121 posts tagged ‘macOS 14 Sonoma’
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
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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. […]
Apple’s Three Safaris
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: “Same Safari. Different device.”Cupertino also […]
macOS 14: Separate iCloud Drive and CloudKit Switches
Howard Oakley: One important change in Sonoma is the distinction between apps accessing iCloud Drive (shown here) and those using CloudKit to share their databases (described below). […] To control the apps allowed to store their databases in iCloud using CloudKit, you need to go back to iCloud settings. In the Apps Using iCloud section […]
Keyboard Maestro 11
Stairways Software: Version 11 extends the editor by adding a New Macro Wizard and new Security preference pane, and enhanced searching and syncing.The engine adds a new keyboardmaestro command line tool for triggering macros, modern JavaScript syntax, Apple Text Recognition option, a new palette to show active macro groups, enhanced scripting support, and more.There is […]
Code Signing Woes
Dirk Lemstra (via Hacker News, tweet): Today [ImageMagick’s Windows] code signing certificate will expire. For many years LeaderSSL sponsored us with a code singing certificate but they are no longer able to do so. Since June of 2023 the CA/B Forum requires that OV code signing private keys be stored on a FIPS 140-2 Level […]
iCloud Drive Switches to Dataless Files
Howard Oakley: In the recent past, when a file has been evicted to iCloud (its download being removed from local storage), it has been represented by a placeholder or stub file in its original folder on the Mac. Taking the file named MyDocument.extn as an example, in the more distant past it might have been […]
Bitten by the Black Box of iCloud
Dan Moren: While I was nominally able to log back into iCloud, most of my data wasn’t actually syncing back. A dialog box told me that I needed to verify my account in order to re-establish end-to-end encryption for sensitive information like my keychain and health data, but clicking the prompted button did…absolutely nothing. […] […]
macOS 14.1
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW): With macOS Sonoma 14.1, Apple has added a new warranty section that lets you see the AppleCare+ status of your Mac and connected AirPods, plus there are now options to favorite songs, albums, and playlists in the Apple Music app. See also: Mr. Macintosh and […]