DropDMG 3.7.1 is a maintenance update of my app for disk images and archives. I continue to run into AppleScript problems with Tahoe. This script: tell application "Finder" tell window 1 set statusbar visible to true end tell end tell no longer does anything (FB20794683). If I change window to Finder window, instead of doing […]

Matthew Cassinelli: The App Store icon is made up of three app icons supporting each other (like apps on the App Store do). Just like the Shortcuts is two app icons, connected in the middle (like shortcuts connecting your apps together). All these years, I thought the “new” App Store icon was just an abstract […]

Paul Kafasis: Apple updated their own app icons on Tahoe, for both the squircle shape as well as the new “Liquid Glass” interface. Mostly, these icons seem dumbed-down, with a loss of detail. For example, here’s Safari’s old icon from MacOS 15 (Sequoia) on the left, and the new Tahoe icon on the right.To me, […]

Zeyi Yang and Louise Matsakis (Bluesky): Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several […]

Free Software Foundation Europe (via Hacker News): The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims for a structural reset of power in digital markets, a shift from corporate control toward device neutrality, where users decide what runs on their devices. For Free Software, this legislation can be a unique opportunity by finally opening closed ecosystems - […]