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Writing on her blog, after sharing how much she has made on her apps over the last few years:

It’s simultaneously a lot and a little. It’s a lot for most developers. It’s a little for the developers I follow on Twitter. Early on, someone asked me how I would define success for myself as an indie developer. I remember stressing that my apps were just side projects (they are) and that I’d be happy if my revenue could cover the cost of my personal device upgrades (it has). At the time, I think I forgot to say something about how I wanted to make things that improved people’s lives, or just made them smile. In that way, I’ve also succeeded, and hearing from happy customers has been incredibly rewarding.

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There have been a lot of rumors in the last few weeks about Project Titan, Apple’s electric car program. While reports vary on when Apple may actually deliver a car to market, it’s clear that something is being worked on inside Apple.

Patently Apple noticed two filings, both awarded this week:

The first is about climate control:

In Apple’s patent summary they note that the patent figures presented in their filing provide a vehicle climate control system for controlling climate conditions in various cabin regions of a vehicle cabin, where the climate control system is configured to control one or more vehicle components to change the set of climate conditions associated with one or more cabin regions to approximate a set of optimal comfort conditions.

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Mr. Macintosh, with the order in which you should try things when reinstalling macOS on an Apple silicon Mac:

1. macOS Recovery
2. System Recovery – (Will boot automatically if macOS Recovery is unavailable)
3. macOS Big Sur USB Installer Drive – (External boot for macOS Installers is enabled by default on Apple Silicon)
4. Apple Configurator 2 REVIVE option – This option will reinstall macOS Recovery (retains user data on the SSD hard drive)
5. Apple Configurator 2 RESTORE option – This option will Reinstall macOS Recovery, ERASE your SSD hard drive and reinstall macOS

These Macs are great, but the weirdness they bring to the table just builds on what the T1 and T2 brought with them.

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On the last Connected of the year, we look back at 2020.

What a year.

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Apple Support:

If you have a “flavored” (strawberry, tangerine, blueberry, lime or grape) iMac keyboard connected to your Intel-based Mac and you press the F12 key to eject a disc immediately after pressing the power button, you may experience a kernel panic. Intel-based Macs include iMac (Early 2006) and Mac mini (Early 2006).

Update to Mac OS X 10.4.9 to prevent this issue.

No word on if using the terrible iMac mouse would cause the same issue, because everyone rage destroyed them.

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Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site.

Unite 4 includes dozens of new features, including support for native notifications, new customization options, and much more. Unite apps also serve as a great alternative for resource hogging Electron apps or half-baked Catalyst apps.

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This week, on the final Mac Power Users episode of 2020:

At the end of an unprecedented year, Stephen and David take some time to reflect on what it’s meant for an Apple user, and what they’d like to see out of 2021 in terms of tech.

On More Power Users, we spoke about some of our tech resolutions for the new year.

My thanks to our sponsors this week:

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As pointed out by MacRumors, it seems that iCloud account authentication has been rocky today, no doubt due to the number of new iOS devices and Macs unwrapped this morning.

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Get ahead of your productivity for the New Year with the power of TextExpander. It removes the repetition out of work so you can focus on what matters most.

Say goodbye to repetitive text entry, spelling and message errors, and trying to remember the right thing to say. When you use TextExpander, you can say the right thing in just a few keystrokes.

It’s much better than copy and paste and easier than scripts and templates; TextExpander snippets allow you to maximize your time by getting rid of the repetitive things you type while still customizing and personalizing your messages.

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Recent closures include all 53 stores in California and all four here in Tennessee, the two states with the highest COVID infection rates.

Here in Memphis, we have just 18 ICU beds available as of last night,¹ which is terrifying. Stay safe, y’all.

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On this feedback episode of Mac Power Users, David and I revisit bookmarks and Mail, M1 Macs and 32-bit apps, note taking and keyboards.

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My thanks to The Sweet Setup for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week. The Focus Course Digital Planner is an interactive planner for the iPad based on a proven system for clarity, margin, and focus. Go check it out.

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