Removed in macOS 10.14 Mojave
Tim Hardwick: When Apple released iOS 11, the company removed built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo, a feature that allowed iPhone and iPad users to store their third-party...
View ArticleThe 2013 Mac Pro, Five Years Later
Stephen Hackett: On June 10, it will have been five years since Apple first showed off the iteration of the Mac Pro that has come to be known as The Trashcan. To put that in a little context, it was...
View ArticleFacebook Posts Accidentally Made Public
Heather Kelly (via Dylan Byers): For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company...
View ArticleYahoo Messenger Will Shut Down After 20 Years
Ingrid Lunden (via Luke Dormehl, Hacker News): It’s the end of an era for Yahoo Messenger, one of the first instant messaging apps on the market. Today, Oath (which also owns TechCrunch) announced that...
View ArticleIntelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
John Wilander (Hacker News, The Verge): ITP 2.0, as opposed to earlier versions, immediately partitions cookies for domains determined to have tracking abilities. The previous general cookie access...
View ArticleOn My Misalignment With Apple’s Love Affair With Swift
Dominik Wagner (tweet, Hacker News, Reddit): On top of all of this, there is that great tension with the existing Apple framework ecosystem. While Apple did a great job on exposing Cocoa/Foundation as...
View ArticleSVG Favicons in Mojave Safari
Craig Hockenberry (tweet): Why are the icons different? The answer lies in this one line of page markup: <link rel="mask-icon" href="/favicon.svg" color="#990000"> We keep a favicon.ico file in...
View ArticleSmile Turns 15: an Interview With Greg Scown
Stephen Hackett: My co-founder Philip introduced himself to me at Macworld San Francisco 2003, where I was exhibiting PageSender, my faxing software. We hit it off, I had an idea for a product, he had...
View ArticleOn Paying for Software
Seth Godin (Hacker News): I like paying for my software when I’m buying it from a company that’s responsive, fast and focused. I like being the customer (as opposed to a social network, where I’m the...
View ArticleInstalling and Debugging on Mojave
Howard Oakley: Many developers are reporting that they have been unsuccessful in getting the initial beta-release of macOS 10.14 Mojave to install on external drives. In many cases, they are connecting...
View ArticleFile Radars Early and Often
Rene Ritchie (tweet): Soon enough, the priority will begin and end with showstoppers that prevent software from shipping. At that point, the glitches, no matter how maddening, will get deferred. It’s...
View ArticleI Can Be Apple, and So Can You
Dan Goodin: For almost 11 years, hackers have had an easy way to get macOS malware past the scrutiny of a host of third-party security tools by tricking them into believing the malicious wares were...
View ArticleAmazon Fire TV Cube
Mitchel Broussard: Amazon today unveiled its latest “Fire” branded product, called the “Fire TV Cube.” The company describes the device as a hands-free box that streams 4K Ultra HD video using Alexa...
View ArticleApple’s Design Language Has Killed Fun in Consumer Electronics
Mike Murphy: For a while, the company stuck to this design trend, selling increasingly ambitious and playful products, including the original iPod, the iBook G4, the Power Mac G4 Cube, the iPod Nano,...
View ArticleTraining a Text Classifier with Create ML
Mattt Thompson: Consider this: in under an hour, we went from nothing to a working solution without any significant programming. That’s pretty incredible. Create ML is a powerful way to prototype new...
View ArticleShortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation
Federico Viticci: On the surface, Shortcuts the app looks like the full-blown Workflow replacement heavy users of the app have been wishfully imagining for the past year. But there is more going on...
View ArticleIntel FPU May Spill Crypto Secrets to Apps
Chris Williams: The security shortcoming involves what’s known as lazy FPU state restore. Operating system kernels would only save and restore the floating-point unit (FPU) registers, and other context...
View ArticleIAPKit
Black Pixel (tweet): Last week at WWDC 2018 Apple announced they are officially supporting free trials for apps via a Non-Consumable IAP item. Inspired by The Omni Group, this is exactly the approach...
View ArticleA New Home for ToothFairy
ToothFairy has been one of my favorite little Mac utilities since I first heard about it last year. If you’ve used AirPods with a Mac, you know that they don’t auto-switch the way you might expect....
View ArticleWe Are All Trapped in the “Feed”
Om Malik: No matter where I go on the Internet, I feel like I am trapped in the “feed,” held down by algorithms that are like axes trying to make bespoke shirts out of silk. And no one illustrates it...
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