I am a big fan of the Apps in Law podcast, hosted by Brett Burney. Brett always finds interesting attorneys to interview about (typically) just one app that they use in their law practice. In the most recent episode, Brett...
Lees meerOmar Rizwan: TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.The files inside a tab’s folder directly reflect (and can control) the state of that tab in your browser. […]This gives you a ton of power, beca…
Lees meerHector Martin: So I’m working in understanding the Apple Silicon boot/OS provisioning process. This is all subject to change, but here are some takeaways according to my current understanding.[…]This means that in order to set up an Apple Silicon de…
Lees meerPatrick Wardle (tweet, Hacker News): Unfortunately, Apple (without telling anybody) decided to “exclude” or exempt over 50 of its own applications (such as the App Store) and daemons from being routed thru the Network Extension Framework.[…]Due to t…
Lees meerDavid Heinemeier Hansson (Hacker News): If you use iCloud Backup AT ALL, which is the default, your use of iMessage is not E2E because Apple has a backup of the encryption keys 🤯. And even if you turn off this backup, your recipient probably didn’t.…
Lees meerJosh Holtz (tweet, 9To5Mac): An Otter RSS doesn’t do much but it does everything I want it to. My goals were:Subscribe to RSS feeds (sync over iCloud)List new articles for each feed (sync over iCloud)Show read/unread status of articles (sync over iC…
Lees meerDavid Sparks: At any particular time, there is a curve for hard drive storage in price. Ideally, you want your backup to fit within that sweet spot where it can be contained on an affordable drive. If you have more data to back up than will fit on t…
Lees meerSusan Hogan and Meredith Royster: Seventeen Amazon packages have been delivered to Catherine Mayfield’s home in Temple Hills, Maryland, since October. She didn’t order any of them. […] According to Alex Hamerstone, a cybercrime expert from TrustedSe…
Lees meerTom Warren (Slashdot): The PC was supposed to die 10 years ago, but it’s just experienced its first big growth in a decade. Market research firm Canalys reports that PC shipments reached 297 million units in 2020, up an impressive 11 percent from 20…
Lees meerShane Stanley: Native code for Apple silicon Macs has a new, inviolable, requirement: it will not run unless it is code-signed. In practice, that means all universal apps have to be code-signed. […] Script Editor running on Big Sur will produce univ…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: macOS 11 Big Sur has a bug that prevents some apps from appearing in the “Default web browser” menu in the General pane of System Preferences, which of course makes it difficult to set one of those apps as your default web browser.[…]T…
Lees meerI love that it is so easy to give an Apple Watch a new look simply by changing the band. After using an Apple Watch for over five years — since it first went on sale — I've had lots...
Lees meerNathaniel Popper (via Matt Levine): The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is s…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: On January 10, 2001, Steve Jobs went on the stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco and presented a new app that would change the course of Apple. iTunes would become Apple’s most important app, not only because it was the companion …
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