DropDMG 3.6.9 is a maintenance update to my app for creating and working with Mac disk image files. It fixes a conversion bug, works better with macOS security/privacy features, improves the help, and more. Some interesting issues were: TCC continue…
Lees meerBare Bones Software: Introducing “workspaces”, a way to switch between arrangements of open documents and windows. A workspace includes the same application state that is saved and restored across quit and relaunch, but can be activated at any time …
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht (tweet): Kaleidoscope can now hide equal blocks of text by collapsing them into a single expandable line. This significantly shortens text comparisons when most of the text in A and B is identical. Collapsing unchanged lines lets yo…
Lees meerDavid Heinemeier Hansson: Well, we risked everything, but also secured a four-year truce, and now near-total victory is at hand: HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone in the US!Credit for this amazing turn of events goes to Epic Games founders Tim S…
Lees meerKyle Wiggers and Karyne Levy: Gemini Ultra (only in the U.S. for now) delivers the “highest level of access” to Google’s AI-powered apps and services, according to Google. It’s priced at $249.99 per month and includes Google’s Veo 3 video generator,…
Lees meerAnthropic (Hacker News, MacRumors): Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior cod…
Lees meerOpenAI (via John Gruber): Today we’re launching a research preview of Codex: a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel. Codex can perform tasks for you such as writing features, answering questions about your c…
Lees meerRindala Alajaji (Hacker News): I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cau…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 added the ability for users to set a different translation app as their default. Users worldwide can select Google Translate or another translation app as an alternative, and there are also options for changing …
Lees meerJohn Siracusa (Mastodon): This is where Apple finds itself today: in need of turnaround-scale changes, but not currently in the kind of (usually financial) crisis that will motivate its leaders to make them.New leadership is almost always part of a …
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (in February): Is Pocket dead? Extension isn’t updated anymore. Mozilla (Hacker News): Pocket will no longer be available after July 8, 2025. You can continue using the app and browser extensions until this date. After July 8, Pock…
Lees meerTom Warren: A year ago Xbox president Sarah Bond revealed that Microsoft was planning to launch a new Xbox mobile web store in July 2024. That never happened. I’ve been wondering what the hold up has been over the past year, and it seems we might ha…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: I have since tried updating my 15.3.2 VM to 15.4.1 on the M4 Pro, a surprisingly large update of over 6 GB, and that continues to result in a kernel panic and failure. I have also tried updating from 15.1 to 15.4.1 with an extraordina…
Lees meerOpenAI (MacRumors, Hacker News): It became clear that our ambitions to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products demanded an entirely new company. And so, one year ago, Jony founded io with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan.We…
Lees meerMeek Geek (tweet): If you migrated to a new Mac running Sequoia using Migration Assistant instead of a clean install:Notifications from iPhone will stop showing upWidgets from iPhone will still be there based on the state before the migration, but w…
Lees meerChance Miller (MacRumors): After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States. Epic Games announced the return of the battle royale gaming app this afternoon, and you can head to the App…
Lees meerMark Gurman and Drake Bennett (Reddit, Hacker News, 9to5Mac, Dithering): As for the Siri upgrade, Apple was targeting April 2025, according to people working on the technology. But when Federighi started running a beta of the iOS version, 18.4, on h…
Lees meerRiley Testut: Delta’s latest update with our revised Patreon sign-up flow has been approved! We can now freely mention our Patreon without giving Apple 27% of donations 🎉 Of course Apple still requires we offer in-app purchases…so we shoved them awa…
Lees meerJR Farr (Hacker News): At Stripe Sessions, we announced something we’ve been quietly crafting for months: Stripe Managed Payments — a new merchant of record experience, built directly into Stripe and launching this summer in private preview.This is …
Lees meerEpic Games: Yesterday afternoon, Apple broke its week-long silence on the status of our app review with a letter saying they will not act on the Fortnite app submission until the Ninth Circuit Court rules on the partial stay. We believe this violate…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: We’ve entered day 10 of waiting for a TestFlight beta app review on macOS. Have tried all the tricks, like submitting new builds, but there has been absolutely no movement.While Apple is doing everything it can to maintain the tig…
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