Armin Briegel: I have also released an update to my CLI tool to set default apps for urls and file types (uniform type identifiers/UTI). utiluti 1.2 adds a manage verb which can read a list of default app assignments from plist files or a configurat…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): On macOS 15.2, I was able to drag the exact same downloaded WebP file to TextEdit and BBEdit with no Gatekeeper alert! Thus, it appears that the Reddit poster was correct, and something did change recently.[…]I perused the u…
Lees meerKatie Roof and Rachel Metz (in May, via Hacker News): OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the ChatG…
Lees meerSean Heber: ChatGPT and other AI services are basically killing @Iconfactory and I’m not exaggerating or being hyperbolical.First Twitter/Elon killed our main app revenue that kept the lights on around here, then generative AI exploded to land a fin…
Lees meerAndrew Yaros (via Marcus Mendes, Hacker News): LisaGUI is a “web OS” - a website that mimics the look, feel, and functionality of an operating system. More bluntly, it’s a giant JavaScript program which fully recreates the Apple Lisa’s user interfac…
Lees meerLocal Mess (via Dan Goodin): We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—…
Lees meerJames Heppell (via Hacker News): A week ago today I had the pleasure of attending both the Apple and Google DMA compliance workshops in Brussels. More detailed articles on the questions and answers, technical and legal analysis etc will be published…
Lees meerI recently got a new SSD on Prime Day to replace one of my main hard drives. As this drive was included in Time Machine, I wanted the SSD to “adopt” the hard drive’s backup history. This way I could avoid recopying lots of data that was already back…
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher: It’s not like it’s going to take you long, since there are just two elements to this: Changing a folder’s colorAdding either an icon or an emoji to the folderIn this case, icons and emoji don’t sound all that different — whichever…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Apple has successfully secured the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing it of conspiring with Visa and Mastercard to suppress competition in the payments network industry and inflate merchant transaction fees (via Reuters).[…]Th…
Lees meerJohn Calhoun: It was frankly a thing I liked about working for Apple in those days. The engineers were the one’s driving the ship. As I said, I wrote an HSV picker because it was, I thought, a more intuitive color space for artists. I wrote the HTML…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: I never expected my game controller obsession to pay automation dividends, but it did last week in the form of the tiny 16-button 8BitDo Micro. For the past week, I’ve used the Micro to dictate on my Mac, interact with AI chatbots, an…
Lees meerSamantha Subin and Kif Leswing (via Hacker News): Nvidia stock rose on Wednesday lifting the company’s market cap briefly past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant that’s building the bulk of the hardware f…
Lees meerCarlo Zottmann: Google offers an OpenAI-compatible API for Gemini, and while working, it is not what Xcode expects in terms of URL layout. In Xcode’s LLM provider config, the custom “URL” parameter is the API’s base URL up to but not including the v…
Lees meerMothers Ruin Software: macOS uses many different binary file formats.Some — like binary property lists — have broad tool support and are relatively easy to inspect…Some — like X.509 certificates, configuration and provisioning profiles or App Store …
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, 2, Hacker News): Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer later this month to Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, as part of a long-planned succession. Williams will continue reporting …
Lees meerWhen I went to download the new Xcode beta, I again ran into an annoying Safari behavior, which seems to be specific to Apple’s sites. It pops up an Apple Account sheet offering to sign me in. But it can only sign in with my personal Apple ID, not m…
Lees meerApple: Removed support for creating new Style Transfer projects. This is the only change that’s noted as being in beta 3. Why can’t Apple write release notes that tell us what’s actually new in this build? Ryan Ashcraft: The Beta 3 SDK adds support …
Lees meerBarijaona Ramaholimihaso: After some minor fiddling, I got the initial version of Vienna running on VirtualBox on my retro hack.[…]Founding father of Vienna, Steve contributed mostly from 2004 to 2008, made a short comeback in 2010, and is definitel…
Lees meerSteve Hayman: Apple has spent a ton of money getting AirPods Pro approved by the FDA and other regulators to work as over-the-counter hearing aids, including providing a hearing test app on the iPhone that tweaks the audio profile on the headphones.…
Lees meerJuli Clover: In some apps like Apple Music, Podcasts, and the App Store, Apple has toned down the transparency of the navigation bars. The look is more opaque to make the buttons more legible.[…]Apple added new color options for the default “iOS” wa…
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