My last takeaway from Twitter’s four-day venture into pretending to be Facebook (and that anyone who uses Twitter wants them to be Facebook) is that I’m surprised how many people clearly have no idea that excellent third-party Twitter clients exist,…
Lees meerMy last takeaway from Twitter’s four-day venture into pretending to be Facebook (and that anyone who uses Twitter wants them to be Facebook) is that I’m surprised how many people clearly have no idea that excellent third-party Twitter clients exist,…
Lees meerRed Sweater: This update introduces an expansion of FastScripts’s own built-in scripting additions, with three powerful new commands for searching, replacing, and splitting text with regular expressions. These can be used by any AppleScript on your …
Lees meerJim Nielsen (via Old Unix Geek, Hacker News): I’m intrigued by the ability to use system colors in CSS and these web views in macOS show how engineers at Apple are leveraging non-standard CSS keywords in Webkit to mimic UIs in macOS which are otherw…
Lees meerTom Parker (Reddit): The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, has announced that it has started down-ranking sites based on whether they’re deemed to be associated with Ru…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although Apple has made a big thing of protecting privacy, macOS has one hole which Apple acknowledged over a year ago, promised to fix, and hasn’t fulfilled its promises. Every time you open an app, macOS checks the validity of its d…
Lees meerThere were so many interesting topics to cover in this week's episode of the In the News podcast! We spend most of the time talking about Apple’s recent announcements, including Apple’s new Mac offerings (and what is missing), the fabulous...
Lees meerThere were so many interesting topics to cover this week's episode of the In the News podcast! We spend most of the time talking about Apple’s recent announcements, including Apple’s new Mac offerings (and what is missing), the fabulous new...
Lees meerJay Peters: The design change, which lets you swipe between your Home (algorithmically served) and Latest (reverse chronological) timelines, was announced Thursday. To set it up, you tap the sparkle icon in the top right corner, and you’ll see the o…
Lees meerGreg Wilson: I spent most of an afternoon last week tracking down a bug caused by having two decorators stacked on a function in the wrong order. The fix was small, but the impact was not. Reading this paper has got me wondering how often this happe…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Late last year I was commissioned to write a group test of NAS systems intended primarily for Time Machine network backups. I’m delighted to report that my review has now been published, in two of Future’s magazines, MacFormat (issue …
Lees meerGoogle (via MacRumors): We’re excited to announce that in M99, Chrome on Mac has achieved the highest score to date of any browser – 300 – in Apple’s Speedometer browser responsiveness benchmark. Building on many performance changes over the last ye…
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