Jeff Johnson: Below is a historical list of changes in the base price of the Mac Pro and Power Mac.[…]I would argue that the Mac Pro as we software developers knew it was never given a successor after the “trash can”. The Mac Pro was discontinued an…
Lees meerArmin Briegel: Once you have the shellcheck command installed, you can also invoke from within BBEdit: When you have a script open in BBEdit, verify that the script is recognized as a ‘Unix shell script.’ Then you can select ‘Check Syntax…’ from the…
Lees meerWilliam Turton: Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests.” […] Cybersecurity researchers suspect that some of the hack…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis (tweet): In Audio Hijack, individual blocks that capture, record, and manipulate audio are combined into powerful pipelines. For version 4, we made improving blocks a major focus. We’ve created brand-new blocks, added new features to th…
Lees meerChris Lacy: An overlooked point regarding Apple’s stranglehold over iOS developers & their apps is Apple’s one-sided power in approving developers. My company submitted a developer application in Nov ’21. 140+ days later & the enrollment is still “b…
Lees meerStephen Hackett: The black MacBook was sold alongside the more popular — and less expensive — white MacBook. […] The two machines always shared the same specs when it came to the CPU, RAM and optical drive. However, the black MacBook always came wit…
Lees meerJulien Voisin: Weird album names […] Some tracks don’t have a title […] Tracks can have multiple artists […] Some bands are kinda changing their name […] Some albums are known under several names […] Different bands may have the same name Via Sören:…
Lees meerZach Waugh: I just discovered you can hit / in any macOS save dialog to open a Spotlight-esque quick folder search and even use things like ~ to jump to your home folder. No clue when that was added, but a handy shortcut instead of manually navigati…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (Hacker News): Over the last year or so Mac users have run into problems that appear related to a background service named triald. Some report it stealing huge amounts of CPU, others associate it with various glitches, and a few have n…
Lees meerMarc Edwards (tweet): Since writing about Mac external displays in 2016, not much has changed. LG, Dell, Samsung, and other display makers have either never catered for the specs many Mac designers and developers want, or they’ve reluctantly produce…
Lees meerApple (Reddit): With reader apps, people can sign in to their account created outside the app, letting them view and enjoy previously purchased media content or content subscriptions on their Apple device. If you’d like your reader app to also provi…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors, tweet): Apple is eliminating the requirement that developers of dating apps in the Netherlands who choose to use the above entitlements must create and use a separate binary. […] Apple is providing updated and more-spe…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): This sample code project demonstrates how to install and run macOS virtual machines on Apple Silicon using the Virtualization framework. But what if you want to use an older version of macOS, which doesn’t run on Apple Silicon? …
Lees meerJuli Clover: macOS Monterey 12.3.1 comes two weeks after the launch of macOS Monterey 12.3, an update that brought Universal Control. Note that Universal Control remains in beta. According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Monterey 12.3.1 introduces a…
Lees meerI ordered a Studio Display as soon as it was announced, but it wasn’t slated to ship until around March 31. That estimate seems to have been accurate because yesterday I got an e-mail saying that I needed to update the payment method. It ended up ta…
Lees meerPierre Igot: Don’t care what Apple thinks. There is no world in which the combination of these two different UI schemes (different look for buttons, different font size, different layout, etc.) in the same process looks good. It just looks like a ha…
Lees meerMarco Arment (tweet): Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. […] Each playlist has a customizable c…
Lees meerChris Eidhof: However, when you have worked with @State (or @StateObject), you will notice that there might be some strange behavior. Sometimes your state disappears, especially when working with a List (or to be precise: any view that uses ForEach …
Lees meerAdam Engst: While I’m glad that Apple added an Accessibility option to make the window proxy icons visible again, I firmly believe that hiding them by default remains a mistake. Proxy icons show what type of content is in the window, and with docume…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo: The only problem is that such a scary-looking alert, right within System Preferences, could be sent by ANY app running on your Mac. The malicious scenario would involve an app that looks like a simple, regular app (it could even be …
Lees meerTim Hardwick: European lawmakers have provisionally agreed upon a new law that would force Apple to allow user access to third-party app stores and permit the sideloading of apps on iPhones and iPads, among other sweeping changes designed to make th…
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