Timothy B. Lee: Google says it would have “no real choice” but to shut down its search engine in Australia if Australia passes a new law requiring Google to pay news sites to link to their articles. […] You might think that Google would simply stop …
Lees meerChris Hynes: It used to be that when you dragged an item off the Dock and dropped it, the icon would disappear in a puff of smoke and make a satisfying noise. The animation was strangely primitive against the backdrop of the slick user interface of …
Lees meerApple (also: MacRumors): And now, it’s easier to find and keep track of content you’re interested in. Take advantage of enhanced search and a new feature that monitors threads for you and sends you an email each time there’s a reply. The new forums …
Lees meerBruno Rocha: While visually the same, this case is completely different from the view controllers one! String does not inherit or uses NSString in any way -- they are different objects with different implementations. The way this works is that as in…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Last week, the MLB app was removed from the third-generation Apple TV[…] A few other popular apps are being removed from the third-generation Apple TV as of this month, including YouTube and CBS All Access, the latter of which is bein…
Lees meerBen Zotto: Apple’s second computer — its first to have a case — launched in 1977, and that boxy beige Apple II was soon everywhere: in classrooms, living rooms and offices. At the vanguard of a generation of personal computers to come, it featured a…
Lees meerRobin Harris (via Hacker News): The impressive performance and battery life gains of the new M1 MacBooks have created a historic discontinuity in the normally placid resale market. Should you spend $800 for a one year old MacBook Air when for $200 m…
Lees meerOff Coast LLC (tweet): The acquisition means the app is going away. Today, we removed Weather Line from the App Store. For all existing Weather Line users, free and paid, the app will continue working for 13 months, until April 1, 2022. […] As an In…
Lees meerGeorge Cox: This update contains a big improvement in Downcast’s macOS app that reduces the chances of running into the dreaded ‘inaccessible resource’ issue. Per Apple’s suggestion, Downcast stores security-scoped bookmarks for file system resource…
Lees meerAlexander Grebenyuk: I wrote a post yesterday about triple-column navigation in SwiftUI. It felt a bit awkward posting it because this really shouldn’t be some obscure knowledge. This is hardly a challenging problem. But to me and to many other peop…
Lees meerJimmy Jenkins (via Hacker News): According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the inmate management software cannot interpret curre…
Lees meerWill Oremus: When you join the fast-growing, invite-only social media app Clubhouse — lucky you! — one of the first things the app will ask you to do is grant it access to your iPhone’s contacts. A finger icon points to the “OK” button, which is als…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): Across Twitter and the MacRumors forums, users are reporting that M1 Macs are experiencing extremely high drive writes over a short space of time. In what appear to be the most severe cases, M1 Macs are said to be con…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, and if he was still alive, today would mark his 66th birthday. Dave Mark: The Computer History Museum pulled together a Clubhouse visit with some Apple luminaries…
Lees meerBill Reynolds (via Hacker News): Fry’s Electronics is closing business nationwide effective tonight. Om Malik: We applaud fashion designers like Paul Smith for creating a unique look for their stores across the world, but this is one area where Fry’…
Lees meerEl Toro: Specifically, El Toro offers: Targeting without having to use cookies, census blocks, or geo-location tools. John Gruber: Why doesn’t Apple build a VPN into its OSes? Or as an offering of paid iCloud accounts at least? At this point, if pri…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: First previewed at CES 2021, the PowerCore battery pack magnetically attaches to the back of any iPhone 12 model and provides 5W of wireless charging. With a 5,000 mAh capacity, the battery pack is capable of charging the iPhone 12 mi…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, the macOS Big Sur update prevents 2019 or later MacBook Pro models and 2020 or later MacBook Air models from being damaged when connected to certain third-party, non-compliant powered USB-C hubs and d…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: How much of your time at your job is actually spent on writing the logic, and how much of it is spent preparing an environment in order for that logic to run? I wouldn’t be surprised at all if I found out that 98% of my time was spe…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): I’ve noticed folks on Twitter and in developer Slack’s coming up with the same problem. I don’t know if something has changed in the code signing toolchain, or we’re just having an unlucky break, but I thought I’d blog about i…
Lees meerNick Heer: I am finding it difficult to adapt to increasingly unified applications on my Mac and iPad. I am not sure if this is an age and experience thing — I am used to switching between apps with multiple documents or windows open. Aside from web…
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