Archive for 2022

Music Unitasker (7)May 13, 2022
iCloud Drive Folder Sharing Risks Data Loss (1)May 13, 2022
Sideloading via AltStore (3)May 13, 2022
On App Store Pricing Inflexibility May 13, 2022
The Apple Services Experience Is Not Good Enough (8)May 12, 2022
@MainActor Not Guaranteed (2)May 12, 2022
Extended Verification Certificates (3)May 12, 2022
Proposed EU Digital Markets and Services Acts (2)May 12, 2022
Microsoft’s Adaptive Accessories May 11, 2022
AirPlay Bugs (9)May 11, 2022
USB-C Hubs Breaking Ethernet Networks (9)May 11, 2022
Problems With Promotion-Oriented Cultures (4)May 11, 2022
iPod touch Discontinued (4)May 10, 2022
Phantom AirTag Alerts (1)May 10, 2022
Tony Fadell and “Build” (1)May 10, 2022
ACM Still Unsatisfied With Apple’s Dating Apps Rules (1)May 10, 2022
Apple Support Community Forums May 9, 2022
Google Docs “And” Loop May 9, 2022
The Information Rejected From App Store Over Pricing (1)May 9, 2022
Alternative Android App Stores May 9, 2022
JXA’s Parenthesis Paradox (2)May 7, 2022
Inside Code Signing Technotes (1)May 7, 2022
Bug Puts Apple Music in Dock (2)May 7, 2022
ISPs Ordered to Block Three Pirate Streaming Services May 7, 2022
One-click Time Machine Restore (5)May 6, 2022
Camo 1.6 (2)May 6, 2022
Apple Lowers Trade-In Values May 6, 2022
iPhone 4S Performance Settlement May 6, 2022
ReadKit 3 (8)May 5, 2022
Open Letter About Apple Remote Work (6)May 5, 2022
CDC Bought Phone Location Data May 5, 2022
EU Objects to Apple Limiting Third-Party Access to NFC (9)May 5, 2022
Studio Display 15.5 Firmware Beta 2 (2)May 4, 2022
Periodic Table of NSVisualEffectView (1)May 4, 2022
Is Grammarly a Keylogger? (2)May 4, 2022
1Password 8 for Mac (12)May 3, 2022
Reminders API Requests (2)May 2, 2022
Success and Failure at Pebble (1)May 2, 2022
Canon Camera Museum May 2, 2022
Apple’s Explanation for Removing Old Apps (8)May 2, 2022
Apple Watch Late Adopter (11)April 29, 2022
Which Devices Should You Boot Your M1 Mac From? (5)April 29, 2022
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others (7)April 29, 2022
Apple’s Q2 2022 Results April 28, 2022
AttributedString’s Codable Format April 27, 2022
Apple Self Service Repair Now Available (3)April 27, 2022
Studio Display 15.5 Firmware Beta (4)April 26, 2022
Infinite Mac (1)April 26, 2022
The Story of iBeer April 26, 2022
Video Conferencing Apps Send Audio When Muted (10)April 26, 2022
Elon Musk Buys Twitter (2)April 25, 2022
How macOS Manages M1 CPU Cores April 25, 2022
App Store Removing Old Apps That Still Work (16)April 25, 2022
How RAM Affects Xcode Compilation Speed April 25, 2022
Heterogeneous Swift Dictionary With Strong Types (1)April 25, 2022
Discussions in Brave Search (1)April 22, 2022
A Cautionary Tale From the Decline of SourceForge (2)April 22, 2022
CalDigit Element Hub (1)April 22, 2022
Why Do New Macs Have a /AppleInternal Folder? (6)April 22, 2022
Improved Reddit Search (2)April 21, 2022
Open Letter to Apple About Final Cut Pro (3)April 21, 2022
Applying Computer Science April 21, 2022
Apple Discontinues macOS Server (15)April 21, 2022
Removing AMP By Default April 20, 2022
Plenty of Tracking Despite App Tracking Transparency (1)April 20, 2022
How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars April 20, 2022
GitHub Deleting Contributions From Russian Developers (23)April 20, 2022
DuckDuckGo, youtube-dl, and Bing (6)April 20, 2022
Disabling Universal Links (1)April 19, 2022
Feed Wrangler Shutting Down (1)April 19, 2022
SwiftUI Performance Tips April 19, 2022
M1 Thunderbolt Ports Don’t Fully Support USB 3.1 Gen 2 (2)April 19, 2022
UI Browser to Be Retired (3)April 19, 2022
NSPersistentCloudKitContainer in 2022 (2)April 18, 2022
OWC miniStack STX (2)April 18, 2022
Satechi Dual Vertical Laptop Stand April 18, 2022
