Sarah Reichelt: Sparkle is an open-source update framework for macOS. It’s very popular and I’m sure you will have seen it used, even if you didn’t recognise it. But setting it up isn’t totally straight-forward, at least I didn’t find it so, which I…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: What Biatek did to solve this daily annoyance was to create Yes More Events, a shortcut that looks at your overdue tasks in Reminders and adds an event to the end of your day that starts at 11:45 pm and ends just before midnight. The …
Lees meerJuli Clover (via Hacker News): Going forward, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least two years, Google may delete the account and its contents. This includes content from Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Cale…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, full installer, IPSW): There are several bug fixes in the update, with Apple addressing problems with Auto Unlock with Apple Watch, Bluetooth keyboards, Screen Time, and VoiceOver. The update also adds a Sports …
Lees meerJuli Clover (missing release notes, security): In iOS 16.5, Apple is adding a new Pride wallpaper, a Sports tab in Apple News, and fixes for issues with Spotlight and Screen Time. Previously: macOS 13.4 iOS 16.4.1 and iPadOS 16.4.1
Lees meerApple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.6. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.7. See also: Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 13.4 macOS 12.6.5…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Photomator 3.0 today got its official release on macOS, bringing Pixelmator’s iPhone and iPad photo-editing app to MacBooks and Mac desktops for the first time.With an interface that will be familiar to users of Photomator on iOS and i…
Lees meerFTC: The Federal Trade Commission proposed changes to the agency’s 2020 privacy order with Facebook after alleging that the company has failed to fully comply with the order, misled parents about their ability to control with whom their children com…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Coming later this year, users with cognitive disabilities can use iPhone and iPad with greater ease and independence with Assistive Access; nonspeaking individuals can type to speak during calls and conversations with Live Speec…
Lees meerChristina Yeh (tweet, via Hacker News): Google Registry has launched some of the most popular (and secure) top-level domains, such as .app and .dev. Today, we’re adding eight new extensions to the internet: .dad, .phd, .prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: [The] current Data volume, by default named either Macintosh HD - Data (Intel) or simply Data (Apple silicon), isn’t mounted in /Volumes at all, but at /System/Volumes/Data. This article looks at another situation where APFS volumes w…
Lees meerJames R. Hagerty: Dr. Tanenbaum, a chemist who worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research arm of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., saw a chance to dash back to work to test his latest ideas about how to make better semiconductor devices …
Lees meerTower: The Merge Wizard now shows all commits that actually changed the file on each side, instead of just showing the - often unrelated - commit at the tip of the branch or revision for a conflict side. This provides helpful context information abo…
Lees meerChristina Warren (Mastodon): BlackBerry Messenger, better known as BBM to its millions of once-devoted fans, was arguably the original “killer app” of the smartphone age and it set the standard for the way we have communicated via text on our phones…
Lees meerApple: Apple and Google jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices for unwanted tracking. The first-of-its-kind specification will allow Bluetooth location-tracking devices to…
Lees meerThomas Claburn (Hacker News): Russ Cox, a Google software engineer steering the development of the open source Go programming language, has presented a possible plan to implement telemetry in the Go toolchain.However many in the Go community object …
Lees meerFelix Krause: Today, whether your app is opened when your user is taking the bus to work, in bed about to go to sleep, or when out for drinks with friends, your product experience is the same. However, apps of the future will perfectly fit into the …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Before High Sierra, Help Manager was troubled by several bugs, and had become unreliable prior to its major revision in 10.13.4. Since then further bugs have come and gone; among the more troublesome are those in Big Sur and Monterey,…
Lees meerGuillaume Gète (via Glenn Fleishman): The little guide lists seventy various tips, from the particularly useful to the very futile... Obviously, it is not a question here of being exhaustive, but rather to give ways to encourage you remember to pres…
Lees meerMike Masnick: Over the last six months I’ve spent more time on Mastodon than anywhere else, and the community there is fantastic. I understand why some people complain about the onboarding process, or the lack of some features (text search and quote…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The number of Apple service outages lately seems to have risen to the point where they’ve become almost routine.[…]Let’s look just at Apple service outages and issues in the four-and-a-bit months of the year to date – and these are just…
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