Tag: apple

  • Apple defends App Store's 30% cut ahead of Tim Cook testimony

    CNBC: For Cook, the questioning is expected to center around Apple’s App Store, which is the only way to install consumer software on an iPhone. For years, developers have alleged Apple engages in anti-competitive behavior, with complaints centering around Apple’s 30% cut of digital goods, and business practices such as requiring developers to use Apple’s…

  • Apple files for patent for coordinated control of media playback

    Apple World Today: Here’s the summary of the patent: “Methods and systems provide for coordinated control between multiple devices of playback of a media track or playlist. The multiple devices may form an ad-hoc network for sharing control of media. A control device may coordinate control of the playlist and facilitate playback of the media…

  • Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle iPhone photos

    The Verge: Bryner is among the many high school students around the country who completed Advanced Placement tests online last week but were unable to submit them at the end. The culprit: image formats. A screenshot of the AP testing portal informing a student that they weren’t able to submit their responses. Screenshot: College Board…

  • Becky Hansmeyer's WWDC 2020 Wishlist

    Daring Fireball: Fiddling with the home screen on iOS is just awful. Whenever I sit down and try to clean it up — deleting apps I don’t use, moving apps into some semblance of order — it drives me insane. The 1984 Finder was awesome for rearranging icons, right on day one. Yet we’re 13 years into iOS and…

  • Search in Messages.app

    Michael Tsai: It doesn’t work very well in iOS 13, either. Many times, I’ll type the exact text that appears in the app, and it won’t find it. So I mostly just scroll and read. A long time ago, I reverse-engineered the transcript file format for EagleFiler, so that’s how I search older messages. Unlike…

  • Throttling Due to Thunderbolt Left Proximity Sensor

    Michael Tsai. State C shows that simply having stuff plugged in to TB ports raises their temperature significantly. Both the hub (mouse and keyboard ONLY) and HDMI adapter individually raise the temperature about 10 degrees, and 15 degrees together. Note that high temperature on the right side appears to be ignored by the OS. Plugging…

  • AirPods Pro Thoughts

    Michael Tsai: Overall, I find it difficult to evaluate AirPods Pro because I have such mixed feelings about them. If I had to pick one model, I would buy the Pros because the seal and noise cancellation make them usable in situations where I couldn’t use the regular AirPods. That said, in situations where I…

  • Keyboard shortcut app

    I wrote earlier about an iCloud Keychain App. Then I saw a post about setting up keyboard shortcuts. This is in the similar situation as keychain. Managing shortcuts is simple enough for short replacements. However, if you want to expand larger chunks of text, then it becomes tricky managing these shortcuts. Typinator is to Keyboard…

  • There Should Be an iCloud Keychain App

    Michael Tsai: Bradley Chambers: The problem with managing passwords on iOS and macOS at the moment is the functions are scattered around. Some of the syncing happens on in the backend with no way to quickly see (especially on iOS). A prime example of this is the syncing of Wi-Fi passwords. It’s easy to remove…

  • How to Restart the Touch Bar

    Michael Tsai: The Terminal commands are: sudo pkill TouchBarServersudo killall ControlStrip Useful commands. I killed TouchBarServer and ControlStrip via Activity Monitor. I had issues when I first used my MacBook Pro. Three times in the past five months, though they seem to have disappeared after a recent macOS update.