Overcast: Podcast listening is down, but not as much as you’d think. Here’s my daily and weekly app sessions. Weekends are always about 30% lower than weekdays. Quarantine reduced the weekdays by 20% (likely commuters), but weekends are unchanged. T…
Lees meerDavid Smith (tweet): Watchsmith is an application that seeks to give you complete control over the appearance and utility of your Apple Watch. First, it provides a wide array of complications. Each of these is completely customizable, with controls …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: HBO today announced that its HBO GO and HBO NOW streaming services will no longer be available on second-generation and third-generation Apple TV models starting April 30, 2020. Since iOS 13, the Remote app has been unreliable with my…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: It’s nonsense to argue about the fact that wearing a mask — even a homemade one — is less than 100 percent effective. Nothing is 100 percent effective, and all evidence suggests that masks are, at the very least, quite effective. Maciej…
Lees meerKif Leswing (tweet, Hacker News): New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says that the state is looking for volunteers with skills that can be used to help in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, and one of those skills is knowing your way around a 61-year-old p…
Lees meerFederico Viticci (tweet): Ever since I upgraded my home office with a new desk, Mac mini, and UltraFine 4K monitor in November 2018, I’ve been working toward a single goal: building a setup that would allow me to use the same external display and ke…
Lees meerAlex Kantrowitz (MacRumors): IS&T is made up largely of contractors hired by rival consulting companies, and its dysfunction has led to a rolling state of war. “It’s a huge contractor org that handles a crazy amount of infrastructure for the company…
Lees meerJacob Eiting (of Revenue Cat): Alright, it’s been 2 weeks now and the App Store Sandbox environment has been basically in failure mode for 4 hours every day. About 50% requests are just being dropped with no error code, the server just disconnects b…
Lees meerNick Statt: Prior to the change, Amazon would not allow you to rent or buy content on the Prime Video app, instead, directing users to a web browser to avoid the App Store fee. You could still sign up for a Prime Video subscription through the iOS a…
Lees meerJordan Merrick: One of my favorite features of Workflow was its ability to share workflows as files. It was this functionality that made it possible for me to start Workflow Directory and create my own GitHub repository of workflows. Unfortunately, …
Lees meerMark Gurman (tweet): Video-game fans suddenly have their pick of a huge menu of titles thanks to a raft of new mobile subscription services from Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Nvidia Corp. But for the more than 1 billion use…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple has added an anti-eavesdropping feature to the 2020 iPad Pro that ensures the microphone hardware is disabled when a case is attached to the iPad and closed. John Gruber: This is what it looks like when a company is focused on se…
Lees meerCédric Luthi: I don’t do a lot of swift. But every time I do, I stumble on obscure quirks. Last case in point: HTTPURLResponse allHeaderFields is now case-sensitive. This seems to be because the property is implemented using an NSDictionary subclass…
Lees meerJohn Martellaro: We’re all struggling to stay safe and secure in macOS 10.15 Catalina or even 10.14 Mojave. And since new apps are being pressed into service for working at home, the last thing we need is a new version of macOS with its traditional …
Lees meerApple: Numbers 10.0 is optimized for the best possible performance when working with large data sets. Numbers 10.0 features improved performance for data import, export, and charting. In Numbers 10.0 on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac, you can cre…
Lees meerRosyna Keller: This is a tweetstorm discussing the new features of altool 4.01 (included with Xcode 11.4), changes to the notarization documentation, and a change to notary service requirements, with the far majority coming directly from user reques…
Lees meerJordan Rose (tweet, Hacker News): It’s April 1, and that means it’s both April Fools’ Day and the anniversary of the founding of Apple Inc. While this year is a sober one due to current events, I think a lot of people still appreciate what people ar…
Lees meerAdam Grossman (MacRumors, tweet, Hacker News): Dark Sky has joined Apple. […] There will be no changes to Dark Sky for iOS at this time. It will continue to be available for purchase in the App Store. […] The [Android] app will no longer be availabl…
Lees meerMicah Lee and Yael Grauer (Hacker News): Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption, widely understood as the most private form of internet communication, protectin…
Lees meerBrent Simmons (tweet): Omni’s been around for almost 30 years, and I hope it’s around for another 30. It’s one of the great Mac and iOS shops — they will sing songs about Omni, at maximum volume, in the great halls. But businesses go up and down, an…
Lees meerTyler Hall (tweet, Hacker News): The user in the Apple forums was right. At least in my case, my one server that happened to be running on a non-standard ssh port above 8192 will not connect from Catalina 10.15.4 when using the hostname instead of t…
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