Dave and I delve into the new Apple Watch, including some of the new features and the watch bands. We also touch on some of our favorite iOS 14 features in this week's podcast. Subscribe to this podcast LinkedIn: Go to LinkedIn.com/DALRYMPLE and g…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: A few people have wondered why Apple doesn’t just map fluoroelastomer Sport Band sizes to Solo Loop sizes. I can see why Apple doesn’t do that — they can’t assume everyone already has access to an Apple Watch with a Sport Band, and …
Lees meerTim Hardwick, MacRumors, on macOS Safari 14: One of the most dramatic changes is the overhauled Start Page, which now includes a browsing privacy report, iCloud tabs, Siri suggestions, and more. It also features several customizable options, suc…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy, 9to5Mac: Face ID is normally a completely seamless way to unlock an iPhone and iPad: just swipe up and it unlocks automatically. At a time when we’re frequently wearing masks, however, it’s rather less seamless. So we’d like to…
Lees meerReuters: The Coalition for App Fairness, structured as a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. and Brussels, said it plans to advocate legal changes that would force Apple to change. Beyond Epic, Match and Spotify, other members include smaller fi…
Lees meerChris Welch, The Verge: Similar to voice tweets, voice messages have a bare-bones, simple interface: there’s just a play / pause button, and the sender’s avatar pulsates as the message plays. The product team designed an “in-line recording exper…
Lees meer[VIDEO] You've likely heard of most of the features Jeff Benjamin is showing off, but the devil is in the details here, the subtleties of Jeff's excellent, calming walkthrough. Video embedded in main Loop post.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerTom Warren, The Verge: One of Apple’s surprise hardware announcements last week was the relocation of the iPad Air’s fingerprint sensor to a tiny power button on top of the display. It’s a change from the typical Touch ID Home button location at…
Lees meerDan Goodin, ArsTechnica: Researchers said that a tip from a child led them to discover aggressive adware and exorbitant prices lurking in iOS and Android smartphone apps with a combined 2.4 million downloads from the App Store and Google Play. …
Lees meerAs you can see from the article (there, at the bottom) this came up for me this morning. But it does happen often enough to make me follow Ben's advice and change my Safari settings. Interestingly, my settings are slightly different than those in t…
Lees meerSean Hollister, The Verge: on Monday, Microsoft announced a new Xbox app that lets you stream games from your own Xbox to your own Android phone over your local network for free. There’s an iOS version coming too — and while my colleague Tom War…
Lees meerRyan Christoffel, MacStories: One of the most exciting trends I’ve seen is the emergence of a new category of apps entirely centered around widgets. While most widgets will come built in to the apps you already know and love, some developers hav…
Lees meerJuli Clover, MacRumors: Customers who chose a Solo Loop or a Braided Solo Loop along with an Apple Watch Series 6 or SE and have a poor fit can't just return the band for a new size -- the entire Apple Watch has to be returned since it's conside…
Lees meerBack in March, Dan Moren wrote an excellent post on macOS Safari, and switching tab behavior, so new tabs open at the end, instead of immediately after the current tab. This involves enabling the Debug menu (not to be confused with the Develop menu…
Lees meerHarry Mccracken, FastCompany: A tech CEO is onstage helpfully explaining that the Mac’s expiration date is imminent. More important, he’s about to introduce us to a new computer designed for the next decade. I am in a distant seat among his audi…
Lees meerFrom the walkthrough: Repair-wise, we're happy to see the fussy Force Touch gasket gone, and only two fragile cables tethering the display. So Force Touch is gone, but the physical gasket goes with it, opens up just a bit of space. Despite…
Lees meerBare Bones Software, makers of BBEdit, is one of my favorite software companies — in fact, I’ve been using BBEdit for more than 20 years. BBEdit has been updated to version 13, and is available in the Mac App Store as a subscription! Same great feat…
Lees meerClick the headline link to see who the most accurate Apple leak reporter is. To be clear, I have no sense of the accuracy of these numbers, but I do find it fascinating.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: Since the earliest Apple Watch, you have been able to change your move goal (the red ring), but there was no way to change the exercise goal (the green ring) or the stand goal (the blue ring). Now, in watchOS 7, this is possible.…
Lees meerEven if you know most of these, worth making your way through the list for that hidden gem you didn't know about. A few comments: Open Settings > Home Screen and select App Library Only in the top section. You can easily find recently downloade…
Lees meerBy far, my favorite tweak is moving the audio controls: Before iOS 14, you had to press the Home button on the remote to get to the tvOS Home screen, then you would press and hold the Play/Pause button to bring up the audio interface. In tvOS 14…
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