Spencer Dailey (via Hacker News, Reddit): Many iPhone owners have iMessages from years ago that they can’t access. For example, my wife and I simply want to read the first few messages that we exchanged in 2017, but we can’t. […] The cumbersome way …
Lees meerMilind Chabbi, Jin Lin, and Raj Barik (via Hacker News): In the following article we will describe how we reduced the code size of Uber’s iOS Rider app by 23% using advanced compiler technologies. The ideas discussed herein also translated to 17% an…
Lees meerNilay Patel: We might envision an ISP that smashes through the plodding local politics of digging fiber trenches by literally achieving escape velocity and delivering fast, reliable internet from the heavens above. […] Starlink, a new satellite inte…
Lees meerIssie Lapowsky (via Dan Moren, NY Times, Hacker News): In a new report, New York Attorney General Letitia James found that of the more than 22 million public comments the Federal Communications Commission received in 2017 regarding the repeal of net…
Lees meerGergely Orosz (via Hacker News): The mobile platform team has been working on the project for a few months, coming up with RIBs, a new architecture we’re using for the project. For the program teams - the ones building features -, the work started a…
Lees meerRich Trouton: As part of introducing macOS High Sierra, Apple removed the telnet tool from macOS. This was part of Apple’s overall effort to improve security, as telnet does not use encryption and its traffic can be intercepted and read. However, te…
Lees meerFigma: In short, pressing Shift+2 using one key worked, but pressing Shift+2 using the numeric keypad key didn’t. Curiously, the bug only happened on Windows, and not on a Mac. […] Pressing Num Lock over and over again to switch between the modes wo…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Search for content across multiple tags. […] Upload images to your question or answer to provide supporting visual details. […] Subscribe to RSS feeds for tags you’re interested in. I’m glad to have image and RSS support, but the …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Under In-App Purchases, there’s now a “Twitter Blue” option that’s priced at $2.99, though the feature does not appear to be live in the iOS app at this time.[…]Twitter Blue will include an “Undo Tweet” option that holds a tweet for a s…
Lees meerAdam Engst: I didn’t want any of the new features, so I dismissed the upgrade notice. The app didn’t nag me to upgrade again that I remember, so I kept using it with no problems, apparently for years. Until, that is, Apple released iOS 14.5, which s…
Lees meerKosta Eleftheriou (Hacker News, MacRumors): The review: “This app forced me to give it a good rating before I could use it.” […] If you think you can trust App Store ratings, you haven’t been paying enough attention. This is the iOS system rating pr…
Lees meerRachel Johanna: Camera+ 2 is known for having excellent features and our newest is no exception! Using the power of AI, we have created a new shooting mode designed to remove objects in motion that get in the way of getting the perfect shot. Sebasti…
Lees meerStéphane Sudre (tweet): Unexpectedly is a Mac application that lets you browse and visualize the reports from crashes that happened on your Mac or, more probably, another one. Unexpectedly knows how to parse macOS crash reports. Unexpectedly process…
Lees meerMatthew T, 21 years ago (via Hacker News): Mozilla on MacOS is using native main menus -- the XUL menu items are being translated into native menu structures, allowing Mozilla to use the Mac’s main menu bar.Why couldn’t this be done with context men…
Lees meerAdobe: The Adobe Genuine Service is a free service that periodically verifies whether Adobe apps on your machine are genuine and notifies you if they are not. […] The Adobe Genuine Service uninstaller removes Adobe Genuine Service and cached data. V…
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet): Apple hoped to establish the market as the entire gaming market, in which the App Store is just one complete digital marketplace among many and in which consumers substitute purchases on one platform for another. In that context,…
Lees meerApple: macOS Big Sur 11.4 adds Apple Podcasts subscriptions and channels and includes important bug fixes. Apple: This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.4. See also: MacRumors, Howard Oakley, Mr. Macintosh. Previously: macO…
Lees meerTim Cook, in 2015: I think the lack of gaming (along with lack of native productivity apps) are the main reason the Mac App Store is dormant. Phil Schiller: The Mac App Store matters for distribution of Apple software and 3rd parties that can’t crea…
Lees meerI updated my main Mac to Big Sur a month and a half ago, so I’ve been using macOS 11.2.3 through 11.3.1. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that it fixes any of the Catalina issues that I mentioned, and it introduces a variety of new ones: Several times my…
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet): Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stand on Friday for the final day of testimony in the Epic v. Apple antitrust trial.[…]“When they buy an iPhone today, they buy something that just works. I think they buy into a total ecosystem when t…
Lees meerRob Griffiths: In theory, upgraders and new customers for a new release funded all the work we did between initial release and the major update. In reality, that model is broken for us—and for you, our customers—and it’s been broken for quite a few …
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