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    Apple Daily Tech Support Thread - [June 08]

    Daily Tech Support Thread - [June 08]

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 08:11 AM PDT

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    Apple’s new sign-in button is built for a post-Cambridge Analytica world

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 08:54 AM PDT

    LinusTechTips on why the Apple Monitor Stand is actually reasonable

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 04:42 PM PDT

    [Discussion] I truly hope Sign in with Apple replaces App Specific Passwords

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 09:27 PM PDT

    Just my thoughts and hopes because currently, it's just too much work to get logged into some apps. If I want to log my iCloud account into an app, I first remember that I have to visit appleid.apple.com to request a password, but if I don't remember to do so...

    • Enter Email
    • Enter Password
    • Be told it's incorrect though I know it's correct
    • Figure out I need to visit appleid.apple.com
    • Input email address & password I just entered previously and was told it was incorrect
    • Receive two-factor authentication code, remember it and enter it
    • Go to Security - App Specific Password section - Generate Password
    • Fight with tap and hold to select the text of code and copy
    • Switch back to the app and paste code
    • Logged in

    Where as Sign in with Apple could simply bypass all these steps with its random email creation and I'm signed in all within one or two steps.

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    [OC] How Apple is managing OLED-like performance from the Pro Display XDR

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 08:12 AM PDT

    Apple claims OLED-like and Reference-level performance out of their 10bit IPS Display. So how are they doing it?

    After some searching, I came across a patent they filed in 2016

    This is a fascinating patent, as it suggests Apple has made an entirely custom double-IPS panel. If you take a look at the cross section of the custom Apple panel, we see something fascinating. There is a A SECOND IPS PANEL near the backlight, enabling significantly better "light shaping" by allowing them to significantly dim specific screen areas at the pixel level rather than solely relying on 526 microLED's for Full Array Local Dimming.

    I'm also guessing that the back panel is actually a monochrome IPS display, finely tuned to filter out the blue wavelengths from, the Blue backlight Apple is using. They use blue LED's rather than white ones because you can achieve finer control of the light output based on voltage/current input, for better granular control).

    The patent also details Apple's custom image processing stack, showing how the incoming data is parsed and shipped off to the various layers of the display, in incredible detail!. It appears that Apple is splitting the image into two parts. The image designated for the "back panel" / Lighting is split into 3 parts -- a downsampled image so it can be processed quickly (this needs to be done 60 times / second). Then algorithms modify the frame slightly, based on how the backlight will shine through the rear panel, and produce an upsampled image. This information is used by the miniLED backlight for local dimming, and the upsampled, modified frame is sent to the rear IPS display for fine tuning the "light shaping", to assist the front panel. This enables the light to shine brighter on "HDR regions" of the screen, while eliminating backlight bleed for the dark areas, achieving very close to OLED black levels.

    Finally, the normal color image is sent to the "front panel". Thanks to the intermediate diffusers, polarizers, and more, the carefully aligned light going through the two sandwiched layers is combined, ending its journey when it meets your eyeballs. And now you now know the secret sauce for how Apple managed OLED-like performance. :D Both panels, as well as the miniLED backlight must be properly calibrated for this to work well.

    It should be noted that this type of dual-layer screen is very hard to do without atrocious lighting, bloom, consistency, and color issues, as well as general image artifacting. It's been attempted, but has only previously been commercially available with Medical Grade monochrome displays for Xray reading. It's really impressive that Apple managed to do It with a full color HDR display, and achieve reference levels of calibration on such a high density display. A company named HiSense also managed to do something similar in a TV (much lower pixel density) and showed It off at CES 2019. Not sure it's on sale yet, though.

    Edit: added some more details. formatting.

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    iOS is the leading mobile OS in America!

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 02:13 PM PDT

    Progress is being made in MoltenVK development, which could allow to play Windows DirectX 11 games (like Witcher 3) on macOS

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 10:23 PM PDT

    Best Buy currently has some Apple products on sale and it ends Sunday.

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 07:57 PM PDT

    I bought an iPad Pro for $999 before the sale but if you have a credit card like the Citi DoubleCash one, they have a price rewind option where you get the difference back if you find a lower priced one. So I'm getting back $150.

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    I launched appletricks.co - A collection of useful hidden or unknown features for apple devices

    Posted: 09 Jun 2019 12:27 AM PDT

    Apple Store designer submits plans to redevelop Notre Dame with glass roof and spire

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 08:53 PM PDT

    The makers of Duet Display and Luna on life after Apple’s Sidecar

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 12:07 PM PDT

    Do you hate annoying chat widgets? I made a Safari blocker to block them.

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 10:00 AM PDT

    Why has USB-C adoption been such a problem despite the new MBPs?

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 06:32 AM PDT

    In the past, Apple made the transition to multiple different standards and killed off obsolete ports successfully. I am unsure why USB-C adoption has been such a problem? Is there a difference between the transition to USB-C from past standards? (Besides the port itself)

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    iOS app developers taking shortcuts on security

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 02:48 PM PDT

    Apple to buy Drive.ai in bid for more autonomous vehicle talent

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 05:33 AM PDT

    Try out macOS Catalina while keeping Mojave with shared storage

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 01:56 AM PDT

    Here’s what creatives think of the new Mac Pro

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 02:09 AM PDT

    Meet Swish, a gesture-based window manager for the Mac trackpad power user [Self Promotion Saturday]

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 10:19 AM PDT

    Hey there!

