Hello r/apple! My name is Sergey, I'm an apple indie dev.

I have made many applications and often my clients have asked if they have the capabilities that ActiveDock provides on the Apple Dock. I decided to implement DockView. Perhaps you will find this little utility useful.

If so, is it accessible to the public or just paid devs? Get it through TestFlight?

https://developer.apple.com/safari/download/

Includes Safari features announced with macOS Monterey

via https://www.ifun.de/apples-neue-safari-funktionen-unter-macos-big-sur-testen-171958/

Hi,

As my title is saying, does such a tool exist? I am currently using ranger file browser and I am open to migrating to another file browser if image preview works.

Thanks :D

About This Mac

As title suggested, I need a simple to use but functional PDF viewer for Windows. Preview was doing all the stuff I need when I as on Mac, like putting text boxes around, highlighting, drawing etc. but I can't put simple colorful text boxes, drawing hand-written arrows etc even though I can highlight almost in every PDF viewer.

So I need a preview-like PDF viewer for Windows.

I'm new to Mac os , I watched WWDC this year and was wondering if it's possible to install a beta for the new safari rather than installing macos 12 itself?

Link

From the README:

>macOS Preview sometimes 'forgets' about annotations that were added to a PDF file. This can be particularly frustrating after providing feedback on a draft for many hours, just to loose the precious annotations when closing and re-opening the file.
>
>This tool attempts to fix the annotations based on a technique described by 'thorimur'.

I wrote this little tool in Rust this morning and am just super stocked at how Rust let's me write a tool like this in a couple an hour or two <3.

Here are the reasons why I like it so much:

• I considered doing it in python, but decided against it due to the subpar dependency management, as I would have needed to add a PDF library. With Rust, this was no issue.
• Thanks to strong/explicit typing, I barely had to look at the documentation of the PDF library.
• With anyhow and its handy context extension I am confident that if an error should crop up in usage, I would have a starting point to look into the code just from the error message alone.
• With structopt, adding some nice command line options was a breeze and literally came down to copying the example code and adjusting a bit of text.

Thanks to the whole community for making little things like this such a pleasure :) Cheers!

Not sure if there is a fix, but I can’t see thumbnails for my video clips, and I’m unable to press spacebar to quick preview the video files.

Would it be a QuickTime codec that would allow you to do this?
I’ve tried searching online to no result.

A small squircle shape can be seen at the bottom left corner of the selected tab in the 'Preferences' window of Preview. I guess this is a bug.

It's appearing for all the three tabs- 'General' , 'Images', and 'PDF'

Edit: Added a screenshot.

https://preview.redd.it/np8fnq0eydt61.png?width=1224&format=png&auto=webp&s=b55f2fcc397e8d27f9efeedeed67c77cac072481

Apple has released macOS Big Sur 11.4 (build 20F71), along with Security Update 2021-003 Catalina and Security Update 2021-003 Mojave.

What's New

Official release notes

Security content

SDK release notes

Useful Information

macOS Big Sur compatible devices

How to update the software on your Mac

Back up your Mac with Time Machine

Feedback

Please report any bugs through Feedback Assistant

I’m a photographer/videographer and just swapped out my windows laptop with a MacBook (intel i9). So far so good—performs as well as my previous laptop although the display is much much prettier! I still use a PC for my main editing/rendering machine but I love being able to use airdrop when I’m on the road to move pictures and video clips between my laptop, phone and iPad.

Anyway, I use uncompressed formats for photos (.arw or .dng, depending on the camera) and edit in photoshop. All my cameras…at least the ones I use 99 percent of the time…shoot video in mp4 format.

I use VLC player for quickly scanning video files (I like its many customizable shortcut and playback options and the ease of capturing a single frame). My new MacBook on the other hand is hell bent on me using Apple TV to playback files and preview to open raw files. *I keep setting VLC as the default media player and Photoshop as the default for .arw photos, but it keeps changing it back to Apple TV/Preview. It even removed VLC from available apps for videos and I had to search for it to open a file.

For some reason, it kept photoshop as the default for opening .dng photos but keeps switching back to Preview for the .arw photos. Most photos I take are in .arw so this is kind of annoying.

