Parker Ortolani: Rumors have started to pick up about a new more affordable Apple display that could come this year. Just this morning, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reported that the company is indeed planning to release a display in 2022 that’s half th…
Lees meerDale Weiler (via Richard Geldreich): There are a lot of arguments against the use of unsigned integers. Let me explain why I think they’re mostly incorrect. […] Trap representations are actually quite insufficient as they can only trigger at runtime…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Hyper also announced what it claims is the world’s first Thunderbolt 4 hub with an integrated 100-watt GaN power supply. The hub features one Thunderbolt 4 upstream port for connecting to and charging Thunderbolt-equipped computers li…
Lees meerTom Parsons (Hacker News): As I discovered during a recent conversation with Geaves and Eric Treski from the Product Marketing Team, much of the work in designing the new AirPods 3 revolved around trying to solve problems inherent in the brief to co…
Lees meerAdam Engst: He uses a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 printer designed for professional photos and fine art—this is a serious printer. After a recent upgrade odyssey from Mojave to Catalina to Big Sur, Charles started seeing problems with his printouts …
Lees meerJean Leon: Rating songs serves as a sorting method for the user’s music library. In this way, you can sort your songs according to the ones you like the most. Apple made it easy to use this feature with support for Siri voice commands. Then, users c…
Lees meerJohn Sundell: What if we could actually make our code fully testable in a way that doesn’t require us to introduce any new protocols, mocking types, or complicated abstractions? Let’s explore how we could make use of Swift’s new async/await capabili…
Lees meerNoah Martin (Hacker News): The entry point to our investigation is Mike Ash’s PR which implements a 13x faster cache that was released in Swift 5.4. […] We now see that the speed of protocol conformance lookups is dependent on the number of conforma…
Lees meerDave Hamilton (tweet): In December 1998, Bryan Chaffin and I co-founded The Mac Observer. And now, 23 years later… the site was acquired.This next step in the site’s evolution is a good one. Dr. Serhat Kurt has long been a fan of The Mac Observer in…
Lees meerSimon Baker: In this article we want to look at what the “HDMI 2.1” term really means, and address a worrying early sign in the market of things to come. We’ve delved in to what is required for this certification and what that means to you as a cons…
Lees meerAlexander King: Everyone knows game designers love working with spreadsheets, but there aren’t enough games that run in spreadsheets. But my students are helping set things right. Check out some of their amazing games, all playable in Excel or Googl…
Lees meerAnkur Thakur (via Dave Mark): This tutorial shows you the steps to sign out of iCloud and your Apple ID (both are the same) on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. […] Here’s what happens when you sign out of iCloud or Apple ID. Please note that…
Lees meerRene Ritchie: What do you want to see in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 this year? What major new features do they need? What should be removed or changed? What would improve your quality of life? There are lots of good replies. I’ll probably think of more, b…
Lees meerSparkle: Sparkle 2 adds support for application sandboxing, custom user interfaces, updating external bundles, and a more modern architecture which includes faster and more reliable installs. This has been many years in the making. Release notes: Mo…
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu: The defacto way of reacting to Right Command + some other key is to monitor all key events (yes, just like a keylogger), and discard events that don’t contain the Right Command modifier flag. Easy peasy, right? Well no, because that’s…
Lees meerBrian Webster: The problem is that I usually have Xcode’s built-in “All Exceptions” breakpoint enabled when debugging my application, but when I run unit tests in Xcode, I have certain unit tests that will throw exceptions and trigger the breakpoint…
Lees meerMarc Marasigan (via Hacker News): According to PCWorld, the account in question had been inactive for more than a year when the owner decided to take a break from gaming. “In 2020, I sold my PC because I was gaming way too much and it went a bit ove…
Lees meerTumblr: For those of you who access Tumblr through our iOS app, we wanted to share that starting today you may see some differences for search terms and recommended content that can contain specific types of sensitive content. In order to comply wit…
Lees meerVersion Museum (via Hacker News): The Control Panel in Microsoft Windows has been around as long as the operating system itself. It’s been the nerve center for the world’s most popular desktop operating system since 1985, when Windows 1.0 debuted. O…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (PDF): Apple must let dating apps like Tinder and Match offer payment methods other than Apple’s in-app purchase system in the App Store in the Netherlands, or else it will face fines, the Dutch competition regulator announced today.[……
Lees meerJack Wallen (via Hacker News, MacRumors): RLBox is a new method of sandboxing, which makes it easy to efficiently isolate subcomponents and make Firefox more secure. RLBox uses WebAssembly to isolate possible buggy code. […] How RLBox works is compl…
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