Bare Bones Software (tweet): The “Pattern Playground” window provides an interactive interface for experimenting with the behavior of Grep patterns (regular expressions). This makes the process of creating complicated patterns much less trial-and-er…
Lees meerRyan Jones (9to5Mac): + All-new design + All-new weather data solution + 21 new features + 17 themes (4 dark modes) + Super Forecast + Travel Assist + 10-day forecasts + HD radar + Hyperlocal rain […] Initially we had Dark Sky, The Weather Channel, …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Microsoft started yesterday’s event by banging the drum that they never have and never will compromise on the quality of their laptop keyboards — a clear and completely fair competitive dig at Apple. That’s the message they should have …
Lees meermerlinme (via Jeff Johnson): I’m not sure if this is a bug or an API change, but we have an app which relies on distributed notifications which didn’t work on Catalina. After debugging I think the problem is that specifying a name: nil in addObserve…
Lees meerZack Whittaker (Hacker News): [DoorDash] said in a blog post Thursday that 4.9 million customers, delivery workers and merchants had their information stolen by hackers. […] The news comes almost exactly a year after DoorDash customers complained th…
Lees meerInstapaper: Today we’re launching Instapaper Save for Safari on Mac. You can download it now from the Mac App Store. As with MarsEdit, I’m turn between using the bookmarklet, because it’s simpler and can have a keyboard shortcut, and using the exten…
Lees meerCraig Grannell: Part of the blame lies with Apple, but it’s also an indication of modern society. When content becomes ephemeral rather than something you can hold, people have been trained to assume they should not have to pay for it. So we now exi…
Lees meerKieren McCarthy (Hacker News): Apple has banned an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state, claiming such information is illegal.“Your app contains content - or facilitates, enables, and en…
Lees meerLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (tweet): Ever since Project Zero was announced in 2014, these hackers have taken apart software used by millions of people—and predominantly written by other company’s engineers—with a mission to “make zero-day hard.”[……
Lees meerJustin O’Beirne: This is the fifth time that Apple has expanded its new map since its public launch in September 2018[…] In June 2019, Apple announced that its new map would cover “the entire U.S. by the end of 2019”[…] With this latest expansion, A…
Lees meerMatthew Panzarino: Deep Fusion is a technique that blends multiple exposures together at the pixel level to give users a higher level of detail than is possible using standard HDR imaging — especially in images with very complicated textures like sk…
Lees meerGreg Morris: Indeed Android is the more useful operating system, it makes it much easier to interact with notifications and find things you need instantly. […] I am always fascinated by Android handsets, a huge selling point for Android is that it i…
Lees meerKyle Howells: iOS 13 and the iPhone 11’s continue the trend of making phones bigger while making the UI even bigger, to get less information density than the small devices used to have. iOS 13 Photos app for example has gone 3 photos wide, instead o…
Lees meerMichael McNeela: Visual Voicemail on iPhone is …an IMAP email account behind the scenes, with each voicemail message being an email message with an attached audio file When someone leaves a message, your mobile network sends a silent SMS to iOS; so …
Lees meerOluseyi Sonaiya: Web applications have certain advantages, such as every user being updated to the latest version whenever you want, but also come with certain expectations such as user-created data being stored remotely and needing to be exported/d…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci (Hacker News): The new iOS 13 features have with no surprise been built with some Swift code in their corresponding application. This is the case of the FindMy, Reminders and Sidecar apps. Also worth noting is the use of Swift in t…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: One thing I and others have noticed is that when you type a dictionary word correctly — meaning you hit the exact right keys on the on-screen keyboard — iOS 13 autocorrect will replace it with a different dictionary word that makes no c…
Lees meerPatrick Wardle (via Leo M): Malware installs itself persistently, to ensure it’s automatically re-executed at reboot. BlockBlock continually monitors common persistence locations and displays an alert whenever a persistent component is added to the …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Even with Recovery Mode available, there have still been some reasons for wanting to enter SUM. One of them has been to run command tools to check memory for faults, as in SUM the system takes as little memory as possible, allowing yo…
Lees meerDavid Barnard (tweet): Paying once for an app really only makes sense if the app provides minimal functionality of limited value and won’t benefit from continued improvement. […] With paid apps, people often end up buying several apps just to figure…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Twitter today rolled out its new “Hide Replies” feature in the U.S. and Japan, providing Twitter users with more control over the replies that are visible following a tweet.The idea behind the feature is to give people more control ove…
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