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One Size Does Not Fit All

vrijdag 5 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Hockenberry (Mastodon): If you’re someone who’s only using email, a web browser, and some messaging apps to get stuff done, changes to your desktop appearance aren’t going to be disruptive. It’s also likely that you’ll appreciate changes that …

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OmniFocus 4.7

vrijdag 5 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ainsley Bourque Olson: OmniFocus 4.7 introduces three powerful enhancements: a new “Planned” date type (for specifying the date an item is scheduled for work), the ability to create mutually exclusive tags (handy in a variety of workflows, like prio…

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SQLite on macOS Not ACID

vrijdag 5 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jonathan Johnson (2022): From my investigation, Apple’s version of SQLite instead replaces PRAGMA fullfsync = on’s implementation to use F_BARRIERFSYNC.SQLite users who are expecting PRAGMA fullfsync to provide durability guarantees in the event of …

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Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company

donderdag 4 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Atlassian (tweet, Hacker News): We’ve entered into an agreement to acquire The Browser Company of New York, the team behind the incredible Dia and Arc browsers. By combining The Browser Company’s passion for building browsers people love with Atlass…

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ASUS ProArt 6K Display

donderdag 4 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

ASUS: ProArt Display PA32QCV is a 31.5-inch 6K HDR monitor designed for professional content creators. This Calman Verified display boasts a wide gamut with 98% DCI-P3 coverage and Delta E

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AppKitUI

donderdag 4 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Darren Ford: An AppKit UI toolkit help you create and manage NSView content easilyRemove dependence on using XIBs when creating UI viewsReduce boilerplate code when manually creating NSView UI content.Easily bind data between controlsEasily attach a…

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Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult

donderdag 4 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brent Simmons (Mastodon): A scripting language plus key bits implemented in C was more than fast enough for an app. Even all those years ago. […] I’m not writing this article to praise Frontier — I’m talking about it to make a point, which I’ll get …

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Substack IAP

donderdag 4 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Substack (Hacker News): The Substack app drives more than 30% of all paid subscriptions, making it a major source of discovery and discussion. Until now, however, it hasn’t always been possible to upgrade to a paid subscription directly in the app.T…

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WhatsApp and Instagram for iPad, Finally

woensdag 3 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

WhatsApp: Bringing all your favorite features to a larger screen, WhatsApp for iPad makes keeping in touch with friends and family even easier. Make video and audio calls with up to 32 people, share your screen, and use both front and back cameras. …

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Google Search Remedies

woensdag 3 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: After years of legal proceedings, the Google antitrust case has finally resulted in a ruling with real-world impact—though perhaps not in the way many expected. Rather than forcing dramatic changes, the ruling preserves key aspects of ho…

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macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 9

woensdag 3 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the ninth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the eighth beta. The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5. Norbert Doerner: I mean, that Sp…

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iOS 26 Developer Beta 9

woensdag 3 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the ninth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the eighth betas. The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5. Mario Guzm…

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Carbon Copy Cloner 7.1.3

dinsdag 2 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Version 7.1.2: CCC has a new “glass” icon that looks great on macOS Tahoe! Big thanks to our UI designer Enelia at Abacus Finch who was able to find a way to keep our beloved page curl with the new glass material.[…]Tahoe users: If you disable the C…

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Google to Require Developer Verification for Android Sideloading

dinsdag 2 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Abner Li (Hacker News): To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.This requirement applies to “certifi…

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iTorrent Removed via Notarization Due to Sanctions

dinsdag 2 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ernesto Van der Sar (Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): Under EU law, Apple is required to give its users more freedom to install apps that are not listed in the official App Store. This allows for easier access to software that’s typically prohibit…

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Colombia Investigates App Store

dinsdag 2 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton: The Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) announced the probe yesterday (via MobileTime), stating that its Delegation for the Protection of Competition had reached a preliminary conclusion that Apple may have engaged in ex…

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Documentation for App Store Business Model Changes

maandag 1 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Hockenberry (Mastodon): The source code example using in Supporting business model changes by using the app transaction does not work if you’re using current Xcode and App Store conventions. Additionally, the sandbox environment uses the same …

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Typepad Shutting Down

maandag 1 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Typepad: After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated. Please note that after this …

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The Tim Cook Era

maandag 1 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: But here we are, living in an era where Cook has now served as Apple CEO longer than Jobs did. The Apple of 2025 is quite different from the company Cook took control of back in 2011. Today’s Apple generates nearly four times the revenu…

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The Anatomy of a Mach-O

maandag 1 september 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Olivia A. Gallucci: The Mach Object (Mach-O) is the binary format used on Apple’s operating systems for executables, libraries, and object code. It was created for the Mach kernel (hence the name) and introduced in NeXTSTEP, the predecessor to macOS…

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SpotTest 1.1

vrijdag 29 augustus 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Spotlight is so substantial, almost silent in the log, and impenetrable that the best approach to diagnosing its problems is to test it out in a controlled way. Mints has been doing that by creating a folder of files containing an unu…

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