Howard Oakley: Times here are given in UTC, which would a minute earlier have been an hour behind local time, so this backup would have actually started at 02:00:41 according to local clock time had the clocks not been changing that night. However, …
Lees meerBrent Simmons (tweet): You don’t know what you forgot to take into account, or what pieces you underestimated or overestimated. You never know what weird bugs will trip you up. You don’t know what OS release between now and then will make you spend …
Lees meerThaddeus E. Grugq: This is an entertaining read and doesn’t cask Apple in the best light. […] This is pretty blatant. I’m no lawyer, but it’s hard to see how Apple can spin: 🍏: “we will pay you bug bounty money to fund your company.” C: loadsa bugs …
Lees meerJuli Clover: macOS Catalina 10.15.1 is a fairly significant update, introducing new emoji characters that were added in iOS 13.2 earlier this week, adding support for the AirPods Pro that are launching tomorrow, and bringing Siri privacy controls to…
Lees meerApple (Phil Schiller, Hacker News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): Apple today announced AirPods Pro, an exciting addition to the AirPods family that features Active Noise Cancellation and superior, immersive sound in an all-new lightweight, in-ear design. […]…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: You can try this yourself, although the documentation of defragmentation is minimal. The diskutil apfs command allows you to enable and disable defragmentation at Container or Volume level, with a command such as diskutil apfs defragm…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The problem was that Sal could only see the MacBook Pro and the iPad on the podium. For anything that happened on the projector, he had to peer into the distance to work from the projected screen. That proved difficult, but he soldiered …
Lees meerTyshawn Cormier: After updating to macOS Catalina, Aperture and iPhoto no longer runs, and iTunes is replaced by Music, TV, and Podcasts. If you still need to run Aperture, iPhoto or iTunes on macOS Catalina, the Retroactive app makes it easy. […] R…
Lees meerTeam 6502 (via Hacker News): When it was introduced in 1975 by MOS Technology of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the 8-bit microprocessor sold for a fraction of the cost of other microprocessors, causing rapid decreases across the entire computing indus…
Lees meerJohn Vorhees (via Federico Viticci): There’s a terrific GameClub app that organizes the company’s catalog of titles in one place, which I’ll get into shortly, but the games can be downloaded separately, and you can subscribe whether you use the Game…
Lees meerJacob Kastrenakes: With a week to go before its TV service launches, Apple has brought the Apple TV app to Amazon’s streaming devices. The Apple TV app is now available on three different models of Fire TV devices — the Fire TV Stick 4K, the Fire TV…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Mozilla has launched Firefox 70 for macOS, which continues to enhance the browser’s privacy features as well as bringing significant improvements to performance and power efficiency.[…] Firefox 70 also introduces a Privacy Protections …
Lees meerHelge Heß: Direct to SwiftUI is an adaption of an old WebObjects technology called Direct to Web. This time for Apple’s new framework: SwiftUI. Instant CRUD apps, configurable using a declarative rule system, yet fully integrated with SwiftUI. […] W…
Lees meerCNBC (tweet, Hacker News): Apple on Wednesday removed an app that protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements from its app store, saying it violated rules because it was used to ambush police. […] Apple rejected the crowdsourcing app…
Lees meerDan Frommer: Amazon’s approach to the Kindle product remains befuddling. Talk about entering a market, quickly achieving dominance, and then coasting with feet up for more than a decade — random, bizarre updates and bracingly mediocre software. Jaso…
Lees meerBen Scheirman: There is no API for saying “Please prompt the user to access this folder”. Instead, this is done in one of three ways:Full Disk AccessPrompting the user to open a file/directoryDragging & Dropping a folder onto the application […] By …
Lees meeriwascoding: If you work with GarageSale on severals Macs you might find the new Synching feature helpful. Once enabled your GarageSale database will be synched between your Macs. The Synching feature requires a GarageSale Pro subscription.[…]Print g…
Lees meerJason Snell: So can a college student survive on iPad alone? I think we’ve reached the point where I can answer “yes” to that question. There are caveats, of course—there always will be when it comes to tech stuff. Still, it feels like a bit of a mi…
Lees meerEvan Dekhayser: Auto Layout error messages are not known to be easy reads, so this tool from John Patrick Morgan that makes the errors much easier to debug is really valuable. Images and simple descriptions are shown for each constraint, making it m…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: AirDrop has a bigger problem, though: because it’s a semi-public way of pushing files of unknown pedigree onto an unsuspecting Mac (or iOS device), macOS attaches a quarantine flag to everything transferred by AirDrop. For documents t…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released a new supplemental update for macOS Catalina, nearly one week after releasing the first supplemental update and two weeks after the launch of macOS Catalina. Mr. Macintosh: The patch notes for (19A602) are exactly t…
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