Damon Beres (via Hacker News): Advocates for the blind are fighting an endless battle to access ebooks that sighted people take for granted, working against copyright law that gives significant protections to corporate powers and publishers who don’…
Lees meerChance Miller (tweet, video, Slashdot, MacRumors): Last month, it was announced that Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi would attend and speak at Web Summit 2021, which takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. In a keynote delivered today, Federigh…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Peloton has become the latest company to blame Apple’s ad-related privacy changes in iOS for negatively impacting its business, according to a new report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Best known for its at-home exercise equipment and onl…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition system and will delete the facial data of more than 1 billion of its users, Facebook parent company Meta announced this morning.People who opted in to Face Recognition will no longer be aut…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today informed developers that they can invite people to try out early versions of Mac apps prior to release using the TestFlight platform, marking the end of a beta test that’s been ongoing since August. Previously: TestFlight Fi…
Lees meerCasey Newton (Hacker News): When I started Platformer with the mailing list I accumulated while writing my previous newsletter, there were around 24,000 of them. Twelve months later, there are 49,604 people subscribed to Platformer’s free list, and …
Lees meerApple: Last year, to support apps that adapted services from in-person to digital, we temporarily deferred the requirement to offer paid online group event services (one-to-few and one-to-many realtime services) through in-app purchase in accordance…
Lees meerAbner Li (via Benjamin Mayo): In late August, South Korea passed a law requiring alternate in-app payment systems in Google Play and the iOS App Store. Google today detailed what steps it will be taking to comply.[…]Meanwhile, apps that use alternat…
Lees meerArmin Briegel: With the recent versions of macOS, getting a value of the available disk space is not as strightforward as it used to be. There are a lot of files and data on the system, which will be cleared out when some process requires more disk …
Lees meerDave Winer: [Way] back in 1983, Infoworld reviewed ThinkTank, my first outliner. This review, along with the one in the NYT, launched the company. Early the next year we shipped our Macintosh product at the Mac rollout in Flint Center. John Gruber: …
Lees meerApple: Your MacBook Pro has multiple energy modes you can switch between. By default, your Mac is set to Automatic mode to balance energy use and performance. Low Power Mode reduces energy use to increase battery life. On the 16-inch MacBook Pro wit…
Lees meerAsh Parrish: Users will be able to choose from one of five games: Stranger Things: 1984, Stranger Things 3: The Game, Shooting Hoops, Card Blast, and Teeter Up. Starting today, users can download Netflix games from the Google Play store, requiring a…
Lees meerLukas Mathis: After years of struggling with ghost clicks, randomly dragged icons, poor palm rejection, and generally ever worsening MacBook trackpads, I didn’t want to deal with software features trying to compensate for a trackpad’s lack of physic…
Lees meerAdobe: Reimagine local adjustments with the brand new Masking panel. Now use the Brush, Linear Gradient, and Radial Gradient tools with greater precision and organization. You can also access the Color Range and Luminance Range tools that help you s…
Lees meerStairways Software: Keyboard Maestro 10 expands on the powerful base of previous versions, improving the editor, adding many new actions and triggers, Paste by Name, status menu display, subroutines, and more.[…]Added Paste by Name action giving Spo…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): NSLog("Failed to get modification date at URL: \(url) - \(error)") […] In the scenario of my crash, the interpolation of “url” and “error” results in surprise template placeholders, because of the presence of spaces in the pat…
Lees meerleo_r: I wonder if it’s just me - or AppleScript is much faster on Monterey? In fact it’s just blazingly fast. For example, I have a script that polls InDesign document’s elements for certain attributes. On Monterey, it takes 15 seconds to scan this…
Lees meerDave Mark: Follow the headline link, start scrolling for a walk through all the different default macOS wallpapers, going all the way back to Mac OS X Tiger, which dropped back in 2005. There are some really great ones here, including many that inst…
Lees meerSarah Perez: In September, analysts at eMarketer predicted Spotify was poised to overtake Apple Podcasts in U.S. listenership sometime this year. Today, Spotify announced for the first time it may have succeeded on that front. During the company’s Q…
Lees meerCorbin Dunn: At Apple I worked on the main User Interface (UI) framework called AppKit for about 13 years. I would help enforce UI consistency in applications by logging bugs and helping the application developers fix any issues. Back then a lot of …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors, TidBITS): The Company posted a September quarter revenue record of $83.4 billion, up 29 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.24. […] “Our record September quarter results capped off a …
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