Sebastiaan de With: When you take a photo on a modern iPhone — or any smartphone for that matter — you might like to think that what you saw was what you captured, but nothing could be further from the truth.[…]Automatic edits on photos can go wrong…
Lees meerRobert Steuteville (via Hacker News): Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaf…
Lees meerMarco Arment: Am I missing something, or has Apple done a really great job of making it impossible to figure out which purchases on a family plan led to each charge on my credit card? Marco Arment: What App Store credit-card fraud looks like: a slow…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Apple has seemingly removed the ability to buy and rent TV shows and movies in the Apple TV app for Android TV and Google TV in the latest update to the app. […] FlatPanelsHD suggested that Apple may have stripped back the function…
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: The Apple-ACM saga over in-app payments in dating apps continues with another €5 million ($5.5 million) weekly fine, but there’s more. Dutch tech reporter Nando Kasteleijn published a note (image) from the competition enforcement ag…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Nguyen includes a tip at the end of her column explaining how to create a simple Shortcuts automation to switch cellular networking to LTE when your device’s battery hits a certain threshold, like say 40 percent. But I look at these res…
Lees meerMartin Brinkmann (via Hacker News): Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.[…]This data will allow…
Lees meerDan Luu: The Twitter change where they switched everyone from their choice of timeline to ranked timeline reminds me of a question: why don’t social media companies react to negative signals from users?The change trained me to stop checking the app …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Instagram today rolled out new Following and Favorites feed options, allowing users to sort their feeds to see content posted chronologically from the people they follow or content just from their favorite people.[…]It’s worth noting th…
Lees meerMishal Shah: Swift’s open source project issues are currently in JIRA, making it difficult for developers to discover and integrate them into our workflows on GitHub, such as pull requests. To provide a better workflow for developers, we are working…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The biggest problem with our advice was cost. Thunderbolt 4 cables, which offer full backward compatibility with USB 3 and USB4 over USB-C connectors, can cost well over $100 from trusted manufacturers, including Apple.Industry stalwart …
Lees meerBrett Ohland (via Dave Verwer): Apple introduced the new FormatStyle protocol with iOS 15. It allows for some truly remarkable things to happen when you’re converting your data into localized strings. In true Apple fashion though, details about how …
Lees meerMeanRaw: And the CloudKit 503 is back :( Apple really needs to get it together. So frustrating Michael Billig: Apple store systems are down and they’re literally doing everything on paper lol Joe Rossignol: Affected services and apps include the App…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you’ve updated to 12.3, it’s very easy to test. Bring up the image of a painting in one of the supported apps, currently including Safari, Photos and Preview. In Safari, Control-click on the image to produce the contextual menu. At…
Lees meerAx Sharma, in January: The developer behind popular open-source NPM libraries ‘colors’ (aka colors.js on GitHub) and ‘faker’ (aka faker.js on GitHub) intentionally introduced mischievous commits in them that are impacting thousands of applications r…
Lees meerRyan Dotson: I loved using labels in ‘Classic’ Mac OS to colour-code files and folders in Finder. We lost this in the modern era, replaced by tags. In earlier versions of Mac OS X, they nearly filled the gap, because the whole name was coloured, but…
Lees meerMaxwell Swadling: The M1 ultra can crank out a clang build in 6min30s. Which is 2x the M1 Max! Really impressive if you are building clang or other large cmake projects M1 Ultra: 6m30s M1 Max: 13m54s 16 core Xeon Mac Pro: 11m51s Frank Reiff: Xcode B…
Lees meerJason Snell: For 15 years, I’ve used an auto-switching power strip in conjunction with my desktop computers. When the computer turns off, the power strip automatically turns off many other devices—powered speakers, USB hubs, you name it.[…]The power…
Lees meerChannel 5: My Vimeo contact told me that all of my videos had been removed from Patreon because I’d exceeded Vimeo’s ‘bandwidth limit’ (image 1). Bear in mind, we haven’t uploaded a single Channel 5 video directly to Vimeo, we’ve only uploaded throu…
Lees meerCraig Grannell: Read-later services have come and gone since Instapaper’s debut, but the original survives. The app and service both remain free, although you can opt for a ‘premium’ subscription, which adds archive text search, text-to-speech and s…
Lees meerAmanda Silberling: Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio? Apparently, Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Zaccaria did.[…]Over the la…
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