Stephen Hackett: An anonymous 512 Pixels reader recently mailed me something amazing — a promotional mailer for eWorld, dating back to 1994. In the package was a set of 3.5-inch eWorld 1.0 installer disks, the “Apple Online Service Subscriber Agreem…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Chronicling is a brand-new event tracking app for iOS and iPadOS by Rebecca Owen. The App Store is full of apps for tracking everything from the very specific, like caffeine consumption, to apps like Chronicling that can be used to tr…
Lees meerPlatforms State of the Union: But some APIs can be hard to use, requiring you to write a lot of boilerplate code just to get started. That’s why Swift is unlocking a new kind of API that’s easier to use and easier to get right with the introduction …
Lees meerGabriela Galindo (via Hacker News): The Fruit Union Suisse is 111 years old. For most of its history, it has had as its symbol a red apple with a white cross—the Swiss national flag superimposed on one of its most common fruits. But the group, the o…
Lees meerDavid Pierce: In this case, it turns out, the outrageous length is the whole appeal. Across all these videos and many other silent blank ones, every viewer seems to have their own use case. The most common, by far, is to use these videos as a way to…
Lees meerRichard MacManus: The fediverse is a collection of decentralized social media services that interconnect via ActivityPub. The most prominent member of the fediverse is Mastodon, a microblogging network that launched in 2017. But many other Web 2.0-s…
Lees meercorbet (via Hacker News): The Fedora project is considering a Fedora 40 change proposal to add limited, opt-out telemetry to the workstation edition. The proposal is detailed; it is clear that the developers involved understand that this will be a h…
Lees meerloyall (2021, via Hacker News): Today I received an email from OneDrive. The message said, “Look back on your memories from this day.” This email contained images of photos from my One Drive Backup. […] My question is how did someone gain access to …
Lees meerDiscover String Catalogs: Discover how Xcode 15 makes it easy to localize your app by managing all of your strings in one place. We’ll show you how to extract, edit, export, and build strings in your project using String Catalogs. We’ll also share h…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Public beta testers can download the macOS 14 Sonoma update from the Software Update section of the System Preferences app after signing up on Apple’s beta testing website and opting into the public beta under the Beta Updates section.[…
Lees meerJason Snell: iPadOS 17 uses the extra screen space of the iPad and lets you add a load of lock-screen widgets down the left side. I’ve already stuck a few in there and I’m looking forward to shopping for even more because there’s just so much space.…
Lees meerDan Moren: I’ve been using iOS 17 for several weeks, and while I’ve encountered the usual assortment of rough edges typical of a beta, none have been significant enough to make me wish to go backward. […] Where StandBy really shines, though, is in i…
Lees meerDan Moren: Live Voicemail finally means I can turn on another feature that I’ve been tempted to use since iOS 13: Silence Unknown Callers. I’ve always been reticent to turn on Silence Unknown Callers because I worry too much about missing important …
Lees meerDan Moren: [This] year, the action is on watchOS.As I wrote several months back, watchOS 10 is a big update that really spends its time re-thinking how we interact with our smartwatches. And now that I’ve spent several weeks using the beta, I can sa…
Lees meerGuoye Zhang et al. (via Quinn): We’re excited to announce a new open source package called Swift HTTP Types.Building upon insights from Swift on server, app developers, and the broader Swift community, Swift HTTP Types is designed to provide a share…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy (Hacker News): Mac shipments grew by more than 10% in the second quarter of the year, compared to the same period in 2022, according to a new market intelligence reports. All major PC brands saw their own shipments fall in the same perio…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Usually, I like to offer solutions in TidBITS articles, but when it comes to the black box of controlling Apple Music using Siri, I have no sense that my approach is ideal. So I’m going to describe my frustrations, and I hope those of yo…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: By taking advantage of the always-on microphone inside the HomePod, it means you don’t need to necessarily invest in buying new internet-connected smoke alarm systems — HomePod can simply enhance the utility of the existing “dumb” off…
Lees meerJuli Clover: The iOS 16.5.1, iPadOS 16.5.1, and macOS Ventura 13.4.1 Rapid Security Response updates fixed a WebKit vulnerability that Apple says may have been actively exploited. Unfortunately, it appears that the updates changed the Safari user ag…
Lees meerWes Davis (Hacker News): Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.The suits alleges, among other …
Lees meerKelsey Lewin (via Hacker News): The Video Game History Foundation, in partnership with the Software Preservation Network, has conducted the first ever study on the commercial availability of classic video games, and the results are bleak. 87% of cla…
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