Ole Begemann: The Photos app on macOS doesn’t provide a keyboard shortcut for the Export Unmodified Original command.macOS allows you to add your own app-specific keyboard shortcuts via System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts…
Lees meerBen Scheirman: Side Mirror allows you to select any attached display on your Mac and run it in a window. This can be useful for a number of reasons: During live presentations, to avoid looking back at a projector screen. You can see it and monitor w…
Lees meerNick Heer: So I assumed this message would disappear after my Mac figured out I had moved its library. A week later, it has not disappeared and images from Photos are, indeed, not searchable in Spotlight. Apple’s documentation implies Spotlight will…
Lees meerJesse Squires: I usually use Git Tower to review and commit my changes, but you can’t edit files in Git Tower, which means switching back-and-forth between Xcode if you need to make additional modifications. Xcode provides a nice commit interface th…
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet): In most categories, our panel’s view of Apple in the enterprise was on an upswing. The company made large gains in the categories of enterprise service and support and in macOS identity management (its 3.3 average was still fair…
Lees meerAntoni Silvestrovic (via Dave Verwer): Tool to convert SVG to SwiftUI’s Shape structure. This approach is much more memory efficient than introducing a SVG library for rendering.[…]This repository is just a front-end wrapper over our svg-to-swiftui-…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Recovery modes on Apple silicon Macs have also changed. In Big Sur, the primary Recovery system is stored in a hidden container on the internal SSD, and a fallback Recovery system in a volume alongside the boot volume group. Monterey …
Lees meerJeff Johnson on the News app’s Share menu: This doesn’t open in Safari but rather in my default web browser, which is Link Unshortener.Any normal Mac app — including Link Unshortener — can call the API to determine which app is your default web brow…
Lees meerTimothy B. Lee (Hacker News): Twitter users on Friday began noticing that they could not retweet or reply to tweets containing links to the Substack.com domain. This behavior seems to have started less than 48 hours after the popular newsletter plat…
Lees meerJeff Teper (via Ben Sandofsky, Slashdot): We have been listening to your feedback which has culminated in a reimagining of Teams from the ground up. The new app is built on a foundation of speed, performance, flexibility, and intelligence—delivering…
Lees meerGergely Orosz: Wow. @SubstackInc experimented with pricing, reducing it by 1 cent, so e.g. instead of $10/month, do $9.99/month. The result? A significant decrease for the pricing ending with .99. Which goes against conventional pricing wisdom!! Pad…
Lees meerMatthieu Bloch (Hacker News): Jacob Ziv, known for his pioneering contributions to communication and information theory that inspired generations of researchers, passed away on March 25, 2023 at the age of 91. Perhaps his most celebrated achievement…
Lees meerYnet (via Hacker News): The first major milestone of Lempel’s oeuvre came in 1977 when he and his colleague Prof. Jacob Ziv published LZ77, the first version of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which was followed up the very next year with LZ78. The Limite…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo: However, when it comes to these local XPC services, the assumption that their scope is limited -- both in terms of functionality as well as which processes can even look them up to initiate a connection in the first place — means th…
Lees meernewZWhoDis: Essentially, the latest iOS (16.4 at post time) allows your cellular carrier (via eSIM) to add “managed networks” to your device. These networks cannot be removed, they cannot have “automatically join” disabled, and they have equal prior…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 16.4.1 add a fix for an issue that could cause Siri not to respond in some cases, and it adds skin tones variations for the pushing hands emoji. Juli Clover: According to…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, it introduces a fix for a bug that could cause Auto Unlock with Apple Watch not to work, plus it includes a fix for an issue that caused …
Lees meerAndy Baio (Hacker News, MacRumors): While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018. […] If you’re on a Mac, open a Terminal…
Lees meerDaniel Jackson: Appropriately, Apple synchronized this action with the undo action of the general Undo concept. So if you send a message and then immediately execute an undo, it is interpreted as undo send, even without clicking the special transien…
Lees meerBitestring (via Hacker News): But companies found another way to uniquely identify you across different sessions and websites without using cookies or other persistent storage. It’s called web fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is a more sophisticated a…
Lees meerZippyshare: Since 2006 we have been on the market in an unchanged form, that is, as ad financed/free file hosting. However, you have been visiting in less and less over the years, as the arguably very simple formula of the services we offer is slowl…
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