Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the fourth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming two weeks after the third beta. This update did correctly install for me via Software Update. The only beta 4 item that …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the fourth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming two weeks after Apple seeded the third betas. I don’t see any beta 4 release notes yet. Juli Clover: Apple has r…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (2024, Mastodon): This made me think there has to be a better way to toggle captions than manually swiping and clicking on the Apple TV remote touchpad.Turns out there are two better ways:If you use the Control Center Apple TV remote con…
Lees meerKrish Shah (via Hacker News): TrackWeight is a macOS application that transforms your MacBook’s trackpad into an accurate weighing scale by leveraging the Force Touch pressure sensors built into modern MacBook trackpads.[…]TrackWeight utilizes the O…
Lees meerAnna Gross, Tim Bradshaw, and Lauren Fedor (Hacker News, MacRumors): The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face…
Lees meerJenny Zeng (via John Gordon): Several users have reported a bug on macOS Sequoia regarding Spotlight indexing writing a huge amount of data. Consequently, they are experiencing a large System Data on Mac and rapid SSD wear. She recommends deleting /…
Lees meerDennis Schubert (2021, via Hacker News): I have one of those laptops lacking a lot of accessory ports. In fact, I’m writing this on an Apple MacBook Pro, and all I got was four lousy USB-C ports. If I want to connect pretty much anything, I need som…
Lees meerJon Reid: Xcode supports automated refactoring. Supposedly. In practice, the options are limited and often unavailable. You’ll right-click something, navigate to the Refactor submenu… only to find that the command you want is grayed out. It’s a wast…
Lees meerMETR (Hacker News): We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use …
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): This blog post is about an app named Chatbot: Ask AI Chat Bot, subtitled “Built on ChatGPT OpenAI, GPT-4", by the developer Tuqeer Ahmad. If you’re not familiar with Tuqeer Ahmad, well… neither am I. Nonetheless, Chatbot: As…
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced the global App Store ecosystem facilitated $1.3 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2024, according to a new study by economists Professor Andrey Fradkin from Boston University Questrom School of Business and Dr.…
Lees meerMarcin Wichary: As a designer, I’m meant to dislike settings. As a user, I love them. Every year I celebrate Settings Day: a day when I take a look at the options and toggles in all the apps I use. I do this out of curiosity – what was added since t…
Lees meerRyan Jones: I am so out of patience for “Optimize Storage” on Apple devices.Now I have to take half my day to figure out how to reduce Photos and Messages without nuking them.My best solution: Disconnect iCloud Photos. That will delete all local pho…
Lees meerJamf Threat Labs: After downloading and inspecting the binary, we confirmed that it was indeed both code-signed and notarized — a detail that raised immediate concern given its malicious nature.[…]The application itself is named “Gmeet_updater.app,”…
Lees meerVDT Labs (via Dave DeLong): View and edit your JSON files in “tree” or “text” mode. “Tree” mode offers a great and error proof way to manipulate your JSON, by allowing you to easily add, reorder, delete, copy & paste the items. The “text” mode offer…
Lees meerAdrian Schönig (2023, via Nick Heer): Longplay 1.0 was released in August 2020. I had used the app for years before that myself, but I didn’t know how it would be received by a wider audience. I loved the kind of feedback that I got which helped me …
Lees meerNameQuick: AI-powered file renaming that just works.[…]Rename legal documents, research articles, and scans automatically with clear, informative filenames.Automatically organize invoices and receipts by extracting key details like vendor names, dat…
Lees meerJason Snell: In macOS 26, there’s a built-in clipboard manager that can be accessed from the Spotlight interface, and a new set of Shortcuts triggers let you run automations when events occur on your Mac or at specific intervals. Simon B. Støvring: …
Lees meerLuc Beaudoin: If you are like many knowledge workers, on a typical day you access over dozens of information resources. If you have to use search or navigate through folders to get to them, you’re taking a big hit on productivity. It’s much easier t…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed: It’s been 16 months since a DMA ruling allowed iOS developers like Google and Mozilla to use their own browser engines in the EU, so… where are they? Open Web Advocacy (Hacker News): Apple’s compliance did not start well. Faced with…
Lees meerJeff Geerling (via Hacker News): I documented the entire upgrade—along with taking my old M4 mini 1TB SSD and putting it in my Dad’s M4 mini—in today’s video[…][…]Speaking of standards… you have to do a full DFU (Device Firmware Update) restore, bec…
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