Just two days after providing an Apple Watch award for doing a workout on Earth Day, Apple declared yesterday Global Close Your Rings Day and provided a limited-edition award and animated stickers for the Messages app to anyone who closed all of the…
Lees meerCory Doctorow (Hacker News, Amazon): I never would have read Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams’s tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta’s lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the original Apple Watch launching in the United States and eight other countries around the world. Adrienne So (Hacker News): While it seems hard now to recall a time when the Apple Watch, or so…
Lees meerEttore Software (Reddit): As previously teased, we’ve rebuilt our flagship app from scratch in Swift – fully sandboxed – with a speedy new engine, a revamped interface and a slew of new features. Our hair is a lot thinner and greyer than it was 3 ye…
Lees meerWhen Apple announced iOS 15 almost four years ago, one of the features added to Apple Maps was support for immersive walking directions using augmented reality. It’s a neat feature because after you start using the Maps app to walk to a place, you c…
Lees meerFoo Yun Chee and Jan Strupczewski (European Commission, MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under la…
Lees meerDavid McCabe (PDF, via Hacker News): Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in aruling that Google had broken the law to build its dominance over the largely invisible system of technology that pla…
Lees meerNora Deligter: It was around this time when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot. At first, there were workarounds: users could continue to screenshot by using t…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: I have a new app out that lets you sweep things under the rug – virtually: DeskMat for Mac.With DeskMat, you cover the mess of files and folders on your Desktop with a single click – and show them again in just the same way.It m…
Lees meerJason Snell: Some people, whether you’re in the media or software development or technical support, take and publish a lot of device screenshots. And while an image straight from an iPhone or Apple Watch looks fine, it often looks much better to be …
Lees meerJesse Squires: Meeting the requirements for screenshots is a frustrating experience. On iOS, tooling like SimulatorStatusMagic, Nine41, and fastlane snapshot help make the process easier. However, on macOS there is much less support (and, sadly, dem…
Lees meerA really good album just showed up on the music streaming services: Looziana Wing Dang Doo by the New Orleans band Beau Swank. You should check it out. Okay, I’ll admit to some bias here because this is my father’s band, and he wrote all of the song…
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