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Useful: How to check for 32-bit apps on your Mac (since the next MacOS, Catalina, will remove support for them).

There’s a column in the Applications list in System Information which you can sort by 64-bit Yes/No.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/25/8930345/macos-catalina-app-compatibility-how-to-desktop

Less-useful: You can’t easily just go to the app or its location by clicking. You have to copy the path from the info panel at the bottom and paste it into Finder. Seriously, Apple?

#MacOS #apple #howto

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Fortunately on this system there were only a handful of old Chrome extensions and a couple of utilities that I don’t use anymore. Everything else has already been updated to 64-bit.

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After seeing this iPad billboard out of the corner of my eye once last winter…

After seeing this iPad billboard out of the corner of my eye once last winter, every time I saw it I’d think of this Flash statue. [K

After seeing this iPad billboard out of the corner of my eye once last winter, every time I saw it I’d think of this Flash statue. [K] #signs #theflash #apple #ipad #billboards #jaygarrick

“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote

Apple rebuts Amazon’s stance that ‘app store’ is a generic term

“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps.” Um, good luck with that.

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App store for a computer? Great! As long as it never becomes the ONLY way to install software, like on the iPhone & iPad. #Apple

The app store model has been available in major Linux distributions for years, but you can always add third-party software.

GUIs for Linux’s APT & Yum are basically app stores for free software. Linspire had an actual app store back in 2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNR_(software)