438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Selecting Multiple Tabs in Safari
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John Gruber (video): Just like making multiple selections in a list view, Shift-click will select an entire range at once, and Command-clicking lets you select (and deselect) noncontiguous tabs. […] Once you have multiple tabs selected, you can drag them together to create a new window, or do things like close them all at once. […]
Mac Menu Bar Icons and the Notch
Jesse Squires (Mastodon): On my 13” Intel MacBook Pro, the icons reached to about halfway across the screen. On the 14” M3 MacBook Pro, ironically a machine with a larger display, at least 3 icons get hidden. This “design” (or lack thereof) is so dumb. It is utterly ridiculous to me that this is still […]
Bartender 5
Surtees Studios: With support for macOS Sonoma and a multitude of innovative features, Bartender 5 represents the pinnacle of Mac menu bar mastery. […] Conceal select menu bar items while retaining quick and easy access through intuitive methods. Swipe and scroll within the menu bar to unveil hidden items instantly, simplifying access to multiple screens […]
23andMe Breach
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (Hacker News): On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hackers were also able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry.” But 23andMe would […]
End-to-End Security for Facebook Messenger
Jon Millican and Reed Riley (Hacker News): We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default.Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption:Our Messenger end-to-end encryption whitepaper describes the core cryptographic protocol for transmitting messages between clients.The Labyrinth encrypted storage protocol whitepaper explains our protocol […]
Privacy Manifests Update
Apple: Starting in spring 2024, if your new app or app update submission adds a third-party SDK that is commonly used in apps on the App Store, you’ll need to include the privacy manifest for the SDK. Signatures are also required when the SDK is used as a binary dependency. […] Based on the feedback we […]
TV.app in tvOS 17.2
Benjamin Mayo (MacRumors): Apple will discontinue the standalone iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps on the Apple TV box, starting with tvOS 17.2 The warning message seen above has started appearing in the release candidate version of tvOS 17.2 beta, released yesterday. […] Apple has updated the TV app in 17.2 in preparation of […]
Sonoma’s “cp -l” Won’t Create Links
Rob Griffiths: I ran into this while working on a Keyboard Maestro macro that creates hard links: The macOS version of cp won’t create links, at least not in Sonoma. In Ventura, it works even though it throws the same error as it does in Sonoma.[…]I have filed this bug as FB13255408 with Apple, and […]