I think Apple has struck a nearly perfect balance here, between doing what’s right for most users (installing these rare emergency updates automatically) and doing what’s right for power users who really do want to control when all updates — even es…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you work with xattrs, you’ve probably already seen this in xattrs whose name ends with a hash # then one or more characters: that’s actually the flags, not part of the name, what Apple refers to as a ‘property list’. To avoid confu…
Lees meerDave Verwer: I’d be much, much happier with the weird situation where one part of the system says it’s full, while another says there is 5Gb free if I was constantly being shown error messages. In that case, it’d just be a bug with the amount of spa…
Lees meerJason Snell: After 24 hours of trying to use Catalina in earnest with all my data and apps intact, the new security features are incredibly annoying. Apps constantly asking for permission to see various folders, lots of relaunches and trips to Syste…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: As for the $10,000-plus, 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, the report claims Apple’s sales were “in the low tens of thousands” of units, with “few after the first two weeks.” The line was discontinued in September 2016 after just 16 …
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple received a total of 80 requests from 11 countries to remove 634 apps from various App Stores in different countries. While Apple did not provide specific details on which apps it was asked to pull, requests from Chin…
Lees meerThe Ladies are taking it easy this summer. Find out what they’re reading, watching on tv, and doing to enjoy the summer days and The post Three Geeky Ladies – What We’re Reading/Watching/Doing—Episode 133 appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerAlthough iOS 13 is just around the corner, Apple continues to update iOS 12, and yesterday released iOS 12.4. I suspect that a primary reason for the update was to restore a feature to the Apple Watch. When watchOS 5...
Lees meerAdafruit: Andy Hertzfeld has a YouTube channel and it’s great. There’s a bunch of Mac and Magic Cap history stuff that I hadn’t seen before. Previously: Revolution in the Valley Macintosh Folklore
Lees meerThe macOS 10.14.6 Combo update is now available. Xcode 10.3 is in the Mac App Store, but it’s not yet available for direct download. In fact, the download page is currently directing me to check the system status, which of course shows all green. Up…
Lees meerThe rumor mill currently has it that Apple supplier TSMC could switch to a 5-nanometer process for its chip manufacturing on the 2020 model iPhones. The change is thought to be influenced by demands for 5G smartphones. TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told investo…
Lees meerElephant-ish extinct things in a twitter-like environment. Is it that the GMen projecting? Whatever the case may be, this week’s show is kinda long, The post MyMac Podcast 762: Mastodon is too Gabby appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerDavid finally watched Spider-Man Far From Home, so he and Tim discuss the movie, as well as Shazam, the Top Gun trailer, CGI, Cats, The post TechFan Episode 405 – Purring Along appeared first on MyMac.com.
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