For a few weeks now, I've been using VidHub as a video player on my iPad and MacBook.
I was actually looking for an alternative to Infuse; I thought its yearly subscription was unnecessarily expensive. While browsing, I came across this app:
I saw this article on Hacker News, and I've never felt more seen in my entire life. I gave away my iPad this year and I forgot until I saw this article - I always end up using my MacBook or my Thinkpad to get stuff done as the iPad is just utterly restricted at the software layer.
Let's see how this ages: The first Apple device that bridges the artificial gap between iPadOS and macOS will be called "iPad Studio" and use a hybrid operating system that behaves lika tablet and runs mainly iPadOS apps when no keyboard with trackpad is present and runs macOS apps when a keyboard with trackpad is attached.
My M1 iPad Pro is only three years old so I won’t be updating this year but as someone who has chosen the iPad as a primary computer of course I’m interested in where the hardware and OS are going. I post often that I think most Apple pundits are wrong on the iPad most of the time because they want it to be a Mac. It’s not and I hope it never is. In today’s issue of his newsletter Mark Gurman’s, Apple Should Turn iPad Into Laptop ...
Now that Apple is forced to open their mobile operating systems for third party devs in an unprecedented manner, can we work on an indie foss podcatcher that does not suck?
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The EU declares Apple's iPadOS as a 'gatekeeper' due to its vast app ecosystem, locking in businesses like yours or users like you.
The European Union's designation of Apple's iPadOS as a "gatekeeper" signals a significant win for small businesses and startup owners in fostering a fair digital marketplace.
This move further underscores the EU's commitment to regulating tech giants such as Apple and gives smaller businesses the opportunity to thrive and innovate.
Apple must now comply with the DMA within 6 months. Our CEO, @jon, welcomes this, noting that iPads and iPhones share the same ecosystem and that Apple controls both as the gatekeeper.
The Commission said both business and end users are “locked-in” to #Apple’s #iPadOS ecosystem due to its size and user base, which it said the company leverages to disincentivize users from switching to competitors, giving Apple six months to ensure full compliance. #DMA
SwiftUI question: I have a NavigationSplitView that shows, depending on device and orientation, as split view or as a stack view. How can I see which mode it is in?
It is not columnVisibility as that only determines how it is displayed in split view mode, not split vs. stack.
iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years
Imagine making a sophisticated piece of hardware, and yet the news that keeps popping up is how that hardware is missing calculator functions. So much so, that when you do decide to finally make a calculator app for your hardware, it's apparently news.
Can't tell whether this is hilarious or depressing.
Ich liebe FreeForm auf dem iPad. Mich stört einzig, dass man nicht automatisiert per Shortcut ein neues Blatt anlegen UND ihm auch einen Namen geben kann. Aktuell lege ich mir manuell für jeden Tag ein Blatt an und skribbele den ganzen Tag darauf rum - Notizen, Ideen, kleine Zeichnungen zur Ablenkung in langweiligen Meetings, etc. pp. Abends erfolgt dann ein kleines Review, die Todo-App wird gefüllt und relevante Notizen übertragen.
Wyświetlanie pojemności baterii i cykli ładowania ma się pojawić w iPadOS. Problem w tym, że ma być zarezerwowane dla nowszych modeli iPada. Ciężko w to uwierzyć, bo nie wierzę, że starsze modele są na to za słabe…
PSA: if you’re using an external keyboard with iOS or iPadOS, and it does not have an Escape key, remember that Command-. does the trick most of the time.
Update: if that is not enough for you, @nebucatnetzer
reminds us in the comments that you can always map Escape to, say, Caps Lock in Keyboard Settings. #PSA#iOS#iPadOS#EscapeKey
I’m looking for alternatives to #emacs#orgmode for #iPadOS . I used to ssh’d to a remote machine with Emacs, but it isn’t that good even with Mosh. Suggestions? Halp! 🆘
At the end of the day, I want to use the org-roam note-taking plugin. I know about #Logseq but I wonder if there’s something else to look for 👀
I hope this is the year #Apple realizes the #iPad Pro line is a mature enough product to finally drop #iPadOS in favor of #macOS with robust touch input support. Sure, #Finder might need to be modified to adapt to a touch first device. The issue here is, #iOS on which iPadOS is based is significantly holding back the devices full potential and it seems intentional at this point.
This is more of a security question, but I currently know way more people on ruby.social than infosec.exchange. I want to use a #Yubikey for #SMIME or #GPG signing on #iOS & #iPadOS, but can't find:
Any documentation about how to integrate it with Apple Mail.
Anyplace that offers #x509 certificates for S/MIME at zero or minimal cost the way @letsencrypt offers free #SSL certs.
Self-signed S/MIME certs are a non-starter, and there are no full-featured #OpenPGP apps on iOS. Suggestions?