Soulver 3 for Mac
Acqualia: Soulver 3 for Mac is now available. It has 50+ new features, including dark mode, a new user interface, subtotals and calendar calculations. Virtually everything you’ve been asking for. We...
View ArticlePersistent History Tracking in Core Data
Steffen Ryll: At WWDC ’17, Apple introduced a number of new Core Data features, one of which is Persistent History Tracking or NSPersistentHistory. But as of the time of writing, its API is still...
View ArticleRecreating Mac Desktop Picture Photos
Oliver Haslam: Have you ever wondered where your Mac’s macOS wallpaper was taken? Sure, we know roughly where, but do you want to know exactly where those iconic shots were captured? YouTuber Andrew...
View ArticleInstapaper Safari App Extension
Instapaper: Today we’re launching Instapaper Save for Safari on Mac. You can download it now from the Mac App Store. As with MarsEdit, I’m torn between using the bookmarklet, because it’s simpler and...
View ArticleSiri Stores Encrypted E-mails in Plain Text
Bob Gendler: The snippets.db database is storing encrypted Apple Mail messages…completely, totally, fully — UNENCRYPTED — readable, even with Siri disabled, without requiring the private key. Most...
View ArticlemacOS Display Problems
Lloyd Chambers: After every reboot, the LG 5K display goes to maximum brightness. John Gruber: Is this the worst bug in the world? Not even close. It’s a paper-cut bug. No data loss, no crash, not...
View ArticleWhat You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct
John Gruber (tweet): I know from talking to Arment privately that about 30 seconds after he took the screenshot, the Inspector updated to show the actual folder size. But that’s still very wrong. The...
View ArticlemacOS 10.15.5
Apple (TidBITS, MacRumors, Hacker News, Mr. Macintosh, Howard Oakley): macOS Catalina 10.15.5 introduces battery health management in the Energy Saver settings for notebooks, an option to control...
View ArticleApple Mail Randomly Becomes the Frontmost Application
Philipp Defner (also: Hacker News): Since macOS 10.12 there’s a bug in Apple Mail that causes it to randomly become the frontmost application. If you are in full screen mode — like when you are giving...
View ArticlemacOS 10.15.5 Supplemental Update
Juli Clover (also: Mr. Macintosh, Hacker News): According to the security notes for the update, it addresses a security flaw that could allow an application to execute arbitrary code with kernel...
View ArticleMojave Security Update Removes Support for Automatic Snapshots
Mr. Macintosh: A quick follow up on macOS Automatic Update Snapshots. The feature was introduced in High Sierra and removed in Catalina 10.15.3. Mojave still creates automatic snapshots before the...
View ArticleIt’s Over Between Us, AVAudioEngine
Chris Liscio: Looking at the crash logs, I noticed that invoking -[AVAudioEngine mainMixerNode] would fire some kind of internal exception. The API does not return any kind of error, nor is it...
View ArticleUsing curl for Telnet Testing
Rich Trouton: As part of introducing macOS High Sierra, Apple removed the telnet tool from macOS. This was part of Apple’s overall effort to improve security, as telnet does not use encryption and its...
View ArticleSafari Background Tabs Reactivate
Jeff Johnson (tweet): The madness in this case is Safari background tabs spontaneously coming to the front again, an obviously undesirable behavior. The initial report was for an obscure (to me) web...
View ArticleShould You Ever Repair Permissions?
Howard Oakley: One of the less-recognised benefits of SIP was that it effectively prevented this from happening, although improvements in system installers undoubtedly played their part as well. The...
View ArticleUnable to Establish Secure Connection to idmsa.apple.com
Matt Godden: If you’re using #macOS #HighSierra or #Sierra, #iCloud has stopped working / can’t log in, and you can’t access iCloud.com in Safari - here’s a solution. Install the Apple IST CA 2 - G1...
View ArticleXcode 14: High Sierra and Later
Xcode 14 Beta 2 Release Notes: Xcode 14 supports building applications that target macOS 10.13, iOS 11, tvOS 11, watchOS 4, and later. In other words, Xcode 14 is dropping support for macOS 10.9...
View ArticleFixing the “Failed to Enable Personal Hotspot” Error
Thomas Tempelmann: Some of my older Macs running High Sierra or Mojave were unable to join the Personal Hotspot of one or even two of my iPhones.[…]There is a file called...
View Article“Volume contains a macOS or OS X installation which may be damaged”
I was recently setting up a High Sierra test partition, and this error popped up after the installer had rebooted the Mac to complete the installation. At first, I thought it was another variant of the...
View ArticleHow Apple Help Works and How It Doesn’t
Howard Oakley: Before High Sierra, Help Manager was troubled by several bugs, and had become unreliable prior to its major revision in 10.13.4. Since then further bugs have come and gone; among the...
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