Art Lasovsky: To improve this, we can add NSApplicationDelegate to our app and set the activation policy to .prohibited in the applicationWillFinishLaunching(_:) method. Then, in the applicationDidFinishLaunching(_:) method, we can set the activatio…
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: As you can see, Sonoma brought with it a penchant for tinting things a gross light pink colour, including the rectangular extents of images that are otherwise invisible because they’re transparent.[…]In theory you can also disable th…
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel (Mastodon): Apple News+’s problems start with Apple News as an app. The page layout is both cramped, and light on all the relevant details. Headlines get awkwardly cropped, and the first impression of the app is always the front page …
Lees meerKaroy Lorentey (Mastodon): This feature release adds a number of new data structure implementations, along with minor changes to existing constructs.[…]Heap implements a min-max heap, backed by a native array.BitSet and BitArray are two alternate re…
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: …after I’d filled out a form PDF that was emailed to me. It had exactly the option I wanted first and foremost, to send the completed PDF back to the sender. Sure, manually digging up the completed PDF from disk and dragging it into …
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: The iMessage service is not so good that it makes the iPhone more attractive to customers. It’s the iPhone that makes iMessage attractive. The iPhone gives iMessage its cachet, not the other way around. […] Today, it still feels like …
Lees meerWes Davis: There’s a vision testing app called Kimi sitting at number eight in the Apple iOS App Store’s trending list of free entertainment apps right now (and number 46 overall for free apps!). But it’s not an app for testing your eyesight, at lea…
Lees meerYori Mihalakopoulos (Mastodon): Easily trace your code’s history, so you can better shape its future. Browse commits, compare branches, see how a file has changed over time. Gain insights into tricky conflicts and resolve them with a powerful merge …
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: It’s easy to see how some UI designer thought this was a good idea. Surely if you move the mouse near the edge of the window (or the screen, in fullscreen mode) and rest it there, it’s because you’re looking forlornly for your lost s…
Lees meerJordan Rose: There were four good moments for Apple to switch Mac OS version numbers from 10.X to 11 […] and they missed all of them, instead eventually tying it to the Apple Silicon switchover (what would have been 10.16). I think about this a lot.…
Lees meerMarco Arment: I wish so badly that SwiftUI’s .onMove supported multiple-item selection in a List.I should never need to tell my customers, “That was too difficult to achieve in SwiftUI, so that feature is gone.” It’s scary reading stuff like this be…
Lees meerAinsley Bourque Olson (podcast, video):OmniFocus 4 introduces a modernized, unified interface across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Centered around your task outline, OmniFocus 4 brings a consistent experience, optimized for each device type, t…
Lees meerJason Koebler (Hacker News): An Apple executive lobbied against a strong right-to-repair bill in Oregon Thursday, which is the first time the company has had an employee actively outline its stance on right to repair at an open hearing. Apple’s posi…
Lees meerMike Kosak: LastPass would like to alert our customers to a fraudulent app attempting to impersonate our LastPass app on the Apple App Store. The app in question is called “LassPass Password Manager” and lists Parvati Patel as the developer. The app…
Lees meerThomas Claburn (Hacker News): Apple has argued for years that developers who don’t want to abide by its rules for native iOS apps can always write web apps.It has done so in its platform guidelines, in congressional testimony, and in court. Web deve…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, full installer, IPSW): Today’s update addresses a frustrating macOS Sonoma bug that could cause text to get randomly replaced while typing. There have been multiple complaints about the issue, which affected web pages and…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, the watchOS 10.3.1 update adds unspecified “improvements and bug fixes.” Previously: watchOS 10.3
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, the update includes a fix for a bug that could cause text to unexpectedly duplicate or overlap while typing. Previously: iOS 17.3 and iPadOS 17.3
Lees meerEmilia David: Apple researchers released a new model that lets users describe in plain language what they want to change in a photo without ever touching photo editing software.The MGIE model, which Apple worked on with the University of California,…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Instead, you get harassed by frequent notifications imploring you to “Upgrade to macOS Sonoma”, notifications that won’t take no for an answer. They don’t even have no for an answer! And if you click the wrong thing, you’ll accidentall…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: CGPDFService turns out to be quite a small background XPC process inside the CoreGraphics framework, located on the System volume (SSV) in the path /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/CGPDFService.…
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