Apple: Payment Service Providers (PSPs) — where developers use an alternative payment processor that lets users complete transactions within their app.Linking out to purchase — where developers direct users to complete a transaction for digital good…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Slashdot): Developers who offer the ability to sideload their apps in the European Union will still face restrictions and fees imposed by Apple, The Wall Street Journal reports.App sideloading capabilities will allow users to downl…
Lees meerJohn Walker: Ubisoft has chosen this week to rebrand its Ubisoft+ subscription services, and introduce a PC version of the “Classics” tier at a lower price. […] You can subscribe to Game Pass, or PlayStation Plus, and get a broad range of hundreds o…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen (MacRumors): January 24 will be the Macintosh’s 40th birthday, marking four decades since Steve Jobs showed off what he believed to be the future of computing. Dan Moren: In that time, it’s run on four different processor architectures …
Lees meerNiko Kitsakis: In graphical user interfaces, we have seen an increase in buttons recently that consist merely of text or icons, without a clear, visible button shape being present. This insipid, uninspired mediocrity, exemplified by Google’s “Materi…
Lees meerTower: Environment settings: In addition to adding custom environment variables, environment variables from the login shell are now also automatically added when running Git commands. This should make hook scripts work without additional configurati…
Lees meerChris Hanson (Hacker News): A lot of people think QuickTime is a “video format,” but that’s not really accurate. Video and audio playback are applications atop the QuickTime container format; the container format itself is a means of representing mu…
Lees meerScharon Harding (via Hacker News): A quote from an anonymous Amazon employee in a Wednesday Business Insider report paints a dire picture. Amazon needs its upcoming subscription version of Alexa to drive revenue in ways that its voice assistant neve…
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: This is just a little snippet that is quite useful for reporting when your GUI thread (the main thread / actor) hangs for a significant amount of time. There are numerous heavier-weight tools for analysing this sort of thing, but I’v…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Finally, the complete removal of support for PostScript and EPS was recorded as another “deprecation” in the release notes for Sonoma: “macOS has removed the functionality for converting PostScript and EPS files to PDF format. As a re…
Lees meerJason Fried: Once upon a time you owned what you paid for, you controlled what you depended on, and your privacy and security were your own business. We think it’s that time again.Introducing ONCE, a new line of software products from 37signals.Pay …
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): With iOS 17.3, Apple is adding Stolen Device Protection to the iPhone, limiting access to private information just in case someone gets ahold of both your iPhone and your passcode.[…]The update also …
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The watchOS 10.3 update includes a new Unity Bloom watch face to celebrate Black History Month. Plus bug and security fixes. Previously: watchOS 10.2
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security): Apple today released tvOS 17.3, the third major update to the tvOS 17 operating system that came out last September. tvOS 17.3 comes over a month after tvOS 17.2, an update that brought the revamped Apple TV ap…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): Apple does not specify what’s included in the HomePod 17.3 software, and the generic release notes only say that it brings stability and performance improvements. I saw a regression in that the Home app continued showing…
Lees meerSimon B. Støvring: Apple rejected an update to Runestone because its App Store description mentions the app’s price. This text has been included in the description for two years on iOS and for two releases on visionOS. I was inspired by Overcast, wh…
Lees meerMacworld: However, picking a new monitor can be daunting. Not only are there many manufacturers to choose from, but there are also lots of sizes, resolutions, and features to consider–and when we say lots, we mean lots. […] Apple sells displays for …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple Music Classical was updated today with what appeared to be CarPlay support, but this was quickly reversed in a follow-up update. How about making classical music work for all users by adding scrolling or smaller fonts? Currently…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sonoma 14.3 brings collaborative playlists in Apple Music, so that Apple Music subscribers can create playlists with friends and family members. The software also has an u…
Lees meerApple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.4. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.3. Previously: macOS 14.3 macOS 13.6.3 and macOS 12.7.2
Lees meerPanic (Mastodon): When you buy Prompt, you’ll get both the mobile and desktop apps.[…]MOSH & ETERNAL TERMINAL. Use these two new connection types for mega-stable terminals even if your network connection is garbageQuickly insert your most frequently…
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