Anybox: Quick look extension for folders. […] USD$1.99 to get the app and all of it. […] Preview ZIP files as folders. It does what it says on the tin. This is a new-style Quick Look extension, so it uses a real outline view and a real path bar, rat…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple is working with Anthropic on an updated version of Xcode that will support AI code writing, editing, and testing, reports Bloomberg. Anthropic is best known for its “Claude” large language model and chatbot that competes with Open…
Lees meerApple (e-mail, Hacker News): The App Review Guidelines have been updated for compliance with a United States court decision regarding buttons, external links, and other calls to action in apps. These changes affect apps distributed on the United Sta…
Lees meerApple (transcript, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion, up 5 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $1.65, up 8 percent year over year. […] The board of directors has also authorized an addi…
Lees meerCoreCode (via Jeff Johnson): CoreCode Ltd., the developer behind the award-winning MacUpdater software, today announced that it will be discontinuing active development of MacUpdater after January 1, 2026. With the core technical challenges of the m…
Lees meerAlex Weprin: Twenty years ago today, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a 19 second video titled “Me at the zoo” to the platform. As anyone who follows YouTube knows, it was the first video hosted by the platform. On its 20th anniversary, YouTu…
Lees meerSE 0481: Currently, Swift classes with weak stored properties cannot be Sendable, because weak properties have to be mutable, and mutable properties are not allowed in Sendable classes[…][…]In fact, wrapping weak references in a single-property stru…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News, Jay Peters, Zac Hall): In a victory for Epic Games, Apple was today found to be in violation of a 2021 injunction that required it to allow developers to direct customers to third-party purchase options on the web using in-…
Lees meerDan Moren (Mastodon): Stay Foolish debuted ten years ago, almost to the day, but I’ve been writing regularly for Macworld for nearly twenty years. When I first started out, we were all excited about what the latest in technology—Intel-powered Macs—w…
Lees meerReuters (via Ric Ford): Apple must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, in the latest stage of a long-running legal battle.Texas-based Opt…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: The “Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience” is a coordinated effort by [Meta, Spotify, Match Group, and Garmin] to influence federal and state legislation amid mounting pressure to implement digital safeguards for minors. T…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: Over the past few weeks, many Help Scout customers have received notice that our plans will change to a new pricing model. Customers who haven’t received notice yet probably will soon. The new system is based on a rolling average of c…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: I can now try to explain why some apps may launch extremely slowly, occasionally taking more than 30 seconds, and on some Macs several minutes. […] Log entries don’t provide any information as to what SecTrustEvaluateIfNecessary is li…
Lees meerSt. Clair Software (tweet): The second big thing in this release is a change to accommodate macOS Sequoia 15.4’s increased security around ejecting disks when your login account doesn’t have administrator privileges. I’m not sure why Apple made this…
Lees meerSam Rowlands (tweet): There’s several ways to create a toolbar and a bunch of options for it also.[…]Adding a search field to the toolbar is easier than you think, simply add the .searchable(text:) modifier to a view within your content view. There …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the third macOS Sequoia 15.5 beta. My update/installer/storage issues c…
Lees meerAdam Engst: I really need to look into CrashPlan again, since the company has been sold and split out a few times since it canceled CrashPlan for Home in 2017, and there is once again a user-level service. I came across this a few months ago and fou…
Lees meerMorpheus Research (via Juan Báez, Hacker News): Since its November 2021 IPO, Backblaze has reported losses every quarter, its outstanding share count has grown by 80%, and its share price has declined by 71%.In October 2024, two former senior employ…
Lees meerRyan Whitwam (Hacker News): Google’s oldest smart thermostats have an expiration date. The company has announced that the first and second generation Nest Learning Thermostats will lose support in October 2025, disabling most of the connected featur…
Lees meerPatrick Kennedy (via Hacker News): According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This i…
Lees meerHacker News is highlighting Adam Leventhal’s 2016 post (2016 comments) about Apple’s Leopard-era support for ZFS: A few weeks before WWDC 2007 nerds like me started to lose their minds: Apple really was going to port ZFS to Mac OS X.[…]ZFS was to br…
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