Jason Snell: The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal—but they also reject the minimalist design mid-2010s App…
Lees meerMike Hanley: Today, we are sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, the details of our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm. These investments include the requirement of two-factor authentication …
Lees meerMy apps are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: C-Command Software (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve, ToothFairy) Adobe Creative Cloud Affinity apps Apparent Software Arturia astropad CYME DxO So…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: An official Dropbox support thread, shared by Mitchell Hashimoto on Twitter, reveals a fiasco around native support for Apple silicon Macs. Dropbox is seemingly insisting that a significant number of community members will have to …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: One of the stumbling blocks to using an external boot disk with an M1 Mac is that it may not cope if you update macOS on the internal SSD, then try booting from the external disk to update that. You may be prompted to assign an author…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: Future Chromium-based browsers under administrative control will be able to prevent users from viewing webpage source code for specific URLs, a capability that remained unavailable to enterprise customers for the past three years unt…
Lees meerSean Hollister (tweet): You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they’re leaving angry reviews. How can you salvage your reputation? Apple just found one incredibly effective way — get listeners to submit better reviews by interrupti…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Clicking a link in a web browser changes the URL, and if you look at the browser’s history after clicking, you’ll see both the old URL and the new URL. The URL can also be changed programmatically, using the JavaScript Location API. Af…
Lees meerArmin Briegel: One reason python became so popular with MacAdmins, was that the pre-installed python on Mac OS X, also came with PyObjC, the Objective-C bridge for python. […] I’ll be honest here and admit that working with JXA seems strange, incons…
Lees meerLuc P. Beaudoin: The obvious advantage was providing configurable, direct access to context sensitive commands. […] To reduce the need to look down towards the physical keyboard, macOS could present a virtual command bar on the main screen. This wou…
Lees meerSarah Scire: Publishers tend to think of this as “retention.” A study of 526 news organizations in the United States found that only 41% make it easy for people to cancel subscriptions online, and more than half trained customer service reps in tact…
Lees meerGeoff Chappell (in 1999, via Hacker News): In e-mail of dubious origin sent to security expert Richard M. Smith, it is alleged not only that the AIM client software has a so-called “buffer overflow” bug but also that AOL actually does use its knowle…
Lees meerGlenn Faison: I recently saw first-hand why I should never copy and paste any code I found online (or anywhere, for that matter). […] To cut the long story short, what looks like a loose inequality check on line #4, is deceptively an assignment oper…
Lees meerlevel1807 (via John Siracusa): The well-known presentation already available on YouTube is from January 24 of 1984. What’s not so well remembered: Jobs did it all twice, in less than a week. Six days after unveiling the Mac at the Flint Center on th…
Lees meerErnie Smith (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): Around this time 30 years ago, two separate working groups were putting the finishing touches on technical standards that would come to reshape the way people observed the world. One technical standard res…
Lees meerBartosz Polaczyk (Hacker News): We are excited to be open sourcing XCRemoteCache, the library we created to mitigate long local builds. As the name suggests, this library is a remote caching implementation for iOS projects with an aim to reuse Xcode…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Now and then, we get a report from a reader whose TidBITS issue has an entire article formatted as a column of text that’s a single character wide. I could tell what happened in at least two cases, but I’m utterly stumped as to what migh…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Pacifist is a popular file extractor for macOS that lets users view and extract multiple file formats, including PKG, DMG, XAR, and TAR. CharlesSoft: Completely rewritten in Swift 5 […] Added command-line interface […] Support for A…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple in iOS 15.2 is making it easier for your loved ones to access your personal data in the event of your death with the addition of a Legacy Contact feature. A person set as your Legacy Contact gets a special code that can be provide…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced Self Service Repair, which will allow customers who are comfortable with completing their own repairs access to Apple genuine parts and tools. Available first for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 line…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The Help system in macOS is another of those areas which has become sadly neglected. The last time it had a thorough overhaul was back in High Sierra 10.13.4, when it was taken off life support and left hospital walking unaided. With …
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