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ScreenSharingMenulet 2.5

dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Moren: Stefan Klieme’s ScreenSharingMenulet. It’s a little no-frills menu bar app that just provides you with quick screen sharing access to other machines via macOS’s built-in Screen Sharing app. By default it detects Bonjour connections on you…

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Invidious and FreeTube

dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Invidious (Hacker News): Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.[…]Invidious protects you from the prying eyes of Google. It won’t track you either![…]Invidious allows you to subscribe to channels and create playlists, without …

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Link Unshortener Updates

dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: Link Unshortener 9.0 adds a convenient list of all your installed web browsers so that you can open a link in any browser with one click or keypress. And if you set Link Unshortener itself as your default web browser in System Preferen…

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YouTube Music on HomePod

dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: YouTube Music is now available directly on Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini, thanks to new Siri integration support in the YouTube Music app.The change means subscribers to the streaming service can now choose to use voice commands to …

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iOS 17: Check In

dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Glenn Fleishman: It’s easy to focus on the dystopian aspects of technology, but Apple has spent the last few years assembling a collection of features aimed at protecting its users against online and physical threats. They include Communication Safe…

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Cue Testimony in US v. Google

maandag 23 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Pierce: Apple is in court because of something called the Information Services Agreement, or ISA: a deal that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s products. The ISA has been in place since 2002, but Cue was responsible for negot…

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Secondary Apple ID Mess and Inadvertent Password Reset

maandag 23 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I was doing some testing with Apple Mail on my test Mac using my test iCloud account. I made a fresh macOS user account and entered the Apple ID, but Apple said it was “locked for security reasons.” Who knows why? To unlock the account, it wanted me…

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6 TB and 12 TB iCloud+ Plans

maandag 23 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: The 6TB and 12TB iCloud + plans can now be purchased through the iCloud + interface as higher-tier options that join the existing 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB storage plans.The 6TB plan is priced at $29.99 per month, while the 12TB plan is pric…

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Sonoma, iCloud Drive, and Time Machine

maandag 23 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Sonoma fixes a long-standing bug in whether local files can be ‘evicted’ to iCloud, or the download removed from your Mac’s local storage. In some circumstances you could find Sonoma downloading everything you have removed from your l…

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Apple’s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17

vrijdag 20 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alexandre Colucci (Hacker News): Unsurprisingly, there has been a significant increase in the number of apps adopting SwiftUI this year. Notable mentions include: The Preferences app with several of its bundles (StorageSettingsUI, WallpaperSettings,…

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The Problem With China and AI

vrijdag 20 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Benjamin Mullin, John Koblin, and Tripp Mickle (Hacker News): Jon Stewart’s show on Apple’s streaming service is abruptly coming to an end, according to several people with knowledge of the decision, the result of creative differences between the te…

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The Average Lifespan of a Smartphone

vrijdag 20 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Isabel Rubio (via Hacker News): While Marcos Fernández managed to last six years with his previous device, the average lifespan of a smartphone is much lower. In Europe, for instance, it’s about three years, according to the European Environment Off…

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An Apple Library Primer

vrijdag 20 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Quinn: Apple’s library technology has a long and glorious history, dating all the way back to the origins of Unix. This does, however, mean that it can be a bit confusing to newcomers. This is my attempt to clarify some terminology.[…]The linker has…

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SpamSieve 3.0.1

donderdag 19 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SpamSieve 3.0.1 fixes almost all of the known issues with version 3.0. It also improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. So everything that the Mail extension does now has a fallback implementation …

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Mojo for Mac

donderdag 19 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Shashank Prasanna (Hacker News): Mojo is now available on Mac (Apple silicon) 🎉In this blog post, we’ll discuss how you can get started with the Mojo SDK on Mac. We’ll take a closer look at how to download and install the Mojo SDK on your Mac, and s…

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Xcode 15.0.1

donderdag 19 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Xcode 15.0.1 includes SDKs for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma. The Xcode 15.0.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 12 and later, tvOS 12 and later, and watchOS 4 and later. Xcode 15.0.1 requires a Mac runnin…

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Apple Pencil (USB-C)

woensdag 18 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Today, Apple is bringing more choice to iPad users with a new, more affordable Apple Pencil. With pixel-perfect accuracy, low latency, and tilt sensitivity, the new Apple Pencil is ideal for note taking, sketching, annotating, j…

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USB-C Cables Comparison

woensdag 18 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

lumafield (via Hacker News): Does Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 cable really warrant its $129 price tag? Or does a $5 cable get the job done just as well? We’ve used our Neptune industrial X-ray CT scanner to uncover the hidden engineering differences betwe…

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Clicking to Hide Others in Sonoma

woensdag 18 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chip Loder: In previous versions of macOS, if you wanted to hide all running apps containing a UI on your display, you could simply Option-click anywhere on the Finder’s Desktop. This would hide all other visible running apps and display only the De…

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Retcon Beta

woensdag 18 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nathan Manceaux-Panot (Mastodon): Retcon makes rewriting git history effortless.Move a commit back in time with a single drag-and-drop. Squash, edit or delete in a few keystrokes. In place—no need to enter a special mode and lose all context. Skip r…

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More Stack Overflow Layoffs

dinsdag 17 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Prashanth Chandrasekar (Hacker News): This is why we have been so focused on our path to profitability, even as we commit to the continued product innovation of Stack Overflow for Teams and the health of the public platform by building out our AI/ML…

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