Arun Venkatesan takes a deep dive into the design and engineering behind the new Mac Pro: Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, this week in San Jose. In the keynote, aside from a slew of developer-focused software announcements, one new hardware announcement has attracted the most attention, the 2019 Mac Pro and Pro Display […]
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Hide menu bar icons on your Mac with Vanilla
Like Bartender, but – as far as my experience goes – with a few quirks: After having redragged some items you’ll have to open the options for it to collapse properly When having a dual-display setup, only one of the toolbars is collapsed, the other one remains open. Vanilla →
Using Subsurface with a Suunto Vyper on macOS (OS X)
Profile of one of the dives I did in the Maldives, displayed using Subsurface Download the Virtual COM Port Drivers and reboot your iDevice. After that Subsurface should recognise your Suunto Vyper. As a diver one logs all his/her dives into a paper logbook. In the paper logbook one generally notes things like the gear […]
TouchBar Nyan Cat
Stupid Nyan Cat animation on your +$2k MacBook Pro’s Touchbar. Enjoy. TouchBar Nyan Cat → UPDATE 10/11/2016: Of course it didn’t take too long either for a TouchBar Farting App to appear in the wild 💩
Day-O 2
Yesterday Shaun Inman released version 2 of the aforementioned Day-O for use with the most recent macOS versions. It’s been five years to the day since I released the original Day-O, a simple menu bar clock replacement with a simple icon and an equally simple fly-out calendar for your Mac. So simple. So clever. So […]
CURVED/labs: A Facelift for the Macintosh
The Macintosh is a computer with history: with its first desktop computer “Lisa” Apple showed more than 30 years ago not only what was technically possible – the design of the iMac & Co. regularly causes stir. For CURVED/labs a good reason to develop a pioneering anniversary model for Apple that can not deny its […]
Emoji in Chrome on Mac / OS X
Over the weekend an important set of commits (this one amongst others) landed in Chromium, enabling Emoji in Chrome on OS X, and – after 4 years – marking the bug “Emoji does not display in webpage contents on OS X Lion+” as fixed. When using Canary, things like The Pile Of Poo Test will […]
Bartender
Bartender lets you organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to Bartender’s Bar. You can display the full menu bar, set options to have menu bar items show in the menu bar when they have updated, or have them always visible in Bartender’s Bar. Bartender → (via @Inferis)
Making the all new Mac Pro
Impressive video of how the new Mac Pro is built/assembled: Here’s the direct link in case the embed above shouldn’t work.
Office for Mac 2011 Retina update not working — Fix!
Today Microsoft released a Retina update for the entire Office for Mac suite. After installing it however the apps still opened in non-retina mode. A reboot didn’t help either. Turns out Microsoft forgot to change the modification date of each Office for Mac app, a date which Finder uses to detect any changes — such […]