Mac - Oliver Pifferi

iCloud’s new features hit the shelves after initial iOS 15-release

It has been a long run, but — among other things — your custom domain may now be used with iCloud.com!

Apple: iCloud’s custom domain feature is — secretly — available now!

Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s…

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Sleeve: Stick the music you play right to your macOS-desktop

The number of apps and features I’d already expected to be in macOS from the scratch steadily increases

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Yet some additional and useful apps for your Mac-related life

While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine“ a while ago, I discovered that ...

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A design failure could turn your remaining Time Capsule into a time bomb

While Apple’s Time Capsule may be a relict of the past, many of the devices are still around.

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DisplayBuddy — Control external displays from your Mac menu bar

While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out.

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WWDC 2021: Custom E-Mail-domains are coming to iCloud… finally!

I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud!

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Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine

There are enough factors in life preventing your from being productive. The following apps ease up my daily Mac-experience and increase my…

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App-dated: TextSniper is aiming to put your images into words

There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them.

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Bartender 4: The best thing for a sense of order is a clean menu bar on macOS!

As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios.

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Getting rid of OneDrive synchronization-issues on macOS

Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time

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LuLu by Objective-See: Yet another powerful firewall for your Mac

In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it…

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Embracing Apple Silicon

After I ordered my new MacBook Air on November 11th, 2020 it took some time for the device to reach me. As I went with the 8-core-machine…

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Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support

While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me…

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Little Snitch 5 makes the successful switch to macOS 11 Big Sur

A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the…

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Microsoft launches new Outlook for Mac — and cuts off some features while „work is in progress“

Outlook is a monolith in the Windows-world and although Microsoft is heavily trying to catch up with the Windows-app when it comes to the…

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Apple seemingly pulls „Remote App“ for Apple TV from the App Store

Just hours after the initial release of iOS 14.1, an old companion seems to have dropped the mic: It seems as if Apple has pulled its…

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How another kind of Malware could hit our Macs — Macro-malware is still an underestimated threat

„Malware is Windows only“ is a statement I often hear when talking with less-informed Mac-users. This may have been true some years ago…

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VMware Fusion-users should avoid macOS 10.15.6 due to possible kernel panics

If you use VMware Fusion, upgrading to macOS 10.15.6 is not the best idea at the moment as this combination inevitably crashes your system.

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Twitter leakers fuel rumors of an updated iMac this Monday

The design of the current iMac-lineup is quite timeless and hasn’t changed over the last years. According to some sources on Twitter, this…

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macOS Big Sur beta hints that Face ID for Mac might be coming

Face ID has successfully taken over from Touch ID on iPhones and iPads, now it might do the same on macOS-devices according to some leaked…

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Camo is closing the quality-issue of Mac-embedded webcams

Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam.

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Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030

Corporate emissions worldwide are still an important topic so bringing its own carbon footprint to net zero within ten years may be a…

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New Logitech Folio Touch adds Magic Keyboard-features to the 11-inch iPad Pro

When Apple made keyboard and touchpad support available in iPad OS 13.4, the only choice to make use of the new features was the (quite…

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VMware closes severe and „root“-rated security flaw on macOS

Whatever you do with VMware-products on macOS, it is time for a security update as the vendor reported a serious security flaw targeting…