Archive for the 'Macintosh' Category
Monday, October 7th, 2019
Today’s the day! Apple is releasing macOS 10.15 Catalina. All of the shipping versions of our apps have been tested and updated for Catalina. Please let us know if you run into any issues which we didn’t catch in our own testing.
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Thursday, September 5th, 2019
I’ve been helping out when I can with the NetNewsWire open source project. Recently, Brent shared one of only a couple crash reports he’s received, in which the only plausible explanation would be if the app’s own internal files had failed to load. I recognized the likely cause of the problem immediately, because … After […]
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Friday, August 24th, 2012
Today I went to launch VMware 4.1.0 on my OS X 10.8.1 Mac and was met with this surprising refusal to open: Well, that’s interesting. Mac OS X supports the ability for applications to specify in their “Info.plist” files the minimum system version they require, but as far as I know there are no keys […]
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. To access the Library folder, users must now hold down the option key while selecting the “Go” menu in the Finder. This is probably a […]
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