Marco Arment (tweet): Voice Boost 2 achieves the same goal as the original Voice Boost, but with dramatically more sophisticated methods, leading to more consistent results and much better sound quality. […] I had to write every component from scrat…
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet): Glenn Fleishman said, “Catalina was a disastrous release.” John Siracusa said, “Apple has not done a good job communicating the benefits of Catalina, an update that… comes with more pitfalls than the average macOS update.” Joe K…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: When I tested this, typing any search into the Search field in the upper-left corner of the Music app produced results that I could switch by clicking one of three buttons in a lozenge in the upper-right corner: Apple Music, Your Li…
Lees meerSarah Reichelt (via Ole Begemann): So far, nearly all the articles I have seen about SwiftUI show it being used for iOS, more particularly for iPhone. But SwiftUI works on all Apple’s platforms, and as I am primarily a Mac developer, I decided to tr…
Lees meerChaim Gartenberg (via MacRumors): Password management app LastPass has announced it will be discontinuing its native macOS app on February 29th, directing users in an email to switch over to the new web-based version of the app that will replace it.…
Lees meerDropbox (via Hacker News): You can set a file or folder to be “ignored” by Dropbox. This allows you to organize files and folders in the Dropbox folder on your computer without storing them on dropbox.com or on the Dropbox server at all. […] Open th…
Lees meerChris “cricket” Hynes (via John Gruber): There were several unique things about how the team worked which differed from Apple practice. Even before writing any code for feature, a software engineer and a QA engineering would collaborate on a documen…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced that all users in the United States can now experience a redesigned Maps with faster and more accurate navigation and comprehensive views of roads, buildings, parks, airports, malls and more, mak…
Lees meerFlexibits: A beautiful new user interface. Feature parity on every platform. Beautiful full screen modes on iPhone and iPad (and the Mac has never looked better). Synced calendar sets (🎉). Weather. Interesting Calendars. Proposals with automatic sch…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: For a few years now, I’ve tracked the TV shows I’m watching using the iOS app Couchy, which integrates with the Trakt.tv service. Sadly, Couchy ceased development last year. I’ve kept using it since then, but in the past few weeks it’…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (tweet, Hacker News): Ten years later, though, I don’t think the iPad has come close to living up to its potential. By the time the Mac turned 10, it had redefined multiple industries. In 1984 almost no graphic designers or illustrators …
Lees meerApple: The macOS Catalina 10.15.3 update improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users. Optimizes gamma handling of low gray levels on Pro Display XDR for SDR workflows when using macOS Improves mult…
Lees meerDisk Prices has a nice filterable table of hard drives and SSDs by price, capacity, and warranty (via Hacker News). See also: Price per TB.
Lees meerRon Elemans (via Mike Rundle): The Core Data viewer app we had in mind should be able to filter data in any way we like, show related data defined by Core Data relationships, allow to edit and delete data, show any type of web data automatically, an…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): I reported this issue to Apple Product Security on November 17 2019. I received a reply from Apple Product Security on December 16 that said they do not see any actual security implications from my report. I replied, arguing th…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Two themes emerged over the second half of 2019, though. First, thanks to various improvements in iOS and iPadOS 13, I increased my reliance on “first-party” Apple apps: I embraced the new Reminders app and its exclusive features, …
Lees meerTed Kremenek: There are major investments currently underway to improve the core developer experience, such as: Faster builds More informative and accurate diagnostics Responsive code completion Reliable and fluid debugging experience And many other…
Lees meerJordan Rose (tweet): I did get a few recommendations for other places to host Git repositories, but—at least partly inspired by Tom Ryder’s “Why Not GitHub?”—I decided to take the plunge and set up my own hosting. […] According to the Git Book, you’…
Lees meertechuck_ (via Hacker News): After resetting my Hub last night, I was shown a message in the desktop + mobile apps saying my Hub had been disabled and to contact Customer Service. I tried several additional resets, a new Harmony account app re-instal…
Lees meerJesse Squires: Any time I am exploring or getting familiar with a new codebase in Xcode, especially very large projects, I use disabled breakpoints as “bookmarks” to keep track of where I am, where I have been, and things I want to remember or need …
Lees meerArtur Janc et al. (PDF, Hacker News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): As part of a routine security review, the Information Security Engineering team at Google has identified multiple security and privacy issues in Safari’s ITP design. These issues have a numbe…
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