You asked for it, and now you’ve got it: we just released “Take Control of Preview,” significantly expanding on our “Power of Preview” series! In it, Josh Centers and Adam Engst guide you through all the secret powers of the Mac’s built-in image and PDF viewer. Adam also warns that iCloud’s Find My Mac feature can be disabled by just resetting your Mac’s NVRAM, which may be a blessing or a curse. Glenn Fleishman discusses Firefox’s gradual deprecation of Adobe Flash, and Jeff Carlson returns to TidBITS to explain why the Lightroom for iOS 2.4 update is big news for photographers. Notable software releases this week include Alfred 3.0.3, Tinderbox 6.6.2, Evernote 6.8, DEVONthink/DEVONnote 2.9, BusyCal 3.0.4, PopChar X 7.6, Safari 9.1.2, and Security Update 2016-004 (Mavericks and Yosemite).
Our latest book started as a series of TidBITS articles but more than doubled in size once we discovered and thoroughly explained all of Preview’s image editing and PDF manipulation features.
It turns out that Find My Mac can easily be disabled by resetting NVRAM, which could be bad news, if your Mac has been stolen, or good news, if you’re dealing with an old Mac that wasn’t reset before being sold or turned in.
The makers of the Firefox Web browser are clamping down on advertising and other incidental uses of Flash to reduce crashes.
Lightroom for iOS 2.4 adds two significant features to the mobile photo editing app for iPad and iPhone: support for raw format images and local selections for adjusting specific areas of a photo. This means photographers who shoot in raw can import, edit, and sync their photos between mobile and desktop Lightroom libraries without annoying workarounds.
Notable software releases this week include Alfred 3.0.3, Tinderbox 6.6.2, Evernote 6.8, DEVONthink/DEVONnote 2.9, BusyCal 3.0.4, PopChar X 7.6, Safari 9.1.2, and Security Update 2016-004 (Mavericks and Yosemite).
The dog days of summer tech news are upon us, so we have only two ExtraBITS for you this week: Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion and Adam Engst makes an appearance on MacBreak Weekly.