SpamSieve 3.2.1 is a maintenance release of my Mac e-mail spam filter. This fixes the previously mentioned problem with AppleScript timeouts and POP accounts on macOS Tahoe 26. I found a workaround, but it’s still a mystery exactly what was causing the problem. First, why was AppleScript delaying and then timing out rather than just […]

EagleFiler 1.9.19 is a maintenance release of my Mac digital filing cabinet and e-mail archiving app. Importing from DEVONthink works again. They’ve changed some terminology, but EagleFiler’s import AppleScript didn’t have to change. EagleFiler just didn’t know—until now—how to recognize DEVONthink because its bundle identifier changed. I had thought that macOS Sequoia was when opening […]

Ashley Oliver (Hacker News, MSN, The Verge, 9to5Mac): Apple dropped ICEBlock, a widely used tracking tool, from its App Store Thursday after the Department of Justice raised concerns with the big tech giant that the app put law enforcement officers at risk.[…]Controversy surrounding ICE tracking apps intensified after last month’s deadly shooting at an ICE […]

Jen Simmons et al. (Mastodon): For the last 17 years, if the website had the specific meta tag or Web Application Manifest display value in it’s code, when a user added it to their Home Screen on iOS or iPadOS, tapping its icon opened it as a web app. If the website was not configured […]

Tahoe Mac app icons are supposed to have margins/padding so that there’s empty space around the edge of the squircle. The opaque pixels don’t touch the edge of the canvas. Icon Composer and Xcode handle this detail for you. You design your icon without having to worry about the margin, and Xcode automatically adds it […]