Aaron Trickey: Foundation’s date-handling code has an effective lower bound around January 1, 4713 BC on the Julian calendar. You can create a Date value representing an instant in time below that limit, but many Calendar methods will return unexpec…
Lees meerBryan Chaffin: He rose to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force, and he was a NASA scientist. He worked for years at Apple, and most importantly to me, he was a columnist and the voice of reason and humanity at The Mac Observer. He wrote SciFi a…
Lees meerdigidude23: Is Apple creating updates for 3rd party apps now? This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. iSan4eZ: Apple inserted this text into my app and issued an update with the same version. …
Lees meerThis weekend, I helped my non-techie father migrate to a new iPhone 17e and MacBook Air: Device Transfer initially couldn’t find the old iPhone SE. It turns out that years ago he’d read some article that said Bluetooth was unsafe and so he’d turned …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Pogue interviewed Scott Forstall and got this story, about just how far Steve Jobs thought Apple could go to expand the iPhone’s software library while not opening it to third-party developers: “I want you to make a list of every app an…
Lees meerAdam Codega: Apple does not inspect or analyze the contents of what you paste. Even harmless text like "hello world" will trigger the warning under the right conditions. Instead, Terminal checks where the clipboard content came from. It does this by…
Lees meerMarco Arment (Mastodon): I urge you, on behalf of everyone who loves computers as much as we do, to protect and cultivate this spirit of Apple’s founders as the company’s top priority: We love computers. We don’t hide that — we celebrate it! We use …
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): There are countless small, practical, mostly uncontroversial ways in which Apple could improve the App Store for developers, yet the App Store has changed relatively little in the 18 years since it was hastily cloned from th…
Lees meerJason Snell: Last December I complained that Apple was withholding iOS 18 security updates from iPhones capable of running iOS 26, leaving users who didn’t want to upgrade to Apple’s latest OS version yet in some security peril. […] The good news: A…
Lees meerMacRumors (9to5Mac): In a new support document, Apple said new purchases, in-app purchases, and subscription renewals are no longer available in Russia unless a user already has funds in their Apple Account balance, which can continue to be used. [……
Lees meerEric Seckler (MacRumors): Today, we are proud to celebrate a major milestone: Android is now the fastest mobile platform for web browsing. Through deep vertical integration across hardware, the Android OS, and the Chrome engine, the latest flagship …
Lees meerLukas Kubanek: Looks like Apple broke CloudKit sync in OS 26.4. Remote notifications don’t seem to arrive, so no updates unless the app is relaunched. Sean Heber: There are so many annoying limits and throttles when dealing with iCloud/CloudKit. Now…
Lees meerWWDC 2023: Discover how CKSyncEngine can help you sync people’s CloudKit data to iCloud. Learn how you can reduce the amount of code in your app when you let the system handle scheduling for your sync operations. We’ll share how you can automaticall…
Lees meerAshish Kurmi (Hacker News): axios is the most popular JavaScript HTTP client library with over 100 million weekly downloads. On March 30, 2026, StepSecurity identified two malicious versions of the widely used axios HTTP client library published to …
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht (Reddit, Mac Power Users): The team of Leitmotif is pleased to announce that, as of March 25, 2026, Parachute Backup is part of Leitmotif GmbH. Offloader and Outpost Launcher remain with Eric Mann. Parachute Backup 1.5.0 is the firs…
Lees meerTim Cook: Mac just had its best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers. We love seeing the enthusiasm! Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Apple also released MacBook Air models with the M5 chip and MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips la…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Hacker News): But just using the Neo, without any consideration that it’s memory limited, I haven’t noticed a single hitch. I’m not quitting apps I otherwise wouldn’t quit, or closing Safari tabs I wouldn’t otherwise close. I’m just wor…
Lees meerChance Miller (Hacker News, Mac Power Users): Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware. […] The Mac Pro has lived many lives over the years. Apple released the current Mac Pro industrial design in 201…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Allen Gainsford first reported the issue, noting that many of his BBEdit AppleScripts no longer worked after upgrading to macOS 26.4. Attempting to run them produced macOS error code -1758 (errOSADataFormatObsolete)[…] Further investigat…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (Hacker News): Apple is “exploring” the idea of showing search ads in the Apple Maps app, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. […] Ads in the Apple Maps app would not be the traditional banner ads that you see on websites, but rather …
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Apple today announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that unifies device management, productivity tools, and customer outreach features. The service is designed to be a consolidated replacement for several of Apple's exi…
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