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Overcast 2024.11.1

woensdag 20 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Overcast: The price change goes into effect tomorrow (November 21). Premium is going from $9.99 to $14.99, the first price increase since it was introduced 8 years ago. Chance Miller: The new 48-hour listening history feature builds upon the undo se…

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Why Can’t iOS Have Smart Folders?

woensdag 20 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Collin Donnell: The only apps I know about that have added them for both macOS and iOS are Reminders and Notes, although I’ve found the implementation of them to be a bit weird. In both of those, you can’t add sub-conditions, so you can say all or a…

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Pinwheel 1.0

woensdag 20 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

New Mac app from Bjango (Mastodon): Convert between color formats and color spaces. Automate color contrast testing. Create beautiful gradients and palettes. […] Pinwheel imports Design Tokens JSON, Figma documents, Sketch documents, CSS, asset cata…

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DOJ Wants Google to Sell Chrome and De-Google Android

dinsdag 19 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (Hacker News, 9To5Google): The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and…

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News Explorer 2.0

dinsdag 19 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ron Elemans (Mastodon): Sidebar filters, or ‘Smart folders’ as Apple likes to call them, are now fully customizable. You can add as many filters as you like, and they are all synced across all your devices. […] Article comments are automatically dow…

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macOS 15.1.1

dinsdag 19 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 includes security fixes. Juli Clover: With the JavaScriptCore vulnerability, processing maliciously cr…

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iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1

dinsdag 19 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 18.1.1 update provides important security fixes. Previously: iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1

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visionOS 2.1.1

dinsdag 19 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (no release notes, no developer, security, no enterprise): Today’s update focuses on security fixes rather than new features, and it is recommended for all Vision Pro users. Previously: visionOS 2.1

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Swift Concurrency Proposal Index

maandag 18 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Quinn (via Fatbobman): This post summarises the Swift Evolution proposals that went into the Swift concurrency design. It covers the proposal that are implemented in Swift 6.0, plus a few additional ones that aren’t currently available.The focus is …

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Why Is Lightroom Always Generating Thumbnails?

maandag 18 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

I really like working in Lightroom Classic except that—despite continually updating to newer versions that promise performance improvements and newer Macs with faster processors, SSDs, and more RAM—it still feels slow. Maybe it’s my imagination, but…

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Does Apple Smell Blood in the Water?

maandag 18 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jaron Schneider (Hacker News): In just the last year and a half, Apple launched Final Cut on iPad and Final Cut Camera, updated Final Cut Pro to a new version for the first time in 13 years, and moved to purchase Pixelmator. As Adobe’s public percep…

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Retrofitting Spatial Safety to Hundreds of Millions of Lines of C++

maandag 18 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Google Security: Based on an analysis of in-the-wild exploits tracked by Google’s Project Zero, spatial safety vulnerabilities represent 40% of in-the-wild memory safety exploits over the past decade[…][…]A key element of our strategy focuses on Saf…

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M4 Macs Can’t Virtualize Older macOS

vrijdag 15 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot. This is true whatever settings are used in the virtualiser, even if it’s set to boot the VM in Recovery mode. It’…

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Lawsuit to Reveal Wikipedia Editors

vrijdag 15 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Glyn Moody: As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those wh…

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Firefox at 20

vrijdag 15 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kevin Purdy (Hacker News): Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was t…

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The State of Mozilla

vrijdag 15 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bryan Lunduke (via Hacker News): The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla’s reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:The compen…

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Sequoia Network Extension Memory Leak

donderdag 14 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Norbert Heger: Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia. […] …

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Thomas Kurtz, RIP

donderdag 14 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Valley News (Hacker News): Tom is well known as the co-inventor, with John Kemeny, of the BASIC programming language in 1964. A version of BASIC still exists today. John Kemeny and Tom had already developed a version of the Dartmouth Timesharing Sys…

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Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac

donderdag 14 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, MacStories): In Final Cut Pro 11, editors can access two all-new AI-powered tools: Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions. With Magnetic Mask, editors can effortlessly isolate people and objects in a video clip without the need f…

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Google Drive Blackout in Italy

donderdag 14 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Andy Maxwell (via Hacker News): After blocking Cloudflare [link] to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy's ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecti…

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App Store Connect 2.0

woensdag 13 november 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: App Store Connect 2.0 includes a refreshed UI throughout the app, as well as new capabilities. Developers are able to promote their apps by generating marketing assets for app launches, version updates, featured placements in the Today …

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