Jack Baty (Mastodon): Some former Nik Software people are building a new tool for managing photo libraries. It’s called Aspect. I’m a sucker for any photo-related software, so I installed the beta and spent yesterday testing it. I took some notes after using it for a day.First impressions were good. I like the ideas behind Aspect. […]

Glenn Fleishman: When you enter an email address or type one into the address field in Messages, the software does a quick behind-the-scenes check. Messages tries to determine if the address is associated with an active iCloud account. As you accept or paste in an address, you might notice that it always briefly lights up […]

Mason Freed (Hacker News): XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart from the old version frozen into browsers. This lack of advancement, coupled with the rise of JavaScript libraries and frameworks that offer more flexible and […]

Parachute Apps: Parachute is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—to your own storage, giving you peace of mind and full control.[…]Originals, edits, and live photos are all preserved. Even your Shared Albums![…]Avoid filling up your Mac’s hard drive with intelligent storage management. Parachute […]

Howard Oakley: Preview has had more than its fair share of bugs in handling PDF annotations. During my research for this article, Preview 11.0 (1069.7.1) in macOS 15.6 was generally well behaved, but did mangle comments added to a test document by PDF Expert and Adobe Acrobat. Preview has two behaviours that can appear disconcerting: […]