254 posts tagged ‘Mac’
exit(173) Receipt Fetching Deprecated on Sequoia
mjtsai,
Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): [If] you compile your app with the macOS 15 SDK in Xcode 16, and your app exits with the status 173—the traditional way to handle Mac App Store receipt validation failure—then macOS 15 Sequoia will show the user an alert[…]The alert is terrible for at least two reasons. First, the text is […]
Netscape at 30
Jamie Zawinski: According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the […]
ToothFairy 2.8.5
ToothFairy 2.8.5 is a maintenance update of my Bluetooth menu bar utility. It fixes a bug where sometimes ToothFairy wouldn’t auto-launch at login. An interesting bug was: ToothFairy uses SMLoginItemSetEnabled(), which, instead of launching the app directly, launches a helper app that can launch the main app. Originally, it did this using NSWorkspace.launchApplication(_:), but then […]
Prompt 3
Panic (Mastodon): When you buy Prompt, you’ll get both the mobile and desktop apps.[…]MOSH & ETERNAL TERMINAL. Use these two new connection types for mega-stable terminals even if your network connection is garbageQuickly insert your most frequently used commands and text snippets with a tap or a click.[…]Easily sync your servers, keys and passwords between […]
MouthPad^
Augmental (via Hacker News): The MouthPad^ is a tongue-driven interface that controls your computer, smartphone, or tablet via Bluetooth. Virtually invisible to the world, but always available to you, it is positioned across the roof of your mouth to put all of the power of a conventional touchpad at the tip of your tongue. […] […]
Apple Managed to Avoid Its Watch Ban For Now
Gizmodo,
Just Wednesday, it was announced that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to extend the pause on the temporary ban on Apple Watches and ordered it to officially halt sales of the watches by 5 pm ET on Thursday, January 18. According to 9to5Mac’s latest report, Apple has finally managed to execute… Read more...
ScreenFloat 2
Matthias Gansrigler (Mastodon): ScreenFloat powers up your screenshots by allowing you to take screenshots and recordings that float above everything else, keeping certain information always in sight. I’ve known about this app for a long time, but I’d never used it or thought much about it because the description doesn’t speak to me. I just […]
Game Mode in Sonoma
Andrew Cunningham: Sonoma brings two more features that point to Apple’s newfound seriousness about gaming on the Mac. The first is Game Mode. It’s analogous to a Windows 11 feature of the exact same name, and they’re functionally similar in that they both promise to deprioritize background tasks to keep games running smoothly.Apple’s version of […]