Rhet Turnbull (via Stephan Arlt): OSXPhotos provides the ability to interact with and query Apple’s Photos.app library on macOS. You can query the Photos library database — for example, file name, file path, and metadata such as keywords/tags, perso…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Until recently, however, it wasn’t practical to mount brute-force attacks on Macs with a T2 chip. This is because the Mac password is not stored on the SSD, and the chip limits the number of password attempts that can be made, so you’d …
Lees meerJuli Clover: It includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports (one upstream and one downstream), two HDMI 2.0 ports, a USB-C port, two USB 3.1 USB-A ports, two USB 2.0 USB-A ports, an SD card slot, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. It’s $400, comp…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen (tweet, Hacker News): Users of Google Drive can potentially receive an email warning that a file of theirs “violates Google Drive’s Terms of Service,” specifically its copyright infringement policy. However, it appears that Google’s aut…
Lees meerMike Peterson (Hacker News): The latest Dymo label printers sport RFID readers that can authenticate the labels that customers place within the printers. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this allows Dymo to distinguish between first-…
Lees meerAdam Engst: I don’t use OneDrive, but users are up in arms after its most recent update made the Files On-Demand approach mandatory, removing the option to keep all files local with a single switch. Microsoft explained this move, but users remain un…
Lees meerCharlie Monroe (tweet): The update got rejected because someone at Apple suddenly (this feature in this form has been around from the very beginning) decided that Permute does not correctly implement the option to detect external subtitles. This fea…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: A Berlin-based company has developed an AirTag clone that bypasses Apple’s anti-stalker security systems. Source code for these AirTag clones is available online.So now we have several problems with the system. Apple’s anti-stalker s…
Lees meerSami Fathi (tweet): Apple would rather pay a maximum of €50 million in fines than address concerns brought forward by the Dutch competition authority regarding developer access to third-party payment methods on the App Store, the EU’s head of digita…
Lees meerSteve Gehrman: You may be wondering, is this Path Finder 11? No, from now on it’s just called “Path Finder”. We’ve decided from now on we will no longer use version numbers in the apps name. There is still exists an internal build number which you c…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Checking dozens or even hundreds of backup snapshots stored on hard disks can take many hours. If you don’t check the snapshots, there’s little point in checking your backup storage, as all your backups are stored in snapshots. As sna…
Lees meerApple: Swift now allows existential types written with the any keyword. An existential type is a type that can hold a value of any type conforming to a specific protocol. The any keyword creates a syntactic distinction between existential types and …
Lees meerBruno Brito: While accessing a branch’s history, you can now toggle the “Compare” icon to compare that branch against a different local branch, so that you only see the commits that have been made on the feature branch.[…]By comparing your local bra…
Lees meerpsu: In the more modern versions of the runtime, the area that the runtime uses to write the result of the method call is zero’d out no matter what the type of the return value will be. In older versions of the runtime you could get into trouble bec…
Lees meerChris Lattner (Hacker News): To answer your question, the root cause of my decision to leave the core team is a toxic environment in the meetings themselves. The catalyst was a specific meeting last summer: after being insulted and yelled at over We…
Lees meerDave Winer: I’ve been feeling pretty good lately, but when I have an interaction with Apple, I think seriously I should just write off the $1300 I paid for the iPhone 13 Pro and get a high-end Android phone. I probably won’t because I’m locked in to…
Lees meerCraig Grannell (also: MacRumors): Kevin Archer is an indie developer who makes Authenticator App by 2Stable, a feature-rich, premium and suitably named take on, well, an authenticator app. There are of course other, similar, apps on the App Store. B…
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: If a movie is located within a service that I’m already paying for, then I’d like to get that. I don’t want to browse all of the services, and I don’t use websites that claim to have a complete catalog of where movies are available b…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a streaming video app. Follow it, and your app…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Documents stored in user folders created by the user in iCloud Drive appear to be backed up most reliably, and appear in both snapshots and backups. That assumes, of course, that they aren’t evicted and left as stub files. Documents s…
Lees meerIvan Drucker: For desktop Macs, it’s easy to keep an external Time Machine drive permanently connected. But, speaking from my experience as a consultant, I find that the vast majority of laptop users, myself included, are unlikely to plug in a drive…
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