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NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues

dinsdag 6 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brent Simmons (Mastodon): I had thought that NetNewsWire’s conditional GET support was rock-solid — and so my first reaction was to be very surprised to learn that it’s not! […] When a server returns a Last-Modified header, the client should return …

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Google Chromecast to Google TV Streamer

dinsdag 6 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Majd Bakar (Hacker News): After 11 years and over 100 million devices sold, we’re ending production of Chromecast, which will now only be available while supplies last. The time has now come to evolve the smart TV streaming device category — primed …

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SuperDrive Sunset

dinsdag 6 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito (MacRumors): As noted by one of our readers, it’s no longer possible to buy an Apple USB SuperDrive online via the official Apple Store in the US. The product’s webpage says that it’s “Sold Out,” and given that it’s a product introdu…

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Beta for Apple Intelligence in Apple Mail

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Cabel Sasser (Hacker News): Apple Intelligence in 15.1 just flagged a phishing email as “Priority” and moved it to the top of my Inbox. This seems… bad I’ve been trying to test the new features in Mail to make sure that they work properly with my ap…

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Apple Intelligence Privacy Dark Patterns

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

After I got off the beta waitlist, I went to enable Apple Intelligence, and it wouldn’t let me do so without also enabling Siri. I don’t find Siri to be useful on my Macs and tend to restrict it to my iPhone to prevent accidentally triggering the wr…

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Apple’s Q3 2024 Results

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (transcript, MacRumors, MacStories, ArsTechnica): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $85.8 billion, up 5 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.40, up 11 percent year over year. […] “During the quarter, our…

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“Find My” Privacy

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Sweeney (MacRumors): This feature is super creepy surveillance tech and shouldn’t exist. Years ago, a kid stole a Mac laptop out of my car. Years later, I was checking out Find My and it showed a map with the house where the kid who stole my Mac…

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Securing Virtual Machines on Apple Silicon

vrijdag 2 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: In addition to Sequoia VMs on Apple silicon Macs being able to use services such as iCloud using Apple ID, they now appear able to support full-strength FileVault when Apple ID is activated. This contrasts with FileVault supported by …

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Unread RSS Reader for Mac

vrijdag 2 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Brayton: Unread for Mac is a native Mac app. The user interface is built with AppKit and a touch of SwiftUI. […] Like on iPhone and iPad, on Mac you can easily switch between showing feed text, webpage text, or both for an individual article. T…

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The Switch From File Paths to URLs

vrijdag 2 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Quinn: I don’t think we ever documented this officially, but to understand this choice you have to look at the history of macOS. Traditional Mac OS did not use paths a lot. Rather, files were identified by an FSSpec, which contains a volume identifi…

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Snapshots Aren’t Backups

vrijdag 2 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: What is different is that restoring a whole volume from a snapshot is a one-way trip, and there is no undo. This is because snapshots subsequent to that used to restore from will be removed, and you won’t then be able to ‘roll forward…

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iStat Menus 7

donderdag 1 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Marc Edwards: What’s new? Everything. iStat Menus 7 is a full reboot, sporting an all-new design with hundreds of big and small improvements. Bjango (version history): New menu bar modes, including stacked labels and values. New menu bar items, like…

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ContextMenu 1.4.3

donderdag 1 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Sephton: Many years ago I found ContextMenu ($4.99) which solves all of the issues I have with the Automator approach [to adding file commands to Finder’s contextual menu]. There’s also a free version, ContextMenu Lite, that supports up to 3 ac…

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FileUtils 1.0.1

donderdag 1 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

ZigZag: Still, no matter how often I use an alternate file manager and constantly tracking progress of development of most of them, I still find myself manipulating files in Finder very often. Finder is just convenient. It’s always there, ready to b…

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Kaleidoscope 5.0.3

donderdag 1 augustus 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kaleidoscope 4.5 (tweet): Recently, we have spent a lot of time on many aspects of the folder comparison feature for Kaleidoscope 4.4 and 4.5. We have overhauled some of the underpinnings and worked hard to improve reliability and speed. But we also…

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iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6

woensdag 31 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There are no notable features in the iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 updates, with Apple adding unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Nothing new was discovered during the beta testing process. Eric d…

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watchOS 10.6

woensdag 31 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The watchOS 10.6 update does not add any new features, and instead focuses on bug fixes and security improvements. Previously: watchOS 10.5

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tvOS 17.6

woensdag 31 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There were no new features found during the beta testing process. Previously: tvOS 17.5.1

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visionOS 1.3

woensdag 31 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There are no new features in the visionOS 1.3 update, but it does bring small bug fixes and security improvements. Previously: visionOS 2 Announced

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macOS 14.6

woensdag 31 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sonoma 14.6 includes bug fixes and security improvements, and it is recommended for all Macs that run the macOS Sonoma operating system. Juli Clover: The macOS…

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macOS 13.6.8 and macOS 12.7.6

woensdag 31 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.8. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.6. Adam Engst: Our general advice is that these updates are all…

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