Tom Warren (tweet): Surface Laptop SE will be sold exclusively to schools and students, starting at $249. It’s part of a much broader effort with Windows 11 SE, a new student edition designed to compete with Chrome OS that will ship on a range of lo…
Lees meerJamie Finney (via Daniel Jalkut): Along with a massive drop in sales, the little hits keep coming. In August, there were updates to the costs involved with shipping overseas that caused us to stop all overseas shipping for the foreseeable future. Re…
Lees meerAmir Shevat and Sonya Penn (Hacker News): Essential access includes immediate access to the Twitter API v2 upon signup, one App environment and the ability to retrieve up to 500k Tweets per month. This should meet the majority of developers’ needs, …
Lees meerPeter Ammon: #macOS Monterey users, are you finding your #GitHub notifications are all marked as read? It’s probably Mail loading GitHub’s tracker pixels remotely. Uncheck “Protect Mail Activity” and the notifications come back.Tracker pixels are ma…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has today renewed his attack on Apple and called for a single, universal app store that works across all platforms (via Bloomberg).[…]Sweeney added that Epic Games is working with developers and service p…
Lees meerDan Petrov (via Hacker News): Apple has quietly added a new tool in macOS Monterey for measuring your device’s Internet connectivity quality. You can simply call the executable networkQuality, which executes the following tests:Upload/download capac…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet, Eric Seufert, Hacker News): Apple allegedly buys Google ads for popular subscription-based third-party apps to bolster its collection of commission on in-app purchases, according to an investigation by Forbes. Apple has purp…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (Hacker News, MacRumors): Soon after the release of macOS 12.0.1, reports appeared that some apps, notably Firefox, could suffer large and progressive memory leaks until they took 70 GB or more of app memory, and the Mac simply ran out…
Lees meerTom Warren (via Nick Heer): Microsoft has already made it more difficult to switch default browsers in Windows 11, and now the company is going a step further by blocking apps like EdgeDeflector. Third-party apps like EdgeDeflector and even Firefox …
Lees meerDan Moren (Hacker News): But one challenge with continually moving the state of the art forward is that sometimes it comes at the expense of making sure the technology that’s already here works as well as it can. After all, if you have to add a doze…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The basics are very simple: select the text you want to translate, which could have been recognised and converted using Monterey’s new Live Text feature, bring up the contextual menu (Control-click, two-finger tap, etc.) and from that…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Communication Safety is a Family Sharing feature that can be enabled by parents, and it is opt-in rather than activated by default. When turned on, the Messages app is able to detect nudity in images that are sent or received by childre…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Reddit): Notability users have been left frustrated and annoyed after the developer of the popular Mac and iOS note-taking app revealed on Monday that it has switched to a subscription-based model, and that key features included in ori…
Lees meerJason Snell: That means it’s time for the final totals, and an entirely new set of charts based entirely on Apple’s annual performance. […] Apple has been on a rocket-ship ride since the debut of the iPhone. But Fiscal 2021 was like no other. Revenu…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): Specifically, scripts are now run independently from the app and in their own application processes. This guarantees a consistent execution environment, and allows for an arbitrary number of scripts to run in parallel without …
Lees meerGreg Kumparak (via Hacker News): Unity has just announced its intent to acquire Weta Digital, the legendary visual effects company co-founded by Peter Jackson, for a massive $1.625 billion. […] Leading into this deal, Weta Digital was both a team of…
Lees meerApple (Tim Cook, MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced Apple Business Essentials, an all-new service that brings together device management, 24/7 Apple Support, and iCloud storage into flexible subscription plans for small businesses with u…
Lees meerZagrebian (via Hacker News): The biggest problem is that in order to even see all the results, the user has to [click] “View all”. Most users will probably only look at the first five results, four of which are paid Firefox guides. The ranking seems…
Lees meerNilay Patel (tweet): The Verge is updating our public ethics policy to be clearer in our interactions with public relations and corporate communications professionals. We’re doing this because big tech companies in particular have hired a dizzying a…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (PDF, tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Epic v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says Apple must comply with an order to let developers add links and buttons to external payment options, denying the company’s motion for a stay. “Apple’…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (user guide): I’ve been on the look out for nominations for the title of the most improved utility of the year. I’m delighted to announce not just a nomination, but an outright winner: Disk Utility 21.0, bundled with Monterey. After fo…
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