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Some Mac software has made it all the way from 68K to M1 - here's why
"FTP" apps these days are really FTP + SFTP + FTP/S + SCP + WebDAV + Amazon S3 +... lots of other things, typically. Some come with extras that will allow the Finder to mount (S)FTP volumes read/write (as shipped, the finder treats FTP as read-only), and maybe other things (S3) also. They have their uses.Xed said:Are people really using and 3rd-party compression and FTP apps? Personally, I haven't needed ether in well over a decade. Modern option make FTP less than ideal for any need I may have and I haven't seen a non-Zip file that macOS couldn't unpack for countless years.
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Some Mac software has made it all the way from 68K to M1 - here's why
Stellar77 said:This is a great article and interesting to me as a Mac user since 1984 to look back at the various transitions. Arguably perhaps the most complex app that has gone through all these transitions is 4th Dimension (now 4D) who has stuck with Apple through thick and thin. In addition to being a rapid app generator, it includes a web server, a word processing and spreadsheet and now object oriented development environment an rapid iOS app generator. And this has been natively ported through all these transitions and what is most interesting to me is that the original developer of this software Laurent Ribardiere is still I believe at the company and guiding this latest transition to Apple Silicon, which will also include a compiler for Apple Silicon to generate native code for the apps created. Perhaps this might deserve a separate article, but I would have thought should at least be included in this list of Mac original developers?4D?? I can't believe that PoS is still around.Actually, I suppose that's not fair as I haven't looked at it in 20 years. But I still remember when it first came out. After the intense disappointment that was Helix, I was really hoping for something useful. 4D wasn't it though. I got an early Beta, and three days later sent them a huge long list of showstopper bugs. All I got back was some BS from Guy Kawasaki (remember him?) telling me how great it was going to be. Spoiler: It wasn't. I even tried to reach Ribardiere but he was firewalled (and not on any email I could find). It shipped with almost all of those bugs still in, and it was completely unusable for serious work.The sad thing is, it took a PC developer (Fox Software) to eventually write a good Mac database app - FoxBase was the first one you could actually use for industrial-strength apps, and for a while it was the best thing you could get on any platform. You could make Omnis 3 work, with enough effort, but the dev environment was unspeakably awful and probably 20-50x more time consuming than a regular text editor. And there was that other one, I forget its name, that included some sort of Forth interpreter, that could also be made to work... if you wanted to code in Forth (another spoiler: just no. Worst gig ever).When Fox came along it was a breath of fresh air - tinged with ozone, as it was lightning-fast, sometimes tens or even hundreds of times faster than 4D, Omnis, etc.So anyway... If they somehow managed to fix 4D, good for them. But I still remember what it was like (through several releases, before I gave up). There isn't enough money in the world to get me to go back and try using it again. -
Review: VocoLinc's Smart Power Strip is an easy but fickle way to upgrade 'dumb' devices
This product should get zero stars. If it's unreliable, it's not out of beta and they shouldn't be selling it.This *review* loses stars for missing that point. But also, you're reviewing a power strip, yet you blindly take for granted the assurances of the vendor that it has good power protection. Why didn't you crack it open and look at how it's built? If there's a problem there, it's not just your $42 for the strip that's as risk, it's potentially thousands of dollars of other gear. Just looking to make sure it's got at least three MOVs would be a good start (and honestly, as much as I'd expect from a review from a non-specialist website). Just one (or none at all, like some shady gear that used to be fairly common) would be bad, and grounds for zero stars. -
Apple TV+ team boosted by hiring of Netflix platform engineer
apple ][ said:I agree that quality is more important than quantity, but I think that Apple is making a mistake in the type of content they seem to be pushing (political left content).
I would say the same thing if a company was only pushing political right content. It's not a smart move to only want to please 50% of customers. It's a far smarter move to try and please everybody by not making divisive content.
I believe that they should leave their politics at home and focus on making good entertainment that everybody will like.
And I also know that any hypocritical lefties here who will disagree with me and defend Apple would be hyperventilating and foaming at the mouth, shouting at the sky, if Apple were for example pushing another type of political content that they happened to disagree with. So spare me from your garbage.So, let me paraphrase this:1) Here is my political rant.2) Don't post your political rant.For those of us who recognize irony (or hypocrisy), that was most entertaining. Thank you.
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Apple 16-Inch MacBook Pro vs Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen 2 - portable power head to head
wallym said:Finally, comparing two devices that are actually about the same. Lenovo as the successor to the IBM PC Company is really where you can get the apple to apple comparison, if you will pardon the pun.
I haven't tried the apple 16" keyboard, but I can't imagine it being better than my 2018 Macbook Pro 15" keyboard. My lenovo keyboard with the pointing stick is just better than the apple keyboard. The workflow feels better. It is just more comfortable.
specwise, they are both great machine with top quality hardware.Argument from failure of imagination is basically what creationists do. You should avoid it.The keyboards of those two Macs are completely different, mechanically. One is butterfly, the other scissors.
