254 posts tagged ‘Mac’
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Permissions Requests
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Jason Snell (Reddit, Hacker News): Due to an extremely weird series of troubleshooting maneuvers, I recently found myself having to set my Mac up from scratch without migrating any of my preferences for the first time in longer than I’d like to admit.[…]More than anything else, though, the experience reminded me that Apple has a […]
Final Cut Pro 10.7 and Final Cut Pro for iPad 1.3
Apple: Final Cut Pro now includes improvements in timeline navigation and organization, as well as new ways to simplify complex edits. The apps leverage the power-efficient performance of Apple silicon along with an all-new machine learning model for Object Tracker, and export speeds are turbocharged on Mac models powered by multiple media engines. Final Cut […]
8 GB of Unified Memory
Tim Hardwick: Starting at $1,599, the 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro comes with 8GB of unified memory. That makes it $300 more expensive than the $1,299 starting price of the now-discontinued M2 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8GB. Users can opt for 16GB or 24GB at checkout, but these configuration options cost an extra $200 and $400 […]
Retrobatch 2
Flying Meat: Retrobatch 2.0 includes a new dark UI, a bunch of new nodes, new features, refinements in existing nodes and UI, plus much more.[…]New “Super Resolution” node, which uses machine learning to scale up your image 4x its size.[…]New “Photos Export” node which replaces the “Photos Library” node (which Apple has deprecated libraries it […]
macOS 14.1.1
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW, M3): Today’s update includes bug fixes and security updates according to Apple. Joe Rossignol: While the release notes did not specify which bugs were fixed, we have confirmed that the update resolves a software update issue with M3 Macs and an Adobe Photoshop bug. See […]
macOS 13.6.2
Apple (release notes, full installer for M1 and M2, M3): This update has no published CVE entries. Available for MacBook Pro (2021 and later) and iMac (2023) Enterprise release notes: MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch computers with Apple silicon no longer start up to a black screen or circled exclamation point after the built-in display’s […]
Bike Outline Paths
Jesse Grosjean: Use outline paths to query your Bike outlines. Today they are used through AppleScript and Shortcuts actions. In the future they will be used to build new features such as stylesheets and outline filtering. There’s a video demonstrating them and documentation for the syntax. Previously: Bike 1.12
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
Kim Salazar, Tim Neusesser, and Nishi Chitale (via Hacker News): Many modern websites are designed with a mobile-first approach. When these pages render on desktop devices, the content can appear overly large and stretched out. Screen-covering images, large bloated text, and excessive negative space result in long pages requiring more scrolling to consume all content. […]