Hartley Charlton: After 13 years, Snapchat has finally rolled out an update that brings native app support to the iPad. […] Until now, iPad users who wanted to use Snapchat had to run the iPhone version of the app, which was not optimized for the la…
Lees meerShamino: For those who are unaware, in macOS 11 (aka “Big Sur”), Apple changed all of the standard system sounds [names]. […] The interesting thing is that if you go to look for the actual sound files (in /System/Library/Sounds), you’ll find that th…
Lees meerRyan Smith (tweet, Hacker News): For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor, and has ended with the review of an AMD processor. It’s fittingly poetic, but it is also a testament …
Lees meerApple: Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including information systems and technology, information security, and real estate and develop…
Lees meerDan Moren: In a report at Bloomberg (paywalled, naturally), Mark Gurman says that the company has laid off about a hundred people, primarily in the team behind Apple Books and the Apple Bookstore.[…]Apple has managed to achieve itself a comfortable,…
Lees meerMichael Hansen: As many of you already know, David Goodwin founded AppleVis in July 2010. Since that first day, David has worked tirelessly, day in and day out, to develop and maintain the AppleVis website. While myself and the rest of the AppleVis …
Lees meerNathan Manceaux-Panot (Reddit, Hacker News): Rewrite Git history with a single drag-and-drop. Undo anything with ⌘Z. All speed, no bumps.[…]From small refinements to sweeping reworks, you do everything faster in Retcon. Edits take fewer steps, and d…
Lees meerCihat Gündüz (Reddit): FreemiumKit is the ultimate solution for Apple platform developers to integrate and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions effortlessly. With support for all Apple platforms, FreemiumKit provides a seamless and efficient wa…
Lees meerGreg Dell’Era (via Ric Ford): 35 years ago, Coda Music Technologies, now MakeMusic, released the first version of Finale, a groundbreaking and user-centered approach to notation software. For over four decades, our engineers and product teams have p…
Lees meerDan Vincent (via Hacker News): The Apple II and Commodore 64 with their 6502 and 6510 CPUs clocked at 1 MHz could trade blows with Z80 powered computers running at three times the clock speed. And the IIGS had the 6502’s 16-bit descendant: the 65C81…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen: Bungie has finally brought all of the “Marathon” trilogy of games to Steam, with “Marathon Infinity” now playable for free on modern Macs.[…]Classic Marathon Infinity is a free game on the Steam storefront, playable on both Mac and Win…
Lees meerToomas Vahter: This function works as a one shot function and the onChange closure is called only once. Note that it is called before the value has actually changed. If we want to get the changed value, we would need to read the value on the next ru…
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: If any view in the [active] window contains a Toggle – even one that’s disabled or hidden – then Continuity Camera (re. ImportFromDevicesCommands and importableFromServices) doesn’t work; all the submenu items under “Import from iPho…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Reddit): I took packet traces of the DNS queries with the firewall enabled and disabled. What I found is that the DNS query response packet consistently arrives in under 20 milliseconds after the query packet is sent, regardless of whe…
Lees meerPol Piella: As a developer for Apple platforms, you probably work on multiple projects with different coding styles and conventions and have to find yourself adjusting Xcode’s editor settings every time you switch between projects. This can be a ted…
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann: Adds a “Name without Extension” rule.[…]Holding the Option key with the search location popup menu open will now also show the System and Data members of bootable volumes. If you choose a “(Data)” volume as the search destination,…
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: I find my hand is often forced by APIs I don’t control (most often Apple’s APIs). e.g. data source or delegate callbacks that are synchronous and require you to return a value, but in order to obtain that value you have to run async …
Lees meerJacob Bartlett: Today, I’ll show you how to set up CI on your side projects. For free!Part I: FastlanePart II: App Store ConnectPart III: GitHub Actions […] Frustratingly, cloud-hosted MacOS runners on GitHub Actions cost 10x as much per minute as L…
Lees meerAdam Tow: I created my Apple Developer account many years ago, and I think I’m stuck in some kind of limbo state where my credit card information is stored in some forgotten part of Apple’s backend systems. […] Yet, even after updating the one card …
Lees meerZack Abrams (via Hacker News): Google has been served with a lawsuit from a Florida woman who claims she lost $5 million to a scam cryptocurrency app downloaded from the Google Play Store.Though Google received a complaint about the app from the Con…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli: In iOS 18.1 developer beta 2, Apple has updated how it organizes actions in the Shortcuts app to create a better experience for users, including a new ordering inside action and categories, as well as two new categories. This a l…
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