Interesting and well made video about the history of wireless networking. This wasn’t that long ago, yet it’s hard to remember life before WiFi.
This video is for the hardcore Mac users (those that used to be called MacZealots) that appreciate computer history done by the Computer History Museum on the 40th Anniversary of the Mac.. They put together a group of well-known people who worked on the original Mac to talk about it, telling stories never heard before. Super enjoyable and interesting, if you're into that sort of thing.
Today is the 40th anniversary of Macintosh. I’ve been a Mac user for almost 40 years. Lots of memories on this website.
Allows you to run all Classic Mac OS releases in the Macintosh of your choosing emulated withing the browser. This is really slick and really well done.
Very fun short film with high production values, all shot form a phone camera.
SVG icons extracted from the 30th Anniversary Mac Font
“Apple makes it easy to connect and share your life with the people closest to you. What you share, and whom you share it with, is up to you — including the decision to make changes to better protect your information or personal safety.
If you’d like to revisit what you share with other people, or restore your device’s original settings for any reason, this guide can help you understand what information you are sharing via your Apple devices, and how to make changes to protect your safety. It includes step-by-step instructions on how to remove someone’s access to information you’ve previously granted: from location data on the Find My app, to meetings you’ve scheduled via Calendar.
If you’re concerned that someone is accessing information you did not share from your Apple device, this guide will also help you identify risks, and walk you through the steps to help make the technology you rely on as private and secure as you want it to be.”
I did a much earlier version of this course about ten years ago. It was Objective C and AppKit. A Swift and SwiftUI version sounds like a lot of fun. Need to make time for it.
Nice idea. Can’t really wait on the web to adopt sane password practices so the pragmatic idea is to consolidate knowledge for the biggest websites.
Using Bluetooth is very smart, and it means that it can be done in a way that preserves privacy unlike following people around through their cell connections. It should also be more precise.
You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.” (John Brunner)
Giant list of macOS command line commands.
Classic Mac emulator running inside a browser.
The (Unofficial) Apple Archive
Lots of material collected here.
Table / database of all Apple Arcade games.
I don't know how up-to-date this will be kept.
It’s amazing that in an era in which tech giants erode privacy in the name of money with little semblance of morals, Apple positioned itself as the champion of privacy and shifted its business model around that. The details on how this feature is implemented in a way that preserves user privacy is amazing.
If the rumors of a Tile-style tag prove true... and you add that they will be implemented securely and privately as described... and you add that over a billion Apple devices around the world will help locating them... you have a pretty compelling thing going on. I will be buying a bunch.
Apps in the Kids Category may not include third-party advertising or analytics. You should also pay particular attention to privacy laws around the world relating to the collection of data from children online.
This is great.
In hindsight, it seems obvious to me that app developers would abuse "Background App Refresh" functionality of iOS to call home and send data.
So I went to Settings on my phone and found a giant list of apps with the Background App Refresh function turned on.
I turned almost all of them off. Especially those from companies whose business model relies on collecting my personal data: anything made by Google, Facebook (WhatsApp, Instagram), Amazon, Uber, Yelp, etc. Obviously, all those crappy adware/games my son downloads.
I only left the setting on for apps made by companies I trust because their business model is not about collecting data (Apple and to a lesser degree Microsoft) and only for apps I use often and I can see the value for the contents to be up to date by the time I open the app (Notes which may change on a separate device, Outlook, etc.).
The best part, this should improve my battery life – to what degree it's unclear and reduce my data usage.
I bet that Apple will, in the near future, default this setting to OFF and make apps ask you if you really want to grant them the ability to perform Background App Refresh.
Pretty neat: the ads about the iPad Pro were made completely using iPad Pro.
