92 posts tagged ‘macOS 15 Sequoia’
macOS 15.2 Breaks Bootable Backups
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Dave Nanian (Mastodon, 2, Hacker News): Apple broke the replicator. Towards the end of replicating the Data volume, seemingly when it’s about to copy either Preboot or Recovery, it fails with a Resource Busy error.In the past, Resource Busy could be worked around by ensuring the system was kept awake. But this new bug means, […]
Xcode 16.2
Apple (downloads): The Command Line Tools package now supports using the swift test command to build and run package tests written with Swift Testing.[…]Sometimes running parallel Tests on macOS run destinations never finishes.[…]macOS projects that use hardened runtime but no sandboxing may run into timeout errors when attempting to preview if the project is complex […]
macOS 15.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sequoia 15.2 adds Image Playground, an app that lets you create images based on text descriptions. You can type in whatever you like, but Apple will suggest costumes, locations, and items that you can add to an image. You can generate images that resemble […]
OmniFocus 4.5
Orion Protonentis (release notes): There are all-new Shortcuts actions (Complete Action, Complete Project, and Find Folders), Shortcuts actions that have gained additional powers (Today’s Forecast now supports due, deferred, tagged, and flagged actions), and Shortcuts actions that have been re-written (Add TaskPaper, Find Projects, and Find Tags) or re-written and renamed for clarity (Add Action […]
Firefox Removes “Do Not Track”
Venkat (via Hacker News): According to Wikipedia, DNT was introduced in 2009 by researchers Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm, and Mozilla Firefox was the first browser to implement this feature.However, as we approach 2025, with growing concerns about online privacy and data protection, Mozilla believes that DNT is no longer an effective privacy measure. Many […]
Festivitas
Simon B. Støvring (MacRumors): ✨ Introducing Festivitas for macOS! 🎄 Deck your dock and menu bar with endlessly customizable festive lights. Add a touch of holiday magic to your Mac ✨💻 It’s a one-time purchase for €4, only available outside the Mac App Store because it requires accessibility access to find window positions. Jason Snell: […]
Suspicious Package Keeps on Tickin’
Brett Terpstra: Suspicious Package has been around for as long as I can remember. It’s been steadily updated over the years, and runs perfectly on the latest macOS (Sequoia). It makes inscrutable Package Installers scrutable.[…]This tool will give you a Quick Look extension, so you can just select a .pkg file and hit Space to […]
Selling Outside of the Mac App Store
Matthias Gansrigler: But once the Mac App Store hit, I transitioned all my apps to it pretty much right away. It’s just so convenient: no license creation, no license verification (apart from receipt validation, but that has become more convenient recently), easy updating, no handling of payments, invoices, refunds, and the potential of getting featured […]