iOS 15 Shortcuts and SwiftUI

Federico Viticci: Unfortunately, the Shortcuts experience in iOS and iPadOS 15 is hindered by a variety of severe UI and performance bugs that have made this update the least stable and reliable one in recent memory. I believe Apple is aware of thes…

South Korean Broadband Firm Sues Netflix After Traffic Surge From ‘Squid Game’

South Korean Broadband Firm Sues Netflix After Traffic Surge From ‘Squid Game’

iOS 14 to 15 Comparison Screenshots

A Guy Walks Into a Bar

iOS 14 to 15 Comparison Screenshots

USB-IF Reveals New Branding in an Attempt to Clear Up USB-C Cable Confusion

Dragging Multiple Images Out of Safari

John Gruber: 15-year-old “TopTechGeek” with a tip that blew my mind: iOS 15 Safari lets you select and drag multiple images from a web page. Cool video. You can also drag and drop to the Files app. Unfortunately, the feature only seems to work with …

The Disappointment of On-Device Siri

Federico Viticci: The most important addition to Apple’s assistant this year is that, starting with iOS and iPadOS 15, Siri will work offline by default. As announced by Apple at WWDC, the Neural Engine can now process your requests locally, on-devi…

Manual Full Justification

Matt Gemmell: The most amazing thing I’ve ever read is a guide to the SNES game Super Metroid. […] Lots of game guides are in plain text, by the way, like this one. No fancy formatting. […] See how virtually all the paragraphs are like solid blocks …

Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation)

Chaim Gartenberg (via Hacker News): Amazon is refreshing the Kindle Paperwhite for the first time in nearly three years with an updated model, adding a bigger 6.8-inch E-Ink display that’s brighter and has adjustable color temperature, USB-C chargin…

Nintendo Denies Bloomberg Report on 4K Development Kit for Switch

Nintendo Denies Bloomberg Report on 4K Development Kit for Switch

Jason Snell’s iPhone 13 Upgrader’s Guide

Retro Dither 1.0.1

David Kopec: Today I launched a new novelty Mac app, Retro Dither. Retro Dither gives any photo a cool retro look using just black and white pixels. You may want this for artistic effect, or you may want to export your photo to MacPaint for display …

App Tracking Transparency Doesn’t Stop Trackers

Johnny Lin and Sean Halloran: Using the open source Lockdown Privacy app and manual testing, we found that App Tracking Transparency made no difference in the total number of active third-party trackers, and had a minimal impact on the total number …

Safari 15 for Mac

Howard Oakley: Apple has released an update for Safari in Big Sur and Catalina, bringing it to version 15.0. This brings some of the new features coming in Monterey, including tab groups, redesigned tabs, a compact tab bar option, and automatic swit…

The End of AMP?

Dwayne Lafleur (via Hacker News): Google provided a distinct advantage to sites using AMP – priority placement on the world’s largest traffic source – Google search. I’ve had the pleasure of working with more than twenty thousand publishers in the f…

YouTube Is Banning Prominent Anti-Vaccine Activists and Blocking All Anti-Vaccine Content

Apple ‘Still Investigating’ Unpatched and Public iPhone Vulnerabilities Originally Reported in March

South Korea Asks Apple and Google to Turn in App Store Compliance Plans by Mid-October