Daniel Kennett (BasicAppleGuy): An exception to that, however, is Apple’s Aperture. I’m still grumpy that Apple discontinued it back in 2015, and I’m not alone. Start spending time in the online photography sphere and you’ll start to notice a small …
Lees meerBugs Apple Loves (via Hacker News): You need to find an email. You type in the sender’s name. Nothing. You try the subject line. Nothing. You try a unique word you know was in the email. Nothing. […] You type a word. Autocorrect changes it. You dele…
Lees meerJason Snell: There was a time when QuickTime was more than just a playback utility; I used it frequently to perform simple video edits, like removing commercials from an off-air recording or tacking the contents of one file on the end of another. Si…
Lees meerClawdbot (Twitter, Showcase, Documentation, GitHub): Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use. Federico Viticci: To say that Clawdbot has fundamen…
Lees meerMike Swanson (via Brent Simmons): And yet, this is how a lot of modern software behaves. Not because it’s broken, but because we’ve normalized an interruption model that would be unacceptable almost anywhere else. I’ve started to think of this as ba…
Lees meerAddy Osmani (via Hacker News): User obsession means spending time in support tickets, talking to users, watching users struggle, asking “why” until you hit bedrock. I wonder how much this happens at Google and Apple these days. The quest for perfect…
Lees meerChance Miller (Hacker News): Walmart doesn’t accept any form of NFC payment in the United States. It’s not just a limitation on Apple Pay. The retailer doesn’t take Google Pay, Samsung Pay, or even let you tap your contactless physical card to pay. …
Lees meerOlof Hellman: My AppleScriptable macOS app is recordable. Occasionally, I have a UI action performed by the user that I handle internally, and I send a corresponding AppleEvent with the SendOptions flag .dontExecute (was kAEDontExecute) so that Appl…
Lees meerJonathan Borichevskiy (via Peter Steinberger, Hacker News): In the four months I’ve had it I’ve told at least a dozen people about it, and I’m gonna keep telling people. Being able to take my entire computing environment to places without being worr…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Apple’s announcement of the introduction of code signing, although it wasn’t unleashed until Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard the following year (2007). […] Apple had long maintained that users would …
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo (Hacker News): Apple is testing a new design for App Store search ads on iPhone. Some users on iOS 26.3 are noticing that the blue background around sponsored results is no longer shown, blurring the line between what paid ad results l…
Lees meerI’d been anticipating the Apple Watch SE 3 for a while because I wanted: A faster watch—I was happy with the original SE’s functionality, but it always felt slow. Longer battery life—I had started to need Low Power Mode to get through longer days. T…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: The service will officially cease operating on February 16, 2026. Setapp Mobile launched in open beta in September 2024. In a support page, MacPaw said Setapp Mobile is being closed because of app marketplaces’ “still-evolving and comp…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: At the bottom of each column is a resizing widget that you can use to change the width of the columns. Or rather, you could use it to change the width of the columns. On macOS Tahoe, the horizontal scroller covers the resizing widget a…
Lees meerAnil Dash (Hacker News, Mac Power Users): If mark_up_ is complicated, then the opposite of that complexity must be… mark_down_. This kind of solution, where it’s so smart it seems obvious in hindsight, is key to Markdown’s success. John worked to ma…
Lees meerIt turns out that one of my favorite new features in OmniFocus 4.7 is the Catch Up Automatically option for repeating actions: With this setting turned off, completing an item will create the next occurrence following the schedule you have set, even…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Hacker News): Apple and other smartphone manufacturers are resisting an Indian government proposal that would require them to hand over source code for security review, reports Reuters. […] Apple, Google, Samsung, Xiaomi, and industry …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, ArsTechnica, MacRumors, 9To5Mac, MacStories, Reddit, Mac Power Users): Apple today unveiled Apple Creator Studio, a groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed to put studio-grade power into the hands of everyone…
Lees meerGoogle (via Adam Engst): Starting in January 2026, Gmail will no longer provide support for the following features: Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organisation applied to your third-party emai…
Lees meerEddy Cue (MacRumors): 2025 was a record-breaking year for Apple services, marked by remarkable growth, global expansion, and continuous innovation. From Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple News, to daily essentials like Apple Pay and iCloud, we deliver…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple and Google will soon be “encouraged” to build nudity-detection algorithms into their software by default, as part of the UK government’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, reports the Financial Times. Jon Brodki…
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