Accidental Tech Podcast: It’s 2022 and we still haven’t solved email, batteries, or sharing files between two computers. Sean Heber: I really hate local network file sharing. It never seems to work right.I setup a folder to share on my mac. My compu…
Lees meertresinnoctem: I use the SMB file sharing system to access files on my MBPro from my iPhone 12, on my local network. Until now, this has been robust, reliable and fast. After updating my MBPro to Ventura 13.0 and my iPhone to iOS 16.1 I cannot connec…
Lees meerIsaiah Carew: Whoever is in charge of updates, really likes dark patterns.It asks a Yes-or-No question that it does [not] allow you to answer with Yes or No.It doesn’t provide any sort of “snooze” feature -- so non-techy users who might not know how…
Lees meerRob Napier: My first mistake was trying to make it parallel before I pulled out Instruments. Always start by profiling. Do not make systems parallel before you’ve optimized them serially. Sure enough, the biggest bottleneck was random number generat…
Lees meerDan Moren: To the rescue flew the Apple Watch’s Camera app. I’ve probably used this feature a handful of times since the first Apple Watch, and probably not at all since I got my Series 7, and frankly I was blown away with just how much better the e…
Lees meerGeneral If a Save panel opens showing the most recently used folder, clicking Save will instead save to the Documents folder unless I specifically navigate to the already displayed folder manually. Throughout Finder, apps, and the Dock, documents ar…
Lees meerRobin (Robert) Thomas (via Hacker News): There is no option to manually enter the correct date. The only obvious path forward is to tap the left arrow button 924 times to get back to 1945. The not-obvious path forward -- which our elderly users cann…
Lees meerThe Twitter Files Archive: This is an archival of the Twitter Files released by Elon Musk, who shared the information with various independent journalists. The purpose of this site is to make the information given by Elon Musk easily accessible to e…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: The locations show above, and many others, are available from Xcode using the xcrun simctl command. Every application on every device on every platform can be queried. But these lookups are difficult for developers because the inf…
Lees meerxinyu: The aim of Gitea actions is to bring closer integration between Gitea and existing CI/CD systems. Another goal is to expose a unified management inteface for standalone runners to reduce the adminstrative overhead of supporting multiple syste…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Tesla today announced the launch of the Tesla Wireless Charging Platform, a $300 wireless charger that is able to charge up to three Qi devices at one time. The concept is somewhat similar to the AirPower that Apple wanted to produce as…
Lees meerJonathan Bar Or: Considering symbolic links are preserved in archives and aren’t assigned with quarantine attributes—we looked for a mechanism that could persist different kinds of metadata over archives. After some investigation, we discovered a wa…
Lees meerJason Snell: Now there’s the Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Desktops and Displays, a $40 adapter for other displays. […] I have very few reservations of this new adapter. It works well on my Apple Studio Display but would work just as well…
Lees meerDan Goodin: LastPass, one of the leading password managers, said that hackers obtained a wealth of personal information belonging to its customers as well as encrypted and cryptographically hashed passwords and other data stored in customer vaults. …
Lees meerDavid Smith: The trick was knowing that you have to press that bottom right button in order to discover if an automatic route is being tracked. I imagine this ambiguity is coming from Apple being very circumspect about protecting user privacy. I wou…
Lees meerJames Thomson (Mastodon): At around the same time, we’d started coding using THINK Pascal, and I had begun to explore the Macintosh programming APIs in my own time. […] The Pascal core mathematics code was hand-translated into C, and a new user inte…
Lees meerReuters (via MacRumors): The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros ($1.06 million) for imposing abusive commercial clauses on French app developers for access to the company’s App Store, the court ruling…
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann: Some of my older Macs running High Sierra or Mojave were unable to join the Personal Hotspot of one or even two of my iPhones.[…]There is a file called com.apple.airport.preferences.plist in the folder /Library/Preferences/SystemC…
Lees meerJuli Clover: As of iPadOS 16, some Instagram users who access the iPhone version of the app on their iPad have noticed that it’s not working properly on the iPad’s display, making it impossible to post stories, see the full content of images, access…
Lees meerGarrit Franke: I opened Google Maps again, and noticed that maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps. This implies that the permissions I give to Google Maps now apply to all of Googles services hosted under this domain. So far I only identi…
Lees meerTapbots: Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory, is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be develop…
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