Mark Hurst: When you tap the circle on the bottom of the screen to take the photo, and you hear the artificial “click-shh” shutter sound, Apple stores a three-second video: 1.5 seconds of video before you tapped the button, and 1.5 seconds after you…
Lees meerDan Moren: Matter accessories have not yet hit the market, which is why the support Apple is rolling out in the newest versions of most of its operating systems—iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and tvOS 15—is only billed as a “developer preview” targeted at those…
Lees meerZane Kleinberg (via Hacker News): OldOS is a testament to the days of yesteryear, showcasing what iOS once was ten years ago. The ethos of the app is to merge the technologies of today with a pixel-perfect recreation of the user experience of the pa…
Lees meerKen Shirriff (via Alexis Gallagher): To test all the components of Apollo, NASA created (and patented) a complex system called Digital Test Command System. The testing control room (pictured below) sent digital commands to the spacecraft, to control…
Lees meerAbner Li (via Hacker News): Back in November, Google announced that it would start testing end-to-end encryption in Messages for Android. After being limited to the beta channel, E2EE is now rolling out to all stable users. With end-to-end encryptio…
Lees meerElias Saba (via Hacker News): The Amazon Appstore has announced that it will be reducing its cut of developer revenue from 30% to 20% for developers that earn less than $1 million in revenue per year. The new terms, which Amazon is calling the Amazo…
Lees meerRosyna Keller: So here’s a thread of some new stuff in Xcode 12.5’s altool 4.047.1207[…] […] For any altool invocation that accepts -p @keychain, you can now use --keychain to specify the keychain db to store to or retrieve from. […] If you’re curs…
Lees meerTyler Hall: I’m very, very close to writing a KeyboardMaestro macro to grab the latest 2FA code from Messages.app to work around this. Tyler Hall: Here’s what ended up working.Click the menubar’s clock to activate Notification Center.[…]Take a scree…
Lees meerNelson Aguilar (via John Gordon): It should be simple to select and copy all text on a webpage in Safari, but it won’t work as it does in other apps. Usually, you can press-and-hold down anywhere on a page and choose “Select All” from the edit menu,…
Lees meerErin Sparling: Every drawing that I’ve ever done on my iPad is now lost, because I chose to use the iCloud backup service as a backup service. […] But even though everything worked as expected, my decade of work is unrecoverable, because @Apple does…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn: I haven’t written much about Apple’s new foray into lossless, high-resolution, and Dolby Atmos music. I’ve written about high-resolution music plenty over the years, and it’s clear that, for the vast majority of listeners, it’s just …
Lees meerMarianne Schultz: We’ve had a great run, getting our legs under us a few months after the launch of Apple’s App Store in 2008 but it’s not feasible to keep the site up anymore. The largest factor was Apple’s decision to remove apps from its affiliat…
Lees meerChuq Von Rospach (tweet): Apple giving a basic app away for free inhibits other developers from tackling that idea, and limits their ability to make enough money to warrant doing the hard investment in doing a real killer version of an app of that t…
Lees meerThomas Clement: If you are using a non-US keyboard, prepare yourself to relearn a number of keyboard shortcuts in Monterey as the OS now translates shortcuts to the position of the key on the keyboard rather than the actual shortcut key. Some seem u…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: In addition, a new tab design on macOS puts your active tabs front and center, allowing you to see more of the page as you scroll. At the same time, the new tab bar takes on the color of the webpage and combines tabs, the tool bar, and…
Lees meerCecilia Kang (via Nick Heer): House lawmakers on Friday introduced sweeping antitrust legislation aimed at restraining the power of Big Tech and staving off corporate consolidation. If passed, the bills would be the most ambitious update to monopoly…
Lees meerTimo Perfitt: caching server utility is henceforth REJECTED from the app store. calling an apple command line tool to call another apple tool via XPC is FORBIDDEN and just because we have a TEMPORARY EXCEPTION it does not it should be USED. i should…
Lees meerDeveloper Tools Engineer: PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey. Perl, Python 2, and Ruby are still there. Python 3 is only available if you install Xcode. Emacs was removed a release or two ago. Previously: Scripting Languages to Be Removed macOS …
Lees meerStripe (tweet, Hacker News): Stripe Tax lets you calculate and collect sales tax, VAT, and GST with one line of code or the click of a button. Know where to register, automatically collect the right amount of tax, and access the reports you need to …
Lees meerPhilipp Defner: After waking up the computer, messages from hours ago stay unread until I click on each conversation to make the badge go away. Restarting Messages.app doesn’t fix that. Clicking on a conversation sometimes replays the messages with …
Lees meerEli Budelli (MacRumors, Hacker News): We’re excited to welcome Day One to the Automattic team. Day One is a private journaling app that makes writing for yourself a simple pleasure. A beautifully designed user experience has earned the app prestigio…
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