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Larger Files and Smaller Packages on Monterey

vrijdag 29 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Armin Briegel: I stumbled over this as I was looking for a different new option for pkgbuild in Monterey. In a conversation with the ever awesome Duncan McCracken, he mentioned that the tool had gained an new option, --large-payload, which allows fo…

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Tesla’s Configurable Floating Point Formats

vrijdag 29 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tesla (PDF, via Reddit): Tesla extended the reduced precision support further, and introduced the Configurable Float8 (CFloat8), an 8-bit floating point format, to further reduce the enormous pressure on memory storage and bandwidth in storing the w…

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What’s New on the Monterey Command Line

vrijdag 29 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Albrecht: The other day we found a helpful command line tool option, only to discover later that the option was only available in macOS Monterey. Since we also need to target Big Sur, this would not be an option for us. So we created somethi…

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Denis Tokarev’s Four Zero-Days

vrijdag 29 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sergiu Gatlan: Proof-of-concept exploit code for three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities (and a fourth one patched in July) was published on GitHub after Apple delayed patching and failed to credit the person who reported them. Via Andy Ihnatko: Defender…

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Swift Concurrency for Older OS Versions

donderdag 28 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Xcode 13.2 Beta: You can now use Swift Concurrency in applications that deploy to macOS 10.15, iOS 13, tvOS 13, and watchOS 6 or newer. This support includes async/await, actors, global actors, structured concurrency, and the task APIs. See also: Sw…

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Photoshop for the Web Public Beta

donderdag 28 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Google (Hacker News): The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. However, by using various new standardized web technologies, Adobe has now brought a public beta…

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Texas vs. Google Second Amended Complaint

donderdag 28 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nick Heer (PDF, Hacker News): Twelve U.S. Attorneys General, led by Texas’ Ken Paxton, amended their suit against Google with fewer redactions and plenty more allegations than first seen ten months ago. Keach Hagey and Tripp Mickle (via Hacker News)…

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The Facebook Papers

donderdag 28 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Isobel Asher Hamilton and Katie Canales (via Hacker News): Seventeen US news organizations on Monday said they had reviewed leaked internal documents obtained by former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen. Their reports on the docu…

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Acquiring Kaleidoscope

donderdag 28 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Christopher Atlan: When an app is transferred to a new owner, the historical revenue data is not transferred. And because it was only recently transferred from Black Pixel to Hypergiant, we had to look for other sources of data to find the trailing …

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iPhone 13 Pro Max vs. Pixel 6 Pro

woensdag 27 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Shortly after the launch of the new iPhone 13 models in September, Google came out with the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro, its latest flagship devices, which are feature rich and priced at $599 and $899 respectively.[…]With smartphone cam…

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Russia Investigates App Store

woensdag 27 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sami Fathi: Russia’s FAS, or Federal Antimonopoly Service, has launched a formal investigation into Apple over alleged violation of antitrust laws about the App Store and Apple’s restrictions that do not allow developers to link to third-party payme…

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iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1

woensdag 27 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: 15.1 mostly focuses on enabling SharePlay (which was announced at WWDC, then postponed to a later release a few months ago), rolling Safari back to a reasonable design, and bringing a few tweaks for the Camera app and spatial audio…

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Final Safari 15 Fixes Favorites Bar and Tabs

woensdag 27 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell (MacRumors): Yep, that’s the Safari Favorites Bar, now located above the tabs. If you don’t use the Favorites Bar, maybe you won’t care. I use the Favorites Bar a lot, and I hated Apple’s decision to move it beneath the tabs. Juli Clover…

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Photos in iOS 15 and Monterey

maandag 25 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: The Memories feature has been completely reworked into a dynamic multimedia slideshow—though it won’t arrive on macOS until later on in the cycle. New sharing features make it easy to pluck images out of Messages and pop them into your …

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macOS 12.0 Monterey Released

maandag 25 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): Connect, share, and create like never before. Say hello to exciting new FaceTime updates. Explore a redesigned Safari. Discover and invent powerful new ways to work using Universal Control and Shortcuts. Stay in the moment with …

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iPod at 20

maandag 25 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Roger Cheng (via Joe Rossignol): When Apple executive Jon Rubinstein, who had been tasked with creating a music player, came knocking in early 2001, Fadell was already working on his own startup, Fuse Systems, with the goal of creating a mainstream …

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Apple Updates Guidelines for Cameron Settlement

maandag 25 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Apple today announced it has updated its App Store Review Guidelines with three key changes related to outside-of-app communications, collecting contact information within an app, and in-app events featured in the App Store. […] Speci…

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Google Play Store Drops Fees on Subscriptions and Content

donderdag 21 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sameer Samat (MacRumors, Hacker News): To help support the specific needs of developers offering subscriptions, starting on January 1, 2022, we’re decreasing the service fee for all subscriptions on Google Play from 30% to 15%, starting from day one…

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Yahoo Finance App Removed From Chinese App Store

donderdag 21 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sophia Yan: Chinese internet users have lost one of their last avenues to foreign news after the Yahoo Finance app disappeared from Apple’s store, as the Communist Party intensifies its censorship of information from abroad.The Yahoo app republishes…

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On The Much Improved State of Macintosh Hardware

donderdag 21 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Quentin Carnicelli: Back in mid-2018, there wasn’t a single Macintosh computer that was free of major drawbacks or otherwise ridiculously out of date. After yet another disappointing WWDC, I took to my keyboard to air some grievances, with a lengthy…

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Yoink for iOS Uses Picture-in-Picture

donderdag 21 oktober 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthias Gansrigler: After releasing Yoink v2.3, which brought the app up-to-speed on all things iOS 15, I have another great update out for Yoink for iPad and iPhone, which allows you to make the app monitor your clipboard in the background and sav…

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