Hartley Charlton: New universal chat app “Beeper” combines 15 different chat platforms into a single inbox and offers iMessage on Android and Windows (via The Verge).[…]The app is “using some trickery” to achieve this, with the website’s FAQ reveali…
Lees meerNathaniel Strauss: EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) no longer exists on Apple silicon and along with it has gone EFI passwords. In the past, EFI passwords secured recovery and prevented Macs from using most boot modifiers at startup. A user could…
Lees meerBen Thompson: In fact, the x86 business proved far too profitable to take such a radical step, which is the exact sort of “problem” that leads to disruption: yes, Intel avoided Microsoft’s fate, but that also means that the company never felt the fi…
Lees meerJeff Carlson: But the issue wasn’t just that Camo gives you better picture quality. I wanted to dig into why webcam technology is so far behind. Even today, in 2021, the Logitech C920 is recommended by many, many magazines and outlets as being the b…
Lees meerA scanning app is essential for any attorney using an iPhone and/or iPad. By converting a physical document into a digital form, you can read it on a back lit screen and zoom in to see the fine print, annotate...
Lees meerGian-Carlo Pascutto: Once the compiler was working, a similar exercise needed to be done with all the Rust crates we depend on. The need to update the compiler and the reliance of some crates on the exact compiler version, especially parts dealing w…
Lees meerSE-0298 (via David Smith, forum): Swift’s async/await feature provides an intuitive, built-in way to write and use functions that return a single value at some future point in time. We propose building on top of this feature to create an intuitive, …
Lees meerMaximilian Zinkus et al.: In Apple iOS we found a powerful and compelling set of security and privacy controls, backed and empowered by strong encryption. However, we also found a critical lack in coverage due to under-utilization of these tools. [……
Lees meerJohn Gruber: So the good news is that if you use Apple’s 18W adapter (which Apple provided with iPhones 11 Pro and iPads Pro, including the iPad Pro updates from March of this year) instead of their new 20W adapter (which Apple includes with the new…
Lees meerDrew Holden: Three years ago, America was locked in a battle for #NetNeutrality, and, by extension, life as we knew it. For the lucky few who survived, I invite you to join me on a quick stroll down memory lane to revisit the doom and gloom we were …
Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi (tweet): All your reading in one place, multiple account support. Sync with all major RSS aggregator and read later provider or use it with built-in RSS engine. Feed and folder management for RSS services. Folder and tag management f…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: By now, I expected NSSavePanel.allowedContentTypes to work, and then to have Xcode suggest to wrap access to that property in an if-@available block. But that doesn’t work at all. With macOS 10.15 Catalina being my main dev machine…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: What Apple appears to be saying is an APFS Time Machine volume requires a single container that takes up the entire disk—you can’t add other containers, and that container has access to all the store space on the disk. Within that c…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Signal had a bumpy start, but it’s now a well-polished and full-featured messaging app available for the most common platforms: iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux.[…]Every part of Signal is open source. The clients are published und…
Lees meerRecorded 17th January 2021 This week there was a virtual CES, somewhat reduced in size but still with its array of prototypes, new products The post Essential Apple Podcast 206: Simple photo and video adjustment with Darkroom appeared first on MyMac…
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