438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Festivitas
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Simon B. Støvring (MacRumors): ✨ Introducing Festivitas for macOS! 🎄 Deck your dock and menu bar with endlessly customizable festive lights. Add a touch of holiday magic to your Mac ✨💻 It’s a one-time purchase for €4, only available outside the Mac App Store because it requires accessibility access to find window positions. Jason Snell: […]
Suspicious Package Keeps on Tickin’
Brett Terpstra: Suspicious Package has been around for as long as I can remember. It’s been steadily updated over the years, and runs perfectly on the latest macOS (Sequoia). It makes inscrutable Package Installers scrutable.[…]This tool will give you a Quick Look extension, so you can just select a .pkg file and hit Space to […]
Apple’s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 18
Alexandre Colucci (Mastodon, Hacker News): iOS 18 contains 6800 binaries, up from 6030 in iOS 17. That’s 770 new binaries. […] Unsurprisingly, the number of apps adopting SwiftUI continues to grow this year. Notable mentions include:The new Passwords appThe Siri.app which now uses SwiftUIThe Calculator app, which received a notable overhaulThe new Journal app introduced […]
Skype Credit Is No Longer Available
Skype (via Hacker News): Skype Credit is no longer available. For new purchases, check out the monthly subscriptions or make a free Skype call to anyone anytime. This a shame, as I liked to keep Skype around as a backup way to make calls and for devices that don’t have cellular plans. I was happy […]
Selling Outside of the Mac App Store
Matthias Gansrigler: But once the Mac App Store hit, I transitioned all my apps to it pretty much right away. It’s just so convenient: no license creation, no license verification (apart from receipt validation, but that has become more convenient recently), easy updating, no handling of payments, invoices, refunds, and the potential of getting featured […]
NetNewsWire 6.1.6
Brent Simmons (release notes): The theme of this release is using less bandwidth (and, as a consequence, less battery). It fixes a conditional GET issue and it now pays attention to Cache-Control response headers and 429 response codes. It also fixes an AppleScript bug I reported. Previously: ReadKit 3.3 News Explorer 2.0 NetNewsWire and Conditional […]
FTC and CFPB Reining in Data Brokers
FTC (tweet): The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. from selling sensitive location data, including data that reveals the identity of an individual’s private home, to settle allegations the data broker sold such information without taking reasonable steps to verify consumers’ consent. Under the FTC’s proposed settlement order, Mobilewalla will also be […]
Tim Cook Interview About AI and AVP
Steven Levy (MacRumors): We are here to discuss Cook’s big move in this high-stakes environment: the impending release of Apple Intelligence, the company’s first significant offering in the white-hot field of generative AI. Some consider it belated. All year, Apple’s competitors have been gaining buzz, dazzling investors, and dominating the news cycle with their chatbots, […]