DALL-E (9)April 18, 2022
Former Employee Downloaded Cash App Account Info April 18, 2022
More Users Opting in to App Tracking (2)April 15, 2022
Mac App Store Ransomware (2)April 15, 2022
1Password 8 for iOS Early Access (1)April 15, 2022
Moving From 1Password to KeePass (2)April 15, 2022
Apple-Funded Study on Success of Third-Party Apps (1)April 14, 2022
Robert Arthur Morgan, RIP (1)April 14, 2022
BBEdit Turns 30 (1)April 14, 2022
The Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time (1)April 14, 2022
Bug Tracking and Customer Support Tools (3)April 14, 2022
IAP Bait-And-Switch Apps (4)April 13, 2022
Tim Cook Attacks Sideloading in Privacy Keynote (30)April 12, 2022
DuckDuckGo Browser for Mac Beta April 12, 2022
Review of Orion Browser for Mac (1)April 12, 2022
A Tour of Apple’s External LCD Displays April 12, 2022
Mac S.M.A.R.T. Support: USB-C vs. Thunderbolt April 12, 2022
Xcode 13.3.1 April 12, 2022
Police Records on AirTag Stalking (10)April 11, 2022
Studio Display Software Update Failures (11)April 11, 2022
Shipping Services Limit Access for Deliveries App (3)April 11, 2022
Unable to Establish Secure Connection to idmsa.apple.com (2)April 11, 2022
Stephen Wilhite, RIP April 11, 2022
John Roach, RIP April 11, 2022
Upgrading to a 14-inch MacBook Pro With a Studio Display (19)April 8, 2022
Apple Business Essentials for Small Businesses (3)April 6, 2022
2022 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card (1)April 6, 2022
Five Years to Mac Hardware Turnaround (5)April 6, 2022
Mac Pro Historical Perspective (6)April 6, 2022
Using shellcheck With BBEdit (1)April 5, 2022
Forged Emergency Data Requests (8)April 5, 2022
Audio Hijack 4 (5)April 5, 2022
Apple Sitting on Applications and Requests (1)April 5, 2022
Charging More for Black Products (9)April 5, 2022
Edge Cases When Dealing With Music April 4, 2022
Searching in Open/Save Panels (5)April 4, 2022
triald (2)April 4, 2022
Mac External Displays for Designers and Developers (2)April 4, 2022
External Link for Reader Apps (1)April 1, 2022
External Purchase Without a Separate App April 1, 2022
Intel Virtualization and Apple Silicon (5)April 1, 2022
macOS 12.3.1 (4)April 1, 2022
Apple Sales Support and Apple Card (3)April 1, 2022
Wider Alerts on Monterey and Big Sur April 1, 2022
Overcast 2022.2 (6)March 29, 2022
Lifetime of State Properties in SwiftUI March 29, 2022
Always Show Window Proxy Icons (9)March 29, 2022
CoreFollowUp Phishing March 29, 2022
Proposed Digital Markets Act to Require Sideloading (6)March 28, 2022
Swift “Async Algorithms” Package (3)March 28, 2022
Special App Store Behavior for Disney+ Subscriptions (5)March 28, 2022
Eat Your Books March 28, 2022
GitHub Launches New Algorithmic Feed March 25, 2022
Searching Twitter Direct Messages March 25, 2022
macOS 12.3 Removed the nano Text Editor (11)March 25, 2022
How to Launch Mac Apps in Private March 25, 2022
iPhone Cameras and Computational Photography (9)March 24, 2022
Christopher Alexander, RIP March 24, 2022
Inscrutable App Store Billing (4)March 24, 2022
Apple Removes In-App Google TV Purchases (1)March 24, 2022
Apple Submitted New Proposal to ACM (1)March 24, 2022
5G’s Effect on Battery Life (4)March 23, 2022
Firefox Unique Download Identifiers (2)March 23, 2022
Incentives in Product Design and Development (4)March 23, 2022
Instagram Reintroduces Chronological Feed Option March 23, 2022
Swift Bugs Moving to GitHub Issues (1)March 22, 2022
Affordable Thunderbolt 4 Cables (1)March 22, 2022
Swift FormatStyle Deep Dive (3)March 22, 2022
Widespread Apple Services Outage (6)March 21, 2022
Monterey’s Visual Look Up March 21, 2022
NPM Packages Sabotaged (7)March 21, 2022
Colored Folder Icons in Finder (4)March 21, 2022
M1 Ultra Mac Studio Compilation Benchmarks March 21, 2022
