Roger González Gutiérrez (via Hacker News): Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint slides.[…]Make a new slide with a title of your choice. Choose “Designer.” Look at your network traffic as you do.It makes sense: the tool is readin…
Lees meerWojciech Kulik (Hacker News): If you add @MainActor attribute to a function, it is not the same as wrapping the whole method in DispatchQueue.main.async. If your method contains await keyword, the code will be split into two pieces – one before awai…
Lees meerCharles Edge: Sierra (Mac OS X 10.12) had a minimum drive capacity of 8.8 GB but really needed more like 12 GB; however there wasn’t a hard number sanity check that I personally ran into. This was 2016 and the amount of free space required to do an …
Lees meerRich Trouton: One of the changes made between macOS Monterey’s System Preferences and macOS Ventura’s System Settings is that the Hide checkbox in System Preferences’ Login Items has disappeared from System Settings’ Login Items. […] Fortunately for…
Lees meerWWDC 2022: In addition to an integrity check, Gatekeeper will also prevent your app from being modified in certain ways. The most common way apps are modified is for updates. Apps validly signed by the same developer account or team will continue to…
Lees meerBen Thompson (Hacker News): Meta, née Facebook, is now, incredibly enough, worth 42% less than it was when I wrote Facebook Lenses, hitting levels not seen since January 2016. It seems the company’s many critics are finally right: Facebook is dying,…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Apple’s $550 over-ear AirPods Max headphones are less effective at blocking out outside noise when using Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) following their latest firmware update, according to results from a detailed audio test.[…]The decre…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo (tweet, Hacker News): Any app with access to Bluetooth could record your conversations with Siri and audio from the iOS keyboard dictation feature when using AirPods or Beats headsets. This would happen without the app requesting mic…
Lees meerJesse Grosjean: Bike now supports rich text! […] Rich text is difficult when you need to insert text at formatting boundaries. Markdown has formatting characters to guide you. In rich text there are no such characters, and so you must rely on these …
Lees meerTim Hardwick (in 2020): In marketing materials[…], Apple said its iPhones were water resistant at a depth of between one and four meters for up to 30 minutes, depending on the model.However, according to [Italy]’s competition regulator, the messages…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple’s new design adds a Featured section to the top of the “Watch Now” section in the TV app, with the featured content placed above the “Up Next” watchlist. The change makes it more difficult for users to get to the content they are …
Lees meerTN3137: The Keychain and SecKeychain APIs always target the file-based keychain. The SecItem API can target either implementation. It defaults to targeting the file-based keychain. […] The file-based keychain is on the road to deprecation. […] The S…
Lees meerMaxim Ananov: Too many windows to manage? Large display? Or sometimes getting lost in multiple monitors? HazeOver is for you! This app automatically highlights the front window by fading out all the background windows. Via Andrew Abernathy: I just l…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: On Monday, we learned that when following a sports event the Dynamic Island shows a live-updating scoreboard with the number of goals scored by each club on either side of the True Depth camera pill, which Apple refers to as a Live Act…
Lees meerThomas Reed: In the case of security software using Apple’s Endpoint Security framework, it is an Apple-enforced requirement that the software get a higher level of permission from TCC - namely, Full Disk Access.[…]Unfortunately, in Ventura, affecte…
Lees meerRichard Staats (via Charlie Stross): The reason for this issue is that MacOS 13 ships with OpenSSH_9.0p1 which has disabled RSA signatures on SHA-1 hash algorithms. If upgrading OpenSSH on the server and/or regenerating your SSH key isn’t an option …
Lees meerjimmo: Apple appear to have implemented a change in “Ventura” to the way extended attributes are written which is causing it to fail on devices that present a “virtual” USB Mass Storage device. Via Rui Carmo: In short, macOS Ventura is the only oper…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci (tweet): The number of binaries composing iOS continues to increase: iOS 16 contains 5403 binaries, up from 4738 in iOS 15. That’s 665 new binaries.[…]Without surprise, we can clearly confirm that some of the new iOS 16 features ha…
Lees meerJohn Earnest: Decker builds on the legacy of HyperCard and the visual aesthetic of classic MacOS. It retains the simplicity and ease of learning that HyperCard provided, while adding many subtle and overt quality-of-life improvements, like deep undo…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (tweet): But how much money can these ads be generating? How much can Apple hope they eventually generate? It can’t possibly be enough money to justify the damage it’s doing to Apple’s brand. […] “No ads in the App Store, period” would h…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apps may use in-app purchase to sell and sell services related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), such as minting, listing, and transferring. Apps may allow users to view their own NFTs, provided that NFT ownership does not unlock fea…
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