Apple: Use the ScreenCaptureKit framework to add support for high-performance screen recording to your Mac app. The framework gives you fine-grained control to select and stream only the content that you want to capture. As a stream captures new fra…
Lees meerMatthew Bischoff: But the most popular messaging app on iOS, Messages, has never implemented “Mark as Unread” even though users have been clamoring for it for years and it’s been rumored that they tested it. What’s even wilder is that iMessage doesn…
Lees meerBruce Schneier (post): I would like to address some of the unfounded security concerns raised about these bills. It’s simply not true that this legislation puts user privacy and security at risk. In fact, it’s fairer to say that this legislation put…
Lees meerJuli Clover (ruling): Both Apple and Epic Games have decided to appeal the original ruling as neither company was satisfied with the outcome. Epic Games wanted the court to force Apple to support third-party App Stores, which did not happen. […] In …
Lees meerMatthew Bischoff: The more insidious thing about these bugs is that they’re rarely reported by users or caught by automated testing tools because they’re too small to complain about or too obscure to write tests for. Great QA testers can find and fi…
Lees meerMarc Tracy (Josh Wardle, Hacker News, MacRumors): The sudden hit Wordle, in which once a day players get six chances to guess a five-letter word, has been acquired by The New York Times Company. The purchase, announced by The Times on Monday, reflec…
Lees meerStack Overflow: On March 31, 2022, we will discontinue Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story. This includes all job listings, saved searches, applications, messages, recommended job matches, job ads, developer story, saved resumes, and the salary …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: One of the less-recognised benefits of SIP was that it effectively prevented this from happening, although improvements in system installers undoubtedly played their part as well. The signed and sealed System volume in Big Sur and Mon…
Lees meerMichael McWhertor (via John Gruber): Sony is buying Bungie, the developer of Destiny 2 and the studio that originally created Halo, in a deal worth $3.6 billion, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Monday.Bungie will remain a multiplatform stud…
Lees meerStijn Huijts, on the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s interim report: When it comes to gaming on mobile devices, the great advantage of cloud gaming is that it can far exceed the technological capabilities of even the newest model smartphone, …
Lees meerBecky Hansmeyer: Reflecting on the whole iCloud kerfuffle, I think one major issue is that none of us know how to escalate a critical problem to the right person. Support folks usually lack an understanding of the context, the dev forums aren’t moni…
Lees meerMike Rockwell: I’ve since deleted the Instagram app from my iPhone and have only jumped back into my timeline once or twice through a web browser. Each time I came out of it feeling worse than when I went in. I don’t want to do that anymore.But it g…
Lees meerKillian Bell: It’s not uncommon to see certain things blurred out inside Apple Maps and Google Maps. Both services regularly conceal things like faces and license plates. However, it is rare to see entire buildings hidden behind big, blurry walls. B…
Lees meerCory Bohon (Hacker News): As we begin 2022, it has been almost 20 years since Apple released Xcode to developers as the predominant way to create Mac apps. […] This was a revolutionary idea, and Apple put itself in direct competition with the commer…
Lees meerApple (via mikeymikey, MacRumors): Release your apps that aren’t suited for public distribution as unlisted on the App Store, discoverable only with a direct link. Unlisted apps don’t appear in any App Store categories, recommendations, charts, sear…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): The Company posted an all-time revenue record of $123.9 billion, up 11 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.10. Jason Snell (transcript, also: John Voorhees, Malcolm Owen): Mac revenue also reac…
Lees meerLuke Plunkett (via Dave Mark): Unpacking was one of the best games of 2021, not just make my personal GOTY list, but the entire site’s as well. It is currently available on PC, Mac, Switch and Xbox One. It is most definitely not available on Apple’s…
Lees meerRicky Mondello: Notes for Passwords are available in the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS betas. I know a lot of you have asked for this; it’s really versatile. :-) The password manger’s search field searches them. The Mac password manager can import and expo…
Lees meerJuli Clover: The iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 betas that Apple released today introduce support for Universal Control, the long-awaited feature that’s designed to allow multiple Macs and iPads to be controlled with a single mouse and keyboard…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 15.4 is the biggest update that we’ve had to iOS 15 to date, and it brings Universal Control, Face ID with a mask, new emojis, and tons more. […] After the iPhone 13 Pro models came out, users noticed that third-party apps were not …
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The Apple system status page is best known not for displaying the actual status of Apple services, but rather a pageful of green indicators that only change once a problem is so widespread and severe that the company can no longer hide …
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