Shane Stanley:
The most important new AppleScriptObjC feature, and the most obvious, is how Script Debugger displays results. Instead of «class ocid»..., you will see much more.
[…]
First, although case matters in AppleScriptObjC, code completion is case-insensitive. You can type NSS or nss, and get the same result; the correct case will be inserted. You can also use the tab key within the completion list; this is very helpful where there are multiple methods with similar names.
[…]
Script Debugger includes terminology for the following frameworks: Foundation, AppKit, Quartz, AVFoundation, AddressBook, Contacts, CoreImage, CoreLocation, CoreWLAN, EventKit, JavaScriptCore, MapKit, OSAKit, and WebKit. The information is collated from the frameworks themselves and from header files, with some filtering applied to remove many methods that cannot be used from AppleScriptObjC.
[…]
Finally, there is an important limitation. Script Debugger runs scripts on a background thread, so any code that needs to be run on the main thread needs to use the method performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: to do it. If not, you are likely to freeze or crash Script Debugger.
Previously: Script Debugger 6.
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Scott Perry:
PSA: SQLite on Sierra/iOS 10 is built with SQLITE_ENABLE_SQLLOG, which makes it easy to create replayable SQL logs
SQLite:
This file contains experimental code used to record data from live
SQLite applications that may be useful for offline analysis.
Specifically, this module can be used to capture the following
information:
- The initial contents of all database files opened by the
application, and
- All SQL statements executed by the application.
The captured information can then be used to run (for example)
performance analysis looking for slow queries or to look for
optimization opportunities in either the application or in SQLite
itself.
[…]
At runtime, logging is enabled by setting environment variable
SQLITE_SQLLOG_DIR to the name of a directory in which to store logged
data.
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Mike Wuerthele:
Infamous software developer MacKeeper has demanded that four videos critical of its maligned tune-up utility suite be removed from the internet, threatening the teenager behind the videos with $60,000 in court costs and legal fees.
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In August 2015, ZeoBIT, creators of MacKeeper, agreed to a settlement in 2015 to put $2 million in a compensation fund to cover attorney fees, refunds and administrative costs to U.S class action claimants who purchased MacKeeper prior to July 8, 2015.
The complaint alleged that “ZeoBIT intentionally designed MacKeeper to invariably and ominously report that a user’s Mac needs repair, and is at-risk due to harmful (but fabricated) errors, privacy threats, and other computer problems, regardless of the computer’s actual condition.” Court documents state that 513,330 people are registered owners of the software in the U.S.
Previously: MacKeeper.
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Kirk McElhearn:
When Apple Music was released just over a year ago, Apple also debuted iCloud Music Library, a way of storing your iTunes library in the cloud. There were two ways to seed the cloud, either with iTunes Match or Apple Music. If you were an iTunes Match subscriber, matching your songs in your local library to your cloud library was done one way, and if you were just an Apple Music subscriber, matching was done differently.
This created some confusion about the way tracks were matched and stored in iCloud Music Library. Now, Apple is changing this, and will use the same matching method for both services. The company said that Apple Music now uses acoustic fingerprinting and provides matched files without digital rights management (DRM), or copy protection, just like iTunes Match.
Before, if you only had Apple Music, you only got the problematic metadata-based matching.
John Gruber:
I’m sure there are reasons for the way things are, but from the outside, combining iTunes Match and Apple Music should have been there from day one.
See also: Jim Dalrymple, iMore.
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