Mac Folklore Radio: The story of how “the best-loved application for the Mac” took on Microsoft Works as told by programmer Bob Hearn in 2003. Read Macworld’s roundup of integrated packages to see how ClarisWorks 1.0 stacked up against its competiti…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Anyone who works predominantly in Dark Mode is reminded of this failure in QuickLook every day. There are workarounds, of course, and ignoring those instructions about using NSColor.textColor seems to work for Rich Text generated by a…
Lees meerTakaaki Onishi (via Accidental Tech Podcast): Reorder It! is an iPhone App which helps you reorder the addresses.It’s useful when contact has multiple e-mail address.I don’t know why standard “Contacts.app” or other AddressBook Apps on App Store don…
Lees meerAlex Zamoshchin: Banish is an ultra-efficient Safari Extension that removes annoying ‘Open in App’ banners and other dark patterns on the web. Block annoying popups and save valuable screen real estate. Via John Gruber: If I wanted a long-term lease…
Lees meerLuke Redpath: TIL - if you’re creating your own SwiftUI environment keys where the value is some kind of “action”, modelled as a closure (e.g. () -> Void) you might see unexpected re-renderings of views that use that @Environment property. […] My hu…
Lees meerRich Trouton: With APFS-formatted Time Machine backup drives, only the option to restore files is available. The Delete Backup or Delete All Backups options are not available. […] You can remove unwanted backups using either the Finder, or by using …
Lees meerNick Heer: An embedded, irreplaceable battery makes a lot of sense in many products. It means devoting less space to connectors and hatches, and does not require designers to work around available battery formats. For the length of time the batterie…
Lees meerAmazon: QGeeM Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station is committed to providing unparalleled simplicity, the highest performance and the most reliable connectivity. Achieve 40Gbps extremely fast data transmission, 60W fast charging, support for outputting 8K/…
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: It’s unbelievable that last year’s ruling has literally hundreds of typos, punctuation mistakes, inconsistencies, and similar errors. Prior to Epic v. Apple, I had never seen anything like that in a high-profile case. Now I’ve final…
Lees meerJoe Groff: We propose new borrow and take parameter modifiers to allow developers to explicitly choose the ownership convention that a function uses to receive immutable parameters. This allows for fine-tuning of performance by reducing the number o…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: In iOS 15 and earlier, battery percent has not been present on iPhones that have Face ID because of the lack of space on either side of the notch that houses the TrueDepth camera hardware. The new design adds the specific battery level…
Lees meerFelix Krause (Hacker News): Meta injects tracking code into all websites displayed inside their app without the user’s consent, nor the website operator’s permission This is done by the iOS and Android apps of Instagram, Facebook and FB Messenger Th…
Lees meerRonan Shields (Hacker News): Apple may have blown up the digital ads business but it left enough fertile ground to build its own, more focused play for media dollars. The company is building a demand-side platform if recent job listings are to be be…
Lees meerSami Fathi: In his Telegram channel, Durov says that an update to Telegram for iOS that will change how people communicate has been stuck in Apple’s App Store review process for over two weeks, with no communication from the company over why or when…
Lees meerLeitmotif (tweet): The changeset window now sports a modern macOS look with a sidebar that can be hidden. The filter on the bottom now allows filtering files by type, in addition to the file name filter and the buttons that hide or show files that h…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Apple has removed an app that it was unknowingly hosting on the App Store that scammed Facebook advertisers and led hackers to use advertisers’ ad budgets to run possibly malicious ads on Facebook’s platforms, Business Insider reports.Th…
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: Well-hidden in a new 90-page U.S. antitrust complaint against Apple (even 251 pages with the exhibits (PDF)), filed on Monday in the Northern District of California, is a challenge to one of the most devious and ruthless schemes Cup…
Lees meerSuretyMail (via Hacker News): Named the Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 (BIAS is short for “Bias In Algorithm Sorting”), a/k/a HR 8160 and SB 4409, the new law would require that email receiving systems such as Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and all the o…
Lees meerAndroid (MacRumors, Hacker News): It’s not about the color of the bubbles. It’s the blurry videos, broken group chats, missing read receipts and typing indicators, no texting over Wi-Fi, and more. These problems exist because Apple refuses to adopt …
Lees meerWhat’s new in AppKit: The most prominent update to the sharing experience is the new sharing popover. This replaces the existing share menu with a rich interface that includes more information about the document you’re sharing and familiar features …
Lees meerStephen Warwick (via Kosta Eleftheriou): An investigation into seven different apps on the Mac App Store, including the number one PDF reader in the U.S., has found that all of them are orchestrated by the same Chinese developer using fake reviews a…
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