Launching an app for the first time used be simple. Now we have the SSV, launch constraints and app translocation to contend with. | Continue reading
If you want to travel on 22nd May 2024 from Paris to Berlin (Germany), Verviers (Belgium) or Luzern (Switzerland), the app and website for SNCF ticketing, SNCF Connect, will show you prices and sell you a ticket. Try the same on 24th May 2024 and it will not. Here are […] The pos … | Continue reading
AI counter app from my PyCon US keynote In my keynote at PyCon US this morning I ran a counter at the top of my screen that automatically incremented every time I said the words "AI" or "artificial intelligence", using vosk, pyaudio and Tkinter. I wrote it in a few minutes with t … | Continue reading
The world’s leading online eyewear retailer has launched a range of blue light glasses with gamers and the screen-obsessed in… Continue reading Zenni Optical launches stylish colorful blue light protection for gamers with Blokz+ Tints range The post Zenni Optical launches stylish … | Continue reading
Two examples of people who appear to be in the wrong job. A pub landlord who offers discounts to customers who order by app from their tables, thus discouraging the horrific prospect of bar staff actually having to engage with punters: I’ve found that not having to be constantly … | Continue reading
Some apps have odd problems when they're run in translocation. Here's how to tell whether they are, and what to do about it. | Continue reading
AI offers a chance to do a lot of things much better – parental internet control is a great example. The Angel AI app introduces kids to the web in a way that's tailored to their age and interests, with no ads, inappropriate content or privacy risks. Continue Reading Category: Ch … | Continue reading
"Don’t walk, run and get the Flashfood app." Woman shares how she saves big at grocery store without food stamps: 'This is great to know' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
App comes out in June, but you'll need a PC or dock licensed to use it. | Continue reading
Sure, Google I/O was one massive AI-palooza focused mostly on Gemini. But for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there are a few more AI-enhanced vision features coming to some accessibility features coming to the Look to Speak app that will let users talk by staring at pictures … | Continue reading
If there’s one thing that annoys gamers it’s AI. Hang on. Sorry. If there’s one thing that annoys gamers it’s… Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Shadows is going to require an online connection to play. This is going to go down well The post Assassin’s Creed Shadows is going to r … | Continue reading
Huge news for retrogaming fans today who can now pretty much carry their collections around in their own pockets. Long-standing… Continue reading Times they are a changing as RetroArch and PSP emulators arrive on Apple App Store The post Times they are a changing as RetroArch and … | Continue reading
Swift source code to accompany article about implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS. | Continue reading
Implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS. Fun and games with menus, and what are the differences between FileDocument and ReferenceFileDocument protocols? | Continue reading
[...] by default Heroku will spin up multiple dynos in different availability zones. It also has multiple routers in different zones so if one zone should go completely offline, having a second dyno will mean that your app can still serve traffic. — Richard Schneeman | Continue reading
Source: Ubisoft. Today, Ubisoft announced that the next major release in the Assasin’s Creed franchise, Shadows, will be released on November 15th on its Ubisoft+ service, PlayStation 5, Xbox X|S, Amazon Luna, and Apple silicon Macs via the Mac App Store. According to Ubisoft: As … | Continue reading
Apple two weeks ago: What’s New for Apps Distributed in the European Union First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to revenue of any kind (physical, digital, advertising, or oth … | Continue reading
Robinhood Crypto, the cryptocurrency arm of the popular trading app Robinhood, has announced the launch of a new Solana (SOL)… Continue reading Robinhood introduces Solana staking and rewards in Europe The post Robinhood introduces Solana staking and rewards in Europe appeared fi … | Continue reading
Today we're excited to announce a major overhaul to the Tailscale Android app that greatly improves the user experience and brings some of Tailscale's most widely used and requested features to the platform. | Continue reading
This is from a lovely blog post by David Smith: This last year has been a complicated one as an indie app developer. I’ve been in this community for long enough to know that there are always ebbs and flows in sentiment, and this year has lots of reasons to be feeling the ebb side … | Continue reading
Moodset is an app that allows you to track, explore, and understand your mood through music. In this interview with founder Oleksandr Zhabin, we talked about the limitations with most mood tracking apps, the relationship between mood and music, implementing a useful in-app model … | Continue reading
China's Dangbei was one of the first smart projector makers to run Google TV, with the launch of the book-sized Atom in August 2023. Now the company is repeating the formula for the first Google TV 4K laser projector licensed for Netflix. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertain … | Continue reading
Drafts is a fantastic app, so well-designed, so capable, so powerful. For my money it’s the best “bucket” app, ideal for holding onto chunks of text. But I have a problem: I put things into Drafts and then forget about them. Yes, I tag them, but that doesn’t help. They just disap … | Continue reading
An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India’s ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny. | Continue reading
With many plans for improving the Datawrapper app and adding features and visualization types that... | Continue reading
