Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Lightroom End Marks
Marcin Wichary: The search for the strangest Adobe setting continues in Lightroom, where the first option in the Interface section is… end marks[…] Presently, only one option is there… …but at least back in 2012 there were many more. What does it do? It adds an old-time’y glyph at the end of either left or […]
Background Garmin iPhone Syncing in EU
Sunil Bhatt: Thanks to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Garmin watches in the EU can now sync steps, sleep, and heart rate data automatically, even when the Garmin Connect app is closed. This removes a long-standing limitation that previously favoured the Apple Watch. For years, Garmin users on iPhone had to manually open […]
AppGrid Updates Blocked From App Store
Attila Miklosi: Apple replaced Launchpad with a new “Apps” view — a hybrid of Spotlight search and a scrolling list of your installed applications. You can access it from the Dock or via keyboard shortcut, but it behaves very differently from the old grid. […] AppGrid is a grid-based app launcher built specifically for macOS […]
Liquid Glass Is Permanent
Danny Bolella (Reddit): If you read the comments on my articles or browse the iOS subreddits, there is a vocal contingent of developers betting that Apple is going to roll back Liquid Glass. […] I shared this exact sentiment with the Apple team. Their reaction? Genuine shock. They were actually concerned that developers were holding […]
Disk Image Performance With macOS 26.3.1
Howard Oakley: This table summarises read and write performance of the most popular types of disk image prior to macOS Tahoe, and demonstrates how sparse bundles have consistently performed best and most consistently, and sparse images (now dropped from Disk Utility’s options) fare worst, particularly when encrypted. Howard Oakley: Although most of the test results […]