Powering Off Accessories With a Smart Power Strip (1)March 21, 2022
Vimeo’s Pivot (1)March 18, 2022
History of Instapaper (1)March 18, 2022
“Link in Bio” Is Apparently a Billion-Dollar Business (1)March 17, 2022
Flickr to Limit Free Accounts to 50 Private Photos (3)March 17, 2022
Luna Display to Use an Old iMac 5K As a Display (3)March 17, 2022
App Bundles As Upgrades March 17, 2022
Swift 5.6 Released March 16, 2022
Removing Dead Batteries From the Python Standard Library (1)March 16, 2022
SuperDuper 3.6 March 16, 2022
Wordle Implemented in Google Sheets March 16, 2022
macOS 12.3 (4)March 15, 2022
iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 March 15, 2022
FastScripts 3.1 March 14, 2022
Web Views in System Preferences (3)March 14, 2022
DuckDuckGo Will Down-Rank Russian Disinformation Sites (21)March 14, 2022
Still No Preference to Opt Out of OCSP March 14, 2022
Apple Responds to UK CMA Interim Report (2)March 11, 2022
Featured Dark Patterns March 11, 2022
Symbolizer 1.1 March 11, 2022
Twitter Makes It Harder to Choose Reverse Chronological Timeline (5)March 11, 2022
Characterizing Single-Statement Bugs March 11, 2022
Which NAS for a Mac? (5)March 11, 2022
Chrome Faster Than Safari in Speedometer Benchmark (1)March 11, 2022
Macs for Other Types of Professionals (3)March 11, 2022
New Mac Studio and Studio Display Change Mac Buying Calculus (22)March 10, 2022
Studio Display (19)March 8, 2022
Mac Studio (14)March 8, 2022
Apple M1 Ultra March 8, 2022
iPad Air 2022 (3)March 8, 2022
iPhone SE 2022 (3)March 8, 2022
ChronoSync 10 March 7, 2022
Mac Software Stagnation (8)March 7, 2022
Blurry Text on a Scaled 4K Display (1)March 7, 2022
Apple Employees Returning to Offices (2)March 7, 2022
Solo iOS Developer Tips (9)March 7, 2022
Pure Paste 1.1 (9)March 4, 2022
On the Origin of the iPhone March 4, 2022
Transcend JetDrive Lite 330 (2)March 4, 2022
Open Web Advocacy (3)March 4, 2022
Emulating 1998-Vintage Mac Compilers (1)March 3, 2022
David Boggs, RIP March 3, 2022
Goodreads Data Loss (3)March 3, 2022
Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1 (1)March 2, 2022
Playdate SDK March 2, 2022
iCloud+ Custom E-mail Domains (11)March 2, 2022
Apple Halts Sales in Russia (6)March 2, 2022
Running Background Apps on Efficiency Cores March 1, 2022
Speeding Up an Initial Local Time Machine Backup March 1, 2022
M1 Icestorm Performance and Asymmetric M1 Pro Core Management March 1, 2022
Apple Says It’s Complying With ACM (14)March 1, 2022
Tinder’s Opaque, Unfair Pricing Algorithm March 1, 2022
Still No Instagram iPad App (2)February 28, 2022
Jim Dalrymple Retires From Writing February 28, 2022
App Store Small Business Program Now Allows Transfers (1)February 28, 2022
Swift Type Checking Is Undecidable (1)February 28, 2022
Musings on Modern Mapping (1)February 25, 2022
Twitter Needs a Retraction Mechanism February 25, 2022
Web3 Choke Point: App Stores (2)February 25, 2022
System Preferences Reimagined (6)February 25, 2022
OSXPhotos Python Tool (6)February 25, 2022
Passware Bypasses T2 Rate Limiting (2)February 24, 2022
Belkin CONNECT Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock (1)February 24, 2022
Google Drive Flags .DS_Store Files for Copyright Infringement February 24, 2022
DYMO Label Printer RFID DRM February 24, 2022
OneDrive Root Change and Files On-Demand (5)February 24, 2022
Permute Rejected From the App Store (7)February 23, 2022
Bypassing AirTag Security (4)February 23, 2022
EU Says Apple Avoiding Compliance With ACM February 23, 2022
Path Finder Subscriptions (9)February 23, 2022
How to Check an APFS Backup Store (1)February 23, 2022
Swift 5.6 Features in Xcode 13.3 Beta 3 February 22, 2022
Git Tower 8 February 22, 2022
Objective-C Messages to nil (4)February 22, 2022
