In case you missed it, GM is planning to ditch CarPlay in all of its future EVs starting next year....

The White House has announced a plan intended to improve the security of smart home tech. The government will test...

According to the Wall Street Journal, iPhone users are increasingly finding reasons to choose Apple Maps over Google Maps, with some customers commending its clear public transport directions and visually appealing design.

I had to remove Huffington Post on my desktop Apple News feed. Advertorials have been the bulk of their pushed content. I looked today, and the eight articles that were pinned at the top of the app were all advertisements.

Has it always been this bad with HuffPo?

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Questions been asked to death, but I'm looking into getting the base macmin with 256 gig. But, should I opt for the 16 gig ram upgrade? Current PC use has been using it for gaming, maya, blender, photoshop, and davinci resolve. I'm coming from a PC with 32 gigs of ram, and I don't think I do anything particularly crazy intensive, and won't be using the macmini for games. I also want to run some programs an external SSD. How well does Mac mini handle that?

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I was airdropping some recent vacation pictures to my MBP from my wife's iPhone 13 Pro and noticed that most files ended up being around 2MB in size which I thought was very small.

Started doing some experimenting and discovered the following:

When selecting a set of pictures in Photos on Mac or an iPhone and selecting Share - Airdrop to another Mac or iPhone, the pictures are compressed 5-fold. (they go from 10MB to 2MB).

When selecting the same set of pictures in Photos on Mac or an iPhone, exporting them to a folder, and then selecting that folder and using Share - Airdrop to another Mac or iPhone, the pictures are not compressed. (file size unchanged).

After doing some research, I found out that two settings need to be adjusted on your iPhone. One, you need to go to Settings > Photos, and under Transfer to Mac and PC, select Keep Originals (that's a permanent setting). Two, and that is not a permanent setting, you have to do it every single time (totally stupid imo), when you are tapping the Share icon, before you tap AirDrop, look for the Options button at the top of the Share sheet, select that, and toggle on All Photos Data (that option does not exist in Photos on a Mac or at least I can't find it). Doing the two will result in full-sized pictures via AirDrop.

Pretty annoying that this is so convoluted and now I finally know why we sent low-quality photos to friends in the past.

The Mac Mini M2 Pro is the best fucking computer I have ever owned. I wish I had forked out a bit more and got a Mac Studio. It would 100% have been worth it. I've been using this thing for a couple of months now and I still can't get over just how fucking good it is.

It doesn't break a sweat when I'm running a typical workload. I can have multiple documents open, multiple browsers with multiple tabs, a couple of VM's running in Parallels, Notes, Outlook, PRTG, Remote Desktop Software, Terminals, Calendar, Discord, Teams, and any other shit I might need to open all running simultaneously and this thing doesn't break a sweat with everything displaying damn-near instantly the second I click on it or need it.
And VM's run like a dream on this thing.

I wouldn't even know I was running Linux or Windows 11 in a VM. It feels like it's running on native hardware.
It's just such a fucking good computer I can't fucking believe it.

There are just a few downsides to it for me:

Cost. It's fucking expensive. Customising you mac with additionial RAM and Storage feels like a rort. (But it would have been worth it even so)
RAM: I wish I had more RAM so I could run more VM's with more RAM simultaneously.
Cores: I wish I had more CPU cores for the same reason I wish I had more RAM. More simultaneous VM's running.
Storage: I wish Apple weren't such pricks about storage and would just give me 8TB for a reasonable price.

I purchased the base model Mac Mini M2 Pro because it was my first foray into Apple shit and macOS. Fuck me, I wish I had known how fucking good it was earlier and I would have forked out double for a Mac Studio with an M2 Max and 64GB RAM. Ideally, I would want around 24+ Cores and 128GB RAM and the Ultra can pull that off... But somewhere deep down I feel uncomfortable about spending that much on a computer. $4000 would really be a sweet spot for me and a dream for something the equivalent of an M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 128GB RAM. I would just use a NAS for my storage needs. I'm excited to see what the future brings and if they release an M3 Max Studio that has 128GB+ of unified memory and a core count approaching 20+ I'll be buying it day one.

Using a computer that actually helps me get work done and achieve the things I want to achieve on my hardware, while being able to do it quick and responsively has been a game-changer for me. I've never had this experience before, where the computer I'm using is actually behaving in a way that makes it a tool that's not just "able to get the job done", but is able to get the job done well without wasting my time and energy while I wait for things to open, or load, or process, or parse... It's night and day.

I can never go back.

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I'm new to this whole #apple development thing.

Am I right in thinking that I need to upgrade to the MacOS 14.0 beta to use the new SwiftData apis?

How bad an idea is it to use that beta on my laptop?

Is it safe to assume that 90%+ of users quickly upgrade to new MacOS versions after they're released?

My Photo Stream is shutting down on July 26, 2023. Learn more about this transition and how to keep your photos up to date across all your devices and safely stored in iCloud.

Apple today released the fourth beta of macOS Ventura 13.5 to its public beta testing group, allowing the general public to try out the software...

• iPhone 7.99% APR for 24 months
• Mac 4.99% APR for 12 months
• iPad 4.99% APR for 12 months

To promote the finale of popular Apple TV+ science fiction series Silo, Apple today shared the full first episode of the series on Twitter. Taking...

Advanced macOS command-line tools (spotted on Hacker News). Some pretty neat tools, e.g., textutil to convert between different document formats.

Samsung today announced that its ViewFinity S9 external monitor is now available to pre-order in South Korea, and will launch in the country on July...

Here's how to do it and tips to keep in mind along the way.

... The air quality index seems to be defined relative to the country from which one accesses the air quality map.

Check In automatically and let your family and friends know when you've gotten home safely.

I have an an called BBC Sounds on my phone, which lets me stream BBC radio stations. I also use it in the car sometimes.

But Carplay has decided for some reason that this is my default music app, not Apple Music.

So if I say "Hey Siri, play some music". It will reply "Now playing music on BBC Sounds" - and immediately fail.

So I have to keep saying "Hey Siri, play music on Apple Music" - which gets a bit old. Any ideas?

This step-by-step guide with screenshots covers how to use iPhone Screen Distance in iOS 17 to prevent eye strain and myopia.

Turns out, running is a mental sport.

"Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7," the company says when describing Kernel and WebKit vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2023-32434 and CVE-2023-32435.

Starting with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma, users with an Apple ID will automatically be assigned a passkey, allowing them to sign into their Apple ID with Face ID or Touch ID instead of their password.

• On June 21st, parts for the iPhone 14 line, Macbook Air M2, and Macbook Pro M2 will be available
• You no longer have to call Apple after repairing your device to 'configure your system'

Covers macOS 14 Sonoma, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17, including feature-specific requirements.

Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland – one of dozens of countries where it's flexing its legal muscles.