In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’ Appearing in cartoons and magazines, it felt like a matter of time before people could ride a jetpack to work. But jetpacks never became a mainstream technology, leaving many to wonde … | Continue reading
You know those times WordPress is all, “Hey, we’re running out of memory here… think you can increase it?” Here, maybe a screenshot will help. It’s an age-old problem with an age-old solution: update the upload_max_size deal-eo to some bigger value, say 128mb or whatever you need … | Continue reading
Dropbox, the world’s leading file hosting service based in the USA, has acquired the ebook reading app Readmill. This iOS and Android app will now shut down following the acquisition. The Berlin-based social and shareable reading platform – Readmill – confirmed the acquisition on … | Continue reading
I recently finished an experimental migration of the Biff starter app to use XTDB v2 instead of XTDB v1. (For those unfamiliar with XTDB, see XTDB compared to other databases.) I've pushed it to an xtdb2 branch where it will remain until v2 hits general availability. If you'd lik … | Continue reading
“There is a world where your AI dating concierge could go and date for you," according to Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of dating app Bumble. | Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox 126 is now available download, and in-app updates beginning to roll out to existing users on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. As Firefox updates go the 126 release is rather light on user-facing goodies, especially versus last month’s release which intro’d clip … | Continue reading
Gavin continues work on the old C++ app he inherited. Today we get a delightful smattering of bad choices. HRESULT CExAPI::GetPageCacheForFolder( IN CEntryID *p_cio_Folder, OUT CPageCache **pp_PC ) { CEntryID *p_cio_Local = new CEntryID( this, p_cio_Folder ); switch ( p_cio_F … | Continue reading
Gatekeeper may decide to run a new app from a random location, in translocation. The rules for this are explained, and how to ensure that doesn't affect your apps. | Continue reading
The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow thi … | Continue reading
Last month, AltStore was finally made available on iOS for everyone living in the European Union. Not only does the first alternative app marketplace on iOS ship with the great Delta videogame emulator, but it also lets you install Clip, a clipboard manager unlike any other on th … | Continue reading
I’d long assumed that the only way to enter accented characters on a Mac keyboard was remembering the arcane series of key combinations required for each one. How many times have I typed Malm and then “Option + U, O” to get the ö to make Malmö? It turns out that, in the modern er … | Continue reading
Calling all crossword fans! Black Ink, the beloved Mac app for solving crosswords from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and more, is now available for iOS. Download it from the App Store and enjoy nearly-endless crossword-solving fun on your iPhone, iPad, … | Continue reading
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($14.99 value each) for MacUpdater. I run MacUpdater every day to keep all of my software up to date. It keeps track of every update released for hundreds of Mac Apps, including Mac App Store apps. You can ignore individual upda … | Continue reading
Fabel Friet, a small french fry shop on Runstraat in Amsterdam, has been forced to have limits placed on its queues outside after going viral on the popular social media app... | Continue reading
A few years back I got so bored of taking attendance for my choir that I wrote a Slack integration to do it for me (I got us on Slack in 2014). That evolved from a dodgy Python app triggered by slash commands into into a neat little Typescript suite called Choirbot that triggers … | Continue reading
This is an interesting security feature, intentional or otherwise! A financial account I hold has a phone app that—among other things—generates login codes for the desktop web portal. You log into the mobile app, generate the one-time code, then use this to log into the desktop. … | Continue reading
So if you ever edit the name of your ROM files you might run into some problems in your Miyoo Mini's Activity Tracker App, here's how I fixed it! | Continue reading
More than a decade since its launch, App Inventor recently hosted its 100 millionth project and registered its 20 millionth user. Now hosted by MIT, the app also supports experimenting with AI. | Continue reading
This will be my third ColdFusion post in the past year. I'm not saying I'm going to continue the trend, but as I find interesting use cases, I'm going to share. Today, that involves the tag that I recently had a chance to play with. About two weeks ago, an old client of mine rea … | Continue reading
Experience your favourite articles as podcasts. Simply email Listen Later a link, a PDF, or a newsletter, and our A.I. — featuring remarkably human-like narration — will transform it into a podcast episode. Delivered straight to your preferred podcast app. Start listening for fre … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced this week that they plan on launching their own mobile game app store to compete with Apple and… Continue reading Microsoft readies launch of its own mobile app store The post Microsoft readies launch of its own mobile app store appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Tim Y. is on Fire with this burn. "Competing teams inside Google? Or just the AI recognizing marketing tactics?" Not to be outdone, the other big search conglomerate comes in for some anonymous criticism from a poster who says their name is "irrelevant". "I was suspecting for som … | Continue reading
I’m really enjoying Dolby Atmos, “spatial audio”, or “surround sound” as we used to call it. There is so much music in this format on streaming platforms, both new albums and classic albums. I wanted to listen to Björk’s first four albums in “spatial audio”, but they don’t curren … | Continue reading