Abner Li (via Benjamin Mayo): In late August, South Korea passed a law requiring alternate in-app payment systems in Google Play and the iOS App Store. Google today detailed what steps it will be taking to comply.[…]Meanwhile, apps that use alternat…
Lees meerArmin Briegel: With the recent versions of macOS, getting a value of the available disk space is not as strightforward as it used to be. There are a lot of files and data on the system, which will be cleared out when some process requires more disk …
Lees meerDave Winer: [Way] back in 1983, Infoworld reviewed ThinkTank, my first outliner. This review, along with the one in the NYT, launched the company. Early the next year we shipped our Macintosh product at the Mac rollout in Flint Center. John Gruber: …
Lees meerApple: Your MacBook Pro has multiple energy modes you can switch between. By default, your Mac is set to Automatic mode to balance energy use and performance. Low Power Mode reduces energy use to increase battery life. On the 16-inch MacBook Pro wit…
Lees meerAsh Parrish: Users will be able to choose from one of five games: Stranger Things: 1984, Stranger Things 3: The Game, Shooting Hoops, Card Blast, and Teeter Up. Starting today, users can download Netflix games from the Google Play store, requiring a…
Lees meerLukas Mathis: After years of struggling with ghost clicks, randomly dragged icons, poor palm rejection, and generally ever worsening MacBook trackpads, I didn’t want to deal with software features trying to compensate for a trackpad’s lack of physic…
Lees meerAdobe: Reimagine local adjustments with the brand new Masking panel. Now use the Brush, Linear Gradient, and Radial Gradient tools with greater precision and organization. You can also access the Color Range and Luminance Range tools that help you s…
Lees meerStairways Software: Keyboard Maestro 10 expands on the powerful base of previous versions, improving the editor, adding many new actions and triggers, Paste by Name, status menu display, subroutines, and more.[…]Added Paste by Name action giving Spo…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): NSLog("Failed to get modification date at URL: \(url) - \(error)") […] In the scenario of my crash, the interpolation of “url” and “error” results in surprise template placeholders, because of the presence of spaces in the pat…
Lees meerleo_r: I wonder if it’s just me - or AppleScript is much faster on Monterey? In fact it’s just blazingly fast. For example, I have a script that polls InDesign document’s elements for certain attributes. On Monterey, it takes 15 seconds to scan this…
Lees meerDave Mark: Follow the headline link, start scrolling for a walk through all the different default macOS wallpapers, going all the way back to Mac OS X Tiger, which dropped back in 2005. There are some really great ones here, including many that inst…
Lees meerSarah Perez: In September, analysts at eMarketer predicted Spotify was poised to overtake Apple Podcasts in U.S. listenership sometime this year. Today, Spotify announced for the first time it may have succeeded on that front. During the company’s Q…
Lees meerCorbin Dunn: At Apple I worked on the main User Interface (UI) framework called AppKit for about 13 years. I would help enforce UI consistency in applications by logging bugs and helping the application developers fix any issues. Back then a lot of …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors, TidBITS): The Company posted a September quarter revenue record of $83.4 billion, up 29 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.24. […] “Our record September quarter results capped off a …
Lees meerArmin Briegel: I stumbled over this as I was looking for a different new option for pkgbuild in Monterey. In a conversation with the ever awesome Duncan McCracken, he mentioned that the tool had gained an new option, --large-payload, which allows fo…
Lees meerTesla (PDF, via Reddit): Tesla extended the reduced precision support further, and introduced the Configurable Float8 (CFloat8), an 8-bit floating point format, to further reduce the enormous pressure on memory storage and bandwidth in storing the w…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: The other day we found a helpful command line tool option, only to discover later that the option was only available in macOS Monterey. Since we also need to target Big Sur, this would not be an option for us. So we created somethi…
Lees meerSergiu Gatlan: Proof-of-concept exploit code for three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities (and a fourth one patched in July) was published on GitHub after Apple delayed patching and failed to credit the person who reported them. Via Andy Ihnatko: Defender…
Lees meerXcode 13.2 Beta: You can now use Swift Concurrency in applications that deploy to macOS 10.15, iOS 13, tvOS 13, and watchOS 6 or newer. This support includes async/await, actors, global actors, structured concurrency, and the task APIs. See also: Sw…
Lees meerGoogle (Hacker News): The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. However, by using various new standardized web technologies, Adobe has now brought a public beta…
Lees meerNick Heer (PDF, Hacker News): Twelve U.S. Attorneys General, led by Texas’ Ken Paxton, amended their suit against Google with fewer redactions and plenty more allegations than first seen ten months ago. Keach Hagey and Tripp Mickle (via Hacker News)…
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