ForecastAdvisor (via John Gruber): ForecastAdvisor will show you the accuracy of the major weather forecasters, including Accuweather, AerisWeather, Foreca, the National Weather Service, Open Weathermap, The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Wet…
Lees meerMath Easel: New lock screen accessory widgets for iOS 16! (Make sure you are subscribed to the Premium level.) This may be the best weather Lock Screen widget I’ve seen, though for the big graph in the app itself I prefer Weathergraph’s. Previously:…
Lees meerTriple Glazed Studios (via Craig Grannell): Beautiful weather charts Detailed daily forecast Incredibly accurate rain forecast Simple yet powerful Apple Watch app Easy to glace home screen and lock screen widgets I like the design, which is reminisc…
Lees meerJoseph Ruscio (Hacker News): @FogBugzTeam sending me an email today that you are auto-upgrading and intend to start charging me tomorrow for a free account I haven’t logged into for (checks notes) … 13 YEARS is a bold move. Aleksandar Vacić: If your…
Lees meerOn one of my Macs running macOS 12.6, the Safari 16 update said that it had succeeded but actually left me with a zero-byte executable that wouldn’t launch. This had never happened to me before in all my years of using Macs. You might think this sho…
Lees meerApple: The system memory allocator free operation zeroes out all deallocated blocks in iOS 16.1 beta or later. Invalid accesses to free memory might result in new crashes or corruption, including NULL-pointer dereferences and non-zero memory being r…
Lees meerApple: As early as October 5, 2022, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories tha…
Lees meerSami Fathi: The new prompt was added to iOS 16 as a privacy measure for users, requiring that apps ask for permission to access the clipboard, which may have sensitive data. The prompt, however, has become an annoyance for users as they install iOS …
Lees meerMalcolm Owen: Advocacy groups and lobbying parties often make claims to sway public, judicial, and political opinion one way or another, and that has been quite evident for some news stories about the tech giants. The App Association (ACT), which ai…
Lees meerTomas Kafka: Lock screen widgets! Ready for iOS 16 and Apple Watch Ultra. Two large widgets with a signature weather graph and text weather summary. Inline widgets to tell you current conditions, wind speed and direction, precipitation or time of th…
Lees meerDave Winer (via Manton Reece): I announced here on Scripting News that the final RSS 2.0 spec was out. But! -- no one had a problem with it. I guess we were ready to go to the next stage, with a clear way forward.[…]A list of blog posts from 2002 le…
Lees meerJohn Vorhees (tweet): That’s why I was glad to see a brand new app called LockFlow released alongside the iOS 16 release. The app makes it incredibly simple to add shortcut widgets to your iPhone Lock Screen. […] When you’re finished adding shortcut…
Lees meerKeith Broni: The latest emoji list drafted by the Unicode Consortium is due for formal approval today, with new emojis including a Goose, a Hyacinth, a Shaking Face, and a plain Pink Heart. […] These 11 sequences are ten new skin tone modifier seque…
Lees meerLauren Simonds (in June): Rapid growth, a massive user base and stealing the market out from under an industry Goliath — this is the stuff of which tech startup founders dream. It’s also the story of Figma, a cloud-based platform for designing websi…
Lees meerSebastiaan de With (tweet): When it comes to computational photography, the quality of your software and processing power plays as important a role as the physical camera itself. It’s silly to judge the new iPhone entirely on sensor specs, and we ca…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: If you’ve used Widgetsmith to create Home Screen widgets, you’ll hit the ground running with Lock Screen widgets. There’s a new segmented control near the top of the iPhone app’s Widgets tab that toggles between Home Screen and Lock S…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: Apple has gone all in on the eSIM (embedded SIM), a programmable internal version of the SIM (subscriber identity module) card used to ID your phone to cellular networks. With the U.S. models of its iPhone 14 series, Apple has gotte…
Lees meerTodd Haselton: Amazon on Tuesday announced a new entry-level $99 Kindle e-reader with several improvements over the prior model. The biggest change is the display, which is a lot sharper than the earlier $89 Kindle. That means text will look clearer…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Reddit): In his latest post on Medium, Kuo explained that the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max have seen “neutral” and “good” pre-order results compared to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Delivery wait times of more tha…
Lees meerJean-Louis Gassée (tweet, Hacker News): I suggested a simpler, sharper statement: Apple makes personal computers, small, medium, and large. Everything else Apple does has but one raison d’être: They push up the volumes and margins of the company’s m…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Apple automatically opted in UITextView to TextKit 2, for both Apple’s apps and third-party apps. The developer must explicitly opt out of TextKit 2 to use the old TextKit 1 behavior. […] Apple’s typical way of preserving binary compat…
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