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Sketch: In 2021 and Beyond

Introducing the In the News podcast

I've been working on something in secret for the past few weeks, and I'm thrilled to finally share it with you: the In the News podcast. On Friday, April 10, 2009, I debuted the first In the News post on...

The Talk Show: ‘Obviously Tier One’

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★ The New Siri Remote (and Updated Apple TV 4K)

An Apple TV remote you won’t hate, and might love.

Finding Microsoft’s Next Default Font

Donald McNeil on the COVID Epidemic: ‘The End Is Near’

Washington State Has Sued a Patent Troll for Violating Consumer Protection Laws

Sketch: In 2021 and Beyond

Unexpectedly 1.0

Stéphane Sudre (tweet): Unexpectedly is a Mac application that lets you browse and visualize the reports from crashes that happened on your Mac or, more probably, another one. Unexpectedly knows how to parse macOS crash reports. Unexpectedly process…

Firefox Now Uses Native Contextual Menus

Matthew T, 21 years ago (via Hacker News): Mozilla on MacOS is using native main menus -- the XUL menu items are being translated into native menu structures, allowing Mozilla to use the Mac’s main menu bar.Why couldn’t this be done with context men…

Adobe Genuine Service

Adobe: The Adobe Genuine Service is a free service that periodically verifies whether Adobe apps on your machine are genuine and notifies you if they are not. […] The Adobe Genuine Service uninstaller removes Adobe Genuine Service and cached data. V…

Epic v. Apple, Day 16

Nick Statt (tweet): Apple hoped to establish the market as the entire gaming market, in which the App Store is just one complete digital marketplace among many and in which consumers substitute purchases on one platform for another. In that context,…

macOS 11.4

Apple: macOS Big Sur 11.4 adds Apple Podcasts subscriptions and channels and includes important bug fixes. Apple: This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.4. See also: MacRumors, Howard Oakley, Mr. Macintosh. Previously: macO…

Apple Execs on the Mac App Store

Tim Cook, in 2015: I think the lack of gaming (along with lack of native productivity apps) are the main reason the Mac App Store is dormant. Phil Schiller: The Mac App Store matters for distribution of Apple software and 3rd parties that can’t crea…

Remaining Issues in Big Sur

I updated my main Mac to Big Sur a month and a half ago, so I’ve been using macOS 11.2.3 through 11.3.1. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that it fixes any of the Catalina issues that I mentioned, and it introduces a variety of new ones: Several times my…

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