https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/28/apple-pay-transit-us-citieshttps://www.octopus.com.hk/en/consumer/octopus-cards/products/cross-border/china-t-union.html That’s actually how I read the MacRumors article yesterday: only 12? What happened? Apple holds more than half the US smartphone market (and under 20% in China). Yet after all these...
How I built a routing proxy that brings Google’s TurboQuant compression to hybrid-attention models running locally on a Mac. A month ago, Google published a blog post about a paper...
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat Just got around to sort this out. I only use my spare Win 11 computer for watching YouTube and stock/crypto charts, but still don’t like having other bloatware installed....
https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/apple-airtag-2-review It’s been nearly five years since Apple first launched the AirTag. True to form, Apple arrived late to the item tracker market—but has completely dominated it ever since. Before...
I have a few computers, still prefer desktop with big screens and only use my MacBook Air if I have to travel around. I hope Apple will one day make...
I stopped using the Perplexity app on macOS. It lacks many obvious features like downloading assets and deleting Recent searches directly from the list view, etc. Switched over to use...
https://www.soundguys.com/apple-airpods-pro-3-vs-airpods-pro-2-145016https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-replaced-my-airpods-max-with-the-airpods-pro-3-for-flights-and-its-been-a-game-changer/ SoundGuys.com did a great technical review of the new AirPods Pro 3 vs AirPods 2 and other top earbuds. “The AirPods Pro 3 offer the best ANC performance we’ve...
I am just too lazy to move my Numbers spreadsheet to Excel. So it is harder to automate.Here is an AppleScript snippet that can help with copy and pasting data...
Recently had this problem with my HomePod, it started playing music randomly and then get stuck on the reset loop after I tried to unplug and plug it back in....
Starting to write my WWDC25 wishlist #WWDC25 Wishlist: Can Apple fix m4b import into Books app? ePub works fine and can sync across to all devices with iCloud, but not...
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony Jony Ive made a lot of money since leaving Apple, more than what he could have made at Apple. $6.5B is a great deal for him, the new entity...
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/12/mac-studio-with-512gb-ram-delivery-delayhttps://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1j8r2nr/m3_ultra_512gb_does_18ts_with_deepseek_r1_671b_q4/https://x.com/alexocheema/status/1899735281781411907 Whoever says Apple is not focused on AI, you are wrong. Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB is the proof of that. A big leap from maximum 196GB RAM of...
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino Not disagreeing that the delay in Siri features was disappointing. But John Gruber shouldn’t get so upset about these. Apple is a hardware company and they make the bulk...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-06/apple-s-three-year-modem-road-map-company-plans-to-beat-qualcomm-by-2027https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/apples-c1-modem-in-the-iphone-16e-is-proof-that-we-dont-need-qualcomm-for-5ghttps://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-reveals-first-custom-modem-chip-shifting-away-qualcomm-2025-02-19/ Apple isn’t the first one to make their own 5G modems, in fact they are late to the game. Samsung and Huawei both have their own modem chips. Other...
Just to share some of the tips and tricks when using Apple Numbers. I am not crazy, I mostly use Numbers for personal spreadsheets, not for work. It’s free and...
In Terminal, do this: One little annoyance of using Apple Remote Desktop to control other computers around the house. Of course, in corporate/work settings, you should leave it on so...
I have upgraded all my current devices to iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1. You will see Apple Intelligence and Siri in Settings. It will prompt you if your computer and...
Spotlight stopped working after I upgraded to macOS 15 Sequoia. I noticed the error when I can no longer find installed apps with just a few keystrokes; I know spotlight...
https://medium.com/@eplt/how-to-upgrade-to-ios-15-from-betas-or-rc-version-3054cb07e561 Reminder, if you have been using iOS 18 beta, it’s time to switch off the Beta update toggle before the GM version. Usually, GM will be the final released...
Been a while since I last played with Python. But want to start automating some of my daily web data tasks and add a bit of local AI to it....
Another year. Another update cycle. Still expecting Apple to release 8 betas before final release. Very similar timing to previous years’ schedule. Beta 5 should be stable enough to play...
https://magnet.crowdcafe.com https://rectangleapp.com Another year. Another few useful features being added to the OS. Yes, doesn’t seem fair to the devs who built these in the past few years. Their innovation...
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/enable-auto-darklight-mode-on-windows-11/6eedeff9-47f7-4822-a872-84dc08a6e5d0 iOS, Android, MacOS, all have auto dark mode. Why is it so hard for Windows to just copy this?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/openai-gpt4o-siri-iphone/678371/ It is funny to see how tech media seems to think Apple is totally out of the AI game. “OpenAI just killed Siri”? As if Apple will just give...
#WWDC24 Wishlist: Will Apple ever give us better access to HeathKit in Shortcuts. For example, to check when was the last time I took a particular pill and set reminders...
Every year, around May or so, I write up my wish list for the upcoming WWDC. Been doing it for a few years. Used to tweet them out, but as...
Found time to play with Apple Vision Pro in the office yesterday. Is it too hyped up? Expected too much? How did it compare with my Pico4 Pro? Very well...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/ EU is “leading” the change, probably because #Spotify is European? They lobby hard enough for this. And EU, wanting to show muscle against US dominance, pushing for something that...
https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/ Apple is taking the lead to push ahead with post quantum cryptography. When they have full control of their ecosystem, they can dare to try out new new tech....
