My iPadOS 14 Home Screen. For the past two weeks, I’ve been using the developer beta of iPadOS 14 on my 2018 12.9” iPad Pro – my main computer and production machine. Although I feel like it’s too early for me to offer a definitive assessment of iPa…
Lees meerApple has opened its public beta program for iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 on the Apple Beta Software Program website. Developers, who can access betas of Apple’s OS releases before the general public, received the first developer betas on June 22n…
Lees meerSource: Epic Games. Epic Games has released a new iPhone app for videogame developers that captures facial expressions, piping them into the company’s Unreal Engine in real-time. As explained on the Unreal Engine blog: Live Link Face streams high-qu…
Lees meerApple has updated its lineup of coding resources for kids and educators across the board and introduced all-new resources for parents and children interested in learning to program from home. Apple first introduced its Everyone to Code program in 20…
Lees meerIn January, Ken Case of The Omni Group shared the company’s plans for 2020, which included the release of OmniPlan 4, the expansion features for OmniFocus for the Web, simplified app license management on the web, along with OmniFocus collaboration …
Lees meerFederico and I had the pleasure of interviewing three of the 2020 Apple Design Award winners for AppStories. The awards, which were announced by Apple last Monday, recognize “outstanding app design, innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement.”…
Lees meerIt’s far too easy to get sidetracked and waste time on your iPhone. With Offscreen, you’ll understand exactly how you are spending time, regain control of it, and learn how to focus on what’s most important to you. OffScreen is a beautifully-designe…
Lees meer0:0035:58 Sponsored by Streaks Workout: Work out in your home with no equipment. This week on MacStories Unwind: MacStories Apple Design Awards for 2020 Awarded to Eight Developers Apple’s Kevin Lynch on watchOS 7’s Sleep Tracking How the watchOS 7 …
Lees meerDespite all the drama surrounding the App Store launch of HEY, the new email service from Basecamp, I never got around to actually trying out the service for myself. As a result, I was excited to see today that Josh Ginter at The Sweet Setup had pub…
Lees meerApple Card users can now view their entire transaction history, make payments, and more from card.apple.com. Launched today, the new web portal for Apple Card users addresses a concern prospective users voiced when Apple Card first launched: how do …
Lees meerFederico, Stephen, and Myke had a special surprise on this week’s episode of Connected, their podcast about Apple, technology, and general shenanigans. Episode 301, titled We Should Be Developers, features an interview with Apple’s Jenny Chen, who w…
Lees meerIn the years since iOS 7 ushered in flat, minimalistic design, Michael Flarup has consistently pushed back, insisting that the trend had gone too far and there was still room for fun and expression in design. With the redesign of macOS 11 Big Sur, A…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we cover updates coming to Messages, Home, Notes, Reminders, and Safari this fall.
Lees meerIt was clear during WWDC that Apple is forging ahead with its Maps app at full-speed. Not only were several interesting refinements to the app and its underlying data announced during the conference keynote and sessions, but Apple continues to impro…
Lees meerKellen Browning and Jack Nicas, writing for The New York Times: The New York Times said on Monday that it was exiting its partnership with Apple News, as news organizations struggle to compete with large tech companies for readers’ attention and dol…
Lees meerScott Stein of CNET interviewed Apple’s Kevin Lynch about watchOS 7’s upcoming sleep tracking feature. Unlike third-party sleep tracking wearables and apps, Apple’s approach is simpler. As Stein explains: Unlike other wearables such as the Fitbit or…
Lees meerBrian Heater at TechCrunch has published a detailed explanation of how the upcoming handwashing feature for Apple Watch works: The feature, which is built directly into the forthcoming version of watchOS, is designed to work like fitness tracking in…
Lees meerTypically, the Apple Design Awards have been held on the evening of the first day of WWDC. With the conference online this year, Apple held off until today to announce the winners. This year, in a collection that has a distinct iPad focus, the compa…
Lees meerStreaks Workout is the app that will help you get in shape, even when you’re stuck at home. It creates randomized workouts you can do at home with no equipment, or you can create your own custom workouts and custom exercises! If you’re an Apple Musi…
Lees meer0:0033:32 This week on MacStories Unwind: MacStories A GoodLinks Read and Listen Later Shortcut and Custom Action Apple’s WWDC 2020 Design Sessions David Smith on Sleep Tracking in watchOS 7 and Its Likely Effect on Sleep++ Everything Changing in Ap…
Lees meerWhen I reviewed GoodLinks, I knew its unique combination of Shortcuts integration and custom in-app actions that rely on URL schemes had the potential to sit at the center of powerful, automated workflows. My hunch was correct. When I tried GoodLink…
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