Alex Seville (Hacker News): Photographers who craft and create work that might be considered risqué by some will have a safe place online to interact with one another, share mutual interests, and put their art into the world without the fear of it b…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The recent disappearance of the 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display from Apple’s product line has thrown a spotlight on the core design tradeoff with an all-in-one Mac: you can’t separate the Mac from the monitor when it comes time to up…
Lees meerChristopher Atlan: The idea was to bundle Kaleidoscope version 2 and version 3. This would enable users to get version 3 at a bundle price discounted for those who bought version 2. […] If a user changes the country of their Apple ID, bundle pricing…
Lees meerTed Kremenek: Swift 5.6 enhances the language through a number of proposals from the Swift Evolution process, including:SE-0290 - Unavailability ConditionSE-0315 - Type placeholders (formerly, “Placeholder types”)SE-0320 - Allow coding of non String…
Lees meerPEP 594 (via Hacker News): Back in the early days of Python, the interpreter came with a large set of useful modules. This was often referred to as “batteries included” philosophy and was one of the cornerstones to Python’s success story. Users didn…
Lees meerDave Nanian: This release is especially important for Apple silicon users. macOS 12.3 will break SuperDuper! v3.5 due to problems with asr (Apple Software Restore), the tool that must be used to copy the OS, and we’ve worked around that issue in our…
Lees meersajadmh (via Hacker News): This game utilizes a hybrid of formulas/conditional formatting and Google Apps Script. Douglas Vaghetti (Hacker News): What makes Wordle special is not the core mechanic itself, but the series of very intelligent decisions…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: macOS 12.3 Monterey has arrived, delivering Universal Control, the long-awaited feature that allows users to transition between Macs and iPads with a single set of input devices.[…]For the past several weeks, I’ve had my iPad Pro sitt…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS and iPadOS 15.4 are huge updates that bring quite a few useful new features to the iPhone and the iPad. With iOS 15.4, there is now an option to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask with no additional hardware like the Apple Watc…
Lees meerRed Sweater: This update introduces an expansion of FastScripts’s own built-in scripting additions, with three powerful new commands for searching, replacing, and splitting text with regular expressions. These can be used by any AppleScript on your …
Lees meerJim Nielsen (via Old Unix Geek, Hacker News): I’m intrigued by the ability to use system colors in CSS and these web views in macOS show how engineers at Apple are leveraging non-standard CSS keywords in Webkit to mimic UIs in macOS which are otherw…
Lees meerTom Parker (Reddit): The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, has announced that it has started down-ranking sites based on whether they’re deemed to be associated with Ru…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although Apple has made a big thing of protecting privacy, macOS has one hole which Apple acknowledged over a year ago, promised to fix, and hasn’t fulfilled its promises. Every time you open an app, macOS checks the validity of its d…
Lees meerJay Peters: The design change, which lets you swipe between your Home (algorithmically served) and Latest (reverse chronological) timelines, was announced Thursday. To set it up, you tap the sparkle icon in the top right corner, and you’ll see the o…
Lees meerGreg Wilson: I spent most of an afternoon last week tracking down a bug caused by having two decorators stacked on a function in the wrong order. The fix was small, but the impact was not. Reading this paper has got me wondering how often this happe…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Late last year I was commissioned to write a group test of NAS systems intended primarily for Time Machine network backups. I’m delighted to report that my review has now been published, in two of Future’s magazines, MacFormat (issue …
Lees meerGoogle (via MacRumors): We’re excited to announce that in M99, Chrome on Mac has achieved the highest score to date of any browser – 300 – in Apple’s Speedometer browser responsiveness benchmark. Building on many performance changes over the last ye…
Lees meerAdam Engst: What I am a little miffed about is the implication that if you don’t need all the power of a MacBook Pro with an M1 Max chip and 64 GB of unified memory, you’re not a pro user. And that extreme performance and massive storage are the onl…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet): The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today published Apple’s response to its Interim Report on mobile ecosystems, as well responses from dozens of other companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Epic Games.[…]…
Lees meerIan Lynch Smith: Apple needs to do better. Yesterdays “Game of the Day” has a 2022 biz model of $120/year. The “no thanks” is color hidden in upper left, the red “free trial” is actually the same as the “subscribe” button. Apples’s #1 app store push…
Lees meerBriksoftware (via Karsten Kusche): Symbolizer is the easiest way of converting vector graphics to bitmap graphics. Drag a vector graphic to Symbolizer and it'll show a detailed preview of the image. On the righthand side there's a list of preconfigu…
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