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Archive Team’s Yahoo Groups Rescue Effort

woensdag 6 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Andy Baio: For me, it took ten full days to get an email that my archive was ready to download — are they doing this by hand!? — but it appears complete: it contained a folder for every group I belonged to, each containing their own ZIP files for me…

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FastScripts 2.8

woensdag 6 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Red Sweater updates one of my favorite apps: Custom folder icons are now displayed in the FastScripts menu FastScripts can now be quit by cmd-dragging the icon out of the menu bar Revealing a folder from FastScripts now respects the user setting for…

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Catalina No Longer Caches Shared Photos Locally

woensdag 6 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tyler Hall: So, I looked, and, sure enough, that sharedstreams folder is gone. But where? […] Ok. That’s great. It actually makes more sense to have shared photos also live inside your Photos.app library instead of somewhere random in ~/Library. […]…

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Dell UltraSharp 27 4K PremierColor Monitor

dinsdag 5 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Malcolm Owen: In this monitor’s case, it offers 100% of the Adobe RGB range, 98% coverage of DCI-P3, and 80% of BT2020, allowing it to represent a wide array of color space standards. […] Displaying at a 4K resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels at 60H…

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“Real” Photoshop for iPad

maandag 4 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Steeber: A full, desktop-class version of Photoshop on iOS has been one of the most hotly anticipated creative apps for designers and artists since the original iPad’s introduction in 2010. In the years since, competitors have released their…

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Electron Apps Rejected From the Mac App Store

maandag 4 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David.dev (via Ben Sandofsky, Hacker News, Slashdot): Allright, as a follow up to the previous chapter in this odyssey I can now state that, apparently,  you cannot submit an electron 6 or 7 app to the apple store:The first refusal from apple states…

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Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

maandag 4 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dustin Curtis (via Hacker News): Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell wh…

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Twitter’s Ban on Political Ads

maandag 4 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Will Oremus: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday that the company will ban political advertising, a move that earned the company a rare wave of positive press. […] There’s something to be said for a tech platform taking its responsibiliti…

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Efficiently Mutating Nested Swift Data Structures

zaterdag 2 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Radek Pietruszewski: That feel when you’re profiling a React Native app, and you’re sure JavaScript is the source of your problems… but no, it’s ridiculously misoptimized Swift doing… well… nothing much for two minutes. […] Code does something that …

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Preparing to Migrate From Aperture to Photos.app

zaterdag 2 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gordon: I’ll still be on Aperture into 2020, three years beyond my original plan. The Catalina catastrophe has made staying on Mojave more agreeable. I’ll have to switch sooner or later though, almost certainly by 2021. So I’m working on a list…

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Xcode 11.2 and XIBs With UITextView

zaterdag 2 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juri Pakaste: Xcode 11.2: NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException. Oh boy. Nikita Zhuk: Xcode 11.2 seems to cause havoc if you have XIBs which contain UITextViews. Beware! Marcin Krzyzanowski: This is really bad year for devtools at Apple Peter Steinbe…

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Google Acquires Fitbit

vrijdag 1 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rick Osterloh (via MacRumors, Hacker News): Today, we’re announcing that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fitbit, a leading wearables brand.[…]Over the years, Google has made progress with partners in this space with Wear OS…

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The Varying Date.distantFuture

vrijdag 1 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: An NSDate object representing a date in the distant future (in terms of centuries). Craig Hockenberry: Date.distantFuture is fixed at “January 1, 4001 at 12:00:00 AM GMT” - that means its timeIntervalSince1970 (currently at 64,092,211,200) wi…

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Tylenol Moment for Apple’s Laptop Keyboards

vrijdag 1 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kev van Zonneveld (Hacker News): Both in terms of productivity and delight I had my best years on Apple and I didn’t think I’d ever look back. But here we are. Why? I (guess I’m the only person alive that) didn’t mind the TouchBar or lack of a real …

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The TV App Strategy Tax

vrijdag 1 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Cieplinski: Take a look at the TV app on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. At first, when I saw the way Apple was mixing and matching all the content from available channels, iTunes rentals, purchases, and streaming services like Prime, I was anno…

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Giving Notes on China

vrijdag 1 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eddy Cue, just a few months ago: There’s never been one note passed from us on scripts, that I can assure you. We leave the folks [alone] who know they’re doing. Alex Kantrowitz and John Paczkowski (via John Gruber, Hacker News): Apple’s recent acti…

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Safari Safe Browsing, China, and Privacy

vrijdag 1 november 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthew Green (tweet, Hacker News): It appears that, at least on iOS 13, Apple is sharing some portion of your web browsing history with the Chinese conglomerate Tencent. This is being done as part of Apple’s “Fraudulent Website Warning”, which uses…

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Vector Icon Speed Runs

donderdag 31 oktober 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Frakes: I love watching @marcedwards’s icon-making “speed runs.” So we did a Mac App Store story on them. Great article and videos, but again I wish I would read directly in my browser instead of in the App Store app. The Web preview doesn’t hav…

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Google to Stop Indexing Flash

woensdag 30 oktober 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Google (via Hacker News): Flash is disabled by default in Chrome (starting in version 76), Microsoft Edge, and FireFox 69. Soon, we’ll also move on from Flash in indexing for Google Search. Previously: Adobe Will Discontinue Flash in 2020 How Adobe …

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Twitter for Mac 8.1

woensdag 30 oktober 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nolan O’Brien: Along with all the improvements that go into Twitter for iOS, we’ve also worked on some Mac specific things […] Fixed: scrolling would temporarily stop working when closing certain windows using ESC key Fixed: secondary clicking on a …

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iOS 13.2 Killing Background Apps More

woensdag 30 oktober 2019 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Marco Arment: I’ve noticed this since the first 13.2 betas, and Overcast users keep reporting it as well: background apps seem to be getting killed MUCH more aggressively than before. (Especially on the iPhone 11 if you use the camera, presumably be…

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