Hartley Charlton: Apple’s long-awaited dedicated classical music app today appeared on the App Store and is available for pre-order ahead of its launch at the end of March. Sarah Perez (Hacker News): The company’s decision to target classical music …
Lees meerDavid Smith: Widgetsmith has just achieved a remarkable milestone, surpassing 100 million downloads since its launch in September 2020. A number that I can’t really wrap my mind around. A number larger than the population of all but 14 countries (🤯)…
Lees meerAppleVis (via Steven Aquino): To gather the ratings and comments contained in the report card, we conducted a comprehensive survey where participants rated their experience using Apple’s various platforms with the available vision accessibility feat…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: The European Commission today announced it has narrowed its antitrust investigation into Apple’s rules for streaming music apps. In a revised Statement of Objections sent to Apple, the Commission said it will no longer challenge Apple…
Lees meerCory Benfield: I’m excited to announce two new open source Swift packages: swift-certificates and swift-asn1. Together, these libraries provide developers a faster and safer implementation of X.509 certificates, a critical technology that powers the…
Lees meerAlex Benzer: A few weeks ago, we announced that Medium is embracing short-form writing by launching our very own Mastodon server at me.dm. Starting today, we’re opening up me.dm access for our member community. If you’re a Medium member, you can cre…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: T2 Intel and Apple silicon Macs invariably encrypt the Data volume on their internal SSD; adding the protection of FileVault’s password comes at no cost. Some external SSDs can use APFS encryption without any reduction in performance …
Lees meerMilen Dzhumerov: As part of my work on the Buck2 build system, I needed a way to observe the network throughput of the system. After some research, the conclusion was to use sysctl() with NET_RT_IFLIST2: this provided access to 64bit metrics which d…
Lees meerOliver Mackenzie (in August 2022, via John Voorhees): Let’s take a look at our gaming benchmarks, calculated via video capture as is the Digital Foundry way.[…]It’s not a particularly large table because, unfortunately, there aren’t many high-end Ma…
Lees meerDiligent Robot: After a lot of dillydallying, we’re very pleased to announce the return of sync to MoneyWell. This is available in MoneyWell 2023.1. To go along with this, we’re releasing MoneyWell Express 2023.1 for iPhone. […] We know a subscripti…
Lees meerJeremy Perdue (AppleInsider, MacRumors, Slashdot, Hacker News): Now consumers can use Outlook for free on macOS, no Microsoft 365 subscription or license necessary. However, according to the pricing page, you need to pay in order for it to be ad-fre…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: With the guaranteed integrity of the SSV and cryptexes on IT2 and AS models, reinstalling the same version of macOS has no effect on the great majority of macOS. Similarly, installing an older version and updating it to the current on…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis: 20 years ago today, on March 3, 2003, Rogue Amoeba released Audio Hijack Pro 1.0. This was a crucial event in the company’s history, as sales grew a much higher level, taking Rogue Amoeba from a hobby to a viable business.On this anniv…
Lees meerSophia Teutschler: The source code for CoverSutra is now available on GitHub. This was a great app back in the day. So many of these talented indie developers ended up working at Apple. Via Dave Verwer: Sophia Teutschler has been open-sourcing her o…
Lees meerSerena (tweet): There are a few existing asset catalog viewer applications for macOS, however, none felt feature complete, Samra offers the following:Browse through the Asset Catalog fileShow all types of objects (renditions) in it, not just images …
Lees meerAdam Chandler: 150% of my iPhone 14 Pro Max’s screen on the App Store’s Today screen is occupied by advertisements that aren’t relevant to my interests. Apple’s services team is ruining the experience. Mario Guzman: Ugh. I got hit by two Apple ads t…
Lees meerBrave (via MacRumors): The Summarizer provides concise and to-the-point answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, in response to the user’s input, solely based on Web search results. Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is prone to spo…
Lees meerChloe Xiang (via Hacker News):: This blog post and OpenAI’s recent actions—all happening at the peak of the ChatGPT hype cycle—is a reminder of how much OpenAI’s tone and mission have changed from its founding, when it was exclusively a nonprofit. W…
Lees meerShawn Michels (Hacker News): The price of Shared and Dedicated compute plans will increase by 20%. Our shared Nanode plan remains unchanged at US$5 per month. Additional IPv4 IP addresses will increase from US$1 to US$2 per month. IPv6 addresses rem…
Lees meerNSViewController.ViewLoading: Use this property wrapper on view controller properties that can be nil before the view controller’s view loads. Wrapping view controller properties this way eliminates crashes that can occur from implicitly defining pr…
Lees meerBeatrix Willius: According to the German computer magazine Heise Outlook is now using “Microsoft Synch Technology” without asking the user. When you create a new account, there’s a checkbox to opt out, but the Heise article implies that existing acc…
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