Natalia Panferova: We can see that the time within the text dynamically changes but the UI jitters as digits update. This happens because by default digits have proportional width and different digits take a different amount of space.To stop the UI …
Lees meerNathan Ingraham: Now, Apple is making Stage Manager work with a number of older devices: it’ll work on the 11-inch iPad Pro (first generation and later) and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro (third generation and later). Specifically, it’ll be available on the…
Lees meerOleg Danylov (via Hacker News, Reddit): The VKontakte social network client and some other VK and Mail.ru applications have been removed from the Apple App Store. All these apps are still available on Google Play.[…]This is not the first time that A…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Both [Calm and Headspace] require an annual subscription fee, so I tested their free trials. […] It turns out that I find celebrity voices distracting. […] Oak has a small set of both guided and unguided meditations […] Along with a fe…
Lees meerJordan Morgan: For debugPrint()… Things look a little bit different. Its output is strikingly similar to the print(), but it has a fully qualified print out.[…]However, if the type doesn’t conform to [CustomDebugStringConvertible] - then String(refl…
Lees meerRed Sweater: By default, FastScripts searches for scripts in the same standard “Scripts” folders that Apple’s Script Menu searches. […] I’ve expanded FastScripts to support an arbitrary number of user-determined locations, whose script contents will…
Lees meerVivian Qu (tweet): When I was at Pinterest, I helped in communications with our dedicated App Store representative who would expedite Pinterest app updates through the review process. I have seen first-hand the lack of support for indie apps compare…
Lees meerBill Toulas: Security researchers have discovered 75 applications on Google Play and another ten on Apple’s App Store engaged in ad fraud. Collectively, they add to 13 million installations. Apart from flooding mobile users with advertisements, both…
Lees meerDr. Drang: The problem was that the lists were long. One had 84 items and the other had 30. Pasting them into the message in the form I had them—one item per line—would take up too much space. Pasting them in as a comma-separated series—which I coul…
Lees meerstirz: On this day 33 years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh Portable. I just love how @gassee does the presentation: lots of humor and a live assembly on stage. Compared with more recent Apple events, it almost seems humble. I enjoyed this video.
Lees meerMatthias Bühlmann (via Hacker News): These examples make it quite evident that compressing these images with Stable Diffusion results in vastly superior image quality at a smaller file sizes compared to JPG and WebP. This quality comes with some imp…
Lees meerBen Thompson: The initial roll-out of large language models seemed to confirm this point of view: the two most prominent large language models have come from OpenAI and Google; while both describe how their text (GPT and GLaM, respectively) and imag…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): Many expert Mac users grant Full Disk Access to Terminal app, because the permissions dialogs quickly become very annoying when you try to do things in Terminal, as we’ve already seen above.[…]What you may not realize is that i…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: Link HUB lets you put links on your iOS 16 Lock Screen. Links can be URLs that open websites or URL schemes that open and control apps. […] Launcher is an app that’s been around for a very long time, helping iPhone users automate a lo…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: The customization we have in iOS 16 includes wallpapers – and in fact goes above and beyond anything Apple ever offered for wallpapers on iOS – but that’s only one component of a larger system. A good way to think about it is the f…
Lees meerForecastAdvisor (via John Gruber): ForecastAdvisor will show you the accuracy of the major weather forecasters, including Accuweather, AerisWeather, Foreca, the National Weather Service, Open Weathermap, The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Wet…
Lees meerMath Easel: New lock screen accessory widgets for iOS 16! (Make sure you are subscribed to the Premium level.) This may be the best weather Lock Screen widget I’ve seen, though for the big graph in the app itself I prefer Weathergraph’s. Previously:…
Lees meerTriple Glazed Studios (via Craig Grannell): Beautiful weather charts Detailed daily forecast Incredibly accurate rain forecast Simple yet powerful Apple Watch app Easy to glace home screen and lock screen widgets I like the design, which is reminisc…
Lees meerJoseph Ruscio (Hacker News): @FogBugzTeam sending me an email today that you are auto-upgrading and intend to start charging me tomorrow for a free account I haven’t logged into for (checks notes) … 13 YEARS is a bold move. Aleksandar Vacić: If your…
Lees meerOn one of my Macs running macOS 12.6, the Safari 16 update said that it had succeeded but actually left me with a zero-byte executable that wouldn’t launch. This had never happened to me before in all my years of using Macs. You might think this sho…
Lees meerApple: The system memory allocator free operation zeroes out all deallocated blocks in iOS 16.1 beta or later. Invalid accesses to free memory might result in new crashes or corruption, including NULL-pointer dereferences and non-zero memory being r…
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