Igor Kulman (via Cédric Luthi): Installing Xcode from the Mac App Store might seem like a convenient way to do so but it is too slow and inflexible. You cannot use the Mac App Store to install multiple version of Xcode at the same time if you need t…
Lees meerBare Bones Software: BBEdit has a new feature to protect your data: in the Text Files preferences, there is an option: “Rescue untitled documents when discarding changes”. When this option is on (as it is by default), and you close an untitled docum…
Lees meerMitchel Broussard: Apple today announced that the iPhone 12 family is gaining support for MagSafe, which will offer high-powered wireless charging as well as a new ecosystem of accessories that attach to the iPhone 12. Previously, MagSafe was Apple’…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Second, context is necessary because despite the pandemic and rocky rollout of iOS 13 and its many updates, Apple was still able to infuse iOS and iPadOS 14 with fresh, bold ideas that are tracing a path for both platforms to follo…
Lees meeriPhone 12 (MacRumors, event, Hacker News): Apple today unveiled iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini with 5G technology, ushering in a new era for the world’s best smartphone. The newly designed iPhone 12 models feature expansive edge-to-edge Super Retina X…
Lees meerChris Velazco (via MacRumors): At a high level, the A14 seems similar to Apple’s other Bionic chipsets. This system-on-a-chip packs a six-core CPU — two cores high-performance cores and four for lower-priority tasks — just as the A12 and A13 did. Th…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today unveiled HomePod mini, the newest addition to the HomePod family that delivers impressive sound, the intelligence of Siri to get things done, and a smart home experience that offers comfort and convenience…
Lees meerSongShift Team (also: MacRumors): The Spotify Developer Platform Team reached out and let us know we’d need to remove transferring from their service to a competing music service or have our API access revoked due to TOS violation. Spotify only want…
Lees meerBryan Cantrill (Hacker News): So Rust is going really well for us at Oxide, but for the moment I want to focus on more personal things — reasons that I personally have enjoyed implementing in Rust. These run the gamut: some are tiny but beautiful de…
Lees meerJuli Clover (also: Hacker News): A California judge today denied Epic Games’ request for a preliminary injunction that would have required Apple to allow Fortnite back into the App Store, which means the app will continue to remain unavailable on Ap…
Lees meerThomas Reed: Just learned that MacUpdate was purchased by the company that makes MacKeeper in July. 👀 Andrew Okhota: MacUpdate has announced its new ownership as part of Clario. There will be no change to MacUpdate as a platform and no change to Mac…
Lees meerJustin O’Beirne: On April 9th, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to a number of U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands[…] Justin O’Beirne (MacRumors): On October 1, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to Ireland and the U…
Lees meerTimothy B. Lee: The Supreme Court’s eight justices on Wednesday seemed skeptical of Google’s argument that application programming interfaces (APIs) are not protected by copyright law. The high court was hearing oral arguments in Google’s decade-lon…
Lees meerScott Chipolina (via Old Unix Geek, Hacker News): Apple is requesting that Telegram shut down three channels used in Belarus to expose the identities of individuals belonging to the Belarusian authoritarian regime that may be oppressing civilians. […
Lees meerAppleInsider: Apple CEO Tim Cook participated in an interview as part of The Atlantic Festival on Monday, where he discussed a range of topics from climate change to remote work and the company's antitrust troubles. Mark Gurman (Hacker News): Cook s…
Lees meerGoogle: YouTube Music is the new home for your music. Starting in September, we will close the Music store on Google Play. Starting in October, users will begin losing access to the Google Play Music app. To keep your Play Music library, including y…
Lees meerJason Snell: Hey developer friends, it has come to my attention that BitBar development has stopped. I love this app and maybe you do too? If anyone is interested in keeping it afloat (and getting it to work well with Big Sur), here’s a github threa…
Lees meerSean Hollister: But also, one app developer revealed to Congress that it — just like WordPress — had been forced to monetize a largely free app. That developer testified that Apple had demanded in-app purchases (IAP), even though Apple had approved …
Lees meerFrank Illenberger: After some sweat and tears we have found the reason for the installation failures in the Mac App Store: At some point in the last weeks, Apple has changed the format of the date values in its ASN.1 receipt files.They used to look …
Lees meerSam Curry (via Steve Troughton-Smith, Hacker News): Between the period of July 6th to October 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program. […] During our engag…
Lees meerNate Cook: I’m excited to announce Swift Algorithms, a new open-source package of sequence and collection algorithms, along with their related types.Algorithms are powerful tools for thought because they encapsulate difficult-to-read and error-prone…
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