Flinker Pixelschubser: Acorn 8 for macOS in the test

Flinker Pixelschubser: Acorn 8 for macOS in the test

In the first tab you can find options for the current selection or for the selected tool. There you round off rectangles or work out the brush tips. The second inspector collects the non-destructive level filters for color corrections and effects that can be combined and retrofitted. Finally, the Shape Processors open creative scope. For … Read more

“Samples Wine on the Mac”: Open Source Tool Whiskey stops further development

"Samples Wine on the Mac": Open Source Tool Whiskey stops further development

The open source tool whiskey loses the main developer: Whiskey should no longer receive any further functional innovations, as the developer Isaac Marovitz announced. So there will be no upgrade to newer Wine versions and no more important adjustments to better perform Windows games and applications on the Mac. Accordingly, it is possible at any … Read more

iOS 18.4.1, MacOS 15.4.1 & Co: Apple provides emergency patches for several systems

iOS 18.4.1, MacOS 15.4.1 & Co: Apple provides emergency patches for several systems

Emergency updates for iPhones, iPads and Macs: Apple eliminates two heavy security gaps in its operating systems with the new versions iOS 18.4.1, Ipados 18.4.1 and MacOS 15.4.1 Sequoia. Users should import the updates immediately. The weak points apparently enable attackers to carry out targeted and “extremely sophisticated attacks” on individual iPhone users, As the … Read more

Ipados more like MacOS: Does version 19 finally bring improvements?

Ipados more like MacOS: Does version 19 finally bring improvements?

Apple-user has long been complaining that iPados can do significantly less than MacOS. This became particularly clear last year on the iPad Pro M4, which Apple was the first device to donate the new SoC. The entire power of the chip cannot be used due to the service deficits of iPados. This starts with the … Read more

MacOS in Docker container: This is how it works with the virtual Mac

MacOS in Docker container: This is how it works with the virtual Mac

This article is primarily intended to stimulate experiments and show the feasibility. Because even with powerful hardware, you have to accept some restrictions and performance hurdles. That was the reading sample of our Heise Plus article “MacOS in the Docker container: This is how it works with the virtual Mac”. With a Heise Plus subscription … Read more

Flying synchronization change: Apple replaces RSYNC by OpenRSync

Macos Sequoia: Rsync Flight out, OpenRSync is coming

Surprise at the point release: With MacOS 15.4, Apple also cleaned up on the tools available via the terminal. In addition to the plug of security gaps, for example in libarchive there is a change to a central service: the file synchronization using rsync. The command has been part of the system for many years … Read more