Tim Hardwick: Google has announced early access to Chrome OS Flex, a method of replacing the operating system on older PCs and Macs “within minutes” to essentially turn them into Chromebooks.[…]The idea is that if you have an aging Mac lying around …
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith (tweet): The biggest glaring hole in UIKit on macOS is its handling of document-based apps. […] No Apple app is dogfooding this aspect of Catalyst, and it shows.[…]If you dig in, you will find that Catalyst gives you all the to…
Lees meerDan Petro (via Hacker News): To show you why, I wrote a tool called Unredacter that takes redacted pixelized text and reverses it back into its unredacted form. […] The key thing we’re focusing on is that the redaction process is inherently local. I…
Lees meerACM (Hacker News): The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets has concluded that the revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier. The new conditions stipulate that da…
Lees meerJez Corden (Hacker News): Popular tech outlet Gamers Nexus recently reported an incident with Newegg, which has long been a staple for PC builders. The Gamers Nexus team purchased a motherboard from Newegg, and later decided to return it having real…
Lees meerRandy Wigginton (via Dave Mark): I started attending Homebrew Computer Club meetings. Since I was unable to drive, I asked if anyone lived near me that could give me a lift to the meetings. A really nice guy came up and said he lived close and could…
Lees meerMike Schmitz: With Open In, you can trigger a list of installed browsers when you click a link and choose the one you want it to, well, open in. For the last several years, I’ve been using PasswordWallet as my bookmark opener, because it lets me spe…
Lees meerHector Martin (Hacker News): It turns out Apple’s custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don’t care about data integrity.[…]On Linux, fsync() will both flush writes to the drive, and ask it to flush its write cache to stable storage.But on m…
Lees meerLauren Rosenblatt: Knitrino, maker of an app by the same name that helps knitters navigate tricky projects and find unique patterns, recently signed on to support Epic Games, the North Carolina-based game and software developer behind Fortnite, in i…
Lees meerDKB (Hacker News, Reddit): Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending …
Lees meerShantanu Sinha (Hacker News): We’ve learned that a one-size-fits all approach isn’t what educators need from tools like G Suite for Education. Whether you’re in a rural elementary school, urban university or homeschool setting, our technology and to…
Lees meerPair, in 2018: Today, Liberated Syndication, Inc. (LSYN), the Pittsburgh-based podcast hosting network, announced that it has closed its acquisition of pair Networks, Inc.You can read the press release here. Frederic Lardinois: Akamai, the company y…
Lees meerMarco Eidinger (via Dave Verwer): A nice surprise is that SwiftUI supports GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). […] An Apple engineer confirmed the use of GFM in the Apple Developer forum.[…]Using a string literal in Text works. Fine, but using a string …
Lees meerBare Bones Software: Image files are browseable in disk browsers and projects, and openable into ordinary window sidebars. The image view includes metadata details, and a “Remove Metadata” button is available for deleting image metadata if desired. …
Lees meerKen Case: This multi-platform automation for our apps—called Omni Automation—is now extended by Shortcuts to the rest of the platform’s automation world. Shortcuts on the Mac makes that power more accessible than ever, both to end users and to devel…
Lees meerAnthony Chavez: Today, we’re announcing a multi-year initiative to build the Privacy Sandbox on Android, with the goal of introducing new, more private advertising solutions. Specifically, these solutions will limit sharing of user data with third p…
Lees meerSteve: My experiences with Microsoft dev relations over the past decade have been nothing but positive and frictionless. My experiences with Apple have been nothing but combative and “computer says no” Via Florian Mueller: As for “computer says no,”…
Lees meerSarah Perez: The judge has ruled that at least half the claims can proceed and is giving Eleftheriou the opportunity to amend the remaining items that were dismissed. […] In his own lawsuit against Apple, Eleftheriou aims to document what he alleges…
Lees meerBruce Lawson: One of the reasons Apple gives for the #AppleBrowserBan is to protect user’s privacy and security by fixing bugs quickly:“By requiring use of WebKit, Apple can provide security updates to all our users quickly and accurately, no matter…
Lees meerStephen Hackett: Apple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time. Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing developers to bring their iOS widgets over to the Mac in macOS Big Sur. Sadly, they all got stuffed into the…
Lees meerBasicAppleGuy: After releasing the MacBook Pro schematics, it became obvious that they lacked an element that I had often included in some of my earlier works: dynamic mode. This specially formatted .heic file automatically changes the wallpaper bas…
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