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iOS 16 Put Notifications on Notice
Recently announced iOS 16 will feature a new look Lock Screen. One of the striking features is how notifications are now far less prominent than they have been ever since their arrival in iPhone OS 3.0 back in 2009. The change is a signal that many users want to control what they see and when, […]
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It’s the (iPad) Software, Stuipid
As is often the case, Matt Birchler has written something that I agree wholeheartedly with in his post Just Buy a Mac: Even if Apple goes all the way and lets us resize windows and drag them anywhere we want on screen, I don’t think this suddenly turns the iPad into a Mac. After all, macOS, Windows, […]
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A Podcast Archive Utility
I have been an avid podcast listener since it first emerged in the mid-2000s, in the past few years everyone who is anyone it seems now has a podcast. What was once the domain of nerdy introverts is now decidedly mainstream. The beauty of podcasts is that like the web, they use (mostly) open standards. […]
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In Shock News, Regulators Regulate
Apple blogger John Gruber isn’t happy about recently agreed EU legislation. In a recent post entitled “E.U. Regulators Gonna Regulate” he wrote: This is bananas. All third party developers get control over the secure enclave and the software that controls it? Would be good to give them such control over the camera, microphone, and location […]
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The Software Slump
Riccardo Mori writing in an essay Raw power alone is not enough Without innovation in software, all we’re doing with these new powerful machines is essentially the same we were doing 20 years ago on PowerPC G4 and G5 computers, but faster and more conveniently. Granted, it is progress, especially in those fields involving CPU- […]
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Forget the Metaverse, Facebook Wants to Build a Monoverse
Sami Fathi writing for MacRumours: Yesterday, it was revealed that Meta, more commonly known as Facebook, plans to take a steep 47.5% commission for digital asset purchases made inside the so-called “metaverse.” This reminds me of how in the early 2000s Apple was able to make a deal with the record labels to sell all […]
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Has Time Been Kind to the Apple Watch?
What do BBC News, Instagram, Twitter, Slack, Pokémon GO, eBay and Uber have in common? They all had watchOS apps that have since been discontinued. This week Uber became the latest big name to switch off their Apple Watch app. There are still many useful apps from big and small developers in the watchOS App […]
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20 Years of the iPod
It’s been 10 years since I wrote about it being 10 years since the iPod. That means of course that it’s now been 20 years since Steve Jobs first graced our 1024×768 screens announcing the iPod. I won’t rehash what I wrote 10 years ago, instead I thought it would be interesting delve into what […]
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The Little Things: Teams vs. iMessage
Both Microsoft Teams and Apple’s iMessage offer the ability to ‘react’ or ‘tap back’ on a message – for those who don’t know, this allows you to mark a message with a quick emoji response instead of sending a full message back. I’m a heavy user of both apps: Teams while I’m working, and iMessage […]
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Developer Centric Design
The new version of Safari for iPad is a classic case of ‘developer centric design’. That is, designing a product that you as a developer would love to have, but not considering how a less technical user base might approach the app. Take the new sidebar – technically, it’s a marvel: I can access tab […]
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