Jeff Johnson:
My Safari extension StopTheMadness Pro has a feature to protect private windows. In other words, StopTheMadness Pro stops websites from detecting private windows in Safari. I won’t explain how my feature works, but in this blog post I’ll explain how websites detect private windows.
Jeff Johnson:
I’m sorry to say that at this time I don’t plan to make any additions or enhancements to YouTube-specific features in StopTheMadness Pro.
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The downsides of adding YouTube-specific features to StopTheMadness have outweighed the upsides. YouTube is an endless time sink. Even though StopTheMadness is not a YouTube-specific extension, I’ve spent more time working on YouTube than on every other website in the world combined. Seriously. And YouTube doesn’t remain static; Google continues to change YouTube, sometimes breaking my features, requiring even more work.
I generally use Downie for YouTube videos, and it requires an insane number of updates to keep working.
Jeff Johnson:
Although DuckDuckGo doesn’t allow you to specify the number of results per page, it does have a setting to enable infinite scroll, which is more convenient than Google’s strict division of results into pages of 10 links. The problem is that I prefer to use private windows for the majority of my web browsing, especially searches, which means that any settings would disappear when the window is closed. DuckDuckGo claims to support URL parameters for settings, but in my testing, the parameters don’t actually seem to work reliably.
As you might expect, my solution to the problem is my web browser extension StopTheMadness Pro.
Jeff Johnson:
This update brings a great new feature: autoclick buttons! Specify a button on a website to be clicked automatically. For example, agree to terms and conditions, reject cookies, or close a popup.
I’ll have to report back on how well this works across various sites, but it sounds great and was successful in my initial testing:
In selection mode, manually click the button that you want to be automatically clicked.
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StopTheMadness Pro uses CSS selectors to autoclick buttons. In order to click a single, specific button, and not mistakenly click the wrong buttons, StopTheMadness Pro searches for a unique way to identify the button on the page. If a unique identifier cannot be found, then the autoclick feature can’t be used with the button.
By default, StopTheMadness Pro attempts to find the button on the web page for 10 seconds after the page loads, and then it stops looking.
Previously:
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RetinaDesk:
How many external monitors can your Mac actually drive? Pick your exact Apple Silicon Mac — we’ll show the maximum external display count, per-port resolution and refresh caps, valid configurations, and the gotchas that burn people.
The site’s maintainer, Parish Khan, writes:
After your March 2024 post on the M3 MacBook Pro getting two-display support via software update, Apple quietly amended the 14-inch M3 base spec only with macOS 14.6 in July — no follow-up announcement. The tool flags it clamshell-only since that’s still the catch.
Two other things worth knowing: the M1 Ultra Mac Studio is listed at 5 displays not 8 (that count starts at M2 Ultra), and 8K 60Hz is HDMI-only on every Mac, including the Thunderbolt 5 machines.
Howard Oakley:
Selecting external Retina-resolution displays for use with Apple silicon Macs is extremely complicated. Even when you read Apple’s tech specs it’s often not clear exactly which combinations will work together.
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Applause Group:
Bartender Pro includes everything in Bartender 6, plus Top Shelf and future Pro tools as they’re released.
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[Top Shelf is a] powerful new way to interact with your MacBook’s notch — bringing common utilities into what used to be wasted space.
The Pro features require a new $15/year subscription.
Dan Moren:
Top Shelf is part Dynamic Island, part clipboard manager, part file utility. Frankly, much of it also feels like the kind of feature Apple should building itself, because my experience over the last year or two with the notch in the MacBook displays continually makes me annoyed at just how user-unfriendly it is.
To trigger Top Shelf, you bring the cursor up to the notch; the interface expands outward from there, just like the Dynamic Island on the iPhone. By default, the first screen contains a pair of customizable widgets for common features like Calendar, Weather, and Music.
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Files allows you to temporarily store, yes, files that you might want to move between apps. Drag and drop a file in there and then you can drag it back out of Top Shelf into another app. That pane also has an AirDrop section; drop a file there, and it will trigger the system’s AirDrop feature, with the file already pre-populated.
The Files feature sounds like Yoink.
See also: MacRumors and Mac Power Users Talk.
Ben Lovejoy:
However, there are also some truly remarkable [Apple] oversights which are somehow allowed to persist from macOS generation to macOS generation. […] menu items can end up being hidden behind the MacBook Pro notch, with Apple seemingly unaware or unconcerned about this. I typically only have four or five third-party menu bar items on screen at any given point (albeit including a wider timezone clock one), and yet it is still very common for one of them to end up invisible.
Previously:
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