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Default Folder X 6.1
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/05/default-folder-x-6-1/
Published: September 5, 2024 18:27
I missed reporting on last yearās Default Folder X 6: [Quick Search] gives you keyboard-based access to Recent and Favorite Items, including recently-launched applications and recently-used Finder windows. Note that it does NOT search your whole Mac, itā¦
Spotify Connect Can No Longer Use iPhone Volume Buttons
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/05/spotify-connect-can-no-longer-use-iphone-volume-buttons/
Published: September 5, 2024 18:27
Sarah Perez (MacRumors): Spotify claims Apple may again be in violation of European regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires interoperability from big technology companies dubbed āgatekeepers.ā This time, the issue isnāt about in-appā¦
Google Drive Blocks Unverified Apps
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/05/google-drive-blocks-unverified-apps/
Published: September 5, 2024 18:27
Binarynights: Recently, Google has limited or blocked direct connections to Google Drive through ForkLift. Depending on whether users have previously connected to Google Drive through ForkLift, they may encounter one of two warnings when trying to connectā¦
Founder Mode
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/05/founder-mode/
Published: September 5, 2024 18:27
Paul Graham (Hacker News): The theme of Brianās talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Theirā¦
Git Tower 12
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/04/git-tower-12/
Published: September 4, 2024 19:15
Bruno Brito: With Tower Workflows, we aim to provide you with the ability to create and customize your own branching workflows. You can use popular branching workflows as a starting point, tweak them, come up with your own unique solution from scratch, orā¦
Snow Leopard at 15
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/04/snow-leopard-at-15/
Published: September 4, 2024 19:15
Joe Rossignol: Today marks the 15th anniversary of Apple releasing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which became available to purchase for $29 on August 28, 2009.After advertising Mac OS X Leopard as having āover 300 new featuresā in 2007, Apple previewed Snowā¦
Snapchat for iPad
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/04/snapchat-for-ipad/
Published: September 4, 2024 19:15
Hartley Charlton: After 13 years, Snapchat has finally rolled out an update that brings native app support to the iPad. [ā¦] Until now, iPad users who wanted to use Snapchat had to run the iPhone version of the app, which was not optimized for the largerā¦
Appleās Magic Sound File Renaming
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/04/apples-magic-sound-file-renaming/
Published: September 4, 2024 19:15
Shamino: For those who are unaware, in macOS 11 (aka āBig Surā), Apple changed all of the standard system sounds [names]. [ā¦] The interesting thing is that if you go to look for the actual sound files (in /System/Library/Sounds), youāll find that theā¦
AnandTech Farewell
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/03/anandtech-farewell/
Published: September 3, 2024 20:02
Ryan Smith (tweet, Hacker News): For better or worse, weāve reached the end of a long journey ā one that started with a review of an AMD processor, and has ended with the review of an AMD processor. Itās fittingly poetic, but it is also a testament to theā¦
Kevan Parekh Replaces Luca Maestri
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/03/kevan-parekh-replaces-luca-maestri/
Published: September 3, 2024 20:02
Apple: Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including information systems and technology, information security, and real estate and development,ā¦
Apple Books Layoffs
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/03/apple-books-layoffs/
Published: September 3, 2024 20:02
Dan Moren: In a report at Bloomberg (paywalled, naturally), Mark Gurman says that the company has laid off about a hundred people, primarily in the team behind Apple Books and the Apple Bookstore.[ā¦]Apple has managed to achieve itself a comfortable, ifā¦
AppleVis Will Continue Under Be My Eyes
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/03/applevis-will-continue-under-be-my-eyes/
Published: September 3, 2024 20:02
Michael Hansen: As many of you already know, David Goodwin founded AppleVis in July 2010. Since that first day, David has worked tirelessly, day in and day out, to develop and maintain the AppleVis website. While myself and the rest of the AppleVisā¦
Retcon 1.0
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/02/retcon-1-0/
Published: September 2, 2024 20:14
Nathan Manceaux-Panot (Reddit, Hacker News): Rewrite Git history with a single drag-and-drop. Undo anything with āZ. All speed, no bumps.[ā¦]From small refinements to sweeping reworks, you do everything faster in Retcon. Edits take fewer steps, and donātā¦
FreemiumKit and RevenueCat
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/02/freemiumkit-and-revenuecat/
Published: September 2, 2024 20:14
Cihat GĆ¼ndĆ¼z (Reddit): FreemiumKit is the ultimate solution for Apple platform developers to integrate and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions effortlessly. With support for all Apple platforms, FreemiumKit provides a seamless and efficient way toā¦
The End of Finale
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/02/the-end-of-finale/
Published: September 2, 2024 20:14
Greg DellāEra (via Ric Ford): 35 years ago, Coda Music Technologies, now MakeMusic, released the first version of Finale, a groundbreaking and user-centered approach to notation software. For over four decades, our engineers and product teams haveā¦
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/02/the-apple-iigs-megahertz-myth/
Published: September 2, 2024 20:14
Dan Vincent (via Hacker News): The Apple II and Commodore 64 with their 6502 and 6510 CPUs clocked at 1 MHz could trade blows with Z80 powered computers running at three times the clock speed. And the IIGS had the 6502ās 16-bit descendant: the 65C816.ā¦
Marathon Games on Steam
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/08/30/marathon-games-on-steam/
Published: August 30, 2024 15:26
Malcolm Owen: Bungie has finally brought all of the āMarathonā trilogy of games to Steam, with āMarathon Infinityā now playable for free on modern Macs.[ā¦]Classic Marathon Infinity is a free game on the Steam storefront, playable on both Mac and Windowsā¦
Cancellable withObservationTracking in Swift
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/08/30/cancellable-withobservationtracking-in-swift/
Published: August 30, 2024 15:25
Toomas Vahter: This function works as a one shot function and the onChange closure is called only once. Note that it is called before the value has actually changed. If we want to get the changed value, we would need to read the value on the next run loopā¦
SwiftUI Breaks Continuity Camera
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/08/30/swiftui-breaks-continuity-camera/
Published: August 30, 2024 15:25
Wade Tregaskis: If any view in the [active] window contains a Toggle ā even one thatās disabled or hidden ā then Continuity Camera (re. ImportFromDevicesCommands and importableFromServices) doesnāt work; all the submenu items under āImport from iPhone orā¦
macOS Firewall Slows DNS Queries
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/08/30/macos-firewall-slows-dns-queries/
Published: August 30, 2024 15:25
Jeff Johnson (Reddit): I took packet traces of the DNS queries with the firewall enabled and disabled. What I found is that the DNS query response packet consistently arrives in under 20 milliseconds after the query packet is sent, regardless of whetherā¦