254 posts tagged ‘Mac’
Lightroom Classic 13.0.1
mjtsai,
Adobe: Blur any image to make it seem like it’s been taken with a wide aperture lens. Lens Blur easily alters the background or foreground of your images by making a depth map using Adobe Sensei.[…]Edit, display, and save images in High Dynamic Range (HDR) to experience increased depth with brighter highlights, deeper shadows, and […]
The Myth and Reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Jeff Johnson: This famous keynote slide was, to put it euphemistically, a bit of product marketing. Non-euphemistically, it was a big lie. Snow Leopard had quite a few new features, including significant changes “under the hood”, so to speak. In fairness, though, 10.6 was a smaller update than 10.5, 10.4, 10.3, or 10.2, and its […]
Apple iMac (2023) Review: One Foot in the Future and the Past
Gizmodo,
It’s been over two years since Apple released its all-in-one desktop after skipping the entire M2 generation of chips, leaving us wondering when the iMac would make its dramatic return. The iMac comes in seven fun colors, is powered by Apple’s fancy new M3, and even promises to make gaming on a Mac a thing. Read more...
Search Suggestion Menus in AppKit
John Brayton: Even though Safari, Mail, and Finder implement search suggestion menus, there is no standard AppKit mechanism for providing them in AppKit. Popping up an NSMenu does not work because the search field cannot receive keystrokes while the menu is displayed. Interestingly there is a good mechanism for providing search suggestion menus in SwiftUI, […]
Xcode 15 Logs nil As an Empty String
Jeff Johnson: [The] functions os_log and NSLog now log nil as an empty string. The previous behavior, going back forever as far as I remember, was to log nil as (null).[…]I don’t know whether this is a bug or intended behavior, but it makes debugging our apps markedly worse, because now there’s no easy way […]
Kindle for Mac 7.0
Filipe Espósito: Amazon launched an official Kindle app for macOS more than eight years ago, allowing Mac users to download and read their ebooks from Amazon’s platform on their computer. […] On Tuesday, the official Kindle app available on the Mac App Store was updated to version 1.40.2. But while the release notes mention that […]
On-Crash Backtraces in Swift
Alastair Houghton: Prior to Swift 5.9, all you would get when your program fails is a message from the parent process (often the shell) telling you that the child process crashed[…] […] Now, instead of the opaque message above, the result looks something like this[…] […] This new feature greatly improves the on-crash debugging experience […]
Computers Are Magical; Computers Are Awful
Nick Heer: I was reminded of Nikita Prokopov’s classic post today — “People Expect Technology to Suck Because It Actually Sucks” — in much the same way I think of it many days but, and especially, today. These are all things which happened today from when I woke up[…] […] None of the problems above […]