Gus Mueller (tweet): This sample shows how CGImageSourceCreateThumbnailAtIndex leaks something akin to the memory behind a CGImageRef when asked to create a thumbnail for a 16bpc TIFF image if one isn’t present. I wonder whether ImageIO got rewritte…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (tweet): One of the more curious behaviors of Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request thi…
Lees meerVadim Shpakovski (via Daniel Jalkut): NativeConnect is a desktop client for App Store Connect. It allows you to edit metadata, generate promo codes, and work with customer reviews in the native and modern 100% AppKit interface. If you are tired of s…
Lees meerWestern Digital (via Peter Hosey): Get extreme speeds for fast transfer, app performance, and 4K UHD. Ideal for your Android™ smartphone, action cameras or drones, this high-performance microSD card does 4K UHD video recording, Full HD video, and hi…
Lees meerKapeli: New Search and Navigation Interface – The search and navigation interface was completely redesigned to be more intuitive and fast New Search Result Sorting and Nesting – Search result sorting and nesting were completely rethought and redone.…
Lees meerMartin Pilkington: While this saving of disk space and RAM usage certainly benefits the Mac, there are arguably more important reasons to Apple for dropping 32 bit on the Mac. They don’t actually have much to do with 32 bit itself, but more with dec…
Lees meerTyler Hall: VirtualHostX is now a subscription. You can pay $49 USD / year or $5 USD / month.The annual price is the same as the old one-time cost. And I’ll note that I typically release a paid upgrade every 12 - 18 months. So, if you are like many …
Lees meerMark Alldritt: This problem happens after a document has been opened in Script Debugger and changes have been saved a number of times. If the saves are done in fairly quick succession, Script Debugger will begin reporting that it cannot save documen…
Lees meerDave Wood: I received feedback from my report I’d sent to Apple (Yay, they do work!). They pointed out that the issue was due to a third party app I have installed called Disk Drill by CleverFiles (which I have as part of my Setapp subscription). Th…
Lees meerGus Mueller: The docs for -[NSFontManager availableMembersOfFontFamily:] say:“The members of the family are arranged in the font panel order (narrowest to widest, lightest to boldest, plain to italic)”Unfortunately, it looks like this is broken on M…
Lees meerCameron Esfahani (thread, via Daniel Jalkut): One day my boss asked me to fly down to LA for the day. Apparently there was a developer there working on an app showcasing QuickDraw GX. […] And right away I could tell something was weird. Structurally…
Lees meerDave Kitabjian: But the real secret sauce of ScanSnap was the accompanying software that was centered around what you were trying to do rather than making you constantly fiddle with scanning parameters. Finally, a developer was thinking like a custo…
Lees meerJuli Clover: We picked up the $95 i500 Pro TWS Earbuds, a set of AirPods Pro replicas that are remarkably similar in design to Apple’s real AirPods Pro and that even advertise some of the same features, like Apple’s proprietary H1 chip.[…]Wireless c…
Lees meerArthur Stolyar: Next level of Web Notifications scam. - Allow Notifications to confirm that you’re not a robot 🙈 Ricky Mondello: Abuse like this is why some people get uncomfortable when folks go around saying that adding new, more powerful features…
Lees meerPaul Haddad links to this display that’s currently available for only $129.99 ($109.99 at the time of his tweet). It’s a 15.6-inch IPS display that supports 1,920×1,080. That’s a much better resolution than the AOC display I wrote about a few years …
Lees meerJohn Sundell (tweet): Welcome to Ink, a fast and flexible Markdown parser written in Swift. It can be used to convert Markdown-formatted strings into HTML, and also supports metadata parsing, as well as powerful customization options for fine-graine…
Lees meerChuq Von Rospach: The first time I tried to publish new images to Flickr, Lightroom aborted and the OS put up a dialog warning me that the app “magick” isn’t signed and so it might be dangerous, so the OS wouldn’t let it launch. “magick” is part of …
Lees meerChris Liscio: When I build my app, Xcode 11 appears to stall out completely (dropping from full core usage down to 10-20% CPU) during the Objective-C build phases. […] The bug manifested for me like this: Starting with a clean DerivedData folder, I …
Lees meerPaul Kafasis: Recently, I spotted a story about T-Mobile successfully forcing a company called Lemonade to change the color of their marketing materials in Germany. T-Mobile was able to do this because they own a trademark on the color magenta. I fi…
Lees meerMy apps are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: C-Command Software (my apps) Adaptivity Adobe All Apps Plan Affinity apps Apple Corel apps Ergonis Software (code BlackFriday19M) Flawless Focusl…
Lees meerKieren McCarthy (via Quincy Larson): At the end of last week, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it has sold the rights to the .org registry for an undisclosed sum to a private equity company called Ethos Capital. The deal is set to complete…
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