Quinn Myers (via Nick Heer): In the year leading up to the App Store’s debut, Apple sought out developers to create software that put the iPhone’s prowess on display. One of those developers was down-and-out, 37-year-old magician Steve Sheraton. “Ap…
Lees meerJason Daley (PDF, via Tristan Greene): They used runtime binary analysis tools to trace raw audio in popular videoconferencing applications as the audio traveled from the app to the computer audio driver and then to the network while the app was mut…
Lees meerAt the end of every episode of the In the News podcast that I record every Friday with Brett Burney, Brett and I each share a tip in a segment called “In the Know.” In the most recent episode, I...
Lees meerTwitter (Hacker News): Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk, for $54.20 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $44 billio…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: macOS doesn’t provide direct access to cores, core types, or clusters, at least not in public APIs. Instead, these are normally managed through Grand Central Dispatch using Quality of Service (QoS) settings, which macOS then uses to d…
Lees meerJosé Adorno (Hacker News): Apple has been sending some developers an email titled ”App Improvement Notice,” warning that the company will remove from the App Store apps that haven’t been ”updated in a significant amount of time.”As first reported by…
Lees meerMatt Gallagher: Xcode alone can fill the RAM on a 16GB system. Yeah, okay, half of that is “Cached Files” (not app memory) so the effect is subtle. Incremental builds are 5% slower compared to a 32GB system but clean builds are about the same. (Blue…
Lees meerOle Begemann: The environment in SwiftUI is sort of like a global dictionary but with stronger types: each key (represented by a key path) can have its own specific value type. For example, the \.isEnabled key stores a boolean value, whereas the \.f…
Lees meerBrett Burney and I discussed lots of interesting topics in this week's episode of the In the News podcast. We start by sharing a warning that a mute button in a videoconference app might not give you the privacy that...
Lees meerThis month Bart is joined by Jeff Gamet for a chat about shooting macro shots with iPhones. The conversation is built around critiquing the The post Let’s Talk Photography 103: iPhone Macro Fun with Jeff Gamet appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerBrett Burney and I discussed lots of interesting topics in this week's episode of the In the News podcast. We start by sharing a warning that a mute button in a videoconference app might not give you the privacy that...
Lees meerBrave (via Hacker News): Discussions are a different entry point to real-human conversations on certain topics, especially ones suffering from a glut of SEO content. This content—so prominent on Google that one recent viral blog post asserted “Googl…
Lees meerGreg Wilson (Hacker News): There are thousands of books in print today about starting a business, but only a handful about ending one and moving on. [Tamburri2020] is a deep dive into one particular (and not yet complete) ending: the decline of Sour…
Lees meerEric Slivka: The Element Hub features a total of eight ports plus a DC-in port for powering the dock. There are four Thunderbolt 4/USB4 ports, which include one upstream port for connecting to the host computer and three independent downstream ports…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): The /AppleInternal folder, as its name suggests, is used by Apple engineers for internal development purposes. Some people external to Apple have discovered that creating an /AppleInternal folder on your Mac can cause behavior …
Lees meerThe iPad operating system has come a long way from when the iPad was introduced in 2010. And every once in a while, we get advanced features, such as multitasking and the ability to use an external mouse with an...
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