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Feedbro

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nodetics (via Jason Pester): With Feedbro you can read RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and thanks to built-in integration also content from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, VK, Telegram, Rumble, Yammer, YouTube Channels, YouTube Search, LinkedIn Groups, Linked…

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Wi-Fi Sync Spyware

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Certo: There is a little-known feature on all iOS devices called ‘WiFi Sync’, which essentially allows for a backup of the device to regularly be downloaded onto a nearby computer over a WiFi connection. […] Unfortunately, this ease of set up and la…

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macOS 13.2.x and Recovery, a Sad Tale

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Robert Hammen: Apple’s latest updates to macOS Ventura can lead to your FileVault-encrypted Mac booting into Recovery, and, potentially, prompts to enter one or more of […][…]As far as what’s happening, without having intimate knowledge (and logs/bu…

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Speeding Up Scanner in Swift

donderdag 23 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

My first tip goes back to when I started using NSScanner in the Puma days. In short, you should never call scanCharacters(from:into:) in a loop because every time it’s called it creates an inverted copy of the character set. It then delegates to sca…

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The Making of Ice Cubes

woensdag 22 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Ricouard: With Mastodon it was time, I could finally make my own social network app, and with iOS 16 and all the great new SwiftUI API that came with it, it was the perfect timing. […] The pinning and reading remote timelines feature was ship…

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The Story Behind Apple’s Newton

woensdag 22 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tom Hormby (in 2010, via Dave Mark): Steve Jobs hired Sakoman in 1984 to help work on a laptop version of the Macintosh after the successful release of the HP Portable. When Jobs left Apple, these laptop plans were scrapped, and Sakoman helped lead …

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Solving Common Problems With Kubernetes

woensdag 22 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Chalmers (via Jim Rea): My computer science degree had taught me all about algorithms, data structures, type systems and operating systems. It had not taught me about containers, or ElasticSearch, or Kubernetes. I don’t think I even wrote a sin…

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Why Not a Smaller MacBook, Too?

woensdag 22 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Moren: Once upon a time, Apple offered its lightest notebook in two sizes: the 13-inch it sells today and a smaller 11-inch model. Alas, only the good die young, and the 11-inch Air was discontinued in 2019—the same year that Apple discontinued …

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The Limits of Computational Photography

woensdag 22 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Will Yager: Every time I tried to take a picture of the engraved text, the picture on my phone looked terrible! It looked like someone had sloppily drawn the text with a paint marker. What was going on? Was my vision somehow faulty, failing to see t…

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Scam Authenticator App Steals QR Codes

dinsdag 21 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Lovejoy: Twitter’s latest bonehead move has led to a flurry of scam authenticator apps, with at least one of them using App Store advertising to figure prominently in search results – and then sending all scanned QR codes to the developer’s anal…

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Fines As a Security System

dinsdag 21 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Hulls: What happened is that the thief who took Lyndsey’s bike got an alert that proactively told her an AirTag was following her location. And, after Apple’s most recent firmware update (December 2022), the thief could even use the precision …

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Fake Uber Eats Delivery From Apple Store

dinsdag 21 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: The latest cautionary tale was shared this week by a Reddit user in California, who claimed that the iPhone 14 Pro Max and Apple Watch Ultra they ordered through Apple’s online store with same-day delivery was falsely marked as delive…

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Google Gives Apple a Cut of Chrome iOS Search Revenue

dinsdag 21 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

We’ve known that Google pays Apple billions for Google searches from Safari, but I had missed that Google is also paying for searches made through Chrome. Bloomberg (in 2020, via Chance Miller): Apple also gets a slice of revenue from searches made …

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Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

dinsdag 21 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brady Eidson and Jen Simmons (Hacker News): Today also brings the first beta of Safari 16.4. It’s a huge release, packed with over 135 features in WebKit — including RegExp lookbehind assertions, Import Maps, OffscreenCanvas, Media Queries Range Syn…

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Contacts.app Skipping Export of Some Contacts

maandag 20 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Miles Wolbe: Some contacts would not export to vCard from Contacts.app, instead exhibiting the following behavior:when clicked and dragged alone, the resulting file, “Contact.vcf”, was zero KBwhen clicked and dragged with unaffected contact(s), affe…

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Bing Search API Pricing Increase

maandag 20 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Steve Bennett (Hacker News): Today, Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the costs for developers utilising the Bing Search API starting from 1st May 2023, and the rise is quite substantial in a move that shows some similarities to what T…

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Meta Verified and Twitter Blue

maandag 20 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mark Zuckerberg (Hacker News): [This] week we’re starting to roll out Meta Verified -- a subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to b…

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iOS Betas Tied to Apple ID

vrijdag 17 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito (MacRumors): Whereas previously installing an iOS beta required a special profile, that process will now be tied to the developer’s Apple ID. […] “Your iPhone or iPad must be signed in with the same Apple ID you used to enroll in the…

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Homecoming for Mastodon 2.0

vrijdag 17 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: As before, when you’re viewing a Mastodon page in another instance, clicking the extension icon in Safari’s toolbar opens that page in your own instance. On the other hand, when you’re viewing a Mastodon page in your own instance, clic…

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Creating a Personal Mastodon Instance

vrijdag 17 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jim Carroll: People also need to understand they can do their own instance and avoid all this server migration stuff in their Mastodon home going down or becoming unstable. Having a domain-name-related instance that belongs to you negates any of the…

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Finding Open Files

vrijdag 17 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sveinbjörn Þórðarson (Hacker News): Sloth is a native Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system. This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files and sockets. It’s open-source. See als…

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