438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
YouTube Music on HomePod
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Tim Hardwick: YouTube Music is now available directly on Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini, thanks to new Siri integration support in the YouTube Music app.The change means subscribers to the streaming service can now choose to use voice commands to start YouTube Music on a HomePod, without having to append “on YouTube Music” to every […]
iOS 17: Check In
Glenn Fleishman: It’s easy to focus on the dystopian aspects of technology, but Apple has spent the last few years assembling a collection of features aimed at protecting its users against online and physical threats. They include Communication Safety (insulating kids from images and video containing nudity, enabled by parents), Sensitive Content Warning (warnings for […]
ScreenSharingMenulet 2.9.2
Dan Moren: Stefan Klieme’s ScreenSharingMenulet. It’s a little no-frills menu bar app that just provides you with quick screen sharing access to other machines via macOS’s built-in Screen Sharing app. By default it detects Bonjour connections on your local network, but it also supports adding manual remote connections if you have other machines you want […]
Invidious and FreeTube
Invidious (Hacker News): Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.[…]Invidious protects you from the prying eyes of Google. It won’t track you either![…]Invidious allows you to subscribe to channels and create playlists, without needing a YouTube account. FreeTube (Hacker News): FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. […]
Link Unshortener Updates
Jeff Johnson: Link Unshortener 9.0 adds a convenient list of all your installed web browsers so that you can open a link in any browser with one click or keypress. And if you set Link Unshortener itself as your default web browser in System Preferences, then whenever you click a link in an external app […]
Cue Testimony in US v. Google
David Pierce (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is in court because of something called the Information Services Agreement, or ISA: a deal that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s products. The ISA has been in place since 2002, but Cue was responsible for negotiating its current iteration with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in 2016. […]
Secondary Apple ID Mess and Inadvertent Password Reset
I was doing some testing with Apple Mail on my test Mac using my test iCloud account. I made a fresh macOS user account and entered the Apple ID, but Apple said it was “locked for security reasons.” Who knows why? To unlock the account, it wanted me to verify using one of my other […]
6 TB and 12 TB iCloud+ Plans
Juli Clover: The 6TB and 12TB iCloud + plans can now be purchased through the iCloud + interface as higher-tier options that join the existing 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB storage plans.The 6TB plan is priced at $29.99 per month, while the 12TB plan is priced at $59.99 per month.[…]Apple’s new 6TB and 12TB plans can […]