If you want to pixel-peep on iOS or iPadOS, it also has the Zoom
accessibility setting, and can be controlled via touch, keyboard,
or trackpad. It works for display mirroring too, and has other
options like a minimap and HUD (‘Zoom Controller’).
These settings are in Settings → Accessibility → Zoom. I prefer switching the Zoom Region from the default Window Zoom (which gives you large magnifier glass window to drag around the screen) to Full Screen Zoom, which is more like how zooming works on the Mac.
On iPadOS, you should go into the Keyboard Shortcuts panel (inside Accessibility → Zoom) and turn on Zoom with Scroll Wheel. This lets you zoom Mac-style, using the Control key, when you have a keyboard and trackpad/mouse connected.
Molly White, at Web3 Is Going Just Great:
After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made
it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers
lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it
was a genuine Ledger product, peopl...
Tim Hardwick, last week at MacRumors:
Apple’s first foldable iPhone may not carry the speculative
media-derived “Fold” branding after all, according to Chinese
leaker Digital Chat Station. In a new post on Weibo, the
oft-accurate leaker claimed that Apple’s book-style fo...
Kristin Tips, the longtime presiding officer of the embattled
Texas Funeral Service Commission, is no longer on the board.
“Governor Abbott appreciates Kristin Tips’ service,” Andrew
Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary, said in an email Tuesday. “An
announcement on a replacement will be made at a later date.” [...]
Tips, who has run San Antonio’s prestigious Mission Park Funeral
Chapels, Cemeteries & Crematories with her husband, Dick Tips, was
appointed to the board by the governor in 2017 and made the
presiding officer in May 2024. Tips did not respond to a request
for comment.
I don’t have any questions for her, but I have at least one for her husband.
Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac:
On the iPhone and iPad, Apple made the new Creator Studio features
available as updates to the existing App Store releases.
On the Mac though, the rollout was a lot more confusing.
Apple kept the old iWork apps for Mac available on the App Sto...
Google, on their Search Central Blog:
Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a
deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking”, which will
become an explicit violation of the “malicious practices” of
spam policies, leading to potential spam actions.
Wh...
Amazon:
Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they
have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon
will acquire Globalstar, enabling Amazon Leo to add
direct-to-device (D2D) services to its low Earth orbit satellite
network and ext...
Speaking of John Calhoun, he chimed in on a Hacker News thread last month regarding his experience working with Steve Lemay at Apple:
I think Steve Lemay is a good guy. I kind of fought with him when
I was an engineer, he was a young, new designer (at Apple). But I
alway...
Richard Moss, back in 2010:
John Calhoun’s Glider games hold a special place in the history of
Mac gaming, acting almost as an icon of the platform through much
of the 1990s. They spawned a hugely dedicated fan base, which
produced a ridiculous amount of original content...
John Calhoun, on Bluesky (and also a new blog):
I re-made Glider some years back for MacOS/iOS. It broke at some
point (perhaps an Apple change for Retina displays?) so I pulled
it from the App Store.
(Claude looked at the code — found some minor coordinate issues.
Than...
The Playlist:
The first pitch, he said, goes back to 2008, and it was already
pretty radical by Bond standards. “I had pitched in 2008 the
idea to Barbara Broccoli of a parallel franchise,” Soderbergh
said. “Set in the ’60s, R-rated, violent, sexy. Fictional
backstory to...
Federico Viticci:
Today, I’m very happy to introduce Apple Frames 4, a major update
to my shortcut for framing screenshots taken on Apple devices with
official Apple product bezels. Apple Frames 4 is a complete
rethinking of the shortcut that is noticeably faster, update...
Welp, turns out I wrote an entire post about the Control-scroll zoom-in-and-out feature all the way back in 2006, when it was a new feature in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Somehow, between 2006 and last year, I completely forgot about it. I don’t think it helps that the settings moved from the Mouse panel to the Zoom sub-section inside Accessibility. But I’ve used it so much in the last year, since rediscovering it, that I can’t believe I ever forgot it. Anyway, after I posted about it earlier today, a few people told me they could swear they learned about it here, long ago. They were right!
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We’re at Mac OS 26.4 and seems like the accessibility toggles
should be way more considered than they are.
Here’s a comparison between “Reduce transparency” off and on. How
does it make sense that turning this setting on actually
reduces contrast between the background and the UI elements?
Buttons and sidebars get this grey cast, which makes them almost
blend in with the drop shadows.
Tahoe looks like Huawei’s rushed rip-off of what Tahoe should be.
Bryan Chaffin, two weeks ago:
John Martellaro was good man. He was not only a better man than
me, he was one of the best people I knew. It is with a heavy heart
that I tell you Mr. Martellaro passed away today.
He rose to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force, and h...
I’d never before heard of this museum, but now that I’ve seen Wichary’s photos, I want to go. Unsurprisingly, a lot of his shots are details of vintage keyboards. I keep pausing on this one, a “RE-START” key with the word broken across two lines. It’s clearly wrong but somehow feels right.
Marcin Wichary, at Unsung:
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom, and then turn on “Use
scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom.”
Then, at any moment, you can hold Control and swipe with two
fingers (or use a scroll wheel) up or down to zoom the
entire screen.
...
Hannah Murphy, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, but Ars Technica has a no-paywall syndicated copy):
The company recently began prioritising a Zuckerberg AI character,
three of the people said.
The Meta chief is personally involved in training and testing hi...
The New York Times:
In a surprisingly early and gracious concession speech in
Budapest, Mr. Orban congratulated the opposition saying, “The
responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to
us.” But, he also made a vow: “We are not giving up. Never,
never, never...
My thanks to Typotheque for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Zed, their incredible new font superfamily. Zed is a type system that was developed with one question in mind: what do readers actually need? Not what looks good in a type specimen, but what works for the wide...
More vintage graphic-design weekend fun — this time, a collection of Milwaukee bus tickets from the late 1940s to early 1950s, collected on the Present & Correct blog. So much variety in the colors and typography, but yet they all feel branded together. Think about the care and thought here. Whoever was making these was designing one for each week, every week — and it’s so clear they loved making them. Even something as mundane as weekly bus passes can be exuberant expressions of fun.
(Via Ian K. Rogers, who particularly notes the tickets’ integration of hand-lettering with typefaces.)
Some graphic design fun for the weekend: achingly gorgeous art pieces recreating vintage Pan Am luggage tags, by Ella Freire. I love them all. The colors, the type, the shapes — sublime.
For The New Yorker, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz go deep profiling Sam Altman under the mince-no-words headline “Sam Altman May Control Our Future — Can He Be Trusted?” 16,000+ words — roughly one-third the length of The Great Gatsby — very specifically investigating Altm...
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:
Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch
of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major
bug:
Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17
hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of ...
“thenickdude”, on Reddit:
They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already
installed when you visit on their website.
When you visit https://www.adobe.com/home, they load this image
using JavaScript:
https://detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com/cc.png
If ...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaking of the president of the United States in a totally normal way:
I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a
lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else
and asks me to go do something else, I’ll say, “Thank you very
much, I love you, sir.”
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team:
Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new
general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly
across the board, but it is strikingly capable at computer
security tasks. In response, we have launched Project Glasswing,...
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