At CES, Samsung announced a 27-inch 5K display and Dell a 32-inch 6K display. We hope they'll give Apple's Studio Display and Pro Display XDR some more-affordable competition.Read original article | Continue reading
Adds support for macOS Shortcuts and automatic sub-zero dimming in the display brightness control utility. ($23 new, free update, 21.6 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Faced with the desire to import recipes from his cookbooks into Paprika, Adam Engst discovers that iOS’s Live Text feature works wonders for scanning recipe text using his iPhone’s camera. | Continue reading
Mac users sometimes see the prompt “A software update is required to connect to your iPhone/iPad” when connecting one of those devices. What should you do if the installation fails? | Continue reading
Unveils early access to the Alfred Gallery platform, featuring a range of downloadable workflows from the Alfred community. (£34 new, 6.4 MB, macOS 10.14+) | Continue reading
Brings a wide range of improvements and bug fixes to meetings, webinars, team chats, and more. (Free, 87.5 MB, macOS 10.10+) | Continue reading
Improves the performance of the Mentions completion menu in the Gmail client. (Free, 11.8 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Brings improvements to bill payments, tax reports, investments, and accounts in the financial management app. ($35.99/51.99/77.99 annual subscription, free update, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Addresses bugs in macOS 13 Ventura and improves the default locations of Default Folder X's Finder toolbar buttons. ($34.95 new, free update, 13.7 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Introduces machine learning-powered Deband feature for removing color banding and compression artifacts in images. ($39.99 new, free update, 550 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
James Thomson’s venerable PCalc is celebrating its 30th anniversary, so James has updated PCalc’s 20th-anniversary history with more details from the last ten years.Read original article | Continue reading
Password management service LastPass announced that attackers stole unencrypted customer account data and encrypted usernames and passwords. This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing for LastPass, though LastPass users shouldn’t be at significant risk—as long as they … | Continue reading
Apple has released a compelling short video that showcases some of what its accessibility technologies make possible for people with disabilities. Read original article | Continue reading
Calendar app gains features that simplify working with time zones. ($49.99 new, free update, 56.9 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
The four Rogue Amoeba audio apps provide full compatibility with macOS 13.1 Ventura. ($35/64/25/39 new, free updates, various sizes, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
SuperDuper 3.2 brings support for macOS 10.14 Mojave, including full disk access and automation prompting. ($27.95 new, free update, 17.1 MB) | Continue reading
The three Affinity graphic design apps fix a slew of bugs from the v2 release. ($69.99 new for each, free updates, various sizes, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Adds support for Apple's Shortcuts and Markdown. ($34.99 new, free update, 22.1 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
In keeping with our tradition, we’re going to take a few weeks off to spend with family and friends over the holidays. You can expect the next email issue of TidBITS on 9 January 2023. Thanks for reading TidBITS, and we hope our articles enriched your year! | Continue reading
This week’s edition of LittleBITS brings email from a friend of TidBITS in Ukraine, plus details about how you can now respond to TidBITS Talk posts with emoji, much like Apple’s Tapback feature in Messages. | Continue reading
It turns out that Contacts on the Mac stores extra invisible characters with every phone number, which can cause trouble when copying and pasting them into some online forms. Here’s what’s going on and how to work around the problem. | Continue reading
Adds a text animation feature that gives life to both 2D and 3D typography. ($29.99 new, free update, 750 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Adds support for macOS 13 Ventura and a few requested features. ($15 new, free update, 16.2 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Introduces a new way to work on larger projects such as books, a thesis, or a blog. ($5.99/$49.99 monthly/yearly subscription, free update, 29.7 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Fixes vCard-related bugs in the contact management app. ($39.96 annual subscription, free update, 31.2 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Text expansion utility receives bug fixes and a new live support chat feature. ($40 annual subscription, free update, 54.1 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Update to these versions of iOS and iPadOS to protect your older iPhone or iPad from malicious Web content that takes advantage of a now-fixed WebKit vulnerability. | Continue reading
Fixes numerous bugs and lets you turn off font ligature support. ($49.99 new, free update, 23.4 MB, macOS 10.15.4+) | Continue reading
Security patches for Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 12 and 11) | Continue reading
Patches security vulnerabilities in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Apple has updated all of its operating systems other than HomePod Software, adding the Freeform digital whiteboard app, support for Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, Apple Music Sing, Stage Manager on external displays, and various smaller improvements. A fix for a serious sec … | Continue reading
We have two quick things to share that don’t warrant an article: an explanation of why Apple Pay-using TidBITS members may see incorrect credit card expiration dates and the news of Apple Music Sing, which fills Adam Engst with dread. | Continue reading
The October 2022 update to Microsoft’s Office apps was the last one for users running macOS 10.15 Catalina. Upgrade to at least macOS 11 Big Sur to continue receiving enhancements, bug fixes, and security updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. | Continue reading
Audio enhancement utility gains 5.1 multichannel audio support. ($49.99 new, free update, 50.4 MB, macOS 10.10.3+) | Continue reading
Maintenance update for the calendar app with improvements and bug fixes. ($39.96 new, free update, 59.5 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Adds video editing capabilities using familiar image editing tools. ($39.99 new, free update, 523 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Adds support for Live Text for selecting and copying text in scanned PDFs. ($49.99 new, free update, 32.7 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
Brings improvements and bug fixes to the password manager. ($35.88 annual subscription new, free update, 2.9 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Chatbots have just progressed to the next level with OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT. Programmer David Shayer explains what’s behind ChatGPT’s curtain and ponders how we’ll deal with AI-driven chatbots that sound confident and reasonable but may be entirely wrong. | Continue reading
Apple has announced Advanced Data Protection, an optional switch that enables end-to-end encryption for more types of iCloud data, including iCloud Backups, iCloud Drive, Photos, Notes, Reminders, and more. | Continue reading
The latest version of iOS promises to improve compatibility with wireless carriers and do better at detecting crashes. But, we ask, did you need TidBITS to tell you that? | Continue reading
You can look forward to App Store prices containing different numbers now that Apple has introduced 700 more price points—from $0.29 to $10,000—from which developers can select.Read original article | Continue reading
Serif launched the next generation of its Affinity layout, design, and photo apps in conjunction with a 40%-off sale through 14 December 2022 that drops the one-time price of all three to just $99.99, less than the cost of two months of an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Adam … | Continue reading
It’s time for TidBITS to learn new tricks in the wake of managing editor Josh Centers leaving, while continuing to bring you the Apple advice and technical details you’ve come to rely on over the past 32 years. Will you help us start a fun new chapter in our long history? | Continue reading
Preserves space savings of pure "cloned" files when copying from an APFS volume to another APFS volume. ($39.99 new, free update, 22.7 MB, macOS 10.15+) | Continue reading
Calendar app updated with a few handy new features and improvements. ($49.99 new, free update, 56.6 MB, macOS 10.13+) | Continue reading
For Anker's Eufy brand, secure design apparently takes a back seat to empty privacy promises. The Verge confirmed the finding by security consultants that Eufy cameras can stream encryption-free video through the cloud, all in violation of the company's claims.Read original artic … | Continue reading
If you’re among those who dislike having notification badges permanently affixed to iOS apps, you may be frustrated by the badge on the Settings app that nags you to set up Apple Pay. Here’s how to get rid of it without enabling Apple Pay. | Continue reading