Apple seems to initiate the end of the support for the once popular Fire Wire interface for MacOS 26 alias Tahoe. The beta tester of the operating system reports. According to design expert Stephen Hackett, the Monday Tests with adapters And made an FW-800 hard drive, MacOS 26 simply no longer recognizes these media. It … Read more
Apple presented the third developer version of its new operating systems on Monday evening. In iOS 26, Ipados 26 and MacOS 26 Developer Beta 3: The new “Liquid Glass” interface is further mitigated by Apple. This makes the user interface less “beautiful”, but much more readable. To describe it with a metaphor: Window glass gradually … Read more
When I click on an app on the Mac, the “App Store” Mac app automatically opens. I would like to open the page in Safari. For Safari, Apple has designed this behavior in this way and it cannot be changed. One possibility is therefore to use another browser. If you click the link in Safari … Read more
MacOS 26, when trying it out long-time Mac users, is a small shock: the new, glassy “Liquid Glass” look, the strongly rounded windows, transparent icons and a converted spotlight search are just a few of the innovations. So it makes sense to slowly get used to the big change before it comes for all users … Read more
The English -language app takes up the idea of shoe boxes in which photos are located. As a result, you can find “Boxes” in the sidebar of MuseBox, not to be confused with the albums there: Each file is only in one box, but may be seen in several albums. This is helpful if, for … Read more
In the MacOS finder I can no longer sort my iCloud folder alphabetically. The first column is titled with “from 100 MB to 1 GB” instead of “name”. How do I get the usual sorting back? You have changed the presentation so that the finder sorts your files by group (and then file sizes). This … Read more
If preview is to “adjust the size proportional”, you only have to enter one of the two values. The app automatically determines the second according to the current aspect ratio – so there are no distortions. Click the dimension under “resulting size” to check them in different units. Below are you how the size adjustment … Read more
Apple users in the European Economic Area (EEA) have to be prepared for the fact that they only receive certain functions later or not at all. Before that, the group’s lawyers warned at an event of the EU Commission in Brussels on Monday. The interoperability requirements of the Digital Market Act (DMA) could lead to … Read more
Apple rapidates quickly to the end of the large MAC switch to its own chips. This not only has consequences for MAC users of older models with Intel processors, but also for owners of Macs with Apple’s M chip. From autumn 2027, the manufacturer no longer wants to provide the important translation layer Rosetta 2. … Read more
The other day, on a trip to Deutsche Bahn ICE, I noticed that my MacBook’s time suddenly hinked for a few minutes. I then saw that the connection to the train WLAN was also interrupted. Is that related? Actually, the MacOS internet connection is only used for occasional synchronization with the Time server from Apple. … Read more