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S3 Files 2023.1

maandag 3 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Anders Borum: Today I’m launching S3 Files, a client for S3 compatible storage inside the Files app, share sheet, shortcuts and the Finder on Mac. It’s a universal app that costs $14.99 (lifetime) or $2.99 monthly: Our innovative “Smart Upload” feat…

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Zig Proposal to Drop LLVM

maandag 3 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Loris Cro and Andrew Kelley (in 2020): In the early days, Zig was but a thin frontend in front of LLVM. This was instrumental for getting started quickly and filling in gaps of Andrew’s knowledge as a compiler developer. Now, the training wheels of …

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Apple Resisting Further Changes to Anti-Steering Rules

maandag 3 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stephanie Bodoni: Apple Inc. is set for a showdown with European Union antitrust regulators, insisting it doesn’t need to make any more changes to its App Store after it was hit by formal charges over its treatment of music streaming rivals such as …

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Twitter Now Requires Logging In

maandag 3 juli 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jess Weatherbed: If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to eit…

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macOS Apprentice

vrijdag 30 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sarah Reichelt (Mastodon): I’ve written another book! This one is for people who want to get started in macOS development and here it is: macOS Apprentice, published by kodeco.com (formerly raywenderlich.com).If you’re a beginner or near-beginner wh…

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Paste 4

vrijdag 30 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Voorhees: Paste feels like the kind of clipboard manager Apple might make, especially version 4.0, which was released today. […] Each clipboard item is depicted as a square card with a header that includes an editable title, the date it was cop…

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Why Has Mastodon Adoption Stalled?

donderdag 29 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bloonface: A lot of that influx has not stuck around. Everyone is very aware at this point that active user numbers have dropped off a cliff.[…]These are people and organisations who were engaged with Mastodon and fediverse to the point of investing…

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SD Notary 2

donderdag 29 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Shane Stanley: We are pleased to announce the release of SD Notary 2, the application for notarizing applets and other files. SD Notary 2 replaces SD Notary, which is still available but uses a method Apple intends to discontinue in the near future.…

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The State of Mac PDF Software

donderdag 29 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

jimthing: Just wondered if Preview (and other PDF apps for that matter) are considered “stable” at the moment? I know the story above is from some time ago, but still in 2022 I have editing issues in all my PDF applications where markup gets screwed…

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Git Tower 10

woensdag 28 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tower: We understand how much developers value syntax highlighting, so we took our time to make sure we got it right. This update supports nearly 200 languages, ensuring comprehensive syntax coloring coverage. I’d like to see support for .plist, .st…

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View Clipping Changes in macOS 14

woensdag 28 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

WWDC 2023 session 10054: NSViews clip their drawing contents to their bounds. That sometimes leads to drawing not displaying the way you want, like the bottom of this Hindi glyph in a FreeForm alert window.Common places this can occur is with font r…

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YouTube Playables Gaming Service

dinsdag 27 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Miles Kruppa: Google recently invited employees to begin testing a new YouTube product called Playables, which gives users access to games on mobile devices or desktop computers, according to the email, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. T…

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Triangulation Exploit

dinsdag 27 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Most of the flurry of updates is in response to recent reports from Kaspersky about malware, in what they refer to as Triangulation or TriangleDB. Its researchers have discovered evidence of infection of iOS devices going back as long…

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Automating App Review

dinsdag 27 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Neil Long: “The way to solve that inconsistency – and I hate to say it – is: let’s take a page from Google,” he told us. “Especially now with the AI tools that are out there. You can do probably 80% of the work the review team does.” […] “Phil [Schi…

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Transfer Toolbox Rejected From the Mac App Store

maandag 26 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

LateNite Films: Transfer Toolbox allows you to convert Final Cut Pro (for Mac) Libraries into Final Cut Pro (for iPad) Projects! LateNite Films: Apple approved Transfer Toolbox v1.0.0 on 26th May 2023 at 08:57, but then claimed “Developer Removed fr…

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Elegy for the Native Mac App

maandag 26 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Keaton Brandt (Reddit): To the old-school Mac community, installing some shitty cross-platform Java app on their pristine Macbook was an admission of defeat. Even web apps were avoided whenever possible. They saw the use of such software as a tacit …

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ATS and ATSUI Removal

maandag 26 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

macOS 13 Release Notes (2022): ATS and ATSUI APIs are fully deprecated. Code using these APIs will fail to compile and link when the deployment target is set to 13. Code targeting earlier versions of macOS will continue to compile, link, and run. ma…

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Adobe Account Expiration

vrijdag 23 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I recently received an e-mail from Adobe: Your Adobe account will expire soon.Dear Adobe customer,We’ve noticed you have not logged in to your Adobe account in more than a year. In keeping with our policies, we are contacting you to let you know you…

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Avoiding Enshittification

vrijdag 23 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Masnick: People forget that when Bezos introduced Amazon Prime, Wall St. flipped out, because they insisted that it would cost way too much for too little benefit. But, through it all Amazon survived (and thrived) because Bezos just kept tellin…

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Amazon Prime Dark Patterns Lawsuit

vrijdag 23 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Annie Palmer (via Hacker News): The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the nation’s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and “sabotaged” their atte…

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Safari 17 Web Apps

vrijdag 23 juni 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

WWDC 2023 session 10120: Discover web apps for Mac — a powerful way to experience your website from the Dock. Learn how you can customize your web app to give people the best experience when they add your site. Thomas Steiner (via Hacker News): The …

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