Hacker News is calling this Bash script by Mathias Bynens “Sensible macOS Defaults.” I don’t agree that these are necessarily the particular settings anyone should use, but I endorse the idea of collecting the preferences that one frequently modifie…
Lees meerPhil Stokes (via Patrick Wardle, MacRumors): Threat actors are abusing the Run Script feature in Apple’s Xcode IDE to infect unsuspecting Apple Developers via shared Xcode Projects. XcodeSpy is a malicious Xcode project that installs a custom varian…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: I’ve spent the past 24 hours testing Kensington’s long-anticipated StudioDock, a $400 docking station that aims to turn the iPad Pro into a desktop workstation with support for display rotation, expansion via USB-C, USB-A, and SD c…
Lees meerThey’re advertising like they’re still perched atop Relevancy Mountain when the obvious truth everyone can see is how startlingly far they’ve fallen from that peak.
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet, MacRumors, Hacker News): At the time he began accusing Apple of abetting App Store scams early last month, Eleftheriou revealed that his FlickType app had been targeted by competing software he says either didn’t work well or didn…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Intel has called on the services of former “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long in a series of new ads in which Apple’s latest custom-made M1 processors are cast as inferior to newer laptops powered by Intel processors.[…]In one ad, Long promot…
Lees meerRadioFreeEurope: Russian media are reporting that Apple has agreed to sell its gadgets in Russia with preinstalled Russian-made software to comply with a law that comes into force on April 1. […] The list of Russian government-approved programs for …
Lees meerSE-0306 (forum, Hacker News): Actors allow you as a programmer to declare that a bag of state is held within a concurrency domain and then define multiple operations that act upon it. Each actor protects its own data through data isolation, ensuring…
Lees meerFlying Meat (tweet): Acorn now sports a unified window with a matching toolbar. Gone are the floating palettes everywhere and getting in your way. Palettes are now inspectors and can be brushed away by pressing the TAB key, and brought back the same…
Lees meerJonny Evans (via MacRumors, Hacker News): Adobe has released Photoshop for M1 Macs, delivering a huge boost in application performance on Apple Silicon in contrast to how it performs on similar Intel-based machines.[…]“At the moment, Photoshop and L…
Lees meerJesse Squires: I have been periodically deleting my tweets for a while now. Yesterday, I finally found a reliable solution for deleting my Twitter “likes” as well and I spent some time deleting all of them. Long ago, I also deleted all of my content…
Lees meerZac Hall: You can trust that Apple will continue to make new iPhones and Macs for the foreseeable future, but Apple’s home products resemble Google’s betting strategy more than Apple’s usual commitment to focus and delivery. […] How confident are we…
Lees meerIn my review of the HomePod mini from a few weeks ago, I noted that the original HomePod didn't appeal to me but that I'm a big fan of the mini version. Matthew Panzarino of TechCrunch reports that Apple has...
Lees meerThey’re advertising like they’re still perched atop Relevancy Mountain when the obvious truth everyone can see is how startlingly far they’ve fallen from that peak.
Lees meerThey’re advertising like they’re still perched atop Relevancy Mountain when the obvious truth everyone can see is how startlingly far they’ve fallen from that peak.
Lees meerThe truly weird thing is that Justin Long was always pitching for Intel-based computers, at least indirectly, in the “Get a Mac” campaign, the introduction of which coincided with the start of the Intel Mac era: 2006-2009.
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