Don Melton (tweet): Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming PC. […] While I certainly gamed my ass off with that homemade machine for awhile, it didn’t really become an essential device for me unti…
Lees meerJoanna Goodrich (via Hacker News): IEEE Life Fellow Jacob Ziv will receive this year’s IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership.”Ziv and Abrah…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: I’ve had some strange events in which my main working SSD sometimes vanishes from the Finder, although that external drive remains mounted normally. […] The first time that it happened, I assumed that the external SSD had somehow unmo…
Lees meerHarshil Shah (tweet): Going back to how Date works, it doesn’t model the actual clock time but rather a fixed point in time that can be interpreted in any time zone. And so what’s happening here is that the data is being interpreted as if it happene…
Lees meerJoe Nelson (via Hacker News): The most natural first attempt is to add an auto-incrementing integer column to track each item’s position[…] It requires updating a bunch of rows to insert one between others. […] What if we store the position of each …
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet): At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari. But with a catch[…] You have to adapt it for WebKit, join Apple’s $99/year developer program, learn how to …
Lees meerCabel Sasser: You know what’s a really good Mac app? CleanShot. By far the best and most feature-rich screenshot/screen recording app I’ve used. Oddly, despite being sold directly, there’s no trial version. However, they have a money-back guarantee,…
Lees meerWalt Mossberg: FYI, all 6 of Steve Jobs’s appearances at the @allthingsd conferences - including the joint session with Bill Gates - are available for free in both pristine video and audio on @ApplePodcasts. We donated them after his death as a memo…
Lees meerJuli Clover (via Paul Haddad, Hacker News): According to Kuo, Apple is developing two models in 14 and 16-inch size options. The new MacBook Pro machines will feature a flat-edged design, which Kuo describes as “similar to the iPhone 12" with no cur…
Lees meerOmar Rizwan: TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.The files inside a tab’s folder directly reflect (and can control) the state of that tab in your browser. […]This gives you a ton of power, beca…
Lees meerHector Martin: So I’m working in understanding the Apple Silicon boot/OS provisioning process. This is all subject to change, but here are some takeaways according to my current understanding.[…]This means that in order to set up an Apple Silicon de…
Lees meerPatrick Wardle (tweet, Hacker News): Unfortunately, Apple (without telling anybody) decided to “exclude” or exempt over 50 of its own applications (such as the App Store) and daemons from being routed thru the Network Extension Framework.[…]Due to t…
Lees meerDavid Heinemeier Hansson (Hacker News): If you use iCloud Backup AT ALL, which is the default, your use of iMessage is not E2E because Apple has a backup of the encryption keys 🤯. And even if you turn off this backup, your recipient probably didn’t.…
Lees meerJosh Holtz (tweet, 9To5Mac): An Otter RSS doesn’t do much but it does everything I want it to. My goals were:Subscribe to RSS feeds (sync over iCloud)List new articles for each feed (sync over iCloud)Show read/unread status of articles (sync over iC…
Lees meerDavid Sparks: At any particular time, there is a curve for hard drive storage in price. Ideally, you want your backup to fit within that sweet spot where it can be contained on an affordable drive. If you have more data to back up than will fit on t…
Lees meerSusan Hogan and Meredith Royster: Seventeen Amazon packages have been delivered to Catherine Mayfield’s home in Temple Hills, Maryland, since October. She didn’t order any of them. […] According to Alex Hamerstone, a cybercrime expert from TrustedSe…
Lees meerTom Warren (Slashdot): The PC was supposed to die 10 years ago, but it’s just experienced its first big growth in a decade. Market research firm Canalys reports that PC shipments reached 297 million units in 2020, up an impressive 11 percent from 20…
Lees meerShane Stanley: Native code for Apple silicon Macs has a new, inviolable, requirement: it will not run unless it is code-signed. In practice, that means all universal apps have to be code-signed. […] Script Editor running on Big Sur will produce univ…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: macOS 11 Big Sur has a bug that prevents some apps from appearing in the “Default web browser” menu in the General pane of System Preferences, which of course makes it difficult to set one of those apps as your default web browser.[…]T…
Lees meerNathaniel Popper (via Matt Levine): The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is s…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: On January 10, 2001, Steve Jobs went on the stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco and presented a new app that would change the course of Apple. iTunes would become Apple’s most important app, not only because it was the companion …
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