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Disappearing Safari Extensions

woensdag 27 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: I’ve received a number of bug reports from customers saying that the extension doesn’t appear in Safari. And when my app calls the API [SFSafariApplication showPreferencesForExtensionWithIdentifier: completionHandler:] to show the exte…

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Git Tower 9

dinsdag 26 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tower: Auto-expand changesets: A new view option has been added to configure behaviour of auto-expanding diffs in the History changeset views. You can find it under “Diffs in Changeset” in the “View” main menu. This is great. I always want to see th…

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Swift Proposal: Move Function

dinsdag 26 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SE-0366 (forum): In this document, we propose adding a new function called move to the swift standard library, which ends the lifetime of a specific local let, local var, or consuming function parameter, and which enforces this by causing the compil…

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Netflix Adds External Subscription Button

dinsdag 26 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito: Earlier this year, Apple began allowing “reader” apps to provide external links for customers so they can log in and pay for a subscription from outside the App Store. Now Netflix is rolling out an option in its iOS app that takes u…

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Mail Links and Percentages

dinsdag 26 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dr. Drang: Yesterday, John Voorhees wrote a nice article at MacStories about creating links to specific email messages. His system is in the form of a Shortcut, but the real work is done by an AppleScript. The AppleScript is an extension of one John…

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Apple Retail Store Time Machine

maandag 25 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Steeber: The Apple Store Time Machine is a celebration of the places and products that have shaped our lives for more than twenty years. This interactive experience recreates memorable moments in Apple history with painstaking detail and his…

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Missed Security Updates Due to Content Caching

maandag 25 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: The assumption is that, if you follow Apple’s guidance with automatic updates enabled, when Software Update reports your Mac is up to date, then everything is hunky dory. […] In my case, as with many, when any of my Macs tries to down…

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Too Much Transparency in macOS 13

maandag 25 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Birchler: This is what Safari’s download window has looked like for years on macOS. It’s pretty well laid out, but I always have trouble reading it at a glance. Matt Birchler: Today I’m back complaining about contrast and legibility again with …

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Personal App Distribution

maandag 25 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Steve Streza: To make a small app for a friend, Mac: Send a .app, maybe right-click > Open Windows: Send a .exe or .msi installer Linux: Send a .appimage Android: Enable dev mode, send a .apk iOS: Spend $100/year, set up TestFlight, make a new build…

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Reverse Engineering SwiftUI’s NavigationPath Codability

vrijdag 22 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis: An interesting feature of NavigationPath is that it is capable of encoding and decoding itself to JSON, even though all of its type information has been erased. This is powerful because it makes state restoration …

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Apple Re-enables Bluetooth on Every Update

vrijdag 22 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: I believe this issue started with iOS 14 and macOS 11, but in any case it definitely happens now with every iOS 15 and macOS 12 update, including today’s iOS 15.6 and macOS 12.5 updates, on every device I own. (I think Apple stopped re…

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Bluetooth Remains Unusually Painful

vrijdag 22 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Catherine Thorbecke (via Hacker News): In the two decades since it was first included in products available to the general public, Bluetooth has become so widespread that an entire generation of consumers may not be able to remember a time without i…

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Privileges.app

vrijdag 22 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SAP: Privileges for macOS is designed to allow users to work as a standard user for day-to-day use, by providing a quick and easy way to get administrator rights when needed. When you do need admin rights, you can get them by clicking on the Privile…

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TextExpander Takes Venture Capital

vrijdag 22 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

TextExpander: TextExpander, a developer of productivity software, today announced a $41.4 million financing round and the addition of SaaS industry leader J.D. Mullin as the company’s new CEO. The financing is led by global growth equity investor Su…

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Zendesk to Be Acquired

vrijdag 22 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Reuters, in February: Zendesk Inc (ZEN.N), the software company under activist shareholder pressure to abandon its $3.9 billion all-stock acquisition of the parent of online survey portal SurveyMonkey, said on Thursday it had rejected an acquisition…

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Weathergraph 1.0.107

vrijdag 22 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tomas Kafka: Interactive chart, just in time for summer trips! Need to know the exact conditions for a given hour? Long press the chart to show all the data, or press and slide your finger over the chart to “scrub” through the forecast. Between this…

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macOS 12.5

donderdag 21 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: macOS Monterey 12.5 adds a bug fix for a Safari tab issue and it adds the option to restart, pause, rewind, or fast-forward a live sports game that’s in progress. Apple’s release notes for the update are below. You can download the inst…

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Drobo Files for Bankruptcy

donderdag 21 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Gannon Burgett: Drobo was founded in San Jose, California back in May 2005 under the name Data Robotics. Over the years, its line of Drobo products took hold in the data storage market, offering simple solutions for anyone needing to store and back …

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FogBugz Moves to IgniteTech

donderdag 21 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

IgniteTech (via Rich Siegel, Hacker News): IgniteTech™, the company “Where Software Goes to Live™,” today announced a transition of two software products from the ESW Capital portfolio to IgniteTech. Two solutions previously managed under the DevGra…

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Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Settlement

dinsdag 19 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple will pay $50 million to settle a 2018 class-action lawsuit over the faulty butterfly keyboards that were used in MacBook machines between 2015 and 2019, reports Reuters. […] The lawsuit covers only customers in the above-mentioned…

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Confusing Swift Evaluation Order

dinsdag 19 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

June Bash: didDelete?(deleteItem(Item())) […] This was surprising to me because i was thinking the order of operations would be: Evaluate function parameters Pass parameter into function if available But instead it acts more like an @autoclosure. It…

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