While pre-orders for the new iPhone 18 Pro models technically start tomorrow, September 12, Apple.com’s store is already up and running. Here are the prices for the US. Apple iPhone 18 Pro coming Saturday 256GB – $1,200 at Apple 512GB – $1,400 at Apple 1TB – $1,800 at Apple 2TB – $2,400 at Apple Apple…
With the arrival of the Pixel 11 series, it’s clear now that the star of the launch is the new Rambler voice-to-text feature. We’ve talked about it a number of times now, but other new Pixel 11 owners are talking about it just as much. Unfortunately, this is currently a Pixel 11 series feature and…
There’s extensive choice if you want to get a pair of decent earbuds. Bose, Sennheiser, and Sony continue to be heavy-hitters in this category (I use my Bose QuietComfort Ultra Gen II while traveling), and phone brands also a good job with their earbuds — Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 and Samsung Galaxy Buds 4…
TL;DR: the hybrid-style Garmin Venu 3S just scored a 36% discount that drops the fitness watch to its lowest price ever recorded at Amazon. About a year ago, I decided it was finally time to try jogging again. I had hated the activity since I was a kid, but something about the simplicity of hitting…
Google Pixels are generally regarded as pretty reliable Android phones. I’d certainly recommend them to friends and family craving a solid Android experience. However, they do have a few chinks in their armor, and one that seems to cause repeated problems is a lackluster connectivity experience. Older Pixels have had notable modem-related flaws, from the…
Just use NSDate, right? The obvious choice for handling dates in iOS and OS X apps is NSDate. It’s obvious, right? It’s got “date” right in its name, doesn’t it? And that’s the thing about NSDate. It’s mis-named. It almost says so right in the docs: NSDate objects encapsulate a single point in time, independent…
I wrote a post a few months ago about sharing data between iOS apps and app extensions in which I recommended using NSFileCoordinator and NSFilePresenter. But I had to update the post to remove that portion when some helpful people pointed me to Apple Tech Note 2408, which read in part: When you create a…
A large part of the Swift Standard Library is concerned with Generators, Sequences and Collections and functions that operate on them, so it’s pretty important to have a good understanding of them. I was going to write a blog post about how to create and use Swift generators and sequences. But while I was trying…
Over the past month or so I’ve been diving into Swift, after many years of working with Objective-C on Macs and iOS. It’s been a change but, gradually, I’m learning the Swift way of doing things. On the way I’ve run into a few bumps in the road when dealing with Core Data, and I…
iOSDevCamp Colorado was a couple of weeks ago and I did a presentation/demo on iOS app extensions. I wanted to focus on how to actually do things, so mostly I worked in Xcode rather than present from slides. But rather than paste code in as I went or (gasp!) try to do it live, I…