Juli Clover (full installer): Today’s update addresses an ongoing issue with Safari icons. The Big Sur 11.7.3 update introduced a bug that prevented icons from showing up in the Safari Favorites section. Spaces where icons normally appear were blank…
Lees meerDavid Kopec: For one-off contact additions, there’s a simpler way that requires none of that. The idea is basic: you create a contact, save it in vCard format, and then ask the operating system to open the vCard file in the Contacts app. When the Co…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Does it matter which Mastodon instance you choose? I’ve seen many people claim that it doesn’t matter, and moreover that you can easily switch instances. I learned the hard way that this claim is unwarranted, a disservice to new Mastod…
Lees meerNoah Martin: A 150MB+ app binary file, like the one in Uber‘s app, takes between 500 ms and 1 second just to be loaded into memory (measured on an iPhone 6s). Loading large files like this is just a fraction of the app‘s launch time. To put in persp…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Among the rough edges in macOS is that infuriating message you may see when you try to eject or unmount a volume: it failed because the volume is in use.[…]In Disk Utility, the answer seems to be to try again, several times if necessa…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: Unfortunately, colors generated like this look really bad. They often come out muddy and ruddy, and generating more than one color doesn’t come with any pattern or structure. The colors are all over the place. This is a structural p…
Lees meerJohn Poole (via MacRumors): Geekbench tests have always been grounded in real-world use cases and use modern. With Geekbench 6, we’ve taken this to the next level by updating existing workloads and designing several new workloads, including workload…
Lees meerBlair Lyon (via Hacker News): Since Akamai’s acquisition of Linode in early 2022, we’ve been hard at work to bring the platforms together under one roof. With the announcement of Akamai Connected Cloud, Linode is now fully integrated into the Akamai…
Lees meerEric Van Aelstyn: The out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application was permanently disabled on certain versions of Windows 10 on February 14, 2023 through a Microsoft Edge update. Note, this update will be rolled out over the span …
Lees meerMysk: The App Store on macOS 13.2 sends detailed usage data and analytics to Apple. All interactions are associated with the user’s iCloud ID, or dsid. This happens even when you turn off sharing usage data and analytics.[…]Here’s an example of the …
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher: Con artists involved in a so-called “pig butchering” scam sneaked apps into Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store by temporarily presenting innocuous functionality.[…]As the apps went through review, they each appeared to be doi…
Lees meerAlsoft (via Agen Schmitz): Supports OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion through macOS 13 Ventura when rebuilding Mac OS Extended volumes.Now runs on Apple Silicon M1 & M2 Macs to rebuild Mac OS Extended volumes.No longer requires a kernel extension (KEXT) to op…
Lees meerJon Brodkin (via Hacker News): When Hillier looked up his address on the FCC map, it showed Comcast claims to offer 1.2Gbps download and 35Mbps upload speeds at the house. In reality, he makes do with CenturyLink Internet that tops out at 60Mbps dow…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: As we have done before on several occasions, we’re going to employ macOS Shortcuts to create a solution for comparing binary data of files in Kaleidoscope, without the need to change Kaleidoscope itself.[…]Some Kaleidoscope users p…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, full installer, IPSW): Apple today released macOS Ventura 13.2.1, the a minor to the macOS Ventura operating system initially released in October. Juli Clover: According to Apple’s security notes for the updates…
Lees meerJuli Clover (security): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 16.3.1 update includes multiple bug fixes, addressing issues with iCloud and Siri requests for Find My, plus it adds more Crash Detection optimizations.The iCloud settings fix may a…
Lees meerMarc Edwards: Using the area works well for a circle, but, what about a donut? The hole in the middle reduces the total area. This also happens with stars and other shapes. Holes and concave segments should probably be ignored. A method to do this e…
Lees meerDave Verwer: I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that sums up the balance of the pros and cons of life in the iOS App Store better than this Apple Developer News post from last week. It announces more flexibility to the billing grace period featur…
Lees meerRon Amadeo (via Peter Steinberger): The feature leverages Android's multi-user system to have two copies of the same app but with different data, allowing you to log in to each with different accounts. Some apps support multiple accounts and some do…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When privacy settings are playing up, and you get prompted to allow access that you have already agreed to, or access fails when it should have worked, there’s little you can do about it. Once you’ve fiddled with Privacy & Security se…
Lees meerTransmission (Hacker News, Mac Rumors): This is a major release, both in numbering and in effort! It’s been in active development for over a year and has a huge list of changes -- over a thousand commits -- since Transmission 3.00.[…]The code has be…
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