Jon Sneyers (2016, tweet, Reddit): However, actual image formats tend to have a “header” that contains quite a bit more information. First of all, the first few bytes of any image format contain a fixed identifier that is only there to say “Hey! I’m…
Lees meerBinarynights: We have optimized every aspect of the app to ensure lightning-fast performance. Whether you’re browsing files, transferring data, or managing your storage, you’ll notice a significant improvement in speed. You will experience the bigge…
Lees meerMichael Flarup: The macOS App Icon Book is a beautiful artbook dedicated to preserving the craft of app icon design. It’s a vibrant journey through the art of desktop app iconography for macOS. The book features hundreds of icons created by designer…
Lees meerMario Guzmán: Reminder that Design should be not just about how it looks but also how it works…I was hoping since we can move Widgets onto the desktop that perhaps we’d get more spacing for Notifications but nope… 😒 Mario Guzmán: [Look] at how usefu…
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu (Hacker News): Normally apps crash because of bugs introduced by the developer, but in my experience, there are cases where crashes can be out of the developer’s control. […] After we reach a certain confidence in the app stability, we…
Lees meerBryan Cantrill: Two decades ago today, DTrace integrated into the operating system. Much has changed in the last 20 years -- but one thing has remained true: we ourselves still use it on a daily basis.[…]I reminisced a bit after the 5th anniversary …
Lees meerAndrew Marino (via Dave Mark): The Sony WH-1000XM5 offered the best passive attenuation and very good ANC. The Sonys were an overall good noise canceler, with solid performance in all noise environments. The Apple AirPods Max were a close second and…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released a sixth Studio Display 17 firmware beta, with the update coming a few weeks after the release of the fifth beta.All Studio Display models are able to receive over-the-air firmware updates, but this firmware update i…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When all the settings for automatic updates are turned off, the user should in theory be offered all updates as they become available, and be able to choose which to download and install manually from those offered in Software Update.…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today updated its iTunes Movie Trailers app for the iPhone with a notice that the Apple TV app is the new home of movie and TV show trailers. It is no longer possible to use the iTunes Movie Trailers app, which launched in 2011.…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (via Dave Mark, Jeff Johnson): Apple is planning to eliminate social media support advisor roles across Twitter, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later this year, according to multiple sources familiar with the…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: The idea here is that JavaScript is basically the only way nowadays that you can ship plugins or scripts with your apps on macOS that is not broken since Big Sur, I think. Because Ruby and Python and all these other scripting langu…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple may offer a USB-C data transfer accessory cable for iPhone 15 Pro models that is capable of Thunderbolt or USB4 speeds of up to 40Gbps. That is the latest claim made by Kosutami, who posted details of the cable on Twitter (now X)…
Lees meerAnthony Cangialosi: Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024, with servicing updates for security issues and upda…
Lees meervexl (via Hacker News): Our flagship project — the Vexl app — does exactly this: it connects users with other peers in their social circle so they can exchange cash for bitcoin with them in a privacy preserving way.[…]Vexl was successfully operated …
Lees meernicolodev (via Hacker News): FairPlay comprises a set of algorithms created by Apple for digital rights management (also called DRM, digital rights management). FairPlay is currently used to manage the decryption of iOS applications during their ins…
Lees meerMilen Dzhumerov (Mastodon): It has been commonly interpreted as “don’t think about performance in the beginning, you can fix any performance problem later”. This interpretation is completely and categorically wrong. […] With the additional context, …
Lees meerAndrew Anthony (via Hacker News): Leaving aside the “sorry, not sorry” expression of regret, the presumption is that the elderly remain vigilant to every missive from the online world, when in fact many find it a jungle of scams, junk mail, endless …
Lees meerKieran McCarthy (via Dare Obasanjo): Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on o…
Lees meerI was recently surprised to find that my Mac kept rejecting my password at boot. I’ve been using the same password for years and was sure it was correct. I typed it slowly while looking at the keys. I made sure that the Caps Lock key was not down. I…
Lees meerChime: The code in this repo should be considered Non-Functional right now. You can download the currently released version. Chime used to be commercial, but is now free. It built up some pretty significant cruft over time. In particular, the core U…
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