Rob Griffiths: Create a screen full of apps and folders, such that there’s no remaining space.Position a folder in the rightmost lower corner of the screen.Attempt to drag an app from another screen into that folder. […] The only solution I’ve found…
Lees meerScharon Harding: Apple held its fall event was today, and the stars of the show were the M1 Pro and M1 Max announced for the new MacBook Pros. We even got new AirPods and word on macOS Monterey. But all was quiet on the displays front. Hope for a la…
Lees meerApple: The Apple Music Voice Plan offers subscribers access to the service’s catalog of 90 million songs; tens of thousands of playlists, including hundreds of brand new mood and activity playlists, personalized mixes, and genre stations; as well as…
Lees meerEric Benjamin Seufert: Last week, Apple introduced a new ad unit to the App Store: a paid placement on its Search page. Rumors of this new unit had circulated previously, although the notion that Apple would increase the density of ad placements in …
Lees meerAditya Kalra and Steve Stecklow (via Hacker News): A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India - p…
Lees meerApple (video, Hacker News, MacRumors, Stephen Hackett, Jesper, The Verge, Slashdot): Apple today unveiled the completely reimagined MacBook Pro powered by the all-new M1 Pro and M1 Max — the first pro chips designed for the Mac. Available in 14- and…
Lees meerApple (video, Hacker News, MacRumors): The CPU in M1 Pro and M1 Max delivers up to 70 percent faster CPU performance than M1, so tasks like compiling projects in Xcode are faster than ever. The GPU in M1 Pro is up to 2x faster than M1, while M1 Max …
Lees meerApple (video, Hacker News, MacRumors): By combining the power of the H1 chip with an Apple-designed acoustic system, the new AirPods use computational audio to deliver breakthrough sound with Adaptive EQ. Users can enjoy spatial audio featuring Dolb…
Lees meerDave Nanian: Part of rolling these Betas slowly involves trying to figure out how to help users when these failures happen: basically, it’s a learning process, and when we can’t refer to the code, and the errors are (at best) a number and a word or …
Lees meerMike Wuerthele (also John Gruber): The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) is in charge of enforcing compliance with the new App Store payment law. While Google says that it plans to comply in full with the law, including the adoption of third-par…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The British government has expressed support for Apple’s now-delayed CSAM scanning plans, and says that it wants the ability to scan encrypted messages for CSAM, even where end-to-end encryption is used. Tim Hardwick: More than a dozen …
Lees meerApple (PDF, via Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): iPhone is a highly personal device where users store some of their most sensitive and personal information. This means that maintaining security and privacy on the iOS ecosystem is of critical impor…
Lees meerAndy Matuschak: Why are there no “standard texts” on designing software interfaces? (or tell me I’m wrong?)If you want to learn to build software, there are excellent and complete texts on the subject. It’s not just a tech-vs-art thing: there are st…
Lees meerArthur Edelstein (via Hamed Haddadi): PrivacyTests.org is an open-source testing program that measures browser privacy characteristics, and a website, https://privacytests.org, that renders the results for human consumption.
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: After subsequently moving them into an XPC service and thinking it would “just work”, I found that it didn’t. At least not reliably. Maybe every 8th or 9th time, yes, it did all it was asked to do, but every other time, it outri…
Lees meerBrendan Shanks: A hack allowing the use of Xcode 9’s toolchain on macOS Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey. Xcode 9.4.1 and the macOS 10.13 SDK are the last versions capable of building 32-bit Intel (i386) binaries. Due to internal frameworks that refe…
Lees meerZev Eisenberg (tweet): Type with one hand, no special hardware required! I wrote Keyb while holding my sleeping daughter in one hand. It’s also great for permanent and temporary disabilities, or tasks where you want to keep one hand on the mouse, li…
Lees meerFranklin Schrans: Swift-DocC encompasses tools and libraries to help developers write and generate documentation on many platforms, including macOS and Linux, with the goal to support all platforms with a Swift toolchain. The docc command line tool …
Lees meerMicrosoft: We’re moving Visual Studio for Mac to native macOS UI, which will fix over 100 previously reported issues related to performance, reliability, and product quality. By using native macOS UI, the IDE now works more reliably with macOS’s bui…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: One would think the URLSessionTaskDelegate would have some affordance that calls you back when new bytes come in, but if that exists, I couldn’t find it. However, iOS 15 brings a new API that can be used for this purpose — a byte-by…
Lees meerJason Snell: What if someone built a tablet that could run a wider selection of apps but still had the crisp, clear look of an E Ink screen? In fact, a few companies have been trying to marry E Ink with Android for a while now. Recently I got a chan…
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