Josh Centers: Apple eliminated the toolbar at the top of the screen that could be summoned or dismissed with a tap of the screen. Books now hides most of its controls in the reading menu, accessed by tapping a button that lives by default in the low…
Lees meerJason Snell: Swiping toward the center of the Island does seem to “minimize” it, though that behavior seems to vary. When I tried it while on a phone call, it made the time and voice waveform disappear, but the phone icon—to indicate that there’s an…
Lees meerJean-Louis Gassée (in 2019, via Hacker News): Because I feel self-conscious about my mental and motor skills, I compared notes with a learned friend, a persistent fellow who forced himself to learn touch typing by erasing the letters on his keyboard…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: In the latest iPadOS 16 beta seeded earlier this week, developer Steve Troughton-Smith and MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci highlighted various user interface issues they continue to face from time to time while using Stage…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht (tweet): Kaleidoscope 3.7 marks the beginning of a new chapter: you can now share your text diffs with other people. It’s as easy as clicking the common Share button in the toolbar and selecting a service, like Messages or AirDrop. …
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range of consumer electronic devices, including the iPhone and AirPods, by the end of 2024. […] Ex…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (tweet): Cydia parent company SaurikIT, LLC has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed the company’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple last month, a…
Lees meerJon Porter (via Hacker News): The SuperSpeed USB branding is no more thanks to a new set of guidelines currently being rolled out by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the body that manages and maintains the USB standard. It’s part of a rebranding…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Anker’s new earbuds feature a stemmed design reminiscent of Apple’s AirPods, while the right-hand earbud includes a special sensor that can monitor your heart rate continuously or just when you’re working out. The HR data is linked to …
Lees meerFlorian Mueller (MacRumors, tweet): On Monday (September 26), it was confirmed that Apple’s Korean headquarters in the city of Gangnam-gu were subjected to a dawn raid by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), which is Korea’s antitrust authority.[…
Lees meerFelix Krause: This is unacceptable: A seemingly automated system flags @sindresorhus Apple Dev Account, threatening to close his account if he won’t resolve “unspecified metric”I can’t believe it’s legal for (in this case a monopoly) to suspend acco…
Lees meerSaagar Jha: Here’s an interesting instance of quadratic complexity: adding and removing KVO observers on an object (FB11644022). A graph of its performance as I scale the number of observations is so perfect it could probably feel right at home in a…
Lees meerReaddle (MacRumors, Hacker News): Now people who use Windows can focus on what’s important and enhance their productivity with Spark. […] Please be aware that Spark is working hard towards feature parity between platforms and the experience across i…
Lees meerSimon Sickle: Enable the SSH Agent and optionally biometrics if you wish. Now, we must add a snippet of code to our SSH configuration file to tell the SSH command we wish to delegate key management to 1Password. […] At work, we have some complex con…
Lees meerAdi Robertson: Elon Musk’s deposition for the Twitter v. Musk suit may have been rescheduled for next week, but the public got some more inside dirt about his plans for Twitter, thanks to the release of two slideshowpresentations and a slew of Musk …
Lees meerBare Bones Software (tweet): Added settings to the “Editing” preferences to specify alternative characters for Show Invisibles, for tabs and for line breaks.[…]The low-level text rendering in BBEdit’s editing engine has been reworked to improve perf…
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: One of the world’s largest games companies, China’s Tencent (which is also Epic’s largest shareholder besides founder Tim Sweeney), has just doubled down on its efforts to circumvent the infamous app tax. Finland-based Supercell is …
Lees meerDavid Pierce (via Hacker News): The newest Kindle is the first truly new Kindle in years. It’s called the Kindle Scribe, and it’s both a reading device and a writing one. With a 10.2-inch E Ink screen, a stylus that attaches to the side of the devic…
Lees meerMatt Ronge (last October): We launched Astropad in 2015, and rapidly bootstrapped the business to just shy of 20 people. In 2017 we launched our first hardware product Luna Display. Things were going well. Sales were strong. We made more in a month …
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Without rehashing what I wrote eight (!) years ago about the Content Graph in the Workflow app, it is essentially the engine that tells Shortcuts how to interpret data that gets passed in and out of actions. The beauty of this appr…
Lees meerChris Phillips: Soon, with our new neighborhood vibe feature, you’ll be able to select a neighborhood and see the most popular spots come to life thanks to helpful photos and information from the Google Maps community right on the map. […] Today, we…
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