James Allworth (via Marcelo P. Lima, Hacker News): Indeed, that deal between Apple and Intel was more important for Intel than it could have ever possibly realized. But it wasn’t because Intel had sewn up the last of the desktop computer processor m…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: WTF somehow my TCC seems fucked up on Mojave suddenly, for no apparent reason, no software updates. But only when my internet is connected?Apps are hanging on launch! Reboot didn’t help. Jonathan Deutsch: I’m hitting the exact same thi…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Many experienced Mac users like to leave it a while before committing their main, production Mac to a new version of macOS. This article looks at some of the issues involved, with particular reference to Big Sur. If you still want to …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, Slashdot): macOS Big Sur, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is now available to Mac users as a free software update. Big Sur introduces a beautiful redesign and is packed with new enhanceme…
Lees meerEvernote: We’re excited to share the all-new Evernote app for Mac. The new app provides a more modern appearance and streamlined Evernote experience. Ilja A. Iwas: If you have been relying on AppleScript to export your data from @evernote, you might…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet, Hacker News): In comparison to Macs, the single-core performance is better than any other available Mac, and the multi-core performance beats out all of the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro models, including the 10th-generation high-end …
Lees meerShimrit Ben-Yair: Starting June 1, 2021, any new photos and videos you upload will count toward the free 15 GB of storage that comes with every Google Account or the additional storage you’ve purchased as a Google One member. Amber Neely: When Googl…
Lees meerClemStation (via Dave Teare): Double press a control key to Turn off the Touch Bar and keep focusing on your current task. Don’t let an accidental tap on the Touch Bar slow you down or ruin your work. With Hide My Bar never hit the Touch Bar by acci…
Lees meerSean Hollister: How could a friendly sticker wearing a mask be an inappropriate reference to COVID-19, particularly when Apple has its very own mask-wearing emoji? That was the question on my mind, so I reached out to Apple yesterday. This morning, …
Lees meerAndrei Frumusanu o: The new processor is called the Apple M1, the company’s first SoC designed with Macs in mind. With four large performance cores, four efficiency cores, and an 8-GPU core GPU, it features 16 billion transistors on a 5nm process no…
Lees meerConrad Stoll: The Swift programming language may have gotten rid of the compiler’s need to define a real header file but it didn’t get rid of the programmer’s need to have clear and orderly descriptions of types and what they can do. When I started …
Lees meerJesper: Raspberry Pi-like, “tinkerer-friendly” Mac, for under $100. […] A Mac mini the size of the Apple TV, for $199, with 4GB RAM, 64/128 GB of iPhone-like storage, hardly any I/O, and probably an A12, A13 or A14. […] Take the current Mac mini, ma…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac. M1 is optimized for Mac systems in which small size and power efficiency are critically import…
Lees meerCasey Liss (tweet, Hacker News): For the last year or two, I’ve come to realize that the number one thing that makes it harder for me to do my job is documentation. Or, more specifically, the utter dearth of documentation that Apple provides for its…
Lees meerTim Bradshaw and Patrick McGee: In a little-noticed change to the latest version of the iPhone operating system, iOS 14, Apple has begun to show its own search results and link directly to websites when users type queries from its home screen. That …
Lees meerWalt Mossberg: The @slingbox, which let you view your home cable TV on a PC anywhere, has been discontinued. It was an innovative, exciting product from a small startup. […] Its time has now gone, but it was the very kind of small company innovation…
Lees meeriSH: iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator. I saw lots of people raving about this app over the last several days but assumed it would not be allowed to stay in the App St…
Lees meerYesterday, I finally updated to Catalina, straight to 10.15.7 with the supplemental update. It still has issues, but they no longer outweigh not being able to run Xcode 12 directly from 10.14. The best part so far is being able to run NetNewsWire 5.…
Lees meerMatthew Panzarino: It’s a folding dual travel charger that will hold both an iPhone using MagSafe and an Apple Watch using its more traditional magnetic charger. […] For context, you have to understand that this thing is $129 but feels like it shoul…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Finder Comments, also known as Spotlight Comments, are such a good idea. […] The worst possible place you can store metadata is in a separate file, such as a hidden file of proprietary format located in the same folder. But that’s exa…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Plans are in place to allow users to play Epic Games’ “Fortnite” on iOS and iPadOS again using Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service in Safari, the BBC has discovered.[…]Using an online streaming service will allow Epic Games t…
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