438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
iPhone 18 Pro Variable Camera Aperture Rumor
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Hartley Charlton (Ming-Chi Kuo): Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro models will feature an upgraded main rear camera with a variable aperture for the first time, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.[…]The iPhone 14 Pro, 15 Pro, and 16 Pro’s main cameras feature a fixed aperture of ƒ/1.78. A variable aperture on future iPhone models would allow […]
iOS 18: Health App Medications
Joe Rosensteel: It doesn’t list interactions for things that are not in the medication app, like vitamin supplements, antacids, NSAID painkillers, etc. All of which had very clear, urgent warnings in the prescription paperwork, but because they aren’t the two medications in the app there’s no warning. […] Despite being able to OCR the prescription […]
iOS 18: Screen Sharing With Remote Control
Federico Viticci: When you start observing another person’s screen in iOS 18, the system will tell you that you can now tap and draw on their screen. Taps are drawn as purple circles that disappear quickly – they’re subtle, but noticeable. […] With the ability to control another person’s device, you literally take over their […]
Hypertextual Writing and Social Media
John Gruber (Mastodon): It also brought to mind how social media has largely kneecapped true hypertextual writing by not enabling it. You can, of course, add links to web pages in social media posts on any of the various basically-the-same-concept-as-Twitter platforms like X, Threads, Bluesky, or Mastodon, but you do so by pasting raw URLs […]
Sequoia No Longer Supports QuickLook Generator Plug-ins
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 […]