Jeff Johnson: As a result of the change in format from safariextz to app, Safari extensions have been decimated. There are significantly fewer Safari extensions available. The developer program membership cost factor is obvious, so I won’t spend any…
Lees meerWojtek Pietrusiewicz: As you can see, the DSKY has a black keypad with white legends, yellow indicator lights, and a green electroluminescent seven-segment display. Commands were entered numerically, as two-digit numbers — called Verb and Noun. The …
Lees meerRyan Christoffel: Today Twitter announced a test, limited to Brazil, of a major new feature for the social service: Fleets, which take their inspiration from the Stories feature found on Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook.Fleets, short for “fleeting …
Lees meerABA TECHSHOW took place in Chicago last week. I missed it this year due to a family vacation over the Mardi Gras holidays, but MyCase posted the visual notes that it had artist Leah Silverman create during some of the...
Lees meerThis could lead to something nifty. Apple is rumored to be en route to incorporating new displays with mini LED technology by the end of 2020. A Mini LED maker has been tapped to provide orders for upcoming Apple products until June. Noted analyst M…
Lees meerABA TECHSHOW took place in Chicago last week. I missed it this year due to a family vacation over the Mardi Gras holidays, but MyCase posted the visual notes that it had artist Leah Silverman create during some of the...
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: Apple is reporting that some cloud services including iMessage, iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Even when the status page is green, I receive iMessages out of order and with incorrect …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today informed developers that it has released updated App Store Review Guidelines, with changes that cover reviews, spam, push notifications, Sign in with Apple, data collection and storage, mobile device management, and more. He…
Lees meerFacebook: To make the Messenger iOS app faster, smaller, and simpler, we rebuilt the architecture and rewrote the entire codebase, which is an incredibly rare undertaking and involved engineers from across the company. Compared with the previous iOS…
Lees meerCorellium (tweet): The iPhone restricts users to operate inside a sandbox. But when you buy an iPhone, you own the iPhone hardware. Android for the iPhone gives you the freedom to run a different operating system on that hardware. Android for the iP…
Lees meerZoey Poll (via Paul Kafasis, Hacker News): Watching a single place evolve over time reveals small histories and granular inconsistencies. Train stations and airports are built, a gunpowder factory disappears for the length of the Cold War. But on ce…
Lees meerIn the post-show for ATP 366, John Siracusa discusses adding a bit of interface polish to his SwitchGlass app. What seems like a simple enhancement takes him down a trail of API bugs and limitations, documentation problems, edge cases, heuristics, r…
Lees meerIn 2013, Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Office Mobile app for iPhone. It was the first official Microsoft app that allowed you to view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on an iPhone. Unfortunately, it was so incredibly limited (for example, …
Lees meerPatrik Weiskircher: However, [incremental saving] also causes the file size to grow and grow and never get smaller. This is especially noticeable if you work with a lot of images. And even if you remove an image, it still is included in the PDF; you…
Lees meerNikita Vasilyev (Hacker News): WebKit is the only browser engine that supports Display-P3 color as of January 2020.[…]One way to provide a fallback is to include the same property with the sRGB color before:header { color: rgb(0, 255, 0); color: col…
Lees meerSarah Edwards: However, the ZSNIPPET column show the partial unencrypted content of this note. This is where potentially sensitive information from the note could be extracted. While I cannot see the full contents of the secure note, I can see the s…
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