Dieter Bohn (Hacker News): The idea is simple enough: it allows you to use the keyboard and trackpad on a Mac to directly control an iPad, and even makes it simple to drag and drop content between those devices. What made the demo so impressive is h…
Lees meerChris Welch: Amazon is officially in the TV business. The company has announced its first lineup of Amazon-branded 4K Fire TVs, which will begin shipping in October. This is a major expansion from the company’s “Fire TV Edition” collaborations, wher…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple offers a bug bounty program that’s designed to pay security researchers for discovering and reporting critical bugs in Apple operating systems, but researchers are not happy with how it operates or Apple’s payouts in comparison to…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Unfortunately, AccountEdge was built on a 30-year-old, 32-bit code base that wasn’t compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina. MYOB tried and failed to update AccountEdge to be a 64-bit app, and eventually stopped selling it. Tonya didn’t min…
Lees meerJames Dempsey (tweet): The tabs at the top of apple.com have been around for over two decades now. Looking at the changes over time shows changes in Apple products, priorities, and design. For long-time Apple watchers it also provides a walk down me…
Lees meerZac Hall: For some reason, Apple’s Weather app on iPadOS 15 doesn’t have exactly the same design. Information is still organized into blocks, but a lot of the blocks are weirdly not about weather conditions. The top of the Weather app for iPad inclu…
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced that it is working with several states across the country, which will roll out the ability for their residents to seamlessly and securely add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet on their iPhone and Apple Watch. …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Twitter today announced the official launch of Super Follows, a new feature that allows creators to provide subscriber-only content that requires a paid fee to access. Hartley Charlton: Each Twitter Super Follow subscription is an indiv…
Lees meerNatasha Lomas and Romain Dillet (Hacker News, 3): ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis (tweet): We want to be sure to our customers who previously purchased Fission via the Mac App Store are taken care of as well. To that end, we will be transitioning you over to our directly distributed version. […] For almost twenty yea…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (tweet, Hacker News, The Verge, MacRumors, TechCrunch): “Last month we announced plans for features intended to help protect children from predators who use communication tools to recruit and exploit them, and limit the spread of Child Se…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Tapbots today released version 6.3 of Tweetbot for the iPhone and iPad, with the key new feature being a “Behaviors” menu in the app’s settings that contains several toggle switches for fine tuning your Tweetbot experience. I like the…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Providing your Mac with a reliable filtered AC supply is very important to protect it from sustaining damage during electrical storms, when there’s utility maintenance underway, or some idiot trips a circuit-breaker or pulls the mains…
Lees meerDavid Sacks: Today is the public launch of Callin, the first app to offer a new experience we call “Social Podcasting.”[…]Callin lets you create, discover, and consume live and recorded audio content in one place. It combines the best aspects of soc…
Lees meerAllen Pike: Each time a cross-platform app has found itself in the crosshairs of the internet, I hear a variant of this question: “What is it about enterprise companies that make so many of them abandon native apps, when they could surely afford to …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: When you attempt to run one of the developer tools, the _xcselect_invoke_xcrun function must look up the actual path of the tool. The paths of Xcode and the developer tools are cached on disk in a database file named xcrun_db located i…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, 9to5Mac, MacRumors): Apple today announced an update coming to the App Store that closes an investigation by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC). The update will allow developers of “reader” apps to include an in-app link to t…
Lees meerSami Fathi (Hacker News): South Korea today passed a bill that bans Apple and Google from requiring developers to use their own respective in-app purchasing systems, allowing developers to charge users using third-party payment methods, The Wall Str…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (tweet): The trend of declarative UI on mobile began in 2013 with React Native, which started as a Facebook hackathon project. The goal was to improve the developer experience by bringing everything people loved about the web—rapid…
Lees meerSommer Panage: On Mac, you can do ⌘+T to bring up your Tapback responses in Messages and then you can use the number keys, 1-6, to select your reaction. 🤯 Get ready for lots of ❤️ and 👍🏻 everyone… It also works on iPad. What I’d really like is to be…
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith (tweet): I thought it would be a good idea to round up the various pieces of sample code I've created for Mac Catalyst just to get everything in one place. These are by no means step-by-step guides, merely illustrated examples …
Lees meer