254 posts tagged ‘Mac’
Resolving Trusted Execution Problems
mjtsai,
Quinn: If you’re developing software for macOS your goal is to avoid trusted execution entanglements. You want users to install and use your product without taking any special steps. If, for example, you ship an app that’s blocked by Gatekeeper, you’re likely to lose a lot of customers, and your users’ hard-won trust.[…]If you launch […]
Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?
John Gruber: Not much has changed from 2018. There is an officially licensed game in the Mac App Store now: Tetris Beat. It’s part of Apple Arcade, so most of you can probably download it and play it. It’s not just plain Tetris — and whatever it is that it wants to be, it sucks. It doesn’t […]
BBEdit 15
Bare Bones Software (Mastodon): A new Minimap palette shows a high-level overview of the active text document. This facilitates visualization of the document’s overall structure, as well as navigation within larger documents. I love the minimap in recent versions of Xcode, but I’ve not found myself using the BBEdit version much. It’s in a floating […]
AirDrop Log Dehashing
Lawrence Abrams (MacRumors): A Chinese state-backed research institute claims to have discovered how to decrypt device logs for Apple’s AirDrop feature, allowing the government to identify phone numbers or email addresses of those who shared content.[…]To get around censorship in the country, people turned to Apple’s AirDrop feature, which doesn’t require cellular service and uses […]
Displaying Progress Is Hard
Howard Oakley: When I copied some files from iCloud Drive, instead of seeing a progress indicator reporting that they were being downloaded from iCloud, the dialog claimed that it was “preparing to move” the document in question. These preparations took some considerable time, during which the Finder’s status bar revealed what was actually taking the […]
Easier Mac Audio App Installs
Paul Kafasis: As a result of changes Apple made back in MacOS 11, our apps have been stuck with a setup process that’s much more complicated than we’d like. Currently, an annoying restart is required to get going on Intel-based Macs. Setup is even more burdensome on Apple’s newest M Chip-based Macs, with multiple restarts […]
Fixing Continuity Camera
Niléane: Continuity Camera became a feature that I need to work reliably. Sadly, it doesn’t. Half of the time, apps like Zoom and Discord on macOS could not see the iPhone SE in the list of available cameras. This meant I had to fetch a Lightning cable to manually connect the iPhone. If I was […]
Mac App Sandboxing Interferes With Drag & Drop
Wade Tregaskis: Merely inspecting the UTIs in the pasteboard is fine – that doesn’t interfere with anything. So if all you care about is if any kind of file (or folder) is being dragged, you’re set. But if you want to only react to some types of files or folders, you need to know more. […]