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Discussions in Google Search

zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Abner Li: At Search On 2022, Google announced that “Discussions and forums” will be getting their own sections in results, while translated news coverage is also coming next year. Google frames “Discussions and forums” as originating from people’s d…

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Sunsetting Google Stadia

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Google Stadia (3 months ago): Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we’re always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Jennifer Elias: As Google tries to navigate an unfamiliar environment of slowing growth, cost-c…

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Microsoft Discontinuing SwiftKey for iOS

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Emma Roth (via Tom Warren): Microsoft confirmed that it’s removing SwiftKey from the Apple App Store and ending support for the iOS version of the keyboard app on October 5th. […] The move to discontinue SwiftKey on iOS comes after months of user co…

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Check Your App IDs for Unused Capabilities

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson: When I submitted the app to App Review, Apple silently added the game center entitlement to my app, even though the app didn’t have the entitlement when I submitted it. And then App Review rejected me for it![…]While I was looking thro…

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App Store Rules for NFT Apps

donderdag 29 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Aidan Ryan (tweet): With NFT volumes tanking along with the broader crypto market, marketplace startups could use a boost from using mobile apps to sell their wares. So far, though, most see some obstacles, including the up to 30% commission Apple c…

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DALL-E Now Available Without Waitlist

woensdag 28 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

OpenAI (tweet, via Hacker News): Starting today, we are removing the waitlist for the DALL·E beta so users can sign up and start using it immediately. More than 1.5M users are now actively creating over 2M images a day with DALL·E—from artists and c…

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Monospaced Digits in SwiftUI

woensdag 28 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Natalia Panferova: We can see that the time within the text dynamically changes but the UI jitters as digits update. This happens because by default digits have proportional width and different digits take a different amount of space.To stop the UI …

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Reduced Stage Manager iPad Requirements

woensdag 28 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Nathan Ingraham: Now, Apple is making Stage Manager work with a number of older devices: it’ll work on the 11-inch iPad Pro (first generation and later) and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro (third generation and later). Specifically, it’ll be available on the…

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Apple Removes VK and Mail.ru Apps From the App Store

woensdag 28 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Oleg Danylov (via Hacker News, Reddit): The VKontakte social network client and some other VK and Mail.ru applications have been removed from the Apple App Store. All these apps are still available on Google Play.[…]This is not the first time that A…

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Oak 2.5.2

dinsdag 27 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Josh Centers: Both [Calm and Headspace] require an annual subscription fee, so I tested their free trials. […] It turns out that I find celebrity voices distracting. […] Oak has a small set of both guided and unguided meditations […] Along with a fe…

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Debug Printing in Swift

dinsdag 27 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jordan Morgan: For debugPrint()… Things look a little bit different. Its output is strikingly similar to the print(), but it has a fully qualified print out.[…]However, if the type doesn’t conform to [CustomDebugStringConvertible] - then String(refl…

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FastScripts 3.2

maandag 26 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Red Sweater: By default, FastScripts searches for scripts in the same standard “Scripts” folders that Apple’s Script Menu searches. […] I’ve expanded FastScripts to support an arbitrary number of user-determined locations, whose script contents will…

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Outdated vs. Complete Apps

maandag 26 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Vivian Qu (tweet): When I was at Pinterest, I helped in communications with our dedicated App Store representative who would expedite Pinterest app updates through the review process. I have seen first-hand the lack of support for indie apps compare…

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Scylla Ad Fraud on Apple Store

maandag 26 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bill Toulas: Security researchers have discovered 75 applications on Google Play and another ten on Apple’s App Store engaged in ad fraud. Collectively, they add to 13 million installations. Apart from flooding mobile users with advertisements, both…

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Reshaping Text With rs

vrijdag 23 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dr. Drang: The problem was that the lists were long. One had 84 items and the other had 30. Pasting them into the message in the form I had them—one item per line—would take up too much space. Pasting them in as a comma-separated series—which I coul…

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The Macintosh Portable Introduction

vrijdag 23 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

stirz: On this day 33 years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh Portable. I just love how @gassee does the presentation: lots of humor and a live assembly on stage. Compared with more recent Apple events, it almost seems humble. I enjoyed this video.

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Stable Diffusion Based Image Compression

vrijdag 23 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthias Bühlmann (via Hacker News): These examples make it quite evident that compressing these images with Stable Diffusion results in vastly superior image quality at a smaller file sizes compared to JPG and WebP. This quality comes with some imp…

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Midjourney and Stable Diffusion

vrijdag 23 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Thompson: The initial roll-out of large language models seemed to confirm this point of view: the two most prominent large language models have come from OpenAI and Google; while both describe how their text (GPT and GLaM, respectively) and imag…

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Terminal and Full Disk Access

donderdag 22 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (tweet): Many expert Mac users grant Full Disk Access to Terminal app, because the permissions dialogs quickly become very annoying when you try to do things in Terminal, as we’ve already seen above.[…]What you may not realize is that i…

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iOS 16 Lock Screen Widgets Roundup

donderdag 22 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Voorhees: Link HUB lets you put links on your iOS 16 Lock Screen. Links can be URLs that open websites or URL schemes that open and control apps. […] Launcher is an app that’s been around for a very long time, helping iPhone users automate a lo…

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Customizing iOS 16 Lock Screen Wallpaper

donderdag 22 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Federico Viticci: The customization we have in iOS 16 includes wallpapers – and in fact goes above and beyond anything Apple ever offered for wallpapers on iOS – but that’s only one component of a larger system. A good way to think about it is the f…

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