Hello Feedbin

After Inoreader, I’m now trying out Feedbin as an RSS server. I simply like the website better, and I appreciate the ability to subscribe to Twitter accounts as well. What I’m still missing, though, is a client that displays videos inline and automatically expands truncated articles. What would be really great, of course, is an RSS client that also offers solid support for podcast features—but that’s probably wishful thinking. ...

June 23, 2018 · 1 min · 100 words

Fresh new dark theme

Many apps already have a dark mode, but there still isn’t a unified standard for it on iOS and macOS. Steve Troughton Smith fand in macOS 10.14 gives a hint of exactly such a mode. Developer Steve Troughton Smith today tweeted photos of macOS 10.14 with some very juicy details about Apple’s upcoming operating system. The OS is very clearly sporting a fresh new dark theme, presumably a toggle-able setting, with the dark UI affecting all application chrome. You can also see an icon for a Mac News app in the Dock, as well as a first look at Xcode 10. — 9to5mac.com ...

June 2, 2018 · 1 min · 136 words

GrayKey can unlock

Motherboard berichtet reported on a box capable of cracking an iPhone’s PIN. The GrayKey itself is a small, 4×4 inches box with two lightning cables for connecting iPhones, according to photographs published by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The device comes in two versions: a $15,000 one which requires online connectivity and allows 300 unlocks (or $50 per phone), and an offline, $30,000 version which can crack as many iPhones as the customer wants. Marketing material seen by Forbes says GrayKey can unlock devices running iterations of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 11, including on the iPhone X, Apple’s most recent phone. ...

April 14, 2018 · 1 min · 169 words

iCloud control

A small software tip for anyone who has opted for a larger iCloud package and wants to remove unnecessary cloud data from their Mac. The open-source software iCloud Control integrates into the Finder and makes exactly this possible. Adds a menu to the Finder that allows control over files stored in iCloud, allowing user-controlled selective synchronization. Simply select the files you want to remove locally, click the small cloud icon in the Finder, and choose Remove selected item locally. ...

March 11, 2018 · 1 min · 105 words

A Single Div

What you can do these days with pure CSS is pretty astonishing. The page A Single Div by Lynn Fisher shows what can be packed into a single div. Everything’s there — from heads and candy to cartoon characters and lovely icons. Really an impressive bit of fun. Thank you Stefan The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

January 11, 2018 · 1 min · 68 words