    ​

    I'm the developer of Swish, a macOS utility app that lets you control windows and applications with intuitive two-finger swipe, pinch, tap and hold gestures on window titlebars and dock icons. This includes quitting, closing, (un)minimizing, going fullscreen as well as window snapping to a 2x2 and 2x3 grid and in between screens.

    ​

    It's not only faster than any dragging-based window manager, especially on a multi-monitor setup, and includes many advanced features like gesture chaining and a reactive grid, but also solves the macOS Dock's minimizing problem.

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    Showing works better than telling, so here it is in action. Unfortunately, it's not on the App Store, but you can download a free trial from the first link above.

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    Cheers, Chris

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    Grim London - not your typical app for tourists! [Self Promotion Saturday]

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 07:12 AM PDT

    I'm super proud to present the next app from my 64 year old mother, who self taught herself programming in multiple languages (on iOS, Mac, and Windows!) after her retirement and now develops apps for fun! šŸ¤Æ

    She also refuses to do any promotion of them šŸ¤¦‍♂️, because she's way too modest - so here I am doing it for her... šŸ˜¬

    ​

    This is what she had to say about it (only in a slightly more polite and edited form):

    London always attracted attention of history geeks - however typical itinerary of a tourist is limited to the same few landmarks like The Tower, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and perhaps Hampton Court.

    People spend time in a great city without even realising that it is likely that the streets they are walking on, the hotels they are staying in, the pubs they are drinking in - all could have been the setting for exuberant passions of yesteryear: jealousy, murders, poisonings, and executions. Not all of these events are widely known and left a mark in the history of London, but it doesn't make them any less interesting.

    I was always interested in discovering evidence of these past events in our present, in making old stones tell the human story. For this app I have selected stories from the 700 years of London history (starting from the 14th century), traced the evidence for each and put it on the map, wrote articles about each event, added photographs made on the streets and in the buildings of present day London and archival illustrations / engravings of the protagonists of the stories (if they exist). And now I am offering Grim London to anyone who loves this city and its history.

    Download the app and discover unusual London for yourself!

    ​

    Website for Grim London

    App Store page

    Compatible with and tested on iOS 12 (both iPhones and iPads).

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    Tim Cook CBS News interview

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 05:43 AM PDT

    What benefits do professionals see with large cache sizes?

    Posted: 09 Jun 2019 01:59 AM PDT

    I was looking at the processors that Apple included in the new Mac Pro and it appears that apple has gone for the Xeon's variants with the largest or near the largest amount of cache for each respective core count. What applications do professional use that would require say 25 mb of cache over 11mb on an 8 core cpu. The increased cache sizes in conjunction with slightly increased clock speeds come with large commensurate price increases for the boxed cpus, so I was wonder why apple would do this and what benefit would users notice in their workflows. Is there a particular workflow that would strongly benefit from a large amount of cache?

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    There's an app that lets you customize your Mac's Spaces, name them, jump to a specific one by name, and track how you spend time across them (and your apps), called CurrentKey Stats in the Mac App Store [Self Promotion Saturday]

    Posted: 08 Jun 2019 06:52 AM PDT

    Hello everyone! I've been working on CurrentKey for a year or so and launched last month - it's free to download from the Mac App Store (with a pro-feature IAP). All feedback is welcome, and I'm excited to share it with you on this Self Promotion Saturday!

    First: it features privacy-first design (all of your data always stays locally on your machine).

    As its name implies, the app offers a plethora of ways to track your app-usage stats, but there's a twist I'll describe first:

    The app offers extensive virtual desktop management features (Mac calls them Spaces). Not only can you give them names in the app, but you can also assign custom icons to them, and jump directly between them from a dropdown menu. Because Apple lets you have up to 16 Spaces per screen, this is handy in navigating between them.

    Stats: you can optionally sort app usage by the Space you were in, so if you have mulitple projects, you can see what you were doing in each specific one. There are 48-hour (bar and pie charts), 7-day (bar and pie charts) for free. There's also a Pro upgrade for 30-Day (bar and pie charts), 2-week (hour-by-hour, weekly comparison chart), and the ability to export all graphs as CSV reports (it's slick).

    Here's a link to CurrentKey's homepage.

    Please give it a shot, tell me what you think, and how to improve it! I plan on continuing to work on this -- it's a passion project, so I don't expect or need to make a lot of money from it.

    If you're curious about my experience in writing it in Swift, I wrote about that here, and have Part 2 coming (based off a talk I gave this week). Cheers! Spencer

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    Wouldn't it be cool if apple completely refined its mac lineup?

    Posted: 09 Jun 2019 12:59 AM PDT

    Apples mac lineup has become so confusing to the effect that it's a chore to determine which mac has the most value or is more suitable for your needs.

    I feel first of all, that the macbook and macbook air should both be called the 12" and 13" macbook. It's likely consumers who like this product don't mind soldered in RAM and flash memory, shallow keyboards and limited thermal performance, which have really been the setbacks of the macbook pro line. Imagine a macbook pro that is thicker, with better thermal performance that caters for user upgradability and repairability.

    Secondly, but a far less substantial argument to be honest, I feel like there is a niche that needs to be filled and that is the semi-pro. A system more modular than the imac pro, more powerful than the mac mini but less expensive (and I guess less powerful) than the new (and awesome ) mac pro. A modern day power mac for example?

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    What are your thoughts?

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