Otto Labs (via Jonathan Deutsch): Hit record and Keysmith picks up what you’re doing with your mouse and keyboard. Type some text, or click on buttons, menus, Dock items, lists, and more. Keysmith is smart enough to understand it all. Use a hotkey t…
Lees meerApple: When taxes or foreign exchange rates change, we sometimes need to update prices on the App Store. In the next few days, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in response to…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The iPhone maker claims that it treats all apps equally, but the reality is that Apple has developed a complex set of rules which allow it to make exceptions to suit its own needs… iA: Ads are digital goods. What else are ads? Spiritual…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: NetNewsWire lets you set the default RSS reader to itself or any other RSS reader. It’s an important feature. Now that we’re sandboxing the app, we’re losing that feature, as LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme is apparently disallowed fo…
Lees meerTidBITS: We’ve found the Picsew app for iPhone and iPad invaluable for combining and modifying screenshots, and, most importantly, applying device frames to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch screenshots. It’s a free download in the App Store, with a $0.…
Lees meerBruno Rocha: As (possibly) a response to jailbreaking become popular again in recent times, Apple has released their own measure to this problem. In iOS 14, the new App Attest APIs provide you a way to sign server requests as an attempt to prove to …
Lees meerPeter Steinberger: I found out that my MacBook Pro 2019 runs way faster if I close the lid when using an external screen - 2.7GHz (base 2.4+turbo) vs ~1.5 GHz due to thermal throttling. Gonna accept that these things can only drive one screen fast. …
Lees meerLukasz Olejnik: In 2009-2011 we did some research work motivated with a positive aim of educating web users about certain risks of browsing history leaks. The pointed to a perhaps unexpected conclusion. It indicated that web browsing histories may b…
Lees meerPatrick Wardle: Interestingly, Peter noticed the campaign originating from homebrew.sh, leveraged adware payloads were actually fully notarized! 😱 We can confirm the payloads are indeed notarized via the spctl command (note the "source=Notarized Dev…
Lees meerApple (also: Hacker News, 9to5Mac, MacRumors): The App Store is dedicated to providing a great experience for everyone. To continue offering a safe place for users to download apps and helping you successfully develop apps that are secure, high-qual…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: There’s one big snag with Catalina’s ingenious linkage of System and Data volumes into a Volume Group: when anything goes wrong, the only option seems to be to wipe them both and start again. I’ve heard of a steady succession of users…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): Fortnite has been unavailable for a few weeks, but other Epic Games titles like Battle Breakers and Infinity Blade Stickers were still in the App Store . Now that the Epic Games developer account has been terminated, those apps …
Lees meerSam Byford (tweet, also: ArsTechnica, MacRumors): Apple blocked Facebook from informing users that Apple would collect 30 percent of in-app purchases made through a planned new feature, Facebook tells Reuters. Apple said the update violated an App S…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: “Watch app for Tesla” is a popular app that lets users check useful information and send commands to a Tesla vehicle directly from an Apple Watch. However, the availability of this app may be threatened as Apple has been reinforcing…
Lees meerVMware (tweet, also: MacRumors): Fusion 12 Player replaces Fusion 11.5 ‘standard’, and follows the same pricing and licensing model as Workstation Player, meaning that it is both free for Personal Use, but requires a license for Commercial Use. Fus…
Lees meerAllison Killing et al.: Our breakthrough came when we noticed that there was some sort of issue with satellite imagery tiles loading in the vicinity of one of the known camps while using the Chinese mapping platform Baidu Maps. The satellite imagery…
Lees meerJoseph Cox: In March, tech publication Protocol reported that multiple government agencies signed millions of dollars worth of deals with Babel Street after the company launched its Locate X product. Multiple sources told the site that Locate X trac…
Lees meerHenrique Prange: So, how could the wrongdoers do all of that in less than 5 hours? After considering many options, the only reasonable explanation is they cracked the 6-digit passcode on the stolen iPhone using some kind of device like the GrayKey. …
Lees meerJordan Rose: What I wanted was for Objective-C’s messaging syntax, or something like it, to be valid anywhere in Rust code. It didn’t have to be exactly Objective-C, but I quickly realized the advantage of Objective-C’s syntax: it’s delimited, i.e. …
Lees meerJuli Clover: In this guide and accompanying video, we’ve rounded up some of the most useful hidden features you’ll find in the iOS 14 update. Note that some of these features are limited to Apple’s newer iPhones and do not work with older models. [……
Lees meerPawel Wylecial: In general Web Share API allows users to share links from the browser via 3rd party applications (e.g. mail and messaging apps). The problem is that file: scheme is allowed and when a website points to such URL unexpected behavior oc…
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