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Apple Subpoenas Coalition for App Fairness

vrijdag 30 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Members of the Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month filed a lawsuit (via Apple Insider) attempting to prevent Apple’s subpoenas from being approved. The Coalition for App Fairness is afraid that Apple will use those private com…

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1Password Takes Second Round of Venture Capital

woensdag 28 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Shiner (tweet): Today we’re announcing a new investment round in 1Password. Our current investor Accel led this round and a number of incredible folks including Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and top executives from Shopify, Slack, Squarespace…

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Apple’s Q3 2021 Results

woensdag 28 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): The Company posted a June quarter record revenue of $81.4 billion, up 36 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.30. […] “Our record June quarter operating performance included new revenue records …

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XLoader Malware

woensdag 28 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Lovejoy: XLoader malware has now migrated from Windows machines to attack Macs too. An evolution of the malware known as Formbook, it lets an attacker log keystrokes, take screenshots, and access other private information. Worryingly, the malwar…

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Hydromac Malware

woensdag 28 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bill Toulas: The infection begins with dropping a legit copy of Adobe Flash Player, which is also very common among macOS malware strains. Still, MapperState’s features, encryption scheme, debug symbols, and strings were all hidden, encrypted, or st…

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Inside Apple’s CSAT Solutions Repair Depot

dinsdag 27 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chance Miller: While some Apple products are repaired directly in Apple Stores, Apple contracts many of its Mac repairs to third-party providers, including CSAT Solutions based in Houston, Texas. A new report today from Insider today sheds light on …

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Safari Frustrations

dinsdag 27 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Perry Sun (via Hacker News): With IE now out of the way, the distinction of ‘most-hated browser’ goes to Apple’s Safari – which all along had been a close second to IE. In a similar vein, Safari has consistently lagged behind competing browsers in s…

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Safari 15 Changes in Beta 4

dinsdag 27 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple today seeded the fourth betas of iOS and iPadOS 15 to developers for testing purposes, with the updates coming two weeks after Apple released the third betas. Juli Clover: The fourth beta of iPadOS 15 that was released today intro…

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Developer Account Terminated After Reporting Security Issue

dinsdag 27 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Khaos Tian: lol apparently reporting security issue to Apple product security can lead to termination from Apple Developer Program? Got a notice of termination from the personal account that has no activity recently today 🙃 Looks like I’m getting gh…

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macOS 11.5.1

maandag 26 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: According to Apple, macOS Big Sur 11.5.1 brings important security updates and is recommended for all users. Apple: Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that thi…

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Rumors About the Next Pro Macs

maandag 26 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: On Twitter, Dylandkt claimed that Apple’s “high end iMac” is not expected to release in the fourth quarter of 2021 alongside Apple’s “M1X Macs” – a reference to Apple’s redesigned MacBook Pro models – because “Apple simply does not wan…

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Apple Business Model: A Naive Nostalgic Look

maandag 26 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jean-Louis Gassée: At first, the App Store looked like another product in charge of propping up sales volume and profit margin for the main act, the iPhone. That didn’t last. The App Store became more than an iPhone support function, it became a gig…

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Smaller Preferences Tab Icons in Big Sur

maandag 26 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Marc Edwards: I believe macOS Big Sur changed the prefs tab icon size, and because of that, most Mac apps now have blurry icons. I was unable to find a size in the macOS Human Interface Guidelines, but dropping a solid image into your Xcode project …

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iDOS Emulator to Be Removed From the App Store

vrijdag 23 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: iDOS 2 has been available in the App Store since 2014, and its predecessor, iDOS, was first released in 2010. iDOS has had issues with Apple before, and in 2010, Apple pulled the original emulator app from the App Store. Changes were ma…

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macOS 11.5

vrijdag 23 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: macOS Big Sur is a minor update focusing on small changes and bug fixes. According to Apple’s release notes, the update improves the Podcasts app by allowing the Podcasts Library tab to be adjusted to show all shows or only followed sho…

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iOS 14.7

vrijdag 23 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes for the update, iPadOS 14.7 introduces an option for two Apple Card members in the same family to combine their cards, plus it adds new Podcasts options and fixes a bug that could cause audio to skip w…

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Through the Blast Door

vrijdag 23 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nick Heer: This weekend’s first batch of stories from the “Pegasus Project” — a collaboration between seventeen different outlets invited by French investigative publication Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International — offers a rare glimpse into th…

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Git Tower 7

donderdag 22 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Julian Rothkamp: The first thing you will notice after updating to Tower for Mac version 6 is our new dock icon. […] After adapting the toolbar to the new design, we decided to go one step further and remove Tower’s “Navigation Bar” right below the …

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Hopper 4.8

donderdag 22 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

The new version of Hopper includes an important change: Initial support for the new DYLD shared cache of macOS Monterey, This version allows it to open the shared cache rather than failing outright. However, Hopper is not yet able to show all of the…

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Windows 11: Android Apps

woensdag 21 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tom Warren (Hacker News): Android apps will run natively on Windows 11 and will be downloadable from Amazon’s Appstore, via the new Windows store that’s included in the operating system. […] Microsoft is also partnering with Intel to use its Intel B…

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Windows 11: Windows Store Changes

woensdag 21 juli 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dieter Bohn: At the end of a surprisingly eventful, exciting presentation of Windows 11, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came on the video feed to deliver some closing remarks. He laid out his vision for Windows 11 as a “platform for platform creators,”…

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