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Larger 32-inch iMac Pro rumored to hit store shelves in late 2024
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Google now tries getting EU to force open iMessage
Absolutely, I fully support that motion.
Instead of dozens privacy-hungry third-party chat apps partnering with all sorts of foreign-government agencies, we should have one protocol and end-to-end encryption.
Goodbye, user audience fragmentation. Goodbye, vendor lock-in. Goodbye, blurry videos and pictures between iDrones and Androids. Hello, delivery and read receipts and typing indicators.
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Inside Apple TV 4K -- the best addition to your TV set
Here is a good tip for folks who want to see full colors.
Switch away from the default YCbCr color compressor that TVs tend to use into RGB High or RGB Low that monitors use.
Even if this costs you resolution. I have a Bravia and it’s upscaler does admirable job making blurays and and 1080 content look like 4k. But nothing can bring back the color once it is lost. Nothing except the non-default RGB modes, that is.
You are welcome. -
Without irony, Microsoft CEO says Google unfairly dominates search
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How to run Mac OS 9 on Apple Silicon using UTM
Pre-X MacOS used to have quite distinguished features, long abandoned but still could have been useful.
1. Absence of text-based configuration files. Everything was controlled by dynamic configuration or preferences files (data arrays).
2. Relative paths or system paths only, there was no need to ever type “path”. Related to (1)
3. Dynamic Desktop DB files at root of every drive, even networked. Also related to “blessed folder” (5)
4. Filetype+Creator binding of Documents to Programs that open those (no registry needed). Used (3) to locate Creator, if not found then bind by FileType - could launch Word to open .DOC even from a connected network drive if no local copy was installed.
5. No fixed “system paths”, only dynamic one. You could keep several OS copies in different folders on the same disk, moreover you could rename or drag-n-drop currently running System folder anywhere into abysses of your user subfolders etc. Finder would update “blessed folder” record in DesktopDB and that was what Firmware would use to reboot if needed. Sounds fun?
6. Dynamic Extensions load order. Defined by system resources used and dependencies.
7. Resources separate from Code, in alternate file forks. This one would be so good for security these crazy hackathon days - just have one more signature on resource fork.
All those cool concepts killed when UNIX was adopted as the base, instead of replacing the macOS kernel with preemptive multitasking.
Someone please tell us sad Copland saga/story… -
Classic 'Doom' now playable on Apple Network Server
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Apple doesn't appear to have plans to revive the iPhone mini
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Files iPadOS 26 vs iPadOS 18: Refinements & speed improvements make Files actually usable
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'Severance,' the biggest success on Apple TV+, will be back for a third season
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Apple's C1 modem is a quiet game-changer that's mostly flying under the radar