iOS 13.6
Juli Clover: iOS 13.6 also brings support for Car Key, a feature available in both iOS 13 and iOS 14. Car Key is designed to allow an iPhone or an Apple Watch to be used in lieu of a physical key to...
View ArticleTwo Weeks With iPadOS 14
Federico Viticci: A trait of iPadOS 14 that immediately stands out is how this year’s changes to the iPad experience do not come in the form of shiny new pro apps or reimagined multitasking. Apple...
View ArticleHow macOS 11 Will Sound
Chance Miller: In addition to the visual redesign, however, macOS Big Sur completely overhauls the sound effects. A pair of new videos on YouTube from channel Pomamitia offer a detailed walkthrough of...
View ArticleWindows 10X As a Web-first OS
Zac Bowden (tweet): VAIL, the technology Microsoft uses to virtualize legacy Win32 programs on Windows 10X via containers, has been removed from the latest internal builds of the OS. I’m told that this...
View ArticleReturn and Enter Are Two Different Keys
John Gruber (tweet): If your keyboard doesn’t have a dedicated Enter key, you can type the Enter key by pressing Fn-Return. That’s why some Return keys have “Enter” printed in small type above the word...
View ArticleBig Sur Is Both 10.16 and 11.0
Howard Oakley (Hacker News): For apps built with Xcode, the version returned depends on which version of its SDK they were built with. SDK 10.15 and earlier will consistently respond that Big Sur is...
View ArticleLocal iOS Backups Without a Mac
Kickstarter (via 9to5Mac): AnyBackup is capable of reading, backing up, transferring, and restoring your documents, contacts, photos, videos, and data from all the popular social media channels....
View ArticleA First Replicating Type
Drew McCormack: You may be wondering why the Entry type includes a UUID identifier. It already has a timestamp, which is an identity of a sort. Isn’t that timestamp unique enough? Maybe, but you will...
View ArticleApple Security Research Device Program
Apple (via Hacker News): The Security Research Device (SRD) is intended for use in a controlled setting for security research only. Shell access is available, and you’ll be able to run any tools and...
View ArticleAnother Apple-Funded App Store Study
Juli Clover (Slashdot, Hacker News): As Apple CEO Tim Cook gears up to testify in an App Store antitrust hearing before the House Judiciary Committee next week, Apple has commissioned a study from...
View ArticlePolymorphic Interfaces
Swift by Sundell (tweet, Reddit): Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall...
View ArticleProgramming Job Interviews
Chris Parnin and Matt Shipman (via Hacker News, 2, 3): A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software...
View Article“No-Logging” VPN Providers
Craig Silverman (tweet, also: Nick Heer): Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed...
View ArticleE-Verify’s “SSN Lock” Is Nothing of the Sort
Brian Krebs: One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at...
View ArticleUSB-C Is Still a Mess
Robert Triggs (via Hacker News): Moving phones between different chargers, even of the same current and voltage ratings, often won’t produce the same charging speeds. Furthermore, picking a third party...
View ArticleLogitech Folio Touch Keyboard Case
Juli Clover: Logitech today announced the launch of the Logitech Folio Touch, a new keyboard case with trackpad designed for the 11-inch iPad Pro models released in 2018 and 2020. It’s $160 vs....
View ArticleHopper for Apple Silicon and Big Sur
Vincent Bénony: Today, I’m happy to announce that Hopper will fully support macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon CPU! macOS Big Sur changes a lot of things under the hood. For instance, there is a new way...
View Article64-bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners
Dave Kitabjian: Fujitsu announced it wouldn’t support Catalina well over a year ago, and many ScanSnap owners have already gone through the Five Stages of Grief and resolved to buy either a new scanner...
View ArticleSteve Wozniak Sues YouTube Over Bitcoin Scams
Monica Chin: According to the lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, crooks have been posting videos on the platform claiming that Wozniak is hosting a bitcoin promotion....
View ArticleNew EU Regulations for App Stores
Seth Barton: The rules, which you can see here in full if you’re happy to fight through them, or as discussed here by the EGDF’s Jari-Pekka Kaleva on GI.Biz, cover a wide range of ongoing issues that...
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