Apple (MacRumors): In the coming months, Apple Card users will be able to open the new high-yield Savings account and have their Daily Cash automatically deposited into it — with no fees, no minimum deposits, and no minimum balance requirements. […]…
Lees meerTom Warren (tweet): After more than 30 years, Microsoft Office is being renamed “Microsoft 365” to mark the software giant’s collection of growing productivity apps. While Office apps like Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint aren’t going away, Micr…
Lees meerAndrew Cunningham: Microsoft is introducing a pair of typical, iterative updates to its Surface Pro convertible tablet PCs today. One is a modest upgrade to the Surface Pro 8, with 12th-generation Intel processors that promise much-improved performa…
Lees meerNatalia Panferova: SwiftUI is a modern way to build a UI on Apple platforms. If you would like to start using SwiftUI but already have an existing UIKit app, you don’t have to rewrite it all. Learn to start gradually integrating SwiftUI into a UIKit…
Lees meerPieter Omvlee and Emanuel Sá: Today is a very tough day for everyone at Sketch. In response to challenging market conditions and with a desire to keep our product-first strategy, we’ve taken the difficult decision to reduce our team by just over 80 …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Apple today introduced Ask Apple, a new series of interactive Q&As and one-on-one consultations that will provide developers with even more opportunities to connect directly with Apple experts for insight, support, and feedback.…
Lees meerPaul Samuels: A really useful trick when debugging is to subclass the thing you are interested in just to make it easier to search for inside the various debugging tools. […] There are plenty more places like instruments, logging etc to make use of …
Lees meerSami Fathi: In a new interview, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, and Apple’s vice president of human interface design, Alan Dye, sat down to discuss the thinking behind the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island and ho…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: Apple appears to be rolling out a wide-reaching branding change about how it refers to its Mac portable lineup. Up until recently, Apple officially referred to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro as “Mac notebooks” or just “notebooks,” le…
Lees meerApple (via Christopher Thielen): If you’re new to iPhone software development, take a moment to familiarize yourself with the tools and technologies you’ll use. Apple provides everything you need to get started, and iOS technologies help you get the…
Lees meerGabriele Svelto (tweet, Hacker News): Performance in some of our automated tests degraded by as much as 30%. os_unfair_lock might be better behaved than OSSpinLock, but it sucked.As it turns out os_unfair_lock doesn’t spin on contention, it makes th…
Lees meerJordan Rose: Between Swift 1 and Swift 5 there was a massive amount of change, from shifting API design to changing ARC function conventions to adding missing optimizations to learning what was going to be practical and idiomatic in this new languag…
Lees meerBen Sandofsky: There’s a scam app claiming to be Midjourney, and it’s charting in the App Store. […] Not only did he file junk trademark claims for Midjourney, he just admitted he’s doing the same for Wordle. Hugh Devaux: Click on the link in his tw…
Lees meerTomas Kafka: Interactive daily forecast: Tap the day in the daily forecast to quickly scroll to its hourly forecast. Plus: Redesigned sunrise & sunset section in the details, and more tweaks to the visuals of the chart. I like being able to quickly …
Lees meerKyle Howells: Got tired of iOS lying about the free space so finally just built a 1 screen app to show the real free space available. Probably no way I can actually get this in the AppStore though. He makes the code available here. I really wish thi…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Apple eliminated the toolbar at the top of the screen that could be summoned or dismissed with a tap of the screen. Books now hides most of its controls in the reading menu, accessed by tapping a button that lives by default in the low…
Lees meerJason Snell: Swiping toward the center of the Island does seem to “minimize” it, though that behavior seems to vary. When I tried it while on a phone call, it made the time and voice waveform disappear, but the phone icon—to indicate that there’s an…
Lees meerJean-Louis Gassée (in 2019, via Hacker News): Because I feel self-conscious about my mental and motor skills, I compared notes with a learned friend, a persistent fellow who forced himself to learn touch typing by erasing the letters on his keyboard…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: In the latest iPadOS 16 beta seeded earlier this week, developer Steve Troughton-Smith and MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci highlighted various user interface issues they continue to face from time to time while using Stage…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht (tweet): Kaleidoscope 3.7 marks the beginning of a new chapter: you can now share your text diffs with other people. It’s as easy as clicking the common Share button in the toolbar and selecting a service, like Messages or AirDrop. …
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range of consumer electronic devices, including the iPhone and AirPods, by the end of 2024. […] Ex…
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