(View full size) It’s a special kind of dilemma when an app is already one of the best in its category, yet it lives on a platform that requires constant improvement. Some apps in this predicament continue adding feature after feature in a way that …
Lees meerOn this week's episode of Connected: Federico has concerns about dummy units of the next iPhone. Stephen is troubled by the icon used for Software Update in macOS. Both of them receive a visit from a mystic being named Myke. Oh, and it's World Emoji…
Lees meer(View full size) Mercury Intermedia, in a post on Medium, shares its extensive documentation of Apple Maps' iconography over the years: A few years ago we published a post examining the point of interest (POI) icons within Apple Maps titled More Tha…
Lees meerToday on World Emoji Day, Adobe has shared the results of its recent survey of 1,000 US emoji users: Among the emoji users surveyed, the overwhelming majority use emojis to lighten the mood of conversations (93%) and show support to people (91%). Al…
Lees meer(View full size) Tomorrow is World Emoji Day, and Apple is starting the celebration early by offering a sneak peek at some of the new emoji arriving later this year in iOS 13, iPadOS 13, macOS Catalina, and watchOS 6. (View full size) In early Febru…
Lees meerOn last week's episode of Connected: Myke has a story about the beach, Federico has a plan for NFC stickers, and Stephen has some thoughts on this week's MacBook news. You can listen below (and find the show notes here). 0:00 01:22:50 Connected, Epi…
Lees meerOn last week's episode of our iPad-focused show Adapt: Safari is growing up this fall in iPadOS 13 to a true desktop-class browser, and Federico and Ryan detail everything that's new; also, this week’s challenge involves using apps to perform OCR on…
Lees meerToday on Dialog, we are joined by video game narrative designer and novelist Carrie Patel. In this first part of our conversation, we explore narrative design in games Patel has worked on at Obsidian Entertainment, including Pillars of Eternity and …
Lees meer(View full size) I love my two HomePods. One sits in my living room and the other in my studio. When I finish working for the day, I can ask Siri to move my music from the studio to the living room where I continue what I'm listening to as I make di…
Lees meer(View full size) The makers of the Apple Design Award-winning app Airmail are back with Airmail Zero, a brand-new take on Gmail for the Mac and iPhone. Speed is critical to getting through a mountain of email messages, and you don’t want your email …
Lees meerOn this week's episode of AppStories, we take a close look at the upcoming changes to the Photos app on iOS and the Mac. Sponsored by: Secure Shellfish – Connect your servers and your apps. Remote for Mac – Remote Control for Mac. Linode: High-perfo…
Lees meer(View full size) On June 8, 2009, at the end of a two-hour WWDC keynote, Phil Schiller was running through a long list of new features and apps that would be available on the iPhone 3GS, due to ship on June 19 of that year. Phil was pinch-hitting as…
Lees meerMatthew Panzarino, writing for TechCrunch: Apple has disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app due to an unspecified vulnerability that could allow a person to listen to another customer’s iPhone without consent, the company told TechCrunch this ev…
Lees meer(View full size) Minit is a new-to-iOS indie adventure game by Jan Willem Nijman, the co-founder of Vlambeer, Kitty Calis, Jukio Kallio, and Dominik Johann. The game, which was brought to iOS a little over one week ago by Devolver Digital, first deb…
Lees meerToday on Dialog, we conclude our conversation with screenwriter and author John August. Although August is a screenwriter and author, he's also been involved in a wide variety of other related projects like the creation of Fountain markup syntax, wh…
Lees meer(View full size) Today in conjunction with the kickoff of its Back to School promotion, Apple has announced significant changes to its laptop lineup, updating the MacBook Air and entry-level MacBook Pro while discontinuing the smallest Mac laptop, t…
Lees meerOn this week's episode of AppStories, we look at our strange assortment of recently-downloaded apps. Sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer code APPSTORIES to get 30% off. Astropad Studio: Turn your iPad i…
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