Mike Davidson: First, let’s dispense with the easy part: despite what you may read on Twitter, remote work is neither the greatest thing in the world nor the worst. We are not moving to a world where offices go completely away, nor are we going thro…
Lees meerpeterbourgon: what are some of the worst/leakiest abstractions we’re currently dealing with in computers these days? maybe things like: posix threads? the upper layers of the OSI model? the notion of a secure boot loader? OOP in general? There are t…
Lees meerAaron Tilley (Hacker News): Right now, the calling feature in these apps runs in the background even when it’s not in use, ensuring the apps can connect calls faster but also making it possible for them to perform other, unrelated tasks such as coll…
Lees meerJuli Clover: In a support document on how the Apple Card works, Apple says exporting data from Apple Card is not a feature offered at this time. From the document: “Exporting data from Apple Card to a financial app like Mint is not currently support…
Lees meerChris Espinosa: Thing 1 I have learned about AT&T Wireless data plan usage download: You can download you usage for Excel, and it downloads as an .xls file—but it’s XML, not BIFF. Thing 2 I have learned about AT&T Wireless data plan usage download: …
Lees meerAaron Bushnell: You wake up to an email from Phil Schiller that you’re on the new Pro Workflow team for a complete overhaul of macOS, iPadOS and iOS. What suggestions would you provide for the next generation of Apple operating systems? I enjoyed th…
Lees meerI love using Apple's HomeKit technology to turn my home into a smarter home. While I have quite a few HomeKit products installed, the most useful ones are part of the Lutron Caséta Wireless family. As I explained when I...
Lees meerI love using Apple's HomeKit technology to turn my home into a smarter home. While I have quite a few HomeKit products installed, the most useful ones are part of the Lutron Caséta Wireless family. As I explained when I...
Lees meerYou buy and use Apple gear, right? So you should be concerned about the health of the company. After all, who wants to buy products from a company that quickly discontinues them? You know. Like Google. And Samsung. Why then, do we read so many headl…
Lees meerYour Mac has a built-in firewall to keep intruders from connecting to your Mac through an internet or network connection. Apple has the firewall turned off by default. Yes, macOS security is that good. I turn my Mac’s firewall on and make ... Contin…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple subsidiary FileMaker today announced it has returned to its original name Claris from the late 1980s. […] Now, the company plans to expand its portfolio again, leading it to readopt the Claris name. FileMaker Pro will remain one…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple Card got its first group of public test users today. A limited number of customers who signed up on Apple’s website to be notified about the release of Apple Card are now able to apply for the card in their Wallet app as well as …
Lees meerMark Bernstein: You can get away with murder. Going by the book, you’ve got to use extreme caution and you’ve always got to get it right. In practice, Tinderbox Six took all sorts of risks and accepted that it was Doing It Wrong in order to get stuf…
Lees meerAdrianne Jeffries (via Jason Koebler): Even though restaurants are capable of taking orders directly—after all, both numbers are routed to the same place—Yelp is pushing customers to Grubhub-owned phone numbers in order to facilitate what Grubhub ca…
Lees meerThomas Brewster (via Patrick Wardle): Later this week, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Apple is to announce plans to give security researchers special iPhones that will make it easier for them to find weaknesses in the smartphone,…
Lees meerDavid is on his own this week, battling jet lag whilst learning everything Apple can tell him and trying a new microphone. Sponsor – The post TechFan 407 – Education Education Education appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerThis week we are going to drive you crazy talking about cars. We discuss how we shop for cars, what we like and the The post Geekiest Show Ever 314 – Baby You Can Drive My Car appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerJoining Bart this month are GazMaz from the MyMac Podcast, Simon Parnell from the Essential Apple Podcast, and Scott Wellsey. The show starts with The post Let’s Talk Apple 71: July 2019 appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerMatt Birchler: Basically, BBEdit was remarkably fast at opening the file, being 4x faster than Visual Studio Code and 20x faster than Sublime. And then in terms of saving changes to the file, most apps were in the same ballpark, which I assume is be…
Lees meerJohn Sundell: When converting Data into a String, like we do above, we pass the encoding that we want the string to be decoded using — in this case UTF8 — by passing a reference to that type itself. That’s really interesting. If we dive a bit deeper…
Lees meerquickbirdstudios (via Peter Steinberger): This project contains a benchmarking test suite for comparing the performance of the most commonly used components and operators in RxSwift and Combine. For a detailed comparison of RxSwift with Combine have…
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