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JXA’s Parenthesis Paradox

zaterdag 7 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dr. Drang: Because the name of the process is what we want to return, name has to go last in the chain of calls, and it’s the one that gets the parentheses. We’re applying the whose filter to the processes, so it has to go after processes. The prope…

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Inside Code Signing Technotes

zaterdag 7 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

TN3125: Provisioning Profiles: A macOS app can claim certain entitlements without them being authorized by a provisioning profile. These unrestricted entitlements include:com.apple.security.get-task-allowcom.apple.security.application-groupsThose us…

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Bug Puts Apple Music in Dock

zaterdag 7 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple Music appears to be affected by a bug that is causing the app to install itself directly into the dock when downloaded from the App Store, with the app even replacing other first and third-party apps located in the dock. […] There…

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ISPs Ordered to Block Three Pirate Streaming Services

zaterdag 7 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jon Brodkin: A federal judge has ordered all Internet service providers in the United States to block three pirate streaming services operated by Doe defendants who never showed up to court and hid behind false identities.The blocking orders affect …

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One-click Time Machine Restore

vrijdag 6 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Sephton: Often I want to restore the latest version of a file from Time Machine, but using the Time Machine interface to do so is awkward and slow. So I came up with my own solution that can be triggered from the Finder context menu of any file…

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Camo 1.6

vrijdag 6 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Potuck: Reincubate launched its Camo app back in 2020 to seamlessly upgrade your Mac’s webcam with the iPhone you already have. Over the last two years, the app has been continuously upgraded, and today brings a major milestone. Camo now has…

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Apple Lowers Trade-In Values

vrijdag 6 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Apple this week lowered its estimated trade-in values for select Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models in the United States. iMacs are down from a maximum of $1,200 to $850. When I traded in my iMac a month or so ago, I was surprised to f…

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iPhone 4S Performance Settlement

vrijdag 6 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sami Fathi: Apple has agreed to settle a long-lasting six-year class-action lawsuit that accused it of knowingly slowing down iPhone 4S devices following the iOS 9 update in 2015, agreeing to pay some iPhone 4S owners who had experienced poor perfor…

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ReadKit 3

donderdag 5 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Balazs Varkonyi: Universal app: same features and same services are supported on iOS and macOS. Brand new macOS application with new design and improved functionality. New supported services on macOS: BazQux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, The Old R…

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Open Letter About Apple Remote Work

donderdag 5 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stephen Warwick (Hacker News): A group of Apple employees has penned an angry letter to the company’s executive team over its office-bound work policy that doesn’t let them work remotely for more than two days a week.[…]The group says the most impor…

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CDC Bought Phone Location Data

donderdag 5 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joseph Cox (Hacker News): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people vis…

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EU Objects to Apple Limiting Third-Party Access to NFC

donderdag 5 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eric Slivka: In line with a report late last week, the European Commission today officially announced that it has issued a Statement of Objections to Apple over its restrictions that prevent third-party services from accessing the NFC capabilities o…

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Studio Display 15.5 Firmware Beta 2

woensdag 4 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple today released a second beta version of new 15.5 firmware that’s coming to the Studio Display, with the software coming one week after the launch of the first beta. The Studio Display firmware is designed to improve the function o…

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Periodic Table of NSVisualEffectView

woensdag 4 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthias Gansrigler: While working on that feedback panel that comes up when resizing a shot, or changing its transparency (see above), I needed an overview of the different appearances an NSVisualEffectView can have. During testing, I discovered th…

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Is Grammarly a Keylogger?

woensdag 4 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Meller (via Hacker News): The problem, it seems, is that Grammarly is only willing to perform this magic trick on their cloud. That means, the text you enter into an app when the Grammarly widget is visible is sent to them. Grammarly: Grammarl…

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1Password 8 for Mac

dinsdag 3 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dave Teare: We created an entirely new design language, code-named Knox, to unleash the power and productivity we’ve been dreaming of – all while preserving the heart and soul of 1Password. 😍 […] Quick Access is a floating panel that is always avail…

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Reminders API Requests

maandag 2 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dr. Drang: A couple of days ago, Federico Viticci tweeted his wish list for a new or updated Reminders API and asked for other people for theirs. Stephen Hackett answered with this: parameters for repeating tasks Stephen’s simple request is exactly …

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Success and Failure at Pebble

maandag 2 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eric Migicovsky (via Hacker News): I started Pebble with some friends from the University of Waterloo in 2008. We were the first company to work on smartwatches. Pebble defined what a smartwatch was meant to do — vibrate and display incoming calls a…

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Canon Camera Museum

maandag 2 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dave Mark: Ever own a Canon camera? Below is a link to the Canon museum, which has details on every camera and lens they ever made. The pic shows one of their earliest models, the J II. Apple is, I guess, not sentimental about stuff like this. There…

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Apple’s Explanation for Removing Old Apps

maandag 2 mei 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): As part of the App Store Improvements process, developers of apps that have not been updated within the last three years and fail to meet a minimal download threshold — meaning the app has not been downloaded at all or extremely f…

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Apple Watch Late Adopter

vrijdag 29 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I started using an Apple Watch SE in December. I’d always thought that I’d get a watch eventually, but I’d long expected to wait for it to mature for a couple more generations. In the end, I gave in to the frustration of not being able to use Face I…

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