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How can i see the total count of my notes?
Devonthink let me know only the whole count with all attachments

Submitted August 21, 2021 at 05:59PM by Successful_Brother39
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PhotoStickies
PhotoStickies is an app that I've been using almost since MacOS 10.0 Cheetah was release way back in the day. It's a great image viewer and slideshow app that has been updated for Apple silicon. This is fantastic, I can't believe that this app has lasted so long. It has to be one of the oldest still in-development app created for OS X. Give it a look.

Submitted August 21, 2021 at 06:26PM by mrskeetskeeter
on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/p8ug5a/photostickies/?utm_source=ifttt An @AppleStyleOfficial project
Apple Engraving Censorship Content:
Jeffrey Knockel and Lotus Ruan (tweet, Hacker News):

We analyzed Apple’s filtering of product engravings in six regions, discovering 1,105 keyword filtering rules used to moderate their content.
Across all six regions we analyzed, we found that Apple’s content moderation practices pertaining to derogatory, racist, or sexual content are inconsistently applied and that Apple’s public-facing documents failed to explain how it derives their keyword lists.
Within mainland China, we found that Apple censors political content including broad references to Chinese leadership and China’s political system, names of dissidents and independent news organizations, and general terms relating to religions, democracy, and human rights.
We found that part of Apple’s mainland China political censorship bleeds into both Hong Kong and Taiwan. Much of this censorship exceeds Apple’s legal obligations in Hong Kong, and we are aware of no legal justification for the political censorship of content in Taiwan.
We present evidence that Apple does not fully understand what content they censor and that, rather than each censored keyword being born of careful consideration, many seem to have been thoughtlessly reappropriated from other sources.

Drew Harwell:

Apple, which says it will refuse government demands to expand its on-device image scanning, currently blocks people from getting the phrase “Human Rights” or “Freedom of the Press” engraved on their iPhone because China doesn’t like it

Previously:

Scanning iCloud Photos for Child Sexual Abuse
A Hard Bargain for Apple in China
Apple’s Commitment to Human Rights

Source: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/08/21/apple-engraving-censorship/ Author: Michael Tsai Date: August 21, 2021 at 09:11PM An @AppleStyleOfficial project
App Store Fee Reductions and Apple Strategy Tax Content:
Harley Finkelstein:

To our partners: on Aug 1st we are removing all revenue share on your first $1M. That means you will keep 100% of your first $1M when you sell on @Shopify’s app store.
The best part? At the end of every year, the numbers reset. Every single year, your 1st million is all yours.

Nilay Patel:

After the antitrust bills and the Epic case:

Microsoft has reworked Windows store terms to take 0
Facebook announced 0 percent on creator payments
Twitter announced lower rate for Super Follows
Shopify lowering rates

Kind of amazing to see

Abner Li (via James O’Leary):

In exchange for building apps on all those Google platforms and integrating with specific features/APIs, these media companies see Google’s cut on user purchases drop from 30% to 15%. This is independent of the upcoming change where Google is reducing its commission to 15% on the first $1 million in revenue for all – but primarily to the benefit of small/medium – Android developers. Apps in the Play Media Experience Program have to continue using the Play Store’s in-app billing system.

Michael Love:

Honestly this $1M business feels like it’s almost turning into a subsidy for cross platform development; you want to do exactly $1M in revenue (taking care not to go even $1 over that on iOS) on as many platforms as possible rather than focusing on just one.
Seriously, if you’re an iOS developer with a successful app, Apple is effectively threatening you with financial penalties if you reinvest your profits in growing that business instead of investing them in an Android port.

Thomas Tempelmann:

So, a “small” app maker is planning to go out of business. He has plenty of app that others could adopt and continue to develop. However, any established small dev would be punished by doing that because (s)he’d lose the 15% Apple commission and go back to 30% :(
So, any product that is not highly profitable will thereby die out, even if it were to be offered for free, just because of how Apple treats us small businesses. So wrong.

Sean Hollister (via Damien Petrilli):

If Apple pursued its original idea, the App Store Small Business Program might have only given developers credit to spend on Apple’s own App Store search ads — not 15 percent back in their pockets.

