Litchie (Hacker News): Appeal was rejected by App Review Board: “We understand that you might disagree with our findings. However, the app still provides emulator functionality but is not emulating a retro game console specifically. Only emulators o…
Lees meerJay Peters (Hacker News): Password managers are essential. They keep track of your passwords, encourage better security practices, and generally help to manage your life across your devices. They’re the kind of feature that really should be built in…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen: Apple has refreshed the System Settings app of macOS Sequoia, with tweaks to how it looks and performs.[…]The biggest difference for System Settings is that Apple has shuffled around the positioning of items in the sidebar. This does m…
Lees meerMarco Arment (Mastodon): Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond.[…]Much faster, more responsive…
Lees meerJohn Wilander (2021): A new, on-by-default feature called Private Click Measurement, or PCM, for privacy-preserving measurement of ad clicks across websites and from iOS apps to websites in iOS and iPadOS 14.5 betas. This didn’t attract a lot of att…
Lees meerJohn Wilander et al. (Mastodon): These are the protections and defenses added to Private Browsing in Safari 17.0: Link Tracking Protection Blocking network loads of known trackers, including CNAME-cloaked known trackers Advanced Fingerprinting Prote…
Lees meerApple: Safari, the world’s fastest browser, now offers Highlights, an even easier way to discover information on the web, such as directions, summaries, or quick links to learn more about people, music, movies, and TV shows. A redesigned Reader incl…
Lees meerJesse Squires: The first is waitForNonExistence(withTimeout:), which provides the inverse of the existing waitForExistence(timeout:) API. Finally! This is such a welcome change. Often in UI testing it is more semantic to wait for an element to disap…
Lees meerStuart Montgomery (September 2023): I’m excited to announce a new open source project exploring improvements to the testing experience for Swift. John McCall: I’m pleased to announce that the Swift project has accepted a vision document for A New Di…
Lees meerApple: Discover the latest productivity and performance improvements in Xcode 16. Learn about enhancements to code completion, diagnostics, and Xcode Previews. Find out more about updates in builds and explore improvements in debugging and Instrumen…
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher: Overall, the global PC market grew by 3.4% year on year in Q2 2024, for a total of 62.8 million shipped. Of those, laptops represented 50 million, which by itself is a 4% rise YoY. Global desktop computer shipments rose by 1% to r…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released the first beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia update to its public beta testing group, giving the general public a chance to try out the new operating system's features ahead of its fall launch. The first public beta …
Lees meerM.G. Siegler: I found myself thinking about the AirPods… Specifically, how truly great the volume swiping mechanism is on the AirPods Pro. This must be my most-used gesture in life beyond perhaps swiping up to unlock my phone. I have AirPods in my e…
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: Almost nobody intentionally uses NSCopyObject, but your superclass might, and therefore you might.[…]Someguides specify a better method, which is to manually zero out the copied object’s ivars and then repopulate them via formal prop…
Lees meerSimon Willison (Hacker News): It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the *.google.com domains - tweeted about today by Luca Casonato, but the code has been there…
Lees meerWes Davis (Hacker News): Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected it and barred it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the European Union. The app i…
Lees meerPhilippe (via Hacker News): I’m going to start with an important statement: this is primarily only a change in location for where the data dump is accessed. Moving forward, we’ll be providing the data dump from a section of the site user profile on …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today announced that the existing HomePod mini is now available in a Midnight color option, which replaces the nearly-identical Space Gray color previously offered. […] Apple first released the HomePod mini in November 2020, and…
Lees meerDouglas Hill: This crash happens because, behind the scenes, the Swift compiler synthesises overrides of a superclass’s designated initialisers. These overridden initialisers crash to prevent objects from being incorrectly initialised from Objective…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The third developer beta of macOS 15 Sequoia finally brings support for Apple ID in macOS virtual machines (VM). As this is likely to form the first public beta-release next week, here’s a short guide to how to install a Sequoia VM, a…
Lees meerArin Waichulis: The privacy implications of Notification Center popups are well-known in the security forensics community. Whether a user likes it or not, macOS temporarily keeps a log of every notification received in a single plaintext database. T…
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