I’ve long wanted to be able to create new business contacts in the iOS Contacts app. On macOS, there’s a checkbox to control whether the contact displays as a person or as a company. The value syncs to iOS, which respects it, but there’s no switch o…
Lees meerJon Brodkin (Hacker News): Parler, the self-described “uncancelable free speech platform,” has been sold and shut down while its new owner conducts a “strategic assessment.” The platform will be back eventually, new owner Starboard says. Mike Masnic…
Lees meerUmar Shakir (via Hacker News): Sega is reportedly close to buying Rovio Entertainment — the company that owns the Angry Birds mobile game franchise — for a whopping $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.[…]The original game was a smash su…
Lees meerjmhbpc: Not sure when the feature started in Safari wherein duplicate downloads, within close proximity in time, would be replaced by the latest download… But I have noticed a bit of a flaw in that feature. Example: When downloading zipped music fil…
Lees meerMarco Eidinger: SwiftUI.Font.width(_:) was actually introduced in iOS 16.1 and not in iOS 16.0 as the documentation suggests.[…]While researching a solution, I stumbled on an interesting fact that #if canImport allows specifying a version that gets …
Lees meerThe Express Times: She arrived in California from New Jersey in 1988 ready to make her mark on the world. And so she did. Katie is recognized as one of the most remarkable women in Public Relations and Marketing in Technology. In her role as Vice Pr…
Lees meerSteve Jobs Archive (MacRumors, Hacker News): A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life …
Lees meerApple (full installer, MacRumors): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.5. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.6. Previously: macOS 13.3.1 macOS 12.6.4 and 11.7.5
Lees meerOskar Groth: Well this just broke – seems like Apple changed the model identifiers for new M2 Macs. Regardless of model, Macs are now just called Mac14,1, Mac15,2 etc. I wonder if there’s still a way to figure this out without hardcoding all identif…
Lees meerApple: Peer group benchmarks provide powerful new insights across the customer journey, so you can better understand what works well for your app and find opportunities for improvement. Apps are placed into groups based on their App Store category, …
Lees meerSproutcube (via Rui Carmo): Shortcat indexes your Mac’s user interface and makes them available to you in a powerful command palette.Click buttons, focus text fields, invoke menu commands, switch windows, and more; no mouse required.[…]Shortcat lets…
Lees meerTerence Kelly and Borer Yekai Pan (via Hacker News): Like the previous major revision, C11, the latest standard introduces several useful features. The most important, if not the most exciting, make it easier to write safe, correct, and secure code.…
Lees meerPaul Samuels: The XCTest framework added the super helpful function XCTUnwrap back in Xcode 11. At the time I added a similar helper to my various projects to help smooth over the many cases where casting is required. The idea is to have a similar c…
Lees meerJohn Gordon: His account [in the Mac App Store] shows $150 as a balance, but that’s wrong. If you click on Profile and drill down to this Accounts page (requires authentication) you will see the correct amount of $135.37. Evidently the amount displa…
Lees meerMatt Birchler (Hacker News): Some design assets some of you may love!macOS Cursors has SVGs of basically (actually?) every cursor from macOS.Emoji Toolkit has 135 common emoji in vector format (Figma, Sketch, and Photoshop versions) so you ever need…
Lees meerOle Begemann: The Photos app on macOS doesn’t provide a keyboard shortcut for the Export Unmodified Original command.macOS allows you to add your own app-specific keyboard shortcuts via System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts…
Lees meerBen Scheirman: Side Mirror allows you to select any attached display on your Mac and run it in a window. This can be useful for a number of reasons: During live presentations, to avoid looking back at a projector screen. You can see it and monitor w…
Lees meerNick Heer: So I assumed this message would disappear after my Mac figured out I had moved its library. A week later, it has not disappeared and images from Photos are, indeed, not searchable in Spotlight. Apple’s documentation implies Spotlight will…
Lees meerJesse Squires: I usually use Git Tower to review and commit my changes, but you can’t edit files in Git Tower, which means switching back-and-forth between Xcode if you need to make additional modifications. Xcode provides a nice commit interface th…
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet): In most categories, our panel’s view of Apple in the enterprise was on an upswing. The company made large gains in the categories of enterprise service and support and in macOS identity management (its 3.3 average was still fair…
Lees meerAntoni Silvestrovic (via Dave Verwer): Tool to convert SVG to SwiftUI’s Shape structure. This approach is much more memory efficient than introducing a SVG library for rendering.[…]This repository is just a front-end wrapper over our svg-to-swiftui-…
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