438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.2 and iOS 18.2
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Six Colors: On Wednesday, Apple rolled out developer betas of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2, which run Apple Intelligence features previously seen only in Apple’s own marketing materials and product announcements: Three different kinds of image generation, ChatGPT support, Visual Intelligence, expanded English language support, and Writing Tools prompts. […] It’s still English-only […]
Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.1 and iOS 18.1
Joanna Stern: Apple will launch iOS 18.1 next week, bringing its much anticipated generative-AI tools to the iPhone 15 Pro models and the new iPhone 16 lineup. It will be available for most newer iPads and Macs, too.If you’re expecting AI fireworks, prepare for AI…sparklers. Back in June, at the company’s annual developers conference, executives […]
Postbox Discontinued
Adam Engst (Hacker News, MacRumors Forum): Sad news. The longstanding email client Postbox has been acquired and shut down by eM Client, described by the announcement as “a leading email platform for Windows and macOS that combines email, calendars, tasks, contacts, notes, and chat into a single, easy-to-use application.”[…]On the other side of the equation, […]
TouchArcade Is Shutting Down
Jared Nelson (Hacker News): Many of you who have followed TouchArcade for a long time are well aware that we’ve had financial troubles for many years now, and to be frank I think it’s a miracle that we’ve been able to last as long as we have. The truth of the matter is that a […]
The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting
AppleScript support with popular Mac calendar apps is surprisingly limited. With Apple Mail, it’s easy to write a script that operates on the selected e-mail messages, and I’ve written many such scripts. I’d like to do this same with calendar events. For example, sometimes I want to make the same change to one of the […]
Qbix Calendar Apps and the Mac App Store
A reader shared a story about the confusing and unfortunate situation with Qbix’s calendar apps on the Mac App Store. There are two separate apps: Calendars (which used to be called Calendar 2, previously discussed) and Calendar Plus. Calendar Plus hasn’t been updated in 10 years but is still for sale as a $9.99 up-front […]
iPhone 16 Adds JPEG XL
Jeremy Gray (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple and its various software iterations have supported JPEG XL for at least a year, including in Finder, Preview, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Photos, Mail, Safari, and more. Adobe has also supported the format for a while, including in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic.Despite JPEG XL supporting reversible JPEG […]
Lightroom Classic 14
Agen Schmitz (release notes): Adobe has issued Lightroom Classic 14.0, a big update with several new features. The release enhances the Generative Remove feature with improved selection and object detection for easier removal of unwanted objects and distractions; introduces Content Credentials to help secure digital assets by attaching credentials like digital signature, editing information, and […]