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Years of macOS Updates

dinsdag 19 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Andrew Cunningham: The end result is a spreadsheet full of dozens of Macs, with multiple metrics for determining how long each one received official software support from Apple.[…]For all Mac models tracked, the average Mac receives almost exactly s…

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Peakto 1.0

dinsdag 19 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

CYME: Opening Peakto is like opening all your catalogs at once and seeing all your images in ONE app. No matter what editing software you use. Peakto is the control tower that regroups your catalogs from Apple Photos, Aperture, Lightroom Classic, Lu…

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OmniFocus 3.13 and Voice Control

maandag 18 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ken Case: OmniFocus 3.13 provides a wide range of improvements to Omni Automation—perhaps most notably adding support for Speech Synthesis, but also a number of other improvements as well. With these automation enhancements, OmniFocus 3.13 can now t…

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Facebook Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping

maandag 18 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bruce Schneier: Some sites, including Facebook, add parameters to the web address for tracking purposes. These parameters have no functionality that is relevant to the user, but sites rely on them to track users across pages and properties. Martin B…

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Invasive Spotlight Indexing

maandag 18 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lloyd Chambers: The thoughtless design of providing no facility to defer/delay Spotlight indexing is bad enough. But to perform intensive Spotlight indexing when the user is needs the machine to perform well—that is design incompetence to the point …

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Ev Williams to Step Down From Medium

vrijdag 15 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ev Williams (via Hacker News): Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO reins. Casey Newton: As I wrote at the time, by some measures Medium was succeeding…

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Apple Argues to Get Epic Injunction Thrown Out

vrijdag 15 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple today submitted its final filing in the ongoing Apple v. Epic legal battle, which is playing out in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Both Apple and Epic Games chose to appeal the original ruling as neither…

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Industry Trade Groups

vrijdag 15 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

The App Association: The App Association gives a voice to small technology companies. Our mission is to help members promote an environment that inspires and rewards innovation while providing resources to help them raise capital, create jobs, and c…

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CP/M Now Officially Open Source

vrijdag 15 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Martin Maly (via Hacker News): Of course, it was “opened” a long time before, but with an unclear clause, mentioning “Unofficial CP/M Web Site” as a licensed place. The discussion is not over yet, but we believe this statement is equivalent to the w…

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Inject: Hot Reloading in Swift

donderdag 14 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Krzysztof Zabłocki (tweet): If you only used Apple platforms, you can be surprised to learn how many platforms have embraced hot-reloading decades ago. Whether you write Node or any other JS framework, there is a setup for you to use hot-reloading. …

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Performance of Microsoft Teams

donderdag 14 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

shilocase (via Hacker News): Teams is murdering my MacBook Pro 16" i9 with 16GB RAM every day. This was supposed to be the most kick-a$$ laptop at the time but Microsoft is slowly killing it with Teams. It causes serious lags and randomly decides wh…

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Giving a Shit As a Service

donderdag 14 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Allen Pike: In some ways, that’s the fundamental value proposition of a small boutique, whether it be a furniture shop or a software studio. […] I used to puzzle over why potential clients who reached out to me always seemed to get more interested i…

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Most Fraudulent Apps Still on the App Store

donderdag 14 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Frederik Lipfert: In March 2021, Avast shared a list of 133 fraudulent apps for which Sensor Tower estimated a total of 500M downloads and total revenue of $365M generated by the applications in their lifetime.We found that over a year later, more t…

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Simplify Gmail Safari Extension Blocked Over IAP

donderdag 14 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Leggett: Apple is telling me that I HAVE to add in-app payments to my browser extension, Simplify Gmail which currently has no in-app purchases. […] My understanding of the rules was that, IF I use in-app payments, I HAVE to use Apple’s in-a…

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DevAnt: Upcoming Mac App Distribution Platform

woensdag 13 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Realmac Software (tweet): License and protect software, deliver updates to customers, collect crash reports and feedback — no additional coding necessary. Integrate one SDK instead of days of coding. It’s not available yet, and there are not a lot o…

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Migration Assistant Magic

woensdag 13 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nick Heer: You agree, it opens Migration Assistant on your new Mac — you open it manually on your old one — and then it runs a few tests in the background to automatically select the fastest transfer method. In my case, this was peer-to-peer at a pa…

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Introductory Programming Assessment Must Accommodate Copilot-like Assistants

woensdag 13 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Kopec: There are certain standard problems that we are accustomed to assigning because completing them demonstrates the ability to implement fundamental simple algorithms. A prior strategy to reduce plagiarism has been to provide scaffolding c…

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Alfred 5

woensdag 13 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Running with Crayons: The Workflow Editor has been rewritten from the ground up to be higher performance, more efficient, user-friendly and accessible.[…]The new Workflow Palette gives you an easy way to navigate, discover and use the broad range of…

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InterfaceBuilder.swift

woensdag 13 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Maximilian Mackh (tweet): InterfaceBuilder.swift lets you quickly build complex UIKit layout in code, speed up native app development and is completely open source. […] The SwiftUI approach to layout in code is objectively fantastic and has inspired…

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macOS 13.0 Ventura Public Beta

dinsdag 12 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Public beta testers can download the macOS 13 Ventura update from the Software Update section of the System Preferences app after installing the proper profile from Apple’s beta software website. John Voorhees: On the Mac, Stage Manager…

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iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 Public Beta

dinsdag 12 juli 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Public beta testers who have signed up for Apple’s beta testing program can download the iOS and iPadOS 16 updates over the air after installing the proper certificate from the Public Beta website. Federico Viticci: Stage Manager, while…

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