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Sequoia No Longer Supports QuickLook Generator Plug-ins
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Howard Oakley: Prior to macOS 10.15 Catalina in 2019, the display of Thumbnails was supported by the QuickLook framework. From Catalina onwards, this is provided by a new framework named QuickLook Thumbnailing. The older framework is documented here, and had been deprecated for some years. Its replacement is documented here. To extend these, the older […]
How to Highlight Text Fragments When Linking
Paul Kafasis: In recent months, I’ve begun to notice that results from web searches often highlight specific text on the page to which they’re linking. The web page is also scrolled to the relevant content. It’s quite helpful! A quick investigation showed this is accomplished by appending a bit of code, #:~:text= to the URL […]
Exporting Kindle Highlights for Personal Documents
I’ve long used the Send to Kindle app to upload documents for reading on my Kindle Oasis. Unlike with books, I usually don’t care about saving notes and highlights for these, so I haven’t tried doing that in a while. However, I recently read a long document where I did make extensive highlights. Then I […]
Paddle’s Single-Click Apple Pay
Paddle writes: Previously, to initiate Apple Pay, customers were redirected to a secondary page due to Apple constraints with top-level domains. But now, Apple has updated their framework, allowing us to provide a seamless, single-click Apple Pay experience, where the native payment dialogue is triggered instantly upon checkout—no redirects, no extra clicks![…]To get started with […]
How to Use Cursor for iOS Development
Thomas Ricouard: Recently, there’s been much talk and fuss about AI, and whether or not it can improve your development workflow. I wanted to touch base about how AI and its implementation in Cursor have been significantly improving my speed and efficiency. In short, Cursor is a fork of VSCode with many code editing AI-assisted […]
Why Alexa Hasn’t Yet Become the Real Computer of the Future
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy: Fast-forward to today, and there are over 40 million Echo smart speakers in US households, with Alexa processing billions of commands a week globally. But despite this proliferation of products and popularity, the “superhuman assistant who is there when you need it, disappears when you don’t, and is always working in the […]
Playing Purchased Music on HomePod
Ruffin Bailey: I often buy from what at least used to be called the iTunes Music Store. The biggest advantage for me for doing so over, say, buying from Amazon or directly from the artist’s site (which I often do, or buy from Bandcamp if available), is that Apple Music will stream those songs for […]
Reddit Is Finally Profitable
Emma Roth (Slashdot): Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase year over year.[…]Reddit’s advertising revenue grew to $315.1 million, while “other” revenue reached […]