Question: How do I get my default options to stick? I know how to open with the specific app I need through the context menu but I don’t want to have to do this every time.

The title says it all.

If you run your EVE on MacOS or Windows then you can safely ignore all the text below.

First of all, a picture to attract your attention:

https://preview.redd.it/yha606m5lm871.png?width=1436&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e8934ced976011c30c4ebda30f1933d04db4eed

The Linux support is a bit rough, still it is better than none at all. So here's what you need to get it up and running, my dear Linux users:

1. Install .NET 4.8 via winetricks

2. Install this tool: wmctrl

This is a Linux tool, not Wine, so it needs to be installed via apt-get or other package manager you Linux uses

3. Install this EVE-O Preview build: https://github.com/Phrynohyas/eve-o-preview/releases/tag/5.2.0-beta

4. Start it once and close

5. Open its config file ('EVE-O Preview.json') and edit there this line

"WineCompatibilityMode": false,

to

"WineCompatibilityMode": true,

6. Save the config file

7. Enjoy the life

Notes (important ones)

Several things won't work:

* Client switch hotkeys

* Client window position tracking

This is a PITA related to Wine sandbox limitations

Ant it might crash. In this case I'll need a crashlog

Sometimes it stops to work (cite: 'it can work for 10 hours one day and won't start the next day'). In that case I would need the config file and steps to reproduce.

Previews are updated once per second. Wine has no internals to actually make a real live preview like on Windows. Meh

Fly safe!

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Hey!

For the last almost four years, I’ve been developing a writing productivity app called WriteMapper, which aims to help you turn ideas into text documents using mind maps. I designed it to be simple and approachable, yet comprehensive and feature-rich. In brief, it’ll help you:

• Relentlessly generate ideas using mind maps
• Visualize your thinking to overcome writer’s block
• Beat writing procrastination and inertia
• Work from a beautiful, distraction-free interface
• Export your work (MD, HTML, OPML, DOCX, TXT, RTF, PDF, PNG)

Website / Intro trailer: https://writemapper.com/

Download link: https://writemapper.com/download

I’ve been adding features, improvements and refinements to the app over the past 3+ years since originally launching the first Mac app, which I posted a few years back here on r/Apple (that received a response I’m still to this day really grateful to this community for). I recently launched a big update to the app, WriteMapper 3, which was well-received over at r/macapps. The version 3 update contains a bunch of new features and improvements, including support for M1 / Apple Silicon Macs!

So, who is WriteMapper for, who uses this? Well, it’s best used for any sort of longer-form writing that requires some structuring to help make better sense of. Some applications I’ve come to hear about from users of the app include:

• Writing student assignment essays
• Writing business consulting papers
• Creating a script for YouTube videos
• Drafting academic and research papers
• Writing longer-form blog posts
• Putting together content for online courses
• Technical writing or documentation
• Writing books and textbooks
• Copywriting for marketers
• And (probably) a lot more…

Beyond that, I definitely also want to port this over to iPadOS some time in the future, like I previously did with the older version 2 of the app. However, from my experience it is rather involved work and will require a non-trivial amount of time for me to develop to make that happen, so you’ll have to stay tuned for that for now.

During the past years I’ve been working on WriteM

This megathread can be used to discuss the announcement at today's WWDC keynote that Shortcuts is coming to macOS.

The following is a list of confirmed features:

• Preview slide of new automations and actions
• Features a interface designed for macOS
• Automator scripts can be imported into Shortcuts
• Shortcuts can be activated from:
  • Dock
  • Menu Bar
  • Quick Actions
  • Spotlight
  • Siri
  • Terminal (shortcuts run <shortcut name> -i <input> -o <output>)
• Has a few exclusive actions:
  • Run Shell Script

https://preview.redd.it/wgjqdo8qxi771.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=a985d05aa1e1d6e2b8895f41edfd521d20e0ec42

Preview

Download individually from my dropbox here; Created using wallpapper (requires xcode).
To install simply copy the .heic files to /Library/Desktop Pictures

A Public Folder with all my dynamic wallpapers is available for your downloading pleasure on my Dropbox.

Apple Website: https://www.apple.com/macos/monterey-preview/