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iPadOS 26 Developer Beta 3

dinsdag 8 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: How much has Apple really “nerfed” Liquid Glass in the latest beta? Here’s a comparison between iPadOS 26 developer beta 2 (first image) and beta 3. Steve Troughton-Smith: Wow they kinda did the thing? Fullscreen apps on iPadOS wor…

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macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 3

maandag 7 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (Mr. Macintosh, 9to5Mac): Right now, there is a bit of a bug with the beta that is preventing Apple silicon Macs from being able to download it. Intel Macs can be updated with no issue, but Apple will need to address the server side bug …

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Menu Bar Madness in macOS 26 and iPadOS 26

maandag 7 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Grannell: In beta 2, Apple added an option to restore the menu bar background. Which is good. Except it also makes me question Apple’s confidence in its design work. When Apple starts hedging its bets, it signals that it knows something is wro…

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The Curious Case of the Responsible Process

maandag 7 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tor Arne Vestbø: As it turns out, permissions are inherited by child processes. And when a process is about to access some protected resource, the TCC subsystem figure’s out which process is the responsible one, and uses that as basis for requesting…

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Fixing mediaanalysisd Storage and CPU Use

maandag 7 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

OSXDaily: If you have discovered your Mac disk space has reduced since installing or updating to MacOS Sequoia, the inordinately large com.apple.mediaanalysisd cache file issue could be to blame. A variety of Mac users have reported the directory be…

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DOJ’s iPhone Monopoly Case Moves Forward

vrijdag 4 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple failed in its attempt to get the antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Justice filed against it dismissed, reports Reuters. U.S. District Judge Julien Neals, who is overseeing the case, today denied Apple’s motion for dism…

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iOS 26 Recovery Assistant

vrijdag 4 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: iOS 26 adds a new Recovery Assistant feature to all compatible iPhones, and it can help return the device to a working state, with no Mac or PC required.[…]According to a Reddit post, Recovery Assistant can help you return an iPhone t…

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iOS 26 Information Density

vrijdag 4 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nate Parrott: didn’t realize everything in iOS 26 is just a little bigger and way less stuff fits on screen now? Riccardo Mori: Let’s make a fun comparison about information density across various versions of iOS and device screen sizes. In reverse …

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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Funding

vrijdag 4 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Cynthia Brumfield (via Hacker News): After DHS did not renew its funding contract for reasons unspecified, MITRE’s 25-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program was slated for an abrupt shutdown on April 16, which would have left se…

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SummerFest 2025 for Indie Mac Apps

donderdag 3 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SummerFest: Your inspiration doesn’t come from a factory. Neither does artisanal software. For a limited time, we’re all offering you a great price on great software, right at the workshop door. No ridiculous bundles, no silly gimmicks. Great softwa…

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Alifix 1.4

donderdag 3 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: If you have old Finder aliases that need to be checked and repaired, Alifix will do that job with you. Use it to scan a folder containing those aliases, and it will warn you which can’t be resolved any longer, and can rewrite those th…

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Magic Lasso Adblock 5.0

donderdag 3 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthew Bickham: Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 now lets you block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac — not just in Safari. […] Whether you’re scrolling through social media, playing games, or reading the news (including Apple N…

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CodableWithConfiguration

donderdag 3 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Sundell: When a type conforms to either EncodableWithConfiguration or DecodableWithConfiguration, it requires an additional configuration value to be passed when either encoding or decoding it (and the compiler will enforce that requirement). […

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Cloudflare Creates AI Crawler Tollbooth

woensdag 2 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthew Prince (Hacker News, Slashdot): The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you’ve created, an AI-driven web doesn’t reward content creators the way that the old search-dr…

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Figma Files for IPO

woensdag 2 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Claburn (Figma, Hacker News): The company prospectus mentions AI more than 150 times, characterizing it both as a creative accelerant and a potential threat.[…]Back to Figma, whose prospectus says that as of the first three months of 2025 it …

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Fakespot Shuts Down

woensdag 2 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bryson Thill (via Hacker News): Fakespot’s technology revealed some eye-opening statistics. About 43% of the best-selling Amazon products had reviews that were unreliable or fabricated, according to a study by app company Circuit. The problem was ev…

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macOS Tahoe Drops FireWire Support

woensdag 2 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi on X, and a Reddit post. As a result, the first few iPod models and old external storage d…

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Brazil Recommends Sanctions for Apple Over App Store and NFC Rules

dinsdag 1 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton: The recommendation was issued by the General Superintendence of Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (SG/CADE), the technical body of the federal antitrust authority. In a public statement translated from Portuguese…

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Tim Robertson, RIP

dinsdag 1 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Peter Cohen: Confirmed with the family this morning that @mymac founder Tim Robertson passed away after a recent illness.Tim was not just a mainstay of Apple blogging, podcasting and smart analysis for decades, but one of the very nicest people I’ve…

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Grammarly Acquires Superhuman

dinsdag 1 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Krystal Hu (via Hacker News): Grammarly has signed a deal to acquire email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company’s push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite and diversify its business, its executives told Reuter…

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iPadOS Windows Mess Up Data Saving

dinsdag 1 juli 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Craig Hockenberry (Mastodon): From the very beginning, iOS has had a notion of an app being in the foreground or background. When you saw an app on screen it was active and when it was gone it was inactive. […] It was simple system that let you do w…

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