Why Lattner Left the Swift Core Team (11)February 22, 2022
Apple Sales Support and UPS (3)February 22, 2022
Authenticator App Clones (1)February 22, 2022
Apple TV’s “Universal Search” Is a Black Hole February 21, 2022
An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec (7)February 21, 2022
Time Machine Skips Some Files in iCloud Drive February 21, 2022
Network Time Machine Backups (6)February 21, 2022
Chrome OS Flex (5)February 18, 2022
Where Mac Catalyst Falls Short (1)February 18, 2022
Don’t Use Text Pixelation to Redact Sensitive Information February 18, 2022
Dutch ACM Wants Existing Apps to Support External Payments February 18, 2022
Newegg Refund Scandal (10)February 18, 2022
Randy Wigginton Answers Questions on Quora February 18, 2022
Taming Links on macOS with Open In (2)February 17, 2022
Apple SSD Benchmarks and F_FULLSYNC (2)February 17, 2022
Knitrino Rejected From App Store (1)February 17, 2022
Google Search Is Dying (6)February 17, 2022
G Suite for Education Reduces Free Storage (1)February 17, 2022
Pair Networks and Linode Acquired (6)February 17, 2022
Surprises When Using Markdown in SwiftUI February 16, 2022
BBEdit 14.1 February 16, 2022
Omni Automation Now in Shortcuts (1)February 16, 2022
Android Privacy Sandbox February 16, 2022
The Asymmetry of App Review (7)February 16, 2022
FlickType Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed (1)February 16, 2022
Improving macOS Widgets (24)February 12, 2022
The Time to Fix Web Security Bugs February 12, 2022
Dynamic MacBook Pro Schematic Wallpapers February 12, 2022
Microsoft’s Open App Store Principles (1)February 12, 2022
git config blame.ignoreRevsFile February 11, 2022
Bug Opted Users Back In to Sharing Siri Recordings (1)February 11, 2022
AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking (3)February 10, 2022
macOS 12.2.1 (2)February 10, 2022
Micro.blog Moving iOS App to React Native (5)February 10, 2022
Interoperable Private Attribution February 10, 2022
New Apple Technotes February 9, 2022
Tap to Pay on iPhone (4)February 9, 2022
dsdump Beta February 9, 2022
CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt Dock (2)February 9, 2022
2021 Six Colors Apple Report Card (5)February 7, 2022
The Danger of Sideloading Chromium (20)February 7, 2022
App Store External Purchase Fee: 27% (11)February 4, 2022
Facebook Blames Apple, Usage Declines (2)February 4, 2022
Have Monterey Updates Gotten Smaller? (4)February 3, 2022
Optionals in Swift Objective-C Interoperability (1)February 3, 2022
How Well the Spotify App Works (7)February 3, 2022
Too Big to Fail App Review (2)February 3, 2022
Hang Up and Call Back (3)February 3, 2022
Decimal vs. Double (6)February 2, 2022
ScreenCaptureKit Added in macOS 12.3 February 2, 2022
The Case for “Mark as Unread” in Messages (7)February 2, 2022
Schneier on Sideloading (20)February 2, 2022
Epic Appeals Ruling in Apple Lawsuit February 2, 2022
Software Paper Cuts February 1, 2022
The New York Times Buys Wordle (2)February 1, 2022
Sunsetting Stack Overflow Jobs February 1, 2022
Should You Ever Repair Permissions? (1)February 1, 2022
Sony Acquires Bungie (4)January 31, 2022
CMA Report on Apple Cloud Gaming Restrictions January 31, 2022
Getting Feedback to Apple (3)January 31, 2022
On Photo Sharing (3)January 31, 2022
Requesting Maps Privacy January 31, 2022
Xcode Through the Years (10)January 29, 2022
Unlisted App Distribution (1)January 29, 2022
Apple’s Q1 2022 Results (2)January 29, 2022
Unpacking Clone Was the App Store’s Top Download (1)January 29, 2022
Notes in Apple’s Password Manager (11)January 27, 2022
macOS 12.3 Beta (6)January 27, 2022
iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 Beta (3)January 27, 2022
Apple System Status Page Needs to Switch Off Its Reality Distortion Field (5)January 27, 2022
