Kirk McElhearn: I haven’t written much about Apple’s new foray into lossless, high-resolution, and Dolby Atmos music. I’ve written about high-resolution music plenty over the years, and it’s clear that, for the vast majority of listeners, it’s just …
Lees meerMarianne Schultz: We’ve had a great run, getting our legs under us a few months after the launch of Apple’s App Store in 2008 but it’s not feasible to keep the site up anymore. The largest factor was Apple’s decision to remove apps from its affiliat…
Lees meerChuq Von Rospach (tweet): Apple giving a basic app away for free inhibits other developers from tackling that idea, and limits their ability to make enough money to warrant doing the hard investment in doing a real killer version of an app of that t…
Lees meerOn November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ debuted. The cost is $4.99 a month (or it is also part of an Apple One subscription), but from the beginning, Apple made the first year free for anyone who bought certain new Apple...
Lees meerThomas Clement: If you are using a non-US keyboard, prepare yourself to relearn a number of keyboard shortcuts in Monterey as the OS now translates shortcuts to the position of the key on the keyboard rather than the actual shortcut key. Some seem u…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: In addition, a new tab design on macOS puts your active tabs front and center, allowing you to see more of the page as you scroll. At the same time, the new tab bar takes on the color of the webpage and combines tabs, the tool bar, and…
Lees meerCecilia Kang (via Nick Heer): House lawmakers on Friday introduced sweeping antitrust legislation aimed at restraining the power of Big Tech and staving off corporate consolidation. If passed, the bills would be the most ambitious update to monopoly…
Lees meerMassachusetts attorney Bob Ambrogi, who has published LawSites since 2002, invited me to join him as a guest on this week's episode of his show Law Insights with Bob Ambrogi, which broadcasts on LiteraTV. We talked about lots of legal...
Lees meerTimo Perfitt: caching server utility is henceforth REJECTED from the app store. calling an apple command line tool to call another apple tool via XPC is FORBIDDEN and just because we have a TEMPORARY EXCEPTION it does not it should be USED. i should…
Lees meerDeveloper Tools Engineer: PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey. Perl, Python 2, and Ruby are still there. Python 3 is only available if you install Xcode. Emacs was removed a release or two ago. Previously: Scripting Languages to Be Removed macOS …
Lees meerStripe (tweet, Hacker News): Stripe Tax lets you calculate and collect sales tax, VAT, and GST with one line of code or the click of a button. Know where to register, automatically collect the right amount of tax, and access the reports you need to …
Lees meerPhilipp Defner: After waking up the computer, messages from hours ago stay unread until I click on each conversation to make the badge go away. Restarting Messages.app doesn’t fix that. Clicking on a conversation sometimes replays the messages with …
Lees meerEli Budelli (MacRumors, Hacker News): We’re excited to welcome Day One to the Automattic team. Day One is a private journaling app that makes writing for yourself a simple pleasure. A beautifully designed user experience has earned the app prestigio…
Lees meerFeross (Hacker News): Ran into a spectacularly awful Safari bug in the latest Safari (14.1.1 on macOS and iOS 14.6). Opening an IndexedDB database fails 100% of the time on the first try. 😩 This was apparently introduced about three weeks ago in iOS…
Lees meerMartin Pilkington: By setting these NSTextLists, you can give NSTextView enough information to let users make changes to the list through regular text editing. However, NSTextView will not actually respond to any changes you make in code (for exampl…
Lees meerMitch Stoltz and Lara Ellenberg: In going after internet service providers (ISPs) for the actions of just a few of their users, Sony Music, other major record labels, and music publishing companies have found a way to cut people off of the internet …
Lees meerChristian Zibreg: By running speech recognition directly on the device rather than continuing to rely on the cloud for speech-to-text processing, Siri now runs much faster simply because you don’t have to wait for it to finish talking to the cloud j…
Lees meerWell that was a weird year. While 99.9% of the past year was terrible the one thing I did enjoy was working from home in my own office with a desk, chair, and monitor that I like. I made some tweaks to my office setup after the pandemic lockdown and…
Lees meerBack in 2014, Apple acquired Beats Music. I suspect that the main reasons that they acquired the company were to get the smart people working there to work for Apple and to acquire the online streaming music service that eventually...
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