As a macOS engineer, what do you do when you’re told by Apple’s security team you have to turn it even more into Windows Vista and place even more useless alibi-security permission dialogs somewhere, but you’ve run out of new places to put them in?
Well, you get creative, and show multiple permission dialogs for the same permission. Can’t innovate anymore, my ass!
Why the heck is this a thing on macOS Sequoia? When you run the screencapture CLI from Terminal (or any other app) for the first time, you’re usually greeted with this dialog:
Fine. So you grant that permission, run screencapture again, but now you’re greeted with this stupid, infuriating, completely pointless dialog:
Huh!? Yes, I know Terminal can access this computer’s screen and audio. I just granted it that permission!
Seriously? Is this the way forward for macOS? Apple, I know you can do better. Because you used to.
ScreenCastsOnline has published a great tutorial on Transloader, my app that allows you to manage your downloads on your Macs, remotely from your other devices (like an iPhone, iPad, or another Mac).
Yoink for Mac v3.6.91 is now available, containing a couple of minor improvements and bug fixes.
What is Yoink?
Yoink appears at the edge of your screen when you begin to drag something, allowing you to place it there so you can more easily and comfortably navigate to the destination of your files.
Yoink in Action
Not only can you drag files to it, but also app-content like images from websites, text snippets, urls, and more.
“This app saved tons of hours for me and boosted my productivity. Totally recommended.”
Nebulan, Mac App Store
What’s New in Yoink v3.6.91?
It improves the app’s internal handling of shared and dragged files
Reduces the amount of memory the favicon fetcher subprocess (for urls placed in Yoink) uses
Fixes a menu item’s case from lower-case to Capitalized Case
Fixes a bug where Yoink could wait forever for a file preview icon to be created, even if it failed
Fixes a bug where sometimes Yoink would “steal” focus from other apps
Availability and Links
Yoink is a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store, or available as part of a Setapp subscription. A free, 28-day trial is available on the website. The app is available in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian and Portuguese.
Tameno v1.0.6 is now available, implementing a bunch of improvements and fixes.
What is Tameno?
Tameno is your interval-based, self-repeating timer. You want to stretch parts of your body 15 seconds each? Tameno. You’d like to do Yoga poses for 30 seconds each? Tameno. You want to water each of your hedge-plants for 45 seconds each? Tameno. You want to brush each side of every quadrant of your teeth equally for 10 seconds? Tameno. You want to make sure to look away from your screen every 20 minutes? Tameno. You meditate and re-align every couple of minutes? Tameno. You want to advance your slideshow at an even pace? Tameno.
The point is: Tameno – Stop counting. Start doing.
It features Siri Shortcuts integration, interactive Widgets, and syncs your recently used intervals across all your devices.
“I’ve been looking for exactly this app!”
Bernd, by eMail
“The only app of its kind! It’s great because of its versatility.”
MolluscaPhylum, Mac App Store (US)
What’s New in Tameno v1.0.6
Bug fixes aside (in some translations, the interval could be cut off, or on the Watch, the Settings screen was not immediately scrollable using the Digital Crown), the following improvements have been made:
Better support for Always-On displays on Apple Watch
On Apple TV, you can now change the interval by seconds and by minutes, by long-pressing the + and – buttons
On Mac, changing the interval by minutes with the arrow keys (left and right) and scrolling (left and right) is now possible. Up and down still changes by seconds
On Mac, CPU usage has been drastically reduced if the app is in the background
Availability, Links
Tameno is a universal purchase: buy it on one platform (Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV) and use it on all the others without an additional purchase. The app is a one-time purchase on the App Stores, at the price of USD/EUR/GBP 3.99, currently available in English and German.
