Russell Brandom and Adi Robertson (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple and Google announced a system for tracking the spread of the new coronavirus, allowing users to share data through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transmissions and approved apps from heal…
Lees meerMaurice Parker (tweet): One area that CloudKit outshines our RESTful service implementations is that it gets notifications when the data changes. This keeps our data more up to date. In the RESTful services, we sync which feeds you are subscribed to…
Lees meerMarkos Charatzas: Effectively, by Apple putting Windmill on notice, the only way I can distribute Windmill on the Apple platforms is at the source code level. Even though this does not serve the mission to make continuous delivery accessible, whatev…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: TidBITS contacted Zoom for its insights about how it has handled security and privacy issues, but the company didn’t reply. As I finished this article and in a few days that followed, however, Zoom publicly responded to disclosures …
Lees meerFelix Seele (Hacker News): Ever wondered how the @zoom_us macOS installer does it’s job without you ever clicking install? Turns out they (ab)use preinstallation scripts, manually unpack the app using a bundled 7zip and install it to /Applications i…
Lees meerOwen Rubin joins Tim and David to discuss France and Google and speakers, including what Tim purchased to replace his beloved computer speakers that The post TechFan 428 – Lightning Strikes appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (tweet): Newer devices running Apple’s recently released iOS 13.4 and macOS 10.15.4 software updates are currently unable to make FaceTime audio and video calls with older devices running iOS 9.3.5 or iOS 9.3.6, according to numerous u…
Lees meerAlexander Käßner (via Kontra): This concept brings the main menu we know and love from Mac to iPad. It keeps the numerous advantages of a written menu, redesigned with touch devices in mind. iPad Main Menu helps bring a vast amount of features to iP…
Lees meerOvercast: Podcast listening is down, but not as much as you’d think. Here’s my daily and weekly app sessions. Weekends are always about 30% lower than weekdays. Quarantine reduced the weekdays by 20% (likely commuters), but weekends are unchanged. T…
Lees meerWith so many of us staying at home and practicing safe social-distancing, videoconferencing has replaced in-person meetings. There are many different platforms that you can use for videoconferencing, but lately I have been spending a lot of time usi…
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