121 posts tagged ‘macOS 14 Sonoma’
HandBrake 1.7
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HandBrake (Hacker News): Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures[…]Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once[…]Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on macOS 13 and later[…]Added GPU accelerated Crop & Scale, Rotate, Pad, Yadif, Bwdif, Chroma Smooth, Unsharp, Lasharp, Grayscale filters[…]Improved SVT-AV1 encoding […]
Lessons From a Bad Apple Repair Experience
Ric Ford: It’s now clear that a new Mac, purchased directly from Apple, can fail completely and suddenly without any warning after running fine for a few weeks. Apple’s proprietary storage design means that a Mac failure is now also a storage failure that will prevent you from accessing any of your files in any […]
SpamSieve 3.0.2
SpamSieve 3.0.2 greatly improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. By reading Mail’s database directly, instead of using AppleScript, SpamSieve is able to work much faster, with no overhead in Mail itself. It’s also no longer limited by mailboxes that have so many messages that Mail would […]
Mail Extension Postmortem
Tucky Wong: While Daylite, including the Daylite Mail Assistant, is compatible with macOS Sonoma, we strongly recommend that you hold off on upgrading to Sonoma at this time. Our recommendation is based on feedback from early adopters, which has highlighted a potential significant interruption in your current email workflows. Additionally, we are actively addressing certain […]
Lightroom Classic 13.0.1
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 […]
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 […]