Discover the top coloring apps for both adults and kids on Mac, offering a creative outlet for all ages to unwind and express themselves digitally.
The best coloring apps for adults and kids on Mac
Rocket League Sideswipe is bringing car soccer to iPhone and iPad
Rocket League is one of the most popular games on PC and consoles, blending automobiles and soccer (football!) in an innovative way. The title is exciting and lends itself to a lot of fun experiences, while offering plenty of competitive play, too. And now it's finally coming to phones and tablets.
How to use zoom in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to zoom in and out in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone for better visibility and control over your documents and presentations.
The official Steam Link app for macOS is now available for download
Valve's released a macOS version of its Steam Link app to let people stream their Steam libraries from their gaming PCs to Mac computers and other devices running the software.
Alexander Siddig joins the cast of Apple TV+ series ‘Shantaram’
Things tend to go dark on the upcoming series Shantaram for long stretches of time. However, today's one of the bright spots on the show's casting front.
Aging iCloud links for sharing Shortcuts have stopped working [Update: Fixed]
It appears that iCloud links meant to share Shortcuts have a limited amount of time before they become invalidated. At least, that's the latest discovery by folks trying to share some Shortcuts that are a week old or older.
Intel wants to produce Apple chips after targeting M1 Macs with an attack ad campaign
It was only recently that Intel wooed "I'm a Mac" star Justin Long to appear in ads that target M1 Macs, yet the embattled chipmaker is now looking to make future Apple silicon.
Apple TV+ comedy series ‘Trying’ will debut its second season on May 14; gets early renewal for third season
Unlike some of the other series available to watch on Apple TV+, the comedy show Trying has flown a bit under the radar. But for those who watched the first season (and enjoyed it), there's more to look forward to.
Apple encourages greater use of security cameras in factories to prevent leaks
Apple's updated its guidelines aimed at stopping unwanted leaks from the supply chain. It now requires its manufacturing partners to stop collecting biometric data from its own employees.
macOS Big Sur 11.3 brings iOS game controller emulation for Apple silicon Macs
macOS Big Sur 11.3 allows gamers who run iPhone and iPad titles on their Apple silicon Macs to use a keyboard or a keyboard and mouse combination as an iOS game controller.
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Use Mac controls in touch-based iOS games. Map controller actions to keyboard keys. Map these to mouse buttons, too. No controller required at all! Emulating iOS game controllers on M1 MacsMacRumors has more on how that works:
When running an iPhone or iPad app, opening up the preferences brings up a Touch Alternatives and Game Control interface that can be used to make touch-based iPhone and iPad apps run better with Mac controls.
With Controller Emulation toggled on, common game controller buttons are mapped to keyboard keys and mouse buttons. X, for example, is mapped to Q, the direction stick is mapped to WASD, and Y is mapped to E. L1 and L2 can be accessed by pressing Tab and Shift, respectively, and the Space Bar is the A button.
This new feature in macOS Big Sur 11.3 should make playing touch-optimized iPhone and iPad games on Apple silicon Macs much easier than before without having to use a game controller at all. If an iOS/iPadOS game doesn't support game controllers, this feature won't work.
→ How to use Sony and Microsoft game controllers with Apple devices
macOS Big Sur 11.3 lets you resize iPhone and iPad windows and provides the aforementioned Touch Alternatives feature for mapping taps, swipes, drags and tilts in iOS titles to keyboard keys (Controller Emulation and Touch Alternatives cannot be used simultaneously).
The update also adds support for the latest PlayStation 5 and Xbox One X controllers.
CydiaPullDown enables Pull to Refresh in the Cydia app’s Changes tab
In a day and age where the iPhone is becoming more gesture-based, it peeves me that the Cydia app on jailbroken handsets hasn’t adopted more gesture-driven controls.
Perhaps one of the most obvious gesture controls that Cydia could benefit from is Pull to Refresh in the Changes tab – this would replace having to manually tap on the Refresh button at the top-left of the app just to see if there are any new jailbreak tweaks or extensions worth installing.
StayWithMe prevents you from accidentally force-closing your most recently-used app
Despite the fact that force-closing all the apps in your App Switcher isn’t the best of practices on the iOS or iPadOS platform, it’s still something that I continue to see people do time and time again.
Perhaps the most painful part of it all is watching when someone accidentally force-closes an app that they didn’t intend to – usually their most recently-used app which they were trying to improve the performance of by freeing up system memory in the process of force-closing all their other apps.