Joe Rossignol: Dropbox today announced that it will be rolling out a limited version of its Dropbox Passwords password manager to users with a free Dropbox Basic account in early April. The feature launched last year for paying subscribers only. Dro…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Google today announced that, starting July 1, it will be lowering its Play Store commission from 30% to 15% for the first $1 million of revenue developers earn using the Play Store billing system each year, as reported by TechCrunch. …
Lees meerLorenzo Franceschi-Bicch (Hacker News): Adobe wants Twitter to take down a tweet from five years ago that links to a site that allows visitors to download a 27-year-old version of the company’s PDF reader.On March 6, a company that works on behalf o…
Lees meerMatthew Panzarino (tweet, MacRumors, tweet, Slashdot, Hacker News): Apple has discontinued its original HomePod after four years. It says that it will continue to produce and focus on the HomePod mini, introduced last year. The larger HomePod offere…
Lees meerJonathan Deutsch: Apple’s documentation should also state provisioning profile requirements of API.I just burned a day thinking I’d be able to use HomeKit on a Developer ID app.There’s no way the App Store will approve my utility; so the feature (wh…
Lees meerDavid Smith: Underused GCD patterns: Making a serial queue that’s less aggressive about creating threads (“non-overcommit”): let q = DispatchQueue(…, target: DispatchQueue.global()) All serial queues ultimately target a global queue, which is respon…
Lees meerThis month Bart is joined by keen photographer and videographer Wally Cherwinsky. We all strive to come home with interesting photos, and Wally has The post Let’s Talk Photography 90: ‘Shoot like a Videographer’ with Wally Cherwinski appeared first …
Lees meerJoseph Cox (tweet): I hadn’t been SIM swapped, where hackers trick or bribe telecom employees to port a target’s phone number to their own SIM card. Instead, the hacker used a service by a company called Sakari, which helps businesses do SMS marketi…
Lees meerrachelbythebay (Hacker News): A couple of weeks ago, I read a post about how the “sealed system” on Big Sur was hurting people. I kind of skimmed through it and figured it was mostly complaining about the size of the download. For whatever reason, t…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The first gigabyte or so of the update has to be downloaded direct from Apple’s servers[…] For M1 Macs these are marked out so that they can’t be obtained from the Content Caching Server. The size of this additional directly downloade…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Amazon even called their rip-off the same name — “Everyday Sling” — although they’ve since changed the name to “Camera Bag”. The crew at Peak Design did the right thing in response: they mercilessly mocked Amazon in this video. Previous…
Lees meerWilliam Turton and Mark Gurman: When it initially removed Parler from the App Store in January, Apple asked the social network to change its moderation practices. Apple said that Parler’s new community guidelines, released when the service came back…
Lees meerTim and David discuss Cassette Tapes and the inventor, Lou Ottens who recently passed away, faux-AirPods, iPod vs iPhone as a music player, and The post TechFan Podcast 452 – Cassette appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerRecorded 7th March 2021 This week Simon is joined by Nick, Jim and Steve (of Geeks Corner) to ponder the demise of the iMac The post Essential Apple Podcast 212: So long iMac Pro appeared first on MyMac.com.
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