macOS 13 Under The Hood - The Merger
10/08/22 12:00
macOS 13 Under The Hood - The Merger
The many new bugs introduced in the recent betas of macOS 13 "Ventura" have show some very interesting details of what is Apple doing under the hood, and what implications these modifications have for developers. Read More…
The many new bugs introduced in the recent betas of macOS 13 "Ventura" have show some very interesting details of what is Apple doing under the hood, and what implications these modifications have for developers. Read More…
User Interface Murks - Spam in Music
10/02/22 16:14
Episode 3 - Apple Spam in macOS "Music.app"
While macOS 12.2 doesn't really fix any of the bugs we have reported to Apple in the last 10 years, reports came in that the really buggy "Apple Music.app" was supposed to be rewritten in a way, hopefully with less bugs this time.
But when we launched version "1.2.2.40", we were very dismayed to see that Apple Spam has crept into that app as well. Read More…
While macOS 12.2 doesn't really fix any of the bugs we have reported to Apple in the last 10 years, reports came in that the really buggy "Apple Music.app" was supposed to be rewritten in a way, hopefully with less bugs this time.
But when we launched version "1.2.2.40", we were very dismayed to see that Apple Spam has crept into that app as well. Read More…
Don't tag your photos with Apple Photos.app!
27/09/21 08:22
Don't tag your photos with Apple Photos.app!
The free Photos.app that Apple installs in your macOS is a nice and simple photo editor and organizer.
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All these bugs make it almost impossible to actually use that exported metadata in most other applications, besides NeoFinder. Read More…
The free Photos.app that Apple installs in your macOS is a nice and simple photo editor and organizer.
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All these bugs make it almost impossible to actually use that exported metadata in most other applications, besides NeoFinder. Read More…
User Interface Murks - Apple preys on vulnerable users
11/03/21 07:49
Episode 2 - Apple preys on vulnerable iOS users
After updating an iPhone to iOS 14, I was very dismayed to see this screen here when I launched the Wallet.app from Apple: Read More…
After updating an iPhone to iOS 14, I was very dismayed to see this screen here when I launched the Wallet.app from Apple: Read More…
User Interface Murks - Apple Window Stew
03/02/21 17:52
User Interface Murks
Designing and building user interfaces for software is hard. Really hard. And yes, even very large companies with lots of resources can get this very wrong.
Time to learn a new German word: Murks. The closest english term is "botched". In this blog, we will show you such cases, and what can be done to fix them, both from the developers point of view, as well as from the user perspective.
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Designing and building user interfaces for software is hard. Really hard. And yes, even very large companies with lots of resources can get this very wrong.
Time to learn a new German word: Murks. The closest english term is "botched". In this blog, we will show you such cases, and what can be done to fix them, both from the developers point of view, as well as from the user perspective.
Read More…
Another macOS bug in Image Capture
22/04/20 16:40
Another macOS bug in Image Capture and others
Note: This post has been rewritten and updated with new information on May 5, 2020.
How Apple is filling your hard drive with empty data.
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Note: This post has been rewritten and updated with new information on May 5, 2020.
How Apple is filling your hard drive with empty data.
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Apples Notarizing Hell
22/02/20 14:14
The Gates to Hell: Apples Notarizing
At WWDC 2018, Apple introduced a new "security" feature to macOS called Notarizing.
This announcement did concern and puzzle me a lot. Didn't we already have the super safe and amazing "codesigning", which was stuffed down our throats with Mac OS X 10.7? This codesigning was supposed to prevent dangerous code of unknown origin from being executed on your Mac.
But the introduction of codesigning by Apple was a total fiasco, riddled with bugs, failing developer tools, missing integrations, no documentation at all, and many other problems, and it took Apple four full years to get it to work more often than not.
And yes, that process was called codesigning hell, and for good reasons.
And now Notarizing.
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At WWDC 2018, Apple introduced a new "security" feature to macOS called Notarizing.
This announcement did concern and puzzle me a lot. Didn't we already have the super safe and amazing "codesigning", which was stuffed down our throats with Mac OS X 10.7? This codesigning was supposed to prevent dangerous code of unknown origin from being executed on your Mac.
But the introduction of codesigning by Apple was a total fiasco, riddled with bugs, failing developer tools, missing integrations, no documentation at all, and many other problems, and it took Apple four full years to get it to work more often than not.
And yes, that process was called codesigning hell, and for good reasons.
And now Notarizing.
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NeoFinder Coffee Talks
22/07/19 14:05
NeoFinder Coffee Talks
Since the initial release of CDFinder 1.0 in 1996, a lot of the really cool stuff in this wonderful software only came to life because someone dared to ask "wouldn't it be nice if NeoFinder could do…"
Feedback was always incredibly important for the development of CDFinder and NeoFinder, and we want to bring that to the next level.
In the NeoFinder Coffee Talk, we will tell you what we are planning for NeoFinder in the future, and what we are working on. You can tell us how you use NeoFinder, what questions you have, and what feedback and suggestions. All while we drink a nice cup of coffee.
And what is best? The NeoFinder Coffee Talks are free.
Find Space Eaters!
22/04/19 14:02
Find Space Eaters!
So you have that shiny new and ultra fast SSD (solid state disk) in your Mac, enjoying its blazing speed, and then disaster strikes:
The disk is full!
How can that happen?
The super fast SSD usually have a smaller capacity than regular and slower hard disks. But even those can quickly fill up, and you may wonder where all that space went.
Well, no more wonders. NeoFinder knows!
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So you have that shiny new and ultra fast SSD (solid state disk) in your Mac, enjoying its blazing speed, and then disaster strikes:
The disk is full!
How can that happen?
The super fast SSD usually have a smaller capacity than regular and slower hard disks. But even those can quickly fill up, and you may wonder where all that space went.
Well, no more wonders. NeoFinder knows!
Read More…