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Mac 30th Anniversary Icons

donderdag 26 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Robb Knight: SVG icons extracted from the 30th Anniversary Mac Font Via Dave Mark: And if you hover your cursor over the icons, they slowly change color. Nick Heer: It is also a reminder that the titanium PowerBook which so clearly set the template …

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ChatGPT vs. Google

woensdag 25 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dave Winer: I went to ChatGPT and entered “Simple instructions about how to send email from a Node.js app?” What came back was absolutely perfect, none of the confusing crap and business models you see in online instructions in Google. I see why Goo…

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Twitter to Revert Hostile “For You” Switch

woensdag 25 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kyle Barr: Twitter has reversed course on its extremely unpopular decision to make an algorithmically generated timeline the default for all Twitter users.[…]The change will start on the web version of Twitter before “soon” coming to the iOS and And…

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LaunchBar Actions for Mastodon

woensdag 25 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Christian Bender: Search Mastodon accounts and hashtags easily with LaunchBar. […] This action opens the current post or profile in Safari on your home instance. […] This is a simple action to post a status (toot) on Mastodon. I had forgotten that L…

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Network Connections From mediaanalysisd

woensdag 25 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeffrey Paul (Hacker News): Imagine my surprise when browsing these images in the Finder, Little Snitch told me that macOS is now connecting to Apple APIs via a program named mediaanalysisd (Media Analysis Daemon - a background process for analyzing…

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macOS 13.2

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): The update adds Security Keys for the Apple ID, allowing for physical two-factor authentication, which offers more protection against phishing and unauthorized accou…

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macOS 12.6.3 and macOS 11.7.3

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.3. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.3. Previously: macOS 13.2 macOS 12.6.1 and macOS 11.7.1

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iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (security): Security Keys for Apple ID provide users with the option to add a third-party security key to their account, which will be needed for authentication when logging into a new device or otherwise accessing an Apple ID.[…]Advance…

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Ivory 1.0

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tapbots: Ivory is a brand new app that brings 10 years of experience building the award-winning Twitter app, Tweetbot, over to Mastodon. […] Ivory is currently in Early Access, which means there are features missing and we are actively building them…

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Homecoming for Mastodon 1.1

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): I found that the federated structure of Mastodon could make it ridiculously difficult to follow people, especially if you’re not on one of the biggest instances such as mastodon.social (which is often closed for new sign-ups…

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Mimeo Acquires Motif

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mimeo: This acquisition will combine the shared passion for empowering creators and producing top-notch products of both Mimeo and Motif, and strengthens Mimeo’s commitment to delivering best-in-class photo products and innovation for every home and…

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RAW Power 3.4

dinsdag 24 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Gentlemen Coders: Adjust images with incredible precision and power, using special controls in Apple’s RAW decoder. […] Work with your Photos library or Finder folders. […] Rate and flag images. Filter by four criteria. […] Multiple windows and tabs…

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Twitter Makes It Official

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Karissa Bell: In case there was any doubt about Twitter’s intentions in cutting off the developers of third-party apps, the company has quietly updated its developer agreement to make clear that app makers are no longer permitted to create their own…

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Photos Workbench 1.0

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Houdah Software: Photos Workbench works with Apple Photos to help you organize, name, and compare your photos. […] Batch change titles. Give your photos descriptive names […] One-click apply keywords using keyword palettes […] Photos Workbench has a…

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Identifying Phishing

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: In the past, many phishing attempts were obviously fake, and intentionally so. That’s because they only had to sucker people who were sufficiently inexperienced, credulous, or easily deceived that they would continue to go along with the…

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Local iOS Backups Repeatedly Prompt for Passcode

vrijdag 20 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: Instead of preventing AppleMobileBackup from backing up to custom locations without additional permission, Apple chose to mitigate the vulnerability by forcing the user to enter the device’s passcode on every backup or sync connection. A…

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Folders With High File Counts

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Bombich (Hacker News): Any time a folder has more than a few thousand items in it, the filesystem is going to be a lot slower when working with that folder. Adding a new file, for example, requires that the filesystem compare the new item name …

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Amazon Closing AmazonSmile

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Amazon (Hacker News): In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to make it easier for customers to support their favorite charities. However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. With so many eli…

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Issues With Apple TV Remotes and iCloud Terms

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Greg Pierce: Maybe just lucky, but since upgrading to the newest Apple TV, with the USB-C remote, we've had to reboot the remote periodically to make it work the TV volume. Despite using Apple TVs for many years, I was not previous aware that you co…

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What About “Log in With Twitter”?

donderdag 19 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Chandler: There are many websites, like this one who use Continue with Twitter / Login with Twitter” I assume that many sites responsibly implemented this and still set a password for the user and a user id but one thing I think most of us have…

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HomePod (2nd Generation)

woensdag 18 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Packed with Apple innovations and Siri intelligence, HomePod offers advanced computational audio for a groundbreaking listening experience, including support for immersive Spatial Audio tracks. With convenient new ways to manage…

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