438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Clicking to Hide Others in Sonoma
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Chip Loder: In previous versions of macOS, if you wanted to hide all running apps containing a UI on your display, you could simply Option-click anywhere on the Finder’s Desktop. This would hide all other visible running apps and display only the Desktop. [see comment]Now in macOS Sonoma, if you Option-click on the Finder’s Desktop, […]
Retcon Beta
Nathan Manceaux-Panot (Mastodon): Retcon makes rewriting git history effortless.Move a commit back in time with a single drag-and-drop. Squash, edit or delete in a few keystrokes. In place—no need to enter a special mode and lose all context. Skip rigidly planning everything ahead, and instead manipulate with instant feedback.Then change your mind: undo anything with […]
More Stack Overflow Layoffs
Prashanth Chandrasekar (Hacker News): This is why we have been so focused on our path to profitability, even as we commit to the continued product innovation of Stack Overflow for Teams and the health of the public platform by building out our AI/ML capabilities. This year we took many steps to spend less. Changes have […]
Atlassian to Abandon On-Prem Perpetual Products
Simon Sharwood (Hacker News): Atlassian once offered its wares in three forms. The preferred option is from the cloud, in conventional software-as-a-service style that sees Atlassian manage software and infrastructure. Users can also buy datacenter licenses that renew annually and require self-management. Until 2021, you could also get server products under a perpetual license, but […]
Not Setting Up Find My Bricked My MacBook
Paul McMahon (via Hacker News): About 30 minutes before my flight was boarding, I pulled out my laptop to do some last minute work. But when I opened it up, a stranger’s profile greeted me. Evidently we had swapped laptops going through security.[…]I eagerly opened the box, which had a distinctly exotic scent - perfume […]
Updating iPhones in Boxes
Malcolm Owen (Hacker News): Mark Gurman claims that Apple has a system that can update the operating system of iPhones before they get sold. Crucially, it can do so without opening the box.Consisting of a “pad-like device,” store employees place unopened iPhone boxes onto it to trigger an update. The pad wirelessly turns on the […]
Sonoma Wallpapers Block Screen Sharing Login
Andrew Cunningham: The look of the macOS login screen has been tweaked a bunch over the years, but it hasn’t been substantially rearranged since Lion (version 10.7) in 2011. Sonoma rejiggers things, moving the login field to the bottom of the screen, adding a big clock, and using the last logged-in user’s desktop wallpaper and/or […]
The History of Cover Flow
Andrew Coulter Enright (in 2005): I thought [the iChat AV] implementation would work perfectly if applied to my Visual Browsing problem.Like paper cards flipping within a bar jukebox, I pictured each cover flipping in and out of the illuminated center position, revealing the subsequent album/song as the user browsed through the current library (via the […]