Armin Briegel: A while back I wrote up a blog post on deploying the Install macOS Big Sur application. As one of the solutions, I posted a script (based on Greg Neagle’s installinstallmacos.py) which listed the pkgs from Apple’s software update cata…
Lees meerThomas Reed: Recently, we have seen an increasing number of reports from iPhone users about their calendars filling up with junk events. These events are most often either pornographic in nature, or claim that the device has been infected or hacked,…
Lees meerApple (ArsTechnica, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Hacker News, 2, 3): Thanks to all these protections, users can download any app on the App Store with peace of mind. This peace of mind also benefits developers, who are able to reach a wide audience of users …
Lees meerDieter Bohn: Here is an amazing web page that exists because of and is entirely designed to deal with Apple’s App Store rules. It’s the page the Ring iPhone app takes you to when your subscription to view old footage has expired. Click it, what do y…
Lees meerKeith Harrison: Command-clicking on the symbol shows the code actions menu where you can set a column breakpoint[…] Xcode shows the breakpoint as a small carat at the column in the source code[…] […] In the WWDC 2021 video on breakpoints they show a…
Lees meerLaxman Muthiyah (Hacker News): Therefore, the attacker would require 28K IP addresses to send up to 1 million requests to successfully verify the 6 digit code. 28k IP addresses looks easy if you use cloud service providers[…] And it worked!!! 🎉🎉🎉 No…
Lees meerApple: Meet MailKit: the best way to build amazing experiences on top of Mail. MailKit enables apps to easily and securely interact with the Mail app for macOS. We’ll deep dive into the MailKit API, and show you how to create extensions for composin…
Lees meerMark Hurst: When you tap the circle on the bottom of the screen to take the photo, and you hear the artificial “click-shh” shutter sound, Apple stores a three-second video: 1.5 seconds of video before you tapped the button, and 1.5 seconds after you…
Lees meerDan Moren: Matter accessories have not yet hit the market, which is why the support Apple is rolling out in the newest versions of most of its operating systems—iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and tvOS 15—is only billed as a “developer preview” targeted at those…
Lees meerZane Kleinberg (via Hacker News): OldOS is a testament to the days of yesteryear, showcasing what iOS once was ten years ago. The ethos of the app is to merge the technologies of today with a pixel-perfect recreation of the user experience of the pa…
Lees meerKen Shirriff (via Alexis Gallagher): To test all the components of Apollo, NASA created (and patented) a complex system called Digital Test Command System. The testing control room (pictured below) sent digital commands to the spacecraft, to control…
Lees meerAbner Li (via Hacker News): Back in November, Google announced that it would start testing end-to-end encryption in Messages for Android. After being limited to the beta channel, E2EE is now rolling out to all stable users. With end-to-end encryptio…
Lees meerElias Saba (via Hacker News): The Amazon Appstore has announced that it will be reducing its cut of developer revenue from 30% to 20% for developers that earn less than $1 million in revenue per year. The new terms, which Amazon is calling the Amazo…
Lees meerRosyna Keller: So here’s a thread of some new stuff in Xcode 12.5’s altool 4.047.1207[…] […] For any altool invocation that accepts -p @keychain, you can now use --keychain to specify the keychain db to store to or retrieve from. […] If you’re curs…
Lees meerTyler Hall: I’m very, very close to writing a KeyboardMaestro macro to grab the latest 2FA code from Messages.app to work around this. Tyler Hall: Here’s what ended up working.Click the menubar’s clock to activate Notification Center.[…]Take a scree…
Lees meerNelson Aguilar (via John Gordon): It should be simple to select and copy all text on a webpage in Safari, but it won’t work as it does in other apps. Usually, you can press-and-hold down anywhere on a page and choose “Select All” from the edit menu,…
Lees meerErin Sparling: Every drawing that I’ve ever done on my iPad is now lost, because I chose to use the iCloud backup service as a backup service. […] But even though everything worked as expected, my decade of work is unrecoverable, because @Apple does…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: I haven’t written much about Apple’s new foray into lossless, high-resolution, and Dolby Atmos music. I’ve written about high-resolution music plenty over the years, and it’s clear that, for the vast majority of listeners, it’s just …
Lees meerMarianne Schultz: We’ve had a great run, getting our legs under us a few months after the launch of Apple’s App Store in 2008 but it’s not feasible to keep the site up anymore. The largest factor was Apple’s decision to remove apps from its affiliat…
Lees meerChuq Von Rospach (tweet): Apple giving a basic app away for free inhibits other developers from tackling that idea, and limits their ability to make enough money to warrant doing the hard investment in doing a real killer version of an app of that t…
Lees meerThomas Clement: If you are using a non-US keyboard, prepare yourself to relearn a number of keyboard shortcuts in Monterey as the OS now translates shortcuts to the position of the key on the keyboard rather than the actual shortcut key. Some seem u…
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