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Pair Networks Price Increase

donderdag 5 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I’ve been hosting ATPM with Pair Networks for almost 25 years now. At one point, it needed a dedicated server, and then technology improved and we were able to use a high-volume shared hosting account. The site has been in maintenance mode since 201…

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Apple Appeals EU Digital Markets Act Interoperability Rules

donderdag 5 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Benjamin Mayo (MacRumors): Apple has appealed parts of the Digital Markets Act law citing user privacy concerns. Specifically, Apple is contesting the interoperability requirements that say data like notification content and WiFi networks should be …

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2024 App Store Transparency Report

donderdag 5 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): In the last five years, the App Store has protected users by preventing over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions, including over $2 billion in 2024 alone, according to Apple’s annual App Store fraud analysis. This reflects the A…

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EagleFiler 1.9.17

woensdag 4 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

EagleFiler 1.9.17 is a maintenance release of my digital filing cabinet and e-mail archiving app. This version improves capturing Web pages from Orion and Safari, works better with different font sizes, and improves tag auto-completion and searching…

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SwiftUI macOS Sheet Buttons

woensdag 4 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sam Rowlands: Sheet dialog buttons don’t meet the macOS human interface guidelines by default, I’ve tried some solutions in the past, but then I stumbled across a really simple way to do it and I’m sharing that now.[…]Yes, it’s that simple, use a to…

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OmniFocus 4.6

woensdag 4 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ainsley Bourque Olson (release notes): Notes are a great way to add additional context to an item in OmniFocus, and OmniFocus 4.6 makes it easier than ever to add content from outside of OmniFocus to a note, without bringing unnecessary font styles …

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The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps

woensdag 4 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mark Litwintschik (Hacker News): Finn Jaeger, who is the head of VFX at Replayboys, a film production firm in Hamburg, Germany, posted a screenshot a few weeks ago showing how multiple depth maps were being produced by his iPhone.He announced he was…

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Sky Preview

dinsdag 3 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sky (MacRumors): Introducing Sky for Mac. […] Sky floats over whatever you’re doing so you can: Ask questions from anywhere on your Mac Take action in your apps (send a message, schedule an event, etc) Use your own custom tools by adding prompts, sc…

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Compare Pages Documents in Kaleidoscope

dinsdag 3 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Albrecht: Need to compare two versions of a Pages document? We previously provided a solution based on Shortcuts, but recent updates to Pages (version 14.4 at the time of writing) have rendered that workflow unusable. Specifically, the Apple…

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for Mac

dinsdag 3 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

macOS Automator MCP Server (tweet): This project provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, macos_automator, that allows execution of AppleScript and JavaScript for Automation (JXA) scripts on macOS. It features a knowledge base of pre-defined …

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The Automation Gap

dinsdag 3 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Voorhees: Yes, we each share some shortcuts we’ve built, but there’s also a healthy dose of third-party automation apps, services, and AI projects sprinkled throughout. I take that as a sign that automation is alive and well on Apple platforms.…

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Separate Expressions for +alloc and -init

maandag 2 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ronald Oussoren: The following code will crash hard when compiled using ARC: #import int main(void) { NSOutputStream* stream; stream = [NSOutputStream alloc]; stream = [stream initToMemory]; NSLog(@"%@", stream); } This is split calls to alloc and …

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Apple in China

maandag 2 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Issie Lapowsky (Amazon, Reddit, John Gruber): But Cook was in Beijing that day to do the opposite: to impress upon President Xi Jinping’s government that Apple was so committed to China that it planned to spend $275 billion in the country over the n…

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Sketch Athens

maandag 2 juni 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Pieter Omvlee: In the latest Sketch we’re taking an idea from Apple: Naming our releases.At Sketch, we’re a proudly European company and we’re naming our releases after European cities from now on.And we’re starting with Athens. Sketch (tweet): Our …

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Grammarly Raises $1 Billion

vrijdag 30 mei 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Krystal Hu: Grammarly has raised $1 billion in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, aiming to grow into a comprehensive productivity platform, the companies said on Thursday.Grammarly, kn…

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The Talk Show Live, Without Apple

vrijdag 30 mei 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber (Mastodon, MacRumors, Hacker News, Steve Troughton-Smith): But in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since…

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Xcode 16.4

vrijdag 30 mei 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (downloads): Fixed: Users may see excessive CPU utilization from diskimagesiod which reduces simulator performance, increasing boot time, process launch times, and test execution times.[…]The command devicectl diagnose now obtains a sysdiagnos…

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Arc and Dia

vrijdag 30 mei 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Wes Davis: The Browser Company has said repeatedly that it’s not getting rid of the Arc browser as it moves onto its new AI-centric Dia browser. But what the company also not going to do is develop new features for it. Josh Miller: Back in 2019, it …

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Apple Operating System Version Years

donderdag 29 mei 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mark Gurman (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple will announce its biggest ever software rebrand at WWDC, tied to operating system redesigns. Apple is moving from version numbers to years (like Windows in the 90s). The new OSs: iOS 26, iPadOS 2…

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MacInTouch Paused

donderdag 29 mei 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ric Ford: Website traffic is overwhelmingly dominated now by “bots” executing sophisticated cyberattacks and sucking up every scrap of content; only a tiny fraction of our traffic comes from legitimate human visitors. Unfortunately, these rampant an…

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SpamSieve 3.1.3

donderdag 29 mei 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SpamSieve 3.1.3 improves the filtering accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter. It works with the new MailMaven e-mail client and includes enhancements for notification and server junk filters, along with various other fixes and improvements. Some int…

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