Despite the program’s name, I think it’s not so much about individual users repairing their own personal devices. The biggest ramification, I think, will be that the program will allow unofficial independent repair shops to procure genuine OEM Apple…
Lees meerErnie Smith (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): Around this time 30 years ago, two separate working groups were putting the finishing touches on technical standards that would come to reshape the way people observed the world. One technical standard res…
Lees meerBartosz Polaczyk (Hacker News): We are excited to be open sourcing XCRemoteCache, the library we created to mitigate long local builds. As the name suggests, this library is a remote caching implementation for iOS projects with an aim to reuse Xcode…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Now and then, we get a report from a reader whose TidBITS issue has an entire article formatted as a column of text that’s a single character wide. I could tell what happened in at least two cases, but I’m utterly stumped as to what migh…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Pacifist is a popular file extractor for macOS that lets users view and extract multiple file formats, including PKG, DMG, XAR, and TAR. CharlesSoft: Completely rewritten in Swift 5 […] Added command-line interface […] Support for A…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple in iOS 15.2 is making it easier for your loved ones to access your personal data in the event of your death with the addition of a Legacy Contact feature. A person set as your Legacy Contact gets a special code that can be provide…
Lees meerNice, and perhaps a bit surprising, but a small deal, not a big deal.
Lees meerIf Apple stopped making it look like they’re running the App Store to maximize their own revenue from it, regulators and lawmakers might stop thinking that Apple is running the App Store to maximize their own revenue from it.
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced Self Service Repair, which will allow customers who are comfortable with completing their own repairs access to Apple genuine parts and tools. Available first for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 line…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The Help system in macOS is another of those areas which has become sadly neglected. The last time it had a thorough overhaul was back in High Sierra 10.13.4, when it was taken off life support and left hospital walking unaided. With …
Lees meerTom Warren (tweet): Surface Laptop SE will be sold exclusively to schools and students, starting at $249. It’s part of a much broader effort with Windows 11 SE, a new student edition designed to compete with Chrome OS that will ship on a range of lo…
Lees meerJamie Finney (via Daniel Jalkut): Along with a massive drop in sales, the little hits keep coming. In August, there were updates to the costs involved with shipping overseas that caused us to stop all overseas shipping for the foreseeable future. Re…
Lees meerThe number on the newest iPhone is "13" and now this website has hit 13 as well. Thirteen years ago today, on November 17, 2008, I took a picture of the front of my iPhone on a legal pad to...
Lees meerIf Apple stopped making it look like they’re running the App Store to maximize their own revenue from it, regulators and lawmakers might stop thinking that Apple is running the App Store to maximize their own revenue from it.
Lees meerAmir Shevat and Sonya Penn (Hacker News): Essential access includes immediate access to the Twitter API v2 upon signup, one App environment and the ability to retrieve up to 500k Tweets per month. This should meet the majority of developers’ needs, …
Lees meerPeter Ammon: #macOS Monterey users, are you finding your #GitHub notifications are all marked as read? It’s probably Mail loading GitHub’s tracker pixels remotely. Uncheck “Protect Mail Activity” and the notifications come back.Tracker pixels are ma…
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