Mr. Macintosh: Apple just released the first major update to macOS Monterey. The update comes a month and a half after the October 25th release. Juli Clover: macOS Monterey 12.1 adds a major missing feature to the Mac -- SharePlay. With SharePlay, M…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): iOS 15.2 adds App Privacy Report, a feature designed to let you know how often apps are accessing permissions-restricted info like the camera and the microphone, plus it lets you know the domains that apps and websites are conta…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released a new “Tracker Detect” app on the Google Play Store, with the app designed to allow Android users to locate AirTags that might be nearby.Apple says that Android users can scan to find a nearby AirTag if they think t…
Lees meerApple: Product page optimization. Try out alternate versions of your app’s product page with different icons, screenshots, and app previews to find out which one gets the best results. Each version is shown to a percentage of randomly selected, elig…
Lees meerQuill: Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal — to make online communication more thoughtful, and more effective, for everyone. Quill will be shutting down, but its spirit and ideas will continue on. […] On 1pm PST, Satu…
Lees meerSean Hollister (Reddit, MacRumors): Remember when Apple pretended like it would let cloud gaming services like Microsoft xCloud and Google Stadia into the App Store, while effectively tearing their business models to shreds? Know how Microsoft repli…
Lees meerDave Abrahams, former lead of the Swift standard library and SwiftUI contributor: My Rebase 2021 talk, “a retrospective on the design of Swift,” is up at [YouTube] This is a very interesting talk containing some very strange example Objective-C code…
Lees meerFree Wortley and Chris Thompson (Hacker News): A few hours ago, a 0-day exploit in the popular Java logging library log4j2 was discovered that results in Remote Code Execution (RCE) by logging a certain string.[…]Many, many services are vulnerable t…
Lees meerJonathan Bell (Hacker News): Ive was intensely involved with the building’s design (as was Steve Jobs during the project’s early stages). The team before us now very much reflect the realisation of the two men’s aspirations for a bespoke Apple build…
Lees meerQuinn the Eskimo: So, let’s start with some history: macOS programs have been able to read log messages since the introduction of OSLogStore on macOS 10.15. This API is not available on iOS-based platforms. In iOS 14 beta we added the OSLog framewor…
Lees meerIf you are looking for a present idea for anyone who has an Apple Watch (a growing population), I recommend finding a way to give someone an Apple Watch band—or, perhaps an Apple gift card so that they can pick...
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