You know when you’re reading something and someone is mentioned who was introduced earlier in the piece but you don’t remember who they are? I made a browser extension to help with that: First Mention is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, and there’s a bookmarklet that you can use on your phone or in other browsers. Permalink
Note: This issue has been resolved. See the final update . I posted an abridged version of this to the firefox-dev mailing list. If you follow browser news, you ve probably heard that Mozilla has announced major changes to the way Firefox extensions will be developed and distributed. There are two main parts: extension signing and a switch to Chrome-style WebExtensions . The switch to…
ATM: Hi there! How can I help you? Dan: Hi. Could I have $60, please? ATM: Sure! $200, coming right up! Dan: Wait, no, but I said— ATM: Here s your $200! Dan: OK, well, thanks. But could I just give you back— ATM: No problem! Bye! Dan: Wait, do we really have to— ATM: Hi there! How can I help you? Dan: Yes. Yes, hi. I d like to make a deposit. ATM: Sure! Whaddya got? Dan: Well it s just that you…
Since 2007, I ve owned every iPhone except the 3G — six in all. The iPhone 6 would ve been seven. Instead it s the first one I m returning. The iPhone is so central to my relationship to the world at this point that I essentially think of it as a utility: I ll happily pay $30 a month [1] for the best experience possible. All Apple really has to do every year is make the camera better, make…
Note: This won t work in El Capitan and later unless you disable System Integrity Protection , which you probably don t want to do. In a bit of overzealous simplification, the Messages app in OS X 10.9 Mavericks removes the rather basic ability to turn off the sound effect played when sending a message, which has been possible in Messages/iChat as far back as I can remember. In Mavericks, you can…
For people used to the iOS passcode lock, the fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5S, which Apple calls Touch ID, comes with a significant drawback: with Touch ID enabled, it s no longer possible to set the amount of time since the screen last turned off before the passcode — or, now, Touch ID — is required to unlock the device. Going back to the very first iPhone, the Require Passcode setting has…