After staying on Mojave for an extra year due to the large number of issues with Catalina, I started using it on my main Mac with macOS 10.15.7. This post lists some of the problems I’ve run into that were not present in Mojave. These are user-facin…
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: The macOS Big Sur upgrade is not checking for available HD space. The upgrade will run out of space and fail. Even worse, if FV2 encryption is enabled, you will be locked out of your data! […] This isn’t the first time I’ve reported o…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Nearly three months after the launch of Apple’s rave-reviewed M1 Macs, Intel has fired back, but there are some asterisks involved.In a slideshow shared by PCWorld this week, Intel highlighted what PCWorld described as “carefully craf…
Lees meerVictoria Song (Hacker News): Enabling Apple’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter in the iOS Screen Time setting will block users from seeing any Google search results for “Asian” in any browser on their iPhone.[…]The search result exclusion was initially…
Lees meerEcamm: Call Recorder for Skype is not compatible with Apple’s M1 Macs. […] Call Recorder for Skype will not be updated for compatibility with M1 Macs. Jason Snell: Over the past year, nearly every Skype update has broken compatibility with Call Reco…
Lees meerMike McQuaid (MacRumors, Hacker News): The most significant changes since 2.7.0 are official Apple Silicon support and a new bottle format in formulae.[…]formulae.brew.sh formula pages indicate for which platforms bottles (binary packages) are provi…
Lees meerGoogle: Over the years, we’ve improved our understanding of intent to make it easier for you to reach your customers. For example, your keywords can now match to the meaning of a search, and broad match is now more effective at driving performance–e…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees (tweet, MacRumors): Similar to iOS and iPadOS, Reminders is gaining the option to print lists. Music adds a dedicated ‘Made For You’ section in the sidebar that includes your annual Replay playlists and Apple’s personalized algorithmic…
Lees meerTyler Hall: But it always drove me crazy giving up USB ports for multiple drives. And especially the awfulness of giant power bricks and their cables. I have no idea why I never thought to look for something like this before, but that silver box is …
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (Hacker News): In an email sent to developers today, Apple says that soon developers will have to return the Developer Transition Kit (DTK) as it was only designed to test the apps on the Apple Silicon platform. […] As developers had…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Finder is good about automatically unregistering apps with Launch Services when you put them in the trash and empty it (but not before emptying the trash). However, the rm command-line tool bypasses the trash, and thus also bypasses La…
Lees meertbkka (via Steve Canon): SwiftDtoa is the C/C++ code used in the Swift runtime to produce the textual representations used by the description and debugDescription properties of the standard Swift floating-point types. This update includes a number o…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (tweet): A judge presiding over preparatory hearings in the Apple vs. Epic Games court case has ruled that Apple CEO Tim Cook must attend a seven-hour long deposition to testify about how the company views App Store competition, reports…
Lees meerJeff Bezos (Hacker News): I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO. In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initi…
Lees meerAndy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones: The Calc Intelligence project at Microsoft Research Cambridge has a long-standing partnership with the Excel team to transform spreadsheet formulas into a full-fledged programming language. The fruits of that part…
Lees meerKosta Eleftheriou (Hacker News): Just a few months ago, I was way ahead of my competition. By the time they figured out just how hard autocorrect algorithms were, I was already rolling out the swipe version of my keyboard, quickly approaching iPhone…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple has released an iCloud password extension for Google’s Chrome browser on Windows that allows iCloud Keychain passwords to be used on PCs.Called simply “iCloud Passwords,” the extension allows users to access passwords in Google C…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): In iOS 14.5, there’s a new option to unlock an iPhone with Face ID and an Apple Watch paired together, with the Apple Watch’s authentication providing an extra layer of security.If you’re wearing an unlocked Apple Watch and use …
Lees meerApple: Xcode 12.5 Beta requires a Mac running macOS Big Sur 11 or later. […] The Reveal Build Products Folder item in the Product menu reveals the build products directory in Finder. […] Code completion is more reliable in expressions that contain e…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Big Sur 11.2 addresses several bugs, such as an issue that could cause external external displays to show a black screen when connected to an M1 Mac mini using an HDMI to DVI converter and a pro…
Lees meerDave Nanian (Hacker News): To accomplish this, use an old version of SuperDuper—specifically, v3.2.5—to copy the Data volume, which is shown in the older version!v3.2.5 is well tested, having been on the market for quite some time, and is reliable. …
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