Adam Engst: He uses a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 printer designed for professional photos and fine art—this is a serious printer. After a recent upgrade odyssey from Mojave to Catalina to Big Sur, Charles started seeing problems with his printouts …
Lees meerJean Leon: Rating songs serves as a sorting method for the user’s music library. In this way, you can sort your songs according to the ones you like the most. Apple made it easy to use this feature with support for Siri voice commands. Then, users c…
Lees meerJohn Sundell: What if we could actually make our code fully testable in a way that doesn’t require us to introduce any new protocols, mocking types, or complicated abstractions? Let’s explore how we could make use of Swift’s new async/await capabili…
Lees meerNoah Martin (Hacker News): The entry point to our investigation is Mike Ash’s PR which implements a 13x faster cache that was released in Swift 5.4. […] We now see that the speed of protocol conformance lookups is dependent on the number of conforma…
Lees meerDave Hamilton (tweet): In December 1998, Bryan Chaffin and I co-founded The Mac Observer. And now, 23 years later… the site was acquired.This next step in the site’s evolution is a good one. Dr. Serhat Kurt has long been a fan of The Mac Observer in…
Lees meerSimon Baker: In this article we want to look at what the “HDMI 2.1” term really means, and address a worrying early sign in the market of things to come. We’ve delved in to what is required for this certification and what that means to you as a cons…
Lees meerAlexander King: Everyone knows game designers love working with spreadsheets, but there aren’t enough games that run in spreadsheets. But my students are helping set things right. Check out some of their amazing games, all playable in Excel or Googl…
Lees meerAnkur Thakur (via Dave Mark): This tutorial shows you the steps to sign out of iCloud and your Apple ID (both are the same) on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. […] Here’s what happens when you sign out of iCloud or Apple ID. Please note that…
Lees meerRene Ritchie: What do you want to see in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 this year? What major new features do they need? What should be removed or changed? What would improve your quality of life? There are lots of good replies. I’ll probably think of more, b…
Lees meerSparkle: Sparkle 2 adds support for application sandboxing, custom user interfaces, updating external bundles, and a more modern architecture which includes faster and more reliable installs. This has been many years in the making. Release notes: Mo…
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu: The defacto way of reacting to Right Command + some other key is to monitor all key events (yes, just like a keylogger), and discard events that don’t contain the Right Command modifier flag. Easy peasy, right? Well no, because that’s…
Lees meerBrian Webster: The problem is that I usually have Xcode’s built-in “All Exceptions” breakpoint enabled when debugging my application, but when I run unit tests in Xcode, I have certain unit tests that will throw exceptions and trigger the breakpoint…
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