Thirty Years of Fetch

Thirty Years of Fetch

Sources Say China Used iPhone Hacks to Target Uyghur Muslims

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Essential Apple Podcast 145: It might as well rain until September!

Recorded 1st September 2019 And we are back! Did you miss us? Well despite August traditionally being a news dead zone and all round The post Essential Apple Podcast 145: It might as well rain until September! appeared first on MyMac.com.

Sources Say China Used iPhone Hacks to Target Uyghur Muslims

Time Tracking with Timeular

David Sparks: Lately, I’ve been trying a new time tracking gizmo, a Timeular device. It’s a polygon-shaped piece of plastic and electronics that connects to my iPhone. I can assign a different task to each side, and when I switch modes, say going fr…

Thirty Years of Fetch

Jim Matthews: Of the thousands of other Mac apps on the market on September 1, 1989 I can only think of four (Panorama, Word, Excel and Photoshop) that are still sold today. […] I imagined a new Fetch that had all the improvements that I’d daydreame…

PrivilegedHelperTools and Checking XPC Peers

Objective Development: It all began with a security improvement by Apple in macOS High Sierra (10.13). Apple had revoked access to the folder /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports for non-admin users. The protection goes so far that even a root process sp…

Ending the “npm Install Funding” Experiment

Feross Aboukhadijeh (via Yan Zhu): The idea was this: whenever users install open source software, the funding package would display a message from a company that supports open source. The sponsorship would pay directly for maintainer time. That is,…

Google Begins Penalising Domain Leasing

Barry Schwartz (via Hacker News): Google issued a warning about sites that lease out its own subdomains and subfolders so that other companies can rank their content better on leased domains. Well, now it seems Google is taking action by penalizing …

Sources Say China Used iPhone Hacks to Target Uyghur Muslims

Apple’s Inconsistent Ellipsis Icons

TechFan 409 – The Formula

Tim and David discuss the Nissan 300ZX in the WikiTrolling segment, plus the new iPhone coming, David’s trip to VMWorld, Vegas and missing Macworld The post TechFan 409 – The Formula appeared first on MyMac.com.

Let’s Talk Apple 72: August 2019

This month Bart is joined by Simon Parnell from the Essential Apple Podcast and Nick Rilley. The show starts with four followup stories from The post Let’s Talk Apple 72: August 2019 appeared first on MyMac.com.

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The Talk Show: ‘Freakishly Snappy’

MyMac Podcast 768: Lonely

The show nearly didn’t happen in fact Gaz called out on the Twitters and on Facebook that there would be no show, but this The post MyMac Podcast 768: Lonely appeared first on MyMac.com.

Apple’s Inconsistent Ellipses Icons

Josh Centers: In this example, the ellipsis button is akin to choosing File > Get Info on the Mac to open the Get Info window, which displays metadata about the selected file. Interestingly, Wallet only recently switched to using the ellipsis button…

Apple Will Sell iPhone Parts to Repair Shops

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced a new repair program, offering customers additional options for the most common out-of-warranty iPhone repairs. Apple will provide more independent repair businesses — large or small — with the s…

Downsides of Apple Card Being Titanium

Jeff Geerling (via Hacker News): The card feels amazing to hold. But because it’s finely machined Titanium, those beautiful edges also mean sensitive fingers (e.g. anyone with dry skin or problems such as eczema) can be damaged just by pulling the c…