Juli Clover: Apple launched a new App Store on the web today, allowing users to browse through and search for apps across all of its platforms. […] There is a search interface for looking up a specific app, and clicking on "View" on any app in the s…
Lees meerMichi NekoMichi: Ever noticed you’re getting way more typos on iPhone lately? You’re not going crazy - it’s iOS. Watch the video where he presses the U key, and the iOS keyboard confirms this visually, but then the U ends up changed to an H or a J, …
Lees meerAdobe: Quickly select the best shots from a large set of images with Assisted Culling. [link][…]Easily stack your images based on time and visual similarity. You can also use the Stack filter in the Attribute panel. [link][…]Quickly detect and remov…
Lees meerHolly Borla: Swift 6.2 lowers the barrier to concurrent programming with a set of changes designed to reduce boilerplate and let you write safe concurrent code more naturally:Single-threaded by default: Run your code on the main thread without expli…
Lees meerMarcus Mendes (MacRumors, Hacker News, TidBITS-Talk, Mac Power Users): Affinity has announced a complete overhaul of its design suite. Starting today, the company is unifying all its tools into a single app for vector, photo, and layout work, and ma…
Lees meerApple (transcript, MacRumors, MacStories, Hacker News): “Today, Apple is very proud to report a September quarter revenue record of $102.5 billion, including a September quarter revenue record for iPhone and an all-time revenue record for Services,”…
Lees meerHolly Borla: Swift 6.2 enables streaming transactional state changes of observable types using the new Observations async sequence type. Updates include all synchronous changes to the observable properties, and the transaction ends at the next await…
Lees meerHolly Borla: Swift 6.2 introduces a new Subprocess package that offers a streamlined, concurrency‑friendly API for launching and managing external processes. SF-0007: The existing Foundation API for spawning a process, NSTask, originated in Objectiv…
Lees meerNorbert Doerner: New Cataloging engine with more speed and reliability […] Ability to move files to new folders inside a Catalog Text Replacements for the XMP Editor for faster annotations […] Image Capture to import photos and videos from connected…
Lees meerHolly Borla: In Swift 6.2, the Foundation library includes a modern NotificationCenter API that uses concrete notification types instead of relying on strings and untyped dictionaries for notification names and payloads. This means you can define a …
Lees meerHolly Borla: InlineArray is a new fixed-size array with inline storage for elements, which can be stored on the stack or directly within other types without additional heap allocation.[…]The new Span type offers safe, direct access to contiguous mem…
Lees meerImgur TOS Update (2021, via Hacker News): No nudity or sexually explicit content. Provocative, inflammatory, unsettling, or suggestive content should be marked as Mature. No hate speech, abuse or harassment. No content that condones illegal or viole…
Lees meerRosyna Keller: I wholly and utterly believe in the principle behind Apple’s App Tracking Transparency initiative. I therefore consider anything that is both uniquely tied to a user andavailable when “Allow Apps to Request to Track“ is disabled to be…
Lees meerMike Isaac (PDF): Practically overnight, a class of companies like SerpApi — known as “data scrapers” — found a new business selling data scraped from Google to companies looking to train their A.I. chatbots. On Wednesday, the internet message board…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: There’s a bug in Spotlight that can prevent it from indexing any of the contents of susceptible text files. This has been present since macOS 13 Ventura if not before, and is still present in Tahoe 26.0.1. […] To demonstrate this bug,…
Lees meerI was reminded of this post from former Nisus developer Martin Wierschin: How does does an emoji do that in text? By using a zero-width joiner character between its constituent characters. That way software knows to display all the codes together as…
Lees meerJoe Kissell: For more than a year, we’ve heard scattered complaints: problems with Nisus Software’s website, particularly the user discussion forum; slow or absent responses to support requests; assorted bugs; and other issues. But earlier this week…
Lees meerNikita Bier: We’re testing a new link experience, starting on iOS -- to make it easier for your followers to engage with your post while browsing links.For creators, a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is becaus…
Lees meerOpenAI (Hacker News): We will bring Sky’s deep macOS integration and product craft into ChatGPT, and all members of the team will join OpenAI. John Voorhees: I’m not surprised by this development at all. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity have all be…
Lees meerMarcus Mendes: In its statement issued earlier this week to the German Press Agency, Apple said the following:“Intense lobbying efforts in Germany, Italy and other countries in Europe may force us to withdraw this feature to the detriment of Europea…
Lees meerJohn Ozbay (Hacker News): In my mind, “Apple” as a brand used to be synonymous with “attention to detail” but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.[…]If you are privacy conscious lik…
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