438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Mail Extension Postmortem
mjtsai,
Tucky Wong: While Daylite, including the Daylite Mail Assistant, is compatible with macOS Sonoma, we strongly recommend that you hold off on upgrading to Sonoma at this time. Our recommendation is based on feedback from early adopters, which has highlighted a potential significant interruption in your current email workflows. Additionally, we are actively addressing certain […]
The Cassette-Tape Revolution
The New Yorker,
The disruptive power of the cassette anticipated the even greater tectonic shift that the digital age would bring to music.
Apple to Add RCS Messaging in iOS 17 Update
Lance Ulanoff (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple will finally add RCS messaging standard support to the iPhone through a software release early next year, the company told TechRadar.[…]“Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. We believe the RCS Universal Profile will offer […]
Why Do People Still Use VBA?
Sancarn (via Hacker News): From these data, we can clearly see that the majority of people who use VBA do so mainly because they have no other choice. Many organisations run their entire business processes with Excel, and when a little bit of automation is required VBA is usually #1 on the list. […] Looks […]
Lightroom Classic 13.0.1
Adobe: Blur any image to make it seem like it’s been taken with a wide aperture lens. Lens Blur easily alters the background or foreground of your images by making a depth map using Adobe Sensei.[…]Edit, display, and save images in High Dynamic Range (HDR) to experience increased depth with brighter highlights, deeper shadows, and […]
The Myth and Reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Jeff Johnson: This famous keynote slide was, to put it euphemistically, a bit of product marketing. Non-euphemistically, it was a big lie. Snow Leopard had quite a few new features, including significant changes “under the hood”, so to speak. In fairness, though, 10.6 was a smaller update than 10.5, 10.4, 10.3, or 10.2, and its […]
Apple INA Hiring Discrimination Settlement
Jon Brodkin (Hacker News, 9to5Mac, ): Apple illegally discriminated against US citizens and other US residents in its hiring and recruitment practices for certain types of positions that went to foreign workers, the US Department of Justice said yesterday. Apple agreed to pay up to $25 million in back pay and civil penalties to settle […]
We’ve Been Wrong to Worry About Deepfakes (So Far)
Daniel Immerwahr, a history professor at Northwestern University, discusses why videos generated by artificial intelligence haven’t had more influence on electoral politics.