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Comparison of Reverse Image Search Engines

maandag 30 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Aric Toler (via Nick Heer): However, if you only use Google for reverse image searching, you will be disappointed more often than not. Limiting your search process to uploading a photograph in its original form to just images.google.com may give you…

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“Erase Mac” Doesn’t?

maandag 30 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: What does the terse phrase Erase Mac mean? If you think that it means completely erase your Mac, then I’m with you. But that apparently isn’t what Apple means, at least not when it comes to the Find My service and Activation Lock.[…]B…

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Apple’s Filing Against Corellium and Jailbreaking

maandag 30 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Amanda Gorton (MacRumors): Apple’s latest filing against Corellium should give all security researchers, app developers, and jailbreakers reason to be concerned. The filing asserts that because Corellium “allows users to jailbreak” and “gave one or …

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Apple Forces CoinBase to Remove Support for DApps

maandag 30 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

The Block (via Mike Dudas, Hacker News, Reddit): Coinbase Wallet, Coinbase’s mobile cryptocurrency wallet, may soon remove its DApp browsing feature according to a message appearing in the app. According to Coinbase, it is removing the DApp browser …

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Dropbox No Longer Follows External Symlinks

vrijdag 27 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dropbox: As of mid-2019, Dropbox no longer follows items outside of your Dropbox account that are linked to by a symlink. You can have symlinks that link to items both in and outside of your Dropbox account; however, these two types of symlinks sync…

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Remote Work Hygiene

vrijdag 27 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Moodthy Alghorairi (via Ryan Jones): I’ve split up the various tricks and tips I’ve come to rely on into 3 categories: Work Habits: habits around work I start and end my day with. 2. Work Practices: specific ways and methods of working. 3. Environme…

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BlueMail Rejected From the Mac App Store

vrijdag 27 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Julian Chokkattu (Hacker News): A few days later, still reeling from the shock of seeing the technology they patented announced on the world stage, the Volach brothers’ email app, BlueMail, was removed from the Mac App Store. Coincidence? They don’t…

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The iPad’s Identity Crisis

vrijdag 27 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Emily Lipstein: Apple is pushing the iPad at people like me, people who have an iPhone, likely have AirPods, and are looking for a device that they can use at home when their only real computer is what they’re given at work. We’re deep in the Apple …

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Copyright Exhaustion Does Not Apply to E-books

donderdag 26 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rory O’Neill: In a highly-anticipated decision, issued today, December 19, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that offering ‘second-hand’ e-books for sale qualifies as an unauthorised “communication to the public” under the 2001 …

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Putting the “Author” in “Authoritative”

donderdag 26 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Wilander: We’ve had a reasonable debate over the right to be forgotten. The next one will be about the right to lie. Not the right to lie in court or as part of some fraud, but the right to everyday lies and white lies. Digital surveillance dep…

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ClassDumpRuntime and dsdump

donderdag 26 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Leptos: My Obj-C classdump library is now open source. It was developed primarily to handle C++ and other less common types. The type parser isn’t the fastest it could be, but in my tests it’s significantly faster than existing parsers. Derek Seland…

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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

donderdag 26 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

OSXDaily: Want to add an RSS feed of a site to News app? Can’t find a site you like in the Apple approved list on News app? No problem, here’s how you can add them yourself from Safari in iOS and subscribe directly[…] David A. Desrosiers: Apple News…

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New WebKit Features in Safari 13

dinsdag 24 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jon Davis: WebKit provides the heart of this new experience with deep, fundamental changes that deliver a great desktop website experience on a touch device. With the exception of iPad mini, Safari on iPad will now send a user-agent string that is i…

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Messages Screen Sharing for Remote Troubleshooting

dinsdag 24 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joseph Keller: You can invite someone to share your screen, or request or be invited to share the screen of another person’s Mac, and it’s all done through Messages. This is a great way to help troubleshoot problems on a remote Mac[…] When this work…

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Modding the Silicone Tips of AirPods Pro

dinsdag 24 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: I can use in-ear silicone tips without getting a headache after 20 minutes. It’s not my favorite method of listening to music, however, because I know that memory foam tips are a better fit for my ears since they can better adapt t…

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AirPods Pro Alternatives

dinsdag 24 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Andrew O’Hara: Jabra boasts a resistance rating of IP55, which means it can withstand dust and jets of water, while AirPods Pro is only able to withstand sweat and rain. Apple did not test dust ingress into AirPods Pro, resulting in the IPX4 rating.…

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App Store to Ban Deprecated UIWebView

dinsdag 24 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (via John Wilander): If your app still embeds web content using the deprecated UIWebView API, we strongly encourage you to update to WKWebView as soon as possible for improved security and reliability. WKWebView ensures that compromised web co…

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What to Do When a macOS Update Goes Wrong

maandag 23 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: When you’re ready, in most cases the best thing to try next is to start up in Safe mode, which is explained in full here We often don’t do that properly, and it’s worth following Apple’s instructions very carefully[…] […] If Safe mode…

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AirPods Pro Bluetooth Latency

maandag 23 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stephen Coyle (via John Voorhees): Looking to the AirPods first, there’s a very encouraging trend occurring. They drop from 274ms to 178ms going from the first to second generation, and the AirPods Pro take it down even further, to 144ms. While a 13…

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ToTok and TikTok

maandag 23 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mark Mazzetti, Nicole Perlroth, and Ronen Bergman: It is billed as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text message with friends and family, even in a country that has restricted popular messaging services like WhatsApp and Skype.But the serv…

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Swift’s CollectionOfOne

maandag 23 december 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bruno Rocha: The cases where using CollectionOfOne is the best approach possible is when you are forced to operate on Collections. In the Standard Library for example, CollectionOfOne is used to insert elements in specific positions of an Array:publ…

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