Ron McElfresh: Mac360 started life back in mid-2004 as a test among friends to get into blogging and to try out Mac OS X Panther Server on an old, unused goose-neck iMac. […] Through the years we saw it all. The Mac moved to Intel Inside. The iPhone…
Lees meerJuli Clover: YouTube today sent out emails to customers who are subscribed to its YouTube TV service through Apple’s App Store, letting them know that App Store subscriptions are going to be discontinued in March. […] The YouTube TV app will need to…
Lees meerMitchel Broussard (Reddit): Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to the platform over the weekend to answer a few user questions on his story, shared by The Verge’s Chris Welch. Among the many things asked, the topic of an official iPad app for Instagram…
Lees meerSteve Streza (tweet): All that money comes from the wallets of 480 million subscribers, and their goal is to grow that number to 600 million this year. But to do that, Apple has resorted to insidious tactics to get those people: ads. Lots and lots o…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: SwitchGlass adds a dedicated application switcher to your Mac. […] Apple provides APIs to activate applications, optionally also bringing all of their windows to the front. Sometimes, when a call is made to one of these APIs, nothing …
Lees meerJoseph Cox (via Bruce Schneier, Hacker News): The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users’ email inboxes and sells products based off that information to clients in the finance, trave…
Lees meerMikey Campbell (L.A. Times, Hacker News, Reddit): The California Supreme Court in a decision delivered on Thursday found Apple broke state law by not paying retail workers for the time they spent participating in mandatory bag and device searches, l…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: In yesterday’s article, I described how I discovered that two of my Time Machine snapshots had apparently got stuck, and couldn’t be deleted when automatic backups tried to ‘thin’ those snapshots. That in turn was filling my log with …
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: Almost all the /var/log files have been erased and start over the minute after the 10.15.3 update finished installing.[…]This is my 4th article on 10.15.3 Combo Update issues. If you have not seen them yet, you can view them below. Pr…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Yes, phones that cost $1,000 or more are expensive. Yes, that’s outside the budget for most people. But why in the world would anyone argue this is ”hard to justify”? Phones are, for most people, the most-used computing device in their …
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: Something happened in the latest set of Apple updates released on January 28th. The Automatic Backup Snapshots are no longer working!!! At first, I thought it only happened on the 10.15.3 Combo update. I then checked the 2020-001 Secu…
Lees meerMalwarebytes Labs: Mac threats increased exponentially in comparison to those against Windows PCs. While overall volume of Mac threats increased year-over-year by more than 400 percent, that number is somewhat impacted by a larger Malwarebytes for M…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Last week, after months of making little to no progress with Apple towards having its Mac app reinstated, BlueMail co-founders Ben Volach and Dan Volach penned an open letter to the developer community that encouraged any developers w…
Lees meerIlya Kulakov (tweet): While possibility of race conditions in the multithreaded code is a side effect of the desired behavior when multiple processing units compute result based on the shared data, Same-Stack Race Conditions are outright incorrect.K…
Lees meerLauren Goode (tweet): Jen Fitzpatrick leads the Google Maps team, and also happens to be one of the earliest Googlers. She first joined the company as a software coding intern in 1999, and worked on Google’s search, advertising, and news products be…
Lees meerApple (via Tony Arnold): You’ll start by adding a macOS target to your project, and then reusing the shared data you created for the iOS app. With all of the assets in place, you’ll create SwiftUI views to display list and detail views on macOS. Fol…
Lees meerVojtech Rinik: I’ve always wanted to build a desktop app that would let me access my most important data quickly. Like those old dashboard widgets used to. I finally got around to it, and started with Appfigures, my favorite service to track App Sto…
Lees meerRomain Dillet: France’s competition watchdog DGCCRF announced earlier today that Apple will pay a $27.4 million (€25 million) fine due to an iOS update that capped performance of aging devices. The company will also have to display a statement on it…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: The new operating systems remove one of iOS’ marquee and historical features – the magnification loupe – in the name of a revised text selection mechanism that lets you directly pick up the cursor and select text with gestures. Whi…
Lees meerRic Ford: Avalanche is a native Mac app from CYME that promises to quickly migrate Aperture photo libraries to Adobe Lightroom or Lightroom catalogs to folders of files while using AI for some processing assistance… Claudia Zimmer: Avalanche was bor…
Lees meerApple: At WWDC19, we announced the deprecation of kernel extensions as part of our ongoing effort to modernize the platform, improve security and reliability, and enable more user-friendly distribution methods. Kernel programming interfaces (KPIs) w…
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