macOS 12.2 (1)January 26, 2022
iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 (1)January 26, 2022
Swift Foundation Formatter Improvements January 26, 2022
The 5G Airline Controversy January 26, 2022
Clash of the Optionals January 25, 2022
Netherlands Rejects StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement Plan (13)January 24, 2022
Apple Did Not Crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari (10)January 24, 2022
Increased iCloud Errors (4)January 24, 2022
Google Drive Incorrectly Flags File for Copyright Infringement January 24, 2022
IAP Fees for Event Services, Deferred Again January 24, 2022
Jira Discontinues Catalyst Mac App (1)January 21, 2022
User-Friendly Diagnostics Should Be a Core Part of Any System (3)January 21, 2022
G Suite Removes Free Plans (7)January 21, 2022
How Apple Destroys Lightning (10)January 21, 2022
“American Innovation and Choice Online” and “Open Markets” Acts (1)January 20, 2022
No More iOS 14 Security Updates (11)January 19, 2022
1Password Series C Funding Round (28)January 19, 2022
Making Mac OS X Unix Compliant Certified (1)January 19, 2022
Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard (1)January 19, 2022
An Examination of the Bug Bounty Marketplace January 19, 2022
Bartender and the Notch January 18, 2022
BackLog 1.0 (7)January 18, 2022
Austria: Google Analytics Violates GDPR (1)January 18, 2022
Safari 15 IndexedDB Information Leaks (8)January 17, 2022
StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement for Netherlands January 17, 2022
Small Developer Assistance Fund Claims January 17, 2022
Photo Ninja (2)January 17, 2022
Canon Forced to Ship “Knockoff” Ink Cartridges January 14, 2022
iOS Music Player Showcase, 2022 (4)January 14, 2022
Faking an iPhone Reboot January 14, 2022
PUBG Developer Sues Apple Over Alleged Rip-offs in the App Store (1)January 14, 2022
An Approach for Migrating From Objective-C to Swift (3)January 13, 2022
iOS App Library Is Drunk (1)January 13, 2022
Uber Removes Watch App (2)January 13, 2022
iCloud Private Relay Incompatible With T-Mobile Parental Controls January 13, 2022
Catching Native Apps (22)January 12, 2022
Wordle Clones (3)January 12, 2022
First Impressions of web3 (4)January 11, 2022
AmpMe January 11, 2022
Blue Bubble Envy Is Real (8)January 11, 2022
AirPods 3 Alternatives (1)January 11, 2022
Converting from Aperture to Apple Photos January 10, 2022
Has Time Machine Slowed for Small Files? (5)January 10, 2022
Updating “Basic Computer Games” January 10, 2022
Avast Antivirus Software Sold Browsing History January 10, 2022
Why “utf8” in MySQL Is Not UTF-8 January 8, 2022
Programmatic Podcast Ads (3)January 8, 2022
Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer (4)January 8, 2022
Lawsuit Alleges Google Paid Apple to Stay Out of Search (1)January 8, 2022
Every Mac OS Welcome Video (6)January 7, 2022
A Guide to NSButton Styles, 2022 January 7, 2022
Facebook App Reads Accelerometer Data January 7, 2022
Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel (1)January 7, 2022
Cydia Lawsuit Against Apple Dismissed January 7, 2022
Wordle (6)January 5, 2022
Using Kaleidoscope with XCTest Failures January 5, 2022
Encoding and Decoding References with Codable January 5, 2022
Parsing .numbers Files With Python January 5, 2022
obb: ClojureScript OSA January 5, 2022
Search Engines and SEO Spam (9)January 4, 2022
Exposure Notification Update, January 2022 (5)January 4, 2022
iCloud Private Relay White Paper (7)January 4, 2022
Siri Suggestions and Privacy (9)January 4, 2022
External Retina Display Rumors for 2022 (7)January 3, 2022
Almost Always Unsigned January 3, 2022
Hyper Thunderbolt 4 Hub (3)January 3, 2022
Squeezing the Most Out of Bluetooth January 3, 2022