Becky Hansmeyer (tweet): Background used to be a good app. You can tell from its early reviews that its users genuinely enjoyed browsing and making use of its hand-curated selection of iPhone wallpapers. In fact, its reviews are generally positive u…
Lees meerLarry Anderson: Sad news: for those of you who might know him, former ADN user @ClarkGoble has died of a stroke. Clark left behind a wife and five children. There’s a GoFundMe to assist them. His obituary is here. I knew just a small slice of him th…
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced that Apple Arcade will be available on the App Store on Thursday, September 19 with iOS 13, offering an all-new way to enjoy games without limits. With a subscription to Apple Arcade for $4.99 per month, users get unlimi…
Lees meerMark Gurman: By naming this event “By innovation only,” Apple is really raising expectations for Tuesday, an event thus far expected to focus on iterative iPhone and Apple Watch updates. Internally, I’m told, attention has turned to more groundbreak…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple Watch Series 5 features an innovative new display that allows the time and important information to remain visible at all times. Each watch face has been carefully optimized for the new display and to preserve b…
Lees meerJosh Centers (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple has quietly launched the beta of a Web app for Apple Music, allowing Apple Music subscribers to access all their Apple Music content using a modern Web browser. Just about every feature you’d expect is th…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: And to top this all off — truly, this is genuinely hard to believe — these ⌘R and ⌘L shortcuts not only break 27-year-old Finder shortcuts, but they aren’t even consistent with Photos, which uses ⌘R for “Rotate Counterclockwise” and ⌥⌘R…
Lees meerTom Bridge: The spctl binary that is part of macOS’s command line interface, and has been for a very long time, are responsible for controlling what Gatekeeper looks at. These both write to a sqlite3 database stored at /var/db/SystemPolicy, and thin…
Lees meerA shape that’s more comfortable to hold. I don’t care whether it’s rounded like the original iPhone/3G/3GS or more square like the iPhone 4/5/5s/SE. But the iPhone 6 and later just don’t feel good in hand without a case. A more grippy texture. Again…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple recently adjusted its App Store search algorithm so that fewer of its own apps appear at the top of search results, senior executives Phil Schiller and Eddy Cue confirmed in an interview with The New York Times.[…] Mr. Schiller …
Lees meerMikey Campbell (MacRumors): Detailed in an application for a court order filed on Thursday, the DOJ seeks names, phone numbers, IP addresses and other personal data of iOS and Android users who downloaded the Obsidian 4 app, reports Forbes. The app,…
Lees meerJon Fingas: Twitter isn’t just launching a deluge of tests -- it just announced that a few sought-after features in the pipeline. Most notably, it’s developing a long-overdue search for direct messages. Although there aren’t many specifics at this p…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Last week, Google published a blog about vulnerabilities that Apple fixed for iOS users in February. “A blog,” rather than “a blog post”? I love how Apple is subtly trying to discredit Project Zero by implying that it’s a mere b…
Lees meerAnnie Lowrey (via Hacker News): If you take a vehicle loaned out by Zipcar—a rental service where drivers use RFID cards or a mobile app to open up the car—to an area without cell reception, there’s a chance the car will not work. The doors won’t op…
Lees meerMark Gurman and Debby Wu: The upcoming fingerprint reader would be embedded in the screen, letting a user scan their fingerprint on a large portion of the display, and it would work in tandem with the existing Face ID system, the people familiar wit…
Lees meerJason Fried: When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. Tobi Lütke: It’s totally crazy for google to get away with charging w…
Lees meerRich Mogull: On 29 August 2019, Google’s Project Zero security research team released the details of a major series of attacks against iOS using sophisticated, zero-day exploits on a scale unprecedented in the iOS world. (Wired has a less technical …
Lees meerChance Miller (via Yan Zhu): Google today has rolled out an update to the Gmail app for iOS that gives users the ability to further curtail email tracking. The latest update adds a new setting that allows users to block external images in emails fro…
Lees meerApple: As a reminder, Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run on macOS Catalina. To make this transition easier and to protect users on macOS Catalina who continue to use older versions of softwa…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: Here are my definitions: development (d): everything is in progress and the app might be completely unusable. alpha (a): the app is feature-complete and has no known bugs — but, importantly, it’s had very little testing. beta (b): the…
Lees meerWikipedia (via Hacker News): Tom Van Vleck, a Multics engineer, has also reminisced about the extension rc: “The idea of having the command processing shell be an ordinary slave program came from the Multics design, and a predecessor program on CTSS…
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