cjcoops

Better Touch Tool is outstanding - and also allows for custom keyboard shortcuts, and a clipboard manager. 

Here's my settings for Safari for easy trackpad switching between tabs, new tab, close tab, go to top of page, open link in new tab etc

If Apple had encouraged those who had the touch bar to give BTT a try, i suspect it would have been far more popular and appreciated.

lordjohnwhorfin said:

Same with Matroska and FLAC, which are hugely popular formats and are not really usable on the platform unless you convert them using a third party utility, when not so long ago you could just add plugins for them, and they would play in preview. I'm 100% with you there, it seems like such a step back to close up what used to be a very open and modular architecture. On the other hand maybe the openness made it too much of a target for malware?

Which platform?
I use VLC on my Macbook, and Nplayer on my IOS devices - although VLC is another free option for them too, and have always happily played any video format (mkv etc), or FLAC if needed in VLC.
I've never used Quicktime in the past, in the same way I never used Windows Media Player back in my Windows XP days - just use VLC at least and stop worrying about format compatibility.

Genius.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/problem-with-x-meta-microsoft-hundreds-more-own-trademarks-new-twitter-name-2023-07-25/

"Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name"

gc_uk said:

commentzilla said:

McDonald's has a monopoly over the products it sells in its stores! Oh no!

If only Apple apps were available in the App Store, this would be a reasonable analogy. 

So, Pepsi should sue McDonalds for not allowing its cola to be sold in its 'restaurant'? (McDonald's doesn't make Coke, so why aren't they being forced/sued into providing whatever cola brand I want? And add RC cola for me, too)

And no, Apple does not "pretend to make it available to everyone" - why should it?

tallest skil said:

cjcoops said:

You don't have to use FAT, you choose to not install Tuxera NTFS, as one example of a utility to enable ntfs write ability in osX.

For once, I choose instead to blame Microsoft for not caring at all about Windows’ modernity. It’s their fault. They need something we can write to without a paid utility. 

I agree - I've never seen anyone whine about why Microsoft doesn't support HFS read/write support natively, yet Apple is blamed for Microsoft needing license fees for ntfs ( does Apple require license fees for HFS support say on a Windows computer?).

OS X can be 'manually' made to enable ntfs write using some Terminal commands, so the system has ntfs write capability built in, but presumably (?) not enabled due to licensing issues.

Just so anyone else. not aware - either the Tuxera or i think it was some app from Paragon i have used previously, both work perfectly, which means invisibly. Yes, it's a bit of an eye roll that you hav to pay for an app to get this functionality but it's a bargain compared to having to go back to using a Windows machine.