Jeff Johnson:

Plus there are no search ads in the Mac App Store.

Previously:

Windows 11: Windows Store Changes
Amazon Appstore Lowers Fees
More Documents From Epic vs. Apple
App Store Small Business Program With 15% Fee

Source: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/08/21/app-store-fee-reductions-and-apple-strategy-tax/ Author: Michael Tsai Date: August 21, 2021 at 09:11PM An @AppleStyleOfficial project
Reddit Raises Even More Content:
Mike Isaac (via Hacker News):

Reddit, the virtual town square of the consumer internet, has raised a fresh $410 million in funding, valuing it at more than $10 billion, the company said on Thursday.
The financing, which was led by Fidelity Investments, increases Reddit’s valuation from the $6 billion it achieved six months ago, when it raised $250 million. Reddit said it expected existing investors to participate in the latest financing as well, so the round is likely to grow and close out at around $700 million.
[…]
Reddit surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenue for the first time in the second quarter this year, up 192 percent from the same period in 2020.
More than 50 million people now visit Reddit daily, and the site has more than 100,000 active subreddits.

dcolkitt:

On a visitor perspective, this seems undervalued. This is a 50% or more discount to the market-cap/unique visitor ratio of Twitter, Snap, and Facebook. And all the stats I’ve seen indicate much higher user engagement and time on site for Reddit compared to the other social platforms.
The biggest issue is of course that their monetization is horrible. Like 95% lower per user than the other socials.

Previously:

Reddit Raises $200M, Rewrites Code

Source: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/08/21/reddit-raises-even-more/ Author: Michael Tsai Date: August 21, 2021 at 09:11PM An @AppleStyleOfficial project
App that can show PDFs with nice page flip animations? (like issuu)
ISSUU and many other online services are able to show a PDF with a nice page flip animation (example). I want to be able to do this offline, locally, on my Mac.I have been searching far and wide and have not found any program with this feature. There are some possibilities on the Mac App Store that MIGHT be able to do it? but I don’t want to invest money in downloading stuff that might not do what I need.Can anyone point me in the direction of a program that does this?Thank you!!!

Submitted August 21, 2021 at 09:05PM by veganintendo
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I was tired of pressing ⌘ + i all the time so I made this macOS app that'd inspect a file with a single click. It's called Informant - You can download it for free at the link in the comments! Let me know what you guys think :)
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/p8yp2y

Submitted August 21, 2021 at 10:29PM by sk8tyger
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[REQUEST] Ping displayed on menubar. Free only pls.
I just need to ping google or some website, only one, to monitor my internet connection.One that display's the number in the menubar without needing to click it.Currently I'm using terminal and I prefer not to click an app every time just to see it.All apps are paid so far.

Submitted August 22, 2021 at 01:24AM by rubenespanyol
on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/p91krs/request_ping_displayed_on_menubar_free_only_pls/?utm_source=ifttt An @AppleStyleOfficial project
npm search for Alfred
I've created an npmjs package search workflow. You just pass the name of the package after the npm keyword and it will show a list of suggested npm packages. Different icons are provided for packages with and without typescript support. When copying, the link to the npm website is copied to the clipboard. And when the enter button is pressed, the particular npm package page in npm is opened in the browser.You can download the workflow here: Alfred npm searchhttps://preview.redd.it/df2gszclmti71.png?width=1528&format=png&auto=webp&s=40225c07a9b7eb2bf000b6f5ddd3896dc97b9b6a

Submitted August 22, 2021 at 04:31AM by SnooSongs4413
on r/Alfred via https://www.reddit.com/r/Alfred/comments/p94e8n/npm_search_for_alfred/?utm_source=ifttt An @AppleStyleOfficial project
Utility that shows network speed on menubar?
Please suggest me some utility that shows network speed in menubar. Just want a single app nothing fancy. Should be free!Thanks!

Submitted August 22, 2021 at 10:40AM by Fun-Garbage-1386
on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/p9901v/utility_that_shows_network_speed_on_menubar/?utm_source=ifttt An @AppleStyleOfficial project