Rob N: I’d like to show a second window with different content in a SwiftUI app on macOS. I can’t find any documentation on this. Malcolm Hall (tweet, forum): In your ContentView create a button and open a URL for your app and another View e.g. View…
Lees meerEuropean Parliament: Mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones and headsets, handheld videogame consoles and portable speakers, rechargeable via a wired cable, would have to be equipped with a USB Type-C port, regardless of the manufacture…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Unfortunately, the HDMI port that returned isn’t so top-of-the-line – it’s an HDMI 2.0 port instead of an HDMI 2.1 port. […] The SD card slot on the new MacBook Pros supports UHS-II cards, but only up to 250MB/s of data transfer, not t…
Lees meerMiles Wolbe: Open Contacts.app then “Enter Time Machine” from menu bar icon to restore (H/T). Note that the “Browse Other Backup Disks…” option accessed by Option-clicking the Time Machine menu bar icon really means “Browse Other Backup Disks for th…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The most serious problem with Disk Utility remains its manifest inability to run First Aid on some volumes and containers, in particular Time Machine backup stores. This problem persists, although currently it now seems confined to AP…
Lees meerApple (via Thomas Zoechling): The following example code illustrates how to retrieve an identifier in macOS for validating an App Store receipt. Use the data returned to by the copy_mac_address function to validate the App Store receipt.In the follo…
Lees meerI recently started using Weathergraph. I’ve been happy with Snowflake Weather on my iPhone, but less so on my Apple Watch. Weathergraph has a great watch app and complication, and it’s even better with the new icon theme and precipitation probabilit…
Lees meerSean Heber: Surprised that Swift has “indirect” for enum cases but not for structs. Seems like a weird omission. Here’s a property wrapper that lets you use “indirect” properties in a struct for those times when you really want to because “reasons.”…
Lees meerShelly Brisbin: For the second year running, Apple has offered a preview of updated accessibility features coming to its platforms later this year. The announcements come just ahead of Thursday’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which goes by #GA…
Lees meerApple: As companies expand their use of technology, employees are demanding to use iPhone, iPad, and Mac at work, resulting in an increased need for IT professionals skilled in supporting and managing Apple products. To help meet this growing demand…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The most compelling argument for retaining HFS+ is on rotating hard disks, because APFS can result in severe fragmentation, most importantly in the file system metadata, so causing degraded performance; as SSDs don’t suffer those perf…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: In Swift, you can weak-ify references to self in escaping closures, and then you need to deal with the case that the reference is gone when the block is called. Last month, Benoit Pasquier and Chris Downie presented different takes…
Lees meerJason Snell: For years, Amazon has used the Mobipocket format (.mobi) rather than the ePub format for Kindle books. Recently it developed its own format, KF8 (and now KFX), and has been using that instead. Everyone else uses ePub. Publishers sell bo…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: You don’t have to prepare an APFS volume, as Time Machine will do that for you, but I prefer to make one ready using Disk Utility. […] Time Machine will then prepare its backup volume by making another APFS volume using the case-sensi…
Lees meerJesse Grosjean (tweet, Hacker News): Bike is a macOS (11 and later) native outliner. Bike has good performance on big outlines. Bike uses open file formats and is scriptable too. Use Bike to record and process your ideas. […] Outliners are powerful …
Lees meerApple (via Mark Gurman): Currently, when an auto-renewable subscription price is increased, subscribers must opt in before the price increase is applied. The subscription doesn’t renew at the next billing period for subscribers who didn’t opt in to …
Lees meerSelznick Scientific Software: The Toolbars now look correct in mac OS Big Sur.Ready for Apple Silicon! (M1)Improved Bonjour support for discovering other PasswordWallets on your local network.Fixed an issue with the Entry Editor when in “separate-wi…
Lees meerApple: Xcode 13.4 includes SDKs for iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and macOS Monterey 12.3. The Xcode 13.4 release supports on-device debugging for iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and later. Xcode 13.4 requires a Mac r…
Lees meerApple (PDF): Unless otherwise noted, this documentation covers the following operating system versions: iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, and watchOS 8.5. Apple: Topics added:Paired recoveryOS restrictionsLocal Operating System Version (…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, the firmware refines camera tuning, offering improved noise reduction, contrast, and framing. We tested out the firmware update when it was in beta, and there is a clear difference in camera quality, …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Universal Control is no longer in beta. It is now an official feature that Apple has deemed issue-free, and the beta labeling has been removed. Universal Control was introduced in March and it allows you to use a single mouse/trackpad a…
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