92 posts tagged ‘macOS 15 Sequoia’
Black Friday 2024
mjtsai,
My apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Aeon Timeline Affinity Akismet AllTrails Apparent Software Appfigures (BF2450) Astro Backblaze BetterTouchTool Bezel BoltAI Brewer X Browser Deputy Bike CleanClip CleanMyMac CleanShot X CompressX Creaceed CYME Corel Dada Mail Darkroom Dash (BLACKFRIDAY) […]
The App Store Era Must End
Jason Snell (tweet, Macworld, podcast): To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices are locked down—for […]
Apple Directly Selling Apple News Ads
Sara Fischer: Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It’s pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for itself and its publishing partners.[…]Beginning next year, Apple will sell premium sponsorships of editorially curated content for relevant events, such as the […]
Type to Siri
Tim Hardwick: With the introduction of Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1, communicating with Siri has become more flexible since you can easily type your requests instead of speaking them. It’s a subtle but powerful change that’s perfect for those moments when you need to be quiet or [discreet].Enabling Type to Siri is straightforward. Head to […]
EagleFiler 1.9.16
EagleFiler 1.9.16 is a maintenance release of my Mac files/notes/e-mail manager. This version improves the formatting of community notes and quote tweets when importing from X/Twitter and includes a bunch of other fixes (e.g. for the help viewer) along the lines of what was in SpamSieve 3.1. I had left in support for Growl, even […]
Privileges 2.0
Rich Trouton: SAP has released a new major version of their open source Privileges app. This tool provides macOS standard user accounts with a way to request administrator rights. Privileges 2.x includes a number of new features not available in Privileges 1.x and in particular fulfills two particular long-standing requests from its user community:It provides […]
SpamSieve 3.1
SpamSieve 3.1 improves the accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst many other enhancements. Some interesting issues were: NSHelpManager seems to be broken under Sequoia in that sometimes you have to click a help link multiple times for it to open the right page—until then it just opens the main help book page (FB15763353). […]
Pinwheel 1.0
New Mac app from Bjango (Mastodon): Convert between color formats and color spaces. Automate color contrast testing. Create beautiful gradients and palettes. […] Pinwheel imports Design Tokens JSON, Figma documents, Sketch documents, CSS, asset catalogs, and other file types. Once you’ve finished making adjustments, automated exporting can be set up to simultaneously export in multiple […]