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Official macOS Hosting and Amazon EC2

donderdag 3 december 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brian Stucki (tweet): Apple has updated the macOS software license agreement for Big Sur. This doesn’t happen very often.[…]I have been working with Macs in data centers for sixteen years now. I’ve pushed through many of the “Mac mini/Xserve/Mac Pro…

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OmniFocus 3.11 for Mac

woensdag 2 december 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Lonning: This update brings Forecast and Perspective widgets—quickly becoming a popular feature in OmniFocus for iOS—to the Mac for the first time. In macOS Big Sur, widgets appear in the updated Notification Center on the right side of the sc…

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Sketch’s Big Sur App Icon

woensdag 2 december 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sketch: “We experimented with moving away from the diamond, but that seemed a little silly considering that it’s such a strong part of our brand,” he explains. “So we created a bunch of new diamond shapes — some with perspective, some without; some …

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Porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs

woensdag 2 december 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hector Martin (tweet): By becoming a patron, you will be allowing me to focus on this project as my primary job, and spend much more time on it that I ever could as a side project. The goal is to bring Linux support on Apple Silicon macs to the poin…

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Is Big Sur’s System Volume Sealed?

woensdag 2 december 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: So the System volume at disk3s1 (your numbers may differ) has a broken seal? To understand why that’s perhaps the wrong question, we need to step through how Big Sur creates the SSV in the first place. During system installation, the …

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Retiring Growl

maandag 30 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Forsythe (tweet, Hacker News, Slashdot): Growl is being retired after surviving for 17 years. With the announcement of Apple’s new hardware platform, a general shift of developers to Apple’s notification system, and a lack of obvious ways to i…

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Tony Hsieh, RIP

maandag 30 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Katie Abel (via Hacker News): Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died. He was 46.[…]After Zappos co-founder Nick Sw…

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What Is Not So Great About SwiftUI

maandag 30 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Clement (tweet): What seems to still be missing from SwiftUI is the notion of the intrinsic content size: the natural size that a view really wants to be unless it is forced to be something else. This is the size that views should adopt by de…

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The iPhone 12 Pro Max: Real Pro Photography

maandag 30 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sebastiaan de With: Since the iPhone 12 has a bit more noise, there’s less detail. Still, the detail isn’t easy to spot in bright daylight. Everything changes between the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Max the moment sunset begins. As shadows get darker and l…

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Your Move, iPad

vrijdag 27 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Becky Hansmeyer (Hacker News): Power and performance aren’t the bottleneck for iPad, and haven’t been for some time. So if raw power isn’t enough, and new display tech isn’t enough, where does the iPad go from here? Will it be abandoned once more, l…

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Carbon Copy Cloner 5.1.23

vrijdag 27 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bombich Software: We posted CCC 5.1.23 yesterday which includes support for making bootable backups on Intel Macs running Big Sur.🎉CCC runs natively on & is fully compatible with Apple Silicon Macs, but we’re still tracking some macOS issues here. B…

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Preparing an iOS App for Mac

vrijdag 27 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ryan Ashcraft: This is not Catalyst. It’s also not the future™ (aka SwiftUI). This is a practical, albeit compromised, solution for today. A solution to give the Mac App Store a kick in the butt, an adrenaline shot, a splash of cold water. […] Most …

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M1 Mac Bluetooth Issues

vrijdag 27 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: A number of M1 Mac owners are reporting problems with Bluetooth connectivity on the new machines, ranging from intermittent disconnects of wireless peripherals to completely non-functional Bluetooth connections. […] M1 owners have take…

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Reviews of the First M1 Macs

vrijdag 27 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dieter Bohn (MacBook Air) Nilay Patel (MacBook Pro, Hacker News) Jason Snell (Hacker News) John Gruber (Hacker News) Patrick Moorhead (tweet) Kay Singh (Hacker News) Raymond Wong John Voorhees (roundup) Previously: Performance of Rosetta 2 on Apple …

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Widgetsmith 2.0

vrijdag 27 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Smith: The original design of Widgetsmith put configuration of the aesthetic aspects of each widget on equal footing as purely functional aspects. You’d choose the text color in the same way as you’d assign the desired timezone location. This …

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Custom iOS App Icons via Launch Center Pro

vrijdag 27 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: The only problem with this method is that it kicks you to and from the Shortcuts app whenever you open an app with a custom icon, which isn’t a great way to optimize usage and can be annoying. However, thanks to the latest update to La…

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iOS Apps Not Available in the Mac App Store

woensdag 25 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: If there’s a single disappointment in the release of Apple’s first wave of M1 Macs, it’s the lackluster launch of iOS apps running inside of macOS. What should be an amazing unification of Apple’s platforms and a massive expansion of th…

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libdispatch’s Unmet Promise

woensdag 25 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Clement: Apple demonstrated the libdispatch and the promise seemed great, they introduced the notion of serial queues and told us that we should stop thinking in term of threads and start thinking in term of queues. We would submit various pr…

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ML Compute on M1 Macs

woensdag 25 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Until now, TensorFlow has only utilized the CPU for training on Mac. The new tensorflow_macos fork of TensorFlow 2.4 leverages ML Compute to enable machine learning libraries to take full advantage of not only the CPU, but also the GPU in bot…

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Hazel 5

woensdag 25 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alex Guyot: Hazel is a classic Mac automation tool which we last covered several years ago for version 4. This week Hazel is back with version 5, a major update which brings the tool out of System Preferences for the first time. […] Hazel 5’s interf…

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Black Friday 2020

dinsdag 24 november 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

My apps are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: C-Command Software (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve, ToothFairy) Adobe Creative Cloud Affinity apps All Windows Appear Anker Appfigures (code BLAC…

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