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The Tamper-Resistent Edition Friday, August 21, 2020

How FileVault And The T2 Security Chip Work Together In Newer Macs, by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

Newer Macs come with a T2 Security Chip with its own Secure Enclave, a tamper-resistent bit of silicon that allows high levels of security just like on an iPhone and iPad. It’s used to enable Touch ID and allow Apple Pay on laptops, but it also handles a number of other tasks, including full-disk encryption.

Lightroom App Update Wipes Users' Photos And Presets, Adobe Says They Are 'Not Recoverable', by DL Cade, Petapixel

It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad inadvertently wiped all of a users’ photos and presets that were not already synced to the cloud. Adobe has confirmed that there is no way to get them back.

Now Is A Great Time To Go Back To An Old iPod, by Jack Moore, GQ

And a funny thing happened when the iPod became my primary form of engaging with music. Things slowed down, and I started to write down notes of albums I wanted to buy when I got home. I figured out how to disconnect Apple Music from my library to give me that old school iTunes experience (the key is turning off iCloud Music), and then found myself spending hours browsing the store.

Pressuring Apple

News Publishers Join Fight Against Apple Over App Store Terms, by Benjamin Mullin, Wall Street Journal

In a letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on Thursday, a trade body representing the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other publishers said the outlets want to know what it would take for them to get better deal terms—which would allow them to keep more money from digital subscriptions sold through Apple’s app store.

Stuff

Eve For HomeKit App Updated With New Camera Overview And Flipped Orientation Support, by Filipe Espósito, 9to5Mac

The Eve for HomeKit app was updated to version 4.5 today with significant improvements, including a new fullscreen overview with simultaneous live video from all of your HomeKit-enabled cameras and more.

Adobe Fresco Updated With Clipping Masks Tool And More, by Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

In version 1.9.0, the app offers a clipping masks tool so you an define the boundaries of drawn content so you can clip a layer or layers and add to an additional layer.

Longplay App Lets You Enjoy Your Music Library Focusing Just On Entire Albums, by Filipe Espósito, 9to5Mac

It enables a new experience to explore playlists and specific albums by filtering only those you have added to your library with all its songs.

Notes

I Hope This Email Finds You Well, by Tim Herrera, New York Times

And yet: Emails, those daily incursions no one likes but no one can avoid, are still a core part of our personal and professional lives. They must still be written and read, whatever is happening around us.

So how do we write them without sounding tone deaf or misguidedly optimistic?

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Maybe we should return to the days of paper memos -- just a brief note of what you want, and let the default letterhead and signature do the rest.

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