Web Confidential 5

Alco Blom: Web Confidential 5 is a 64-bit Cocoa macOS application. As you perhaps know, Apple’s next version of macOS (Catalina) will not support 32-bit applications. So, therefore if you plan to upgrade later this year to Apple’s latest macOS, you …

Bill Gates’ Mea Culpa

Joe Rossignol: At a recent event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global, highlighted by TechCrunch, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates lamented on losing to Android, calling it “one of the greatest mistakes of all time.” […] Gates added that the…

Cheesegraters and Crystals

Dr. Drang: The [Mac Pro’s grill holes] are a negative-space representation of a common atomic arrangement in metallic crystals, something that most engineers learn about in their introductory materials science class. […] A frame capture from the vid…

The Great Monitor Search Continues

Mike Zornek: The LG 49 inch UltraWide monitor is pretty cool, but not very Mac compatible (specifics defects below). Next up for me is the Apple Store approved, 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display, which will trade screen real estate for retina, bette…

Catalyst vs. SwiftUI for Building a New App

Martin Pilkington: The problem I had with porting it to iOS in the first place became even more stark when it was “ported back” using Catalyst. UIKit is still not powerful enough to create a UI that feels great on the Mac. I can’t use NSColorWell an…

Shitty Trademarks

The Supreme Court has spoken and we can now trademark lots of shit. What the actual fuck. Vulgar terms absolutely express ideas and one’s “mode of expression” indubitably conveys a message. Like the use of “indubitably” right there suggests I’m tr…

Lock Down Your Apple Products

Let me give you a handful of useful things to remember about life online in the 21st century. First, “Everybody is out to get your money.” That’s the way a capitalist society works, and despite its Communist roots, China is as capitalist as Apple, F…

Apple’s Crazy Believability Problem

I have a great idea. How about if politicians hide the truth with a false narrative about an opponent? That seems to work very well. If it works for politicians, it works for religions, too, right? Religions say, “Do what I tell ... Continue Reading…

Swift Property Wrappers

Mattt Thompson: SE-0258: Property Wrappers is currently in its third review (scheduled to end yesterday, at the time of publication), and it promises to make open up functionality like lazy so that library authors can implement similar functionality…

SuperDuper 3.2.5

Dave Nanian: So if that code was right, why the heck were some users getting occasional multiple runs? And why wasn’t it happening to us here at Shirt Pocket HQ?[…]Previously, in order to work around problems with Clean My Mac (which, for some reaso…

StorCentric Acquires Retrospect

Retrospect: StorCentric, parent company of Drobo and Nexsan, today announced that it has acquired privately owned backup software company, Retrospect, Inc. Retrospect, Inc. is a leading provider of backup and recovery tools for consumers, profession…

Catalyst Can Rescue the Mac and Grow the iPad

John Voorhees: By contrast, Catalyst is a shorter-term initiative designed to address two soft spots in Apple’s lineup: the stagnation of the Mac app ecosystem, and the slow growth of pro iPad apps. The unstated assumption underlying the realignment…

Essential Apple Podcast 140: Don’t forget to press record – idiot!

Recorded 23rd June 2019 After last week’s debacle where I managed to not record the show (heedjit!!!) I made doubly sure this week! I The post Essential Apple Podcast 140: Don’t forget to press record – idiot! appeared first on MyMac.com.

Geekiest Show Ever 311 – So a Guy Walks Into a Podcast….

This week Melissa, Elisa and Mike are joined by Guy Serle to talk podcast recording equipment, techniques and workflows. Using Loopback and Audio Hijack The post Geekiest Show Ever 311 – So a Guy Walks Into a Podcast…. appeared first on MyMac.com.

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The Day the Duplicates Died

Joe Cieplinski: So, the big question: Would this bug still be present in Music, despite all the work Apple had put into rebranding and reworking it? […] Well, at first, the duplicates appeared again. I was despondent. I could not believe Apple didn’…

macOS 10.15 Public Beta 1

Juli Clover: Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Catalina update to its public beta testing group, giving non-developers a chance to try out the software ahead of its fall public release. It seems to be essentially the same as Dev…

The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone

David Smith: When I look at the iPhone distribution for Pedometer++ the four most popular devices are all that size. Together they account for nearly 50% of all devices I see in use. […] The next most popular screen size is the 5.5″ Plus size at aro…

MyMac Podcast 759: Dashboard Drops Out

As we get closer and closer to macOS Catalina, sometimes it’s not about what we gain, but what we lose. Dashboard is one of The post MyMac Podcast 759: Dashboard Drops Out appeared first on MyMac.com.

An Idiotic Exhibit

From Derek Lowe: Neither you nor the mixer will be improved by the HF, which is one of the last things on earth you would want to expose such equipment to, and then there’s the matter of handling the Sarin itself. These process problems have been a…

Let’s Talk Photography 69: ‘Timelapse’ with Steve Sheridan

This month Bart chats with Steve Sheridan of the Podfeet podcast network about timelapse photography. Show notes available at https://lets-talk.ie/ltp69 Reminder – you can The post Let’s Talk Photography 69: ‘Timelapse’ with Steve Sheridan appeared …