7 points by slavomirvojacek 5 days ago | 0 comments
Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator(michelf.ca) From the perspective of a color blind person, some colors are impossible to distinguish. Sim Daltonism lets you visualize colors as they are perceived with various types of color blindness. Use the camera on your iOS device, or use the Mac app to filter a region of the screen.
Apple unveils new Mac Studio(apple.com) Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip.
Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives(downtowndougbrown.com) As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s.
I cannot believe there's no way to use a 27" 2015 iMac as a second display(macrumors.com) It just seems totally INSANE that there's no way to use an iMac 27" 2015 as a display without hardware hacks. In 2025. I don't need high FPS or anything. I mean, the iMac and the MacBook are on the same network, surely there is some solution which works over the local network.
Last Week on My Mac: A boot mystery solved?(eclecticlight.co) When Apple silicon Macs were first released, they brought a new secure boot process with a huge advantage over that of T2 Intel Macs: it was possible to boot them from an external disk without affecting their security.
Mac Mini M4 Pro Display Resolutions(apple.com) I have a MacBook Pro M1, and a 5k LG monitor with 5120 x 2160 res. When I use it I can use the "default" setting which is 3840 x 1620 and it is perfect for me.
BBEdit for Log Analysis(scottwillsey.com) Long-time Mac users will undoubtedly have heard of BBEdit. BBEdit is the favorite Mac text editor of many old Mac users1 for various types of writing, including programming, notes, articles, and basically any type of writing Mac nerds can do.
A brief history of Mac ports: low speed(eclecticlight.co) Like most computers, Apple’s Macs have had five main types of port to allow them to be connected to external devices: low speed intended commonly for keyboards and other input devices, high speed often for connection to external storage, display, network, and audio. This brief history concentrates on the first of those.
M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS(eclecticlight.co) If you’ve already got a new M4 Mac and tried to run a macOS virtual machine on it, then you might have been disappointed. It seems that M4 chips can’t virtualise any version of macOS before 13.4 Ventura. So before you trade in or pass on your M1, M2 or M3 Mac, if you need access to older VMs, you might like to check whether this affects you.
178 points by Brajeshwar 137 days ago | 158 comments
M4 MacBook Pro Uses Quantum Dot Display Technology(macrumors.com) The M4 MacBook Pro models feature quantum dot display technology, according to display analyst Ross Young. Apple used a quantum dot film instead of a red KSF phosphor film, a change that provides more vibrant, accurate color results.
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Mac Now Works with Xcode(macrumors.com) The ChatGPT app for Mac is now able to integrate with coding apps like Xcode, VS Code, TextEdit, and Terminal, simplifying workflows where developers copy and paste their code from a coding app into ChatGPT.
M4 Mac mini's efficiency(jeffgeerling.com) I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on the Pi 5 and testing a 192-core AmpereOne server to quickly post on the M4's efficiency.