Shelly Brisbin: For the second year running, Apple has offered a preview of updated accessibility features coming to its platforms later this year. The announcements come just ahead of Thursday’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which goes by #GA…
Lees meerApple: As companies expand their use of technology, employees are demanding to use iPhone, iPad, and Mac at work, resulting in an increased need for IT professionals skilled in supporting and managing Apple products. To help meet this growing demand…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The most compelling argument for retaining HFS+ is on rotating hard disks, because APFS can result in severe fragmentation, most importantly in the file system metadata, so causing degraded performance; as SSDs don’t suffer those perf…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: In Swift, you can weak-ify references to self in escaping closures, and then you need to deal with the case that the reference is gone when the block is called. Last month, Benoit Pasquier and Chris Downie presented different takes…
Lees meerJason Snell: For years, Amazon has used the Mobipocket format (.mobi) rather than the ePub format for Kindle books. Recently it developed its own format, KF8 (and now KFX), and has been using that instead. Everyone else uses ePub. Publishers sell bo…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: You don’t have to prepare an APFS volume, as Time Machine will do that for you, but I prefer to make one ready using Disk Utility. […] Time Machine will then prepare its backup volume by making another APFS volume using the case-sensi…
Lees meerThis past Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony for Gallaudet University, a university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students located in Washington, D.C. As Lauren Lumpkin of the Washington Post reports, A…
Lees meerJesse Grosjean (tweet, Hacker News): Bike is a macOS (11 and later) native outliner. Bike has good performance on big outlines. Bike uses open file formats and is scriptable too. Use Bike to record and process your ideas. […] Outliners are powerful …
Lees meerApple (via Mark Gurman): Currently, when an auto-renewable subscription price is increased, subscribers must opt in before the price increase is applied. The subscription doesn’t renew at the next billing period for subscribers who didn’t opt in to …
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