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I've been using Apple's Mail app since I switched to Mac OS X from Windows back in 2002. I recently purchased an M4 MacBook Pro with a nano-texture display and set up Mail app fresh on the new machine, which is running macOS Sequoia. In the following weeks, I encountered a bunch of the same old problems—the Mail main window sometimes fails to...

I'm writing this blog post in the hope that Google YouTube engineers and/or Apple Safari engineers will notice it. I don't know how to file a YouTube bug report, and I didn't file a WebKit bug report because it's not clear that this problem is a WebKit bug as opposed to just a YouTube bug. I've noticed a problem with YouTube videos in macOS...

After I installed macOS 15.3 today, I saw this little gem in System Settings. Apple, in its eagerness to please the stock market by forcing the so-called "beta" of Apple Intelligence on customers, offers no way to dismiss the advertisement in System Settings without opening the Image Playground app. You absolutely must see the new features, says...

Little Snitch by Objective Development is the first app that I install on a new Mac. In fact I just bought a new Mac, an M4 MacBook Pro with nano-texture display, and I installed Little Snitch via thumb drive even before connecting the Mac to the internet. While setting up my new Mac, which came with macOS 15.2 preinstalled, I noticed that Safari...

As I mentioned in my previous blog post Apple Passwords is hostile to backups, macOS 15 Sequoia removed New Secure Note Item from the File menu in Keychain Access app. My suggested workaround was to create a new password item rather than a new secure note, putting the secure note in the Password field and a dummy value in the Account Name field....