#macos 10.12.2

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Apple has been honored the prestigious Louis Braille award for efforts made to build accessibility functions in products (devices) such as iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Apple engineer Jordyn castor who has been blind since birth was among the members who received the award on behalf of the company.

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macOS 10.12.2 users urged to avoid using 'work-in-progress' Preview app to edit PDFs

macOS 10.12.2 users urged to avoid using ‘work-in-progress’ Preview app to edit PDFs

“Mac users running macOS Sierra 10.12.2 are being urged to avoid using Preview to edit PDFs until Apple fixes several bugs in the app that can cause corruption issues in the document format,” Tim Hardwick reports for MacRumors.

“The recommendation comes from TidBITS publisher Adam Engst,” Hardwick reports. “Writing on the online Apple newsletter website, Engst backs up fellow developer…

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diffpdfをmacOS 10.12.2 w/ homebew 1.1.5でビルドする

概要

brew upgradeの結果，かつては成功していたdiffpdf 2.1.3 https://github.com/yuw/diffpdfのビルドに失敗するようになっていた．ライブラリを古いバージョンに戻すことで再びビルドできるようにした．

Step

$ brew switch poppler 0.47.0 $ xcode-select --install $ release diffpdf.pro $ qmake $ make

エラーの発現と対処

一般の手続きとしてbrew update && brew upgradeを日頃行うのは常道である．

しかし，おもむろに発行したbrew upgradeの後，それまで無事に動いていたプログラムが起動しなくなる事がある．今回もそのその類である．

diffpdfが起動しない状況に陥った．

diffpdfは(https://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html)[https://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html] で公開されていたが，ライセンスがGPL2でなくなったため，GPL2ライセンスの頃のソースコードをGitHubにフォークされたものを利用していた．

diffpdfの機能の一つとしてPDFを画像として差分をとるというものがある．PDFの変更点，あるいは非変更点を確認するのに重宝していた．使い慣れた道具が使えなくなるのは，それまでのフローを変更せざるを得ず，ストレスフルだ．（なお，homebrewのformulaとしては，現在同様の機能をもつdiff-pdfが提供されている．）

まずは再ビルドを試みた．すると，ある意味当然ながらdiffpdfのビルドをも失敗するようになっていた．-libpoppler-qt4でエラーだという．

brew info popplerで確認すると，popplerは0.50.0がインストールされている．幸いなことに過去のバージョンが残っており，poppler --with-qtの最後である0.47.0に戻してビルドに成功した．

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Apple'ın güncelleme ile kaldırdığı özelliği geri getirin!

Apple’ın güncelleme ile kaldırdığı özelliği geri getirin!

Apple, yıllardır MacBook modellerinde bataryanın kalan süresini göstermesi ile büyük beğeni topluyordu. Ancak firma kalan süre göstergesini geçtiğimiz günlerde yayınlanan macOS 10.12.2 güncellemesi ile kaldırmıştı. Kullanıcılardan olumsuz tepki alan Apple, bu kararından vazgeçecek gibi görünmüyor. Peki, kalan süre göstergesini kullanmak isteyenler ne yapacak?

macOS 10.12.2 için geliştirilen Outlet

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Install macOS 10.12.2 ASAP for security

Install macOS 10.12.2 ASAP for security

“While some MacBook Pro owners claim macOS 10.12.2 improves battery life, there’s a more important reason to update to the latest version of Apple’s computer operating system: protecting your passwords,” Henry T. Casey reports for Laptop Magazine. “That’s because a Swedish hacker made a device that steals passwords off a Mac just by connecting a cable — unless the latest update is installed.”

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Explaining the battery life problems with the new MacBook Pros

Explaining the battery life problems with the new MacBook Pros

“Some users of Apple’s newest MacBook Pros aren’t happy with their battery life,” Andrew Cunningham reports for Ars Technica. “It does seem fairly common for users of the Touch Bar model in particular to see battery life that falls short of Apple’s 10-hour estimates for Web browsing and movie playback.”

“Apple called extra attention to the issue this week in the newest macOS Sierra…

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Users of Apple's new MacBook Pro report improved battery life with macOS 10.12.2

Users of Apple’s new MacBook Pro report improved battery life with macOS 10.12.2

“Apple released macOS 10.12.2 [earlier this week] with stability improvements and fixes for several key bugs, including major graphics issues plaguing some late 2016 model MacBook Pro users,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors. “What the changelog did not mention is that Apple also removed the ‘time remaining’ battery life indicator following an increasing number of battery life complaints,…

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Apple 'fixes' MacBook Pro battery life issue by removing the 'time remaining' clock

Apple ‘fixes’ MacBook Pro battery life issue by removing the ‘time remaining’ clock

“The macOS 10.12.2. update dropped today, and it contains a bevy of bug fixes and improvements — along with one puzzling removal,” Joel Hruska reports for ExtremeTech. “According to Apple, it’s simply too difficult to calculate how much battery life a CPU has remaining, and the company has removed this feature from the latest edition of its operating system.”

“Tech writers at The Verge…

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