Best of Apple — June 2022
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Martian Chronicles·4y
How to make absolutely any app look like a macOS app — Martian Chronicles
Many of the features and concepts below also apply to Windows apps. Having similar design conventions allows for a more “seamless” experience for our users. The consistency of appearance that comes from an app which appears to have a “native” design also carries a more credible feel.
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Hacker News·4y
Facebook Says Apple is Too Powerful. They're Right.
Apple changed how iOS handled users’ privacy preferences. Users could indicate that they don’t want to be tracked by any of the apps on their devices. If they did, Apple would block those apps from harvesting users' data. According to Facebook, empowering Apple’s users to opt out of tracking cost the company $10,000,000 in the first year.
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New UUID Formats
Modern applications have a need to create and utilize UUIDs as the primary identifier for a variety of different items in complex computational systems. UUID versions 1-5 lack certain other desirable characteristics. Privacy and network security issues arise from using a MAC address in the node field of Version 1 Uuids. Exposed MAC addresses can be used as an attack surface to locate machines.
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Apple Developer·4y
Get ready for Developer Mode
Make sure to enable Developer Mode on your device when testing apps on iOS 16, iPadOS 16, or watchOS 9 or later. Developer Mode protects people from inadvertently installing potentially harmful software on their devices. It also reduces attack vectors exposed by developer-only functionality on these platforms.
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The Hacker News·4y
MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can't Be Patched
A novel hardware attack dubbed PACMAN has been demonstrated against Apple's M1 processor chipsets. The vulnerability is rooted in pointer authentication codes (PACs), a line of defense introduced in arm64e architecture. PACs aim to solve a common problem in software security, such as memory corruption vulnerabilities.
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Apple unveils M2 with breakthrough performance and capabilities
Apple unveils M2, taking the breakthrough performance and capabilities of M1 even further. M2 has an 18 percent faster CPU, a 35 percent more powerful GPU, and a 40 percent faster Neural Engine. It also delivers 50 percent more memory bandwidth compared to M1 and up to 24GB of fast unified memory.
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Welcome to the M1 Windows project
m1windowsproject Project maintained by amarioguy Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham.Welcome to the M1 Windows project. The goal is to run Windows on Apple’s M1 chip (and hopefully future Apple silicon chips too given tweaks to the foundation!).