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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 ...

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. ...

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.

IBM provides a truly beautiful, Helvetica-like typeface with IBM Plex. The typeface is open source and may be downloaded and used freely. IBM hopes for the widest possible adoption of the typeface. Thanks Achim

HomeKit is supported by an increasing number of IoT manufacturers. Until now, though, it hasn’t been easy to find out which devices specifically rely on HomeKit. With Projekt HomeKitty you can now get a nice overview of all HomeKit-enabled devices on the market. HomeKitty is a crowdsourced website that collects all accessories that support the HomeKit protocol. — HomeKitty Because it’s maintained Wikipedia-style — by users for users — new products are usually added quite quickly. Great project. ...