined by Donny Yankellow to talk about The Greatest American Hero, shows that could be relaunched, She-Hulk, Peanuts,  and the state of

The Talk Show: Get Me to the Fainting Couch

Samsung’s Repair Mode

Ron Amadeo (Hacker News): Handling data during a mail-in repair process is tough. You could wipe your phone, but that’s a big hassle. You don’t want to just send in a completely locked down device, as technicians can’t thoroughly test it if they’re …

C23 Is Finished

Björkus Dorkus (tweet): What’s in C23? Well, it’s everything […] present in N3047.[…]The new constexpr keyword for C means you don’t have to guess at whether that is a constant expression, or hope your compiler’s optimizer or frontend is powerful en…

Google Searches With Quotes

Yonghao Jin: Google Search has a special operator for that: quotation marks. Put quotes around any word or phrase, such as [“wireless phone chargers”], and we’ll only show pages that contain those exact words or phrases.Now we’re making quoted searc…

Garbage Collection in JavaScriptCore

Haoran Xu: The garbage collector in JSC is non-compacting, generational and mostly–concurrent. On top of being concurrent, JSC’s GC heavily employs lock-free programming for better performance. […] The inlined metadata cellState is easy to access fo…

iOS VPNs Are Broken

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Third-party VPNs made for iPhones and iPads routinely fail to route all network traffic through a secure tunnel after they have been turned on, something Apple has known about for years, a longtime security researcher has…

macOS 12.5.1

Juli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Monterey 12.5.1 improves the security of macOS and is recommended for all users. The update addresses kernel and WebKit vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple says th…

Suggested Shortcuts Improvements

Matthew Cassinelli: Today, Apple released updates to their iWork suite of apps that adds actions in Shortcuts for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on macOS, bringing powerful first-party actions that Mac users can take advantage to automate their work[…]…

Gatekeeper Changes in macOS Ventura

Howard Oakley: In the past, Gatekeeper has primarily been concerned with checking apps and other executable code which have been put in quarantine; once an app has passed those first run checks and its quarantine flag has been cleared, its notarizat…

Nightly Time Machine

Jack Wellborn (tweet): Nightly Time Machine is a collection of bash scripts that limits macOS’s Time Machine to once per night by only mounting Time Machine disks just before backing up and then unmounting them when Time Machine is finished. Prevent…

Smartphones: a Single Point of Failure

neverminder: i can’t log in to any of my banks without my phone. Most of the systems in my workplace also require phone app authentication. I can’t do any of those things with just a PC or laptop. Smartphones being the smallest and portable are sure…

Mac Folklore Radio on ClarisWorks History

Mac Folklore Radio: The story of how “the best-loved application for the Mac” took on Microsoft Works as told by programmer Bob Hearn in 2003. Read Macworld’s roundup of integrated packages to see how ClarisWorks 1.0 stacked up against its competiti…

How Rich Text Can Vanish in QuickLook

Howard Oakley: Anyone who works predominantly in Dark Mode is reminded of this failure in QuickLook every day. There are workarounds, of course, and ignoring those instructions about using NSColor.textColor seems to work for Rich Text generated by a…

Reorder It 1.0.007

Takaaki Onishi (via Accidental Tech Podcast): Reorder It! is an iPhone App which helps you reorder the addresses.It’s useful when contact has multiple e-mail address.I don’t know why standard “Contacts.app” or other AddressBook Apps on App Store don…

Safari Extension: Banish

Alex Zamoshchin: Banish is an ultra-efficient Safari Extension that removes annoying ‘Open in App’ banners and other dark patterns on the web. Block annoying popups and save valuable screen real estate. Via John Gruber: If I wanted a long-term lease…

Slow SwiftUI Closure Actions

Luke Redpath: TIL - if you’re creating your own SwiftUI environment keys where the value is some kind of “action”, modelled as a closure (e.g. () -> Void) you might see unexpected re-renderings of views that use that @Environment property. […] My hu…