Software History

A damning report about Instagram reveals it’s past time for intervention.

A comprehensive visual history of Facebook.com from 2004 to 2021. See a gallery of the Facebook.com evolution from the beginning to present day.

Tapbots’s long-awaited iPhone Twitter client just hit the App Store.

I'm a whiz at Minesweeper, I can play for days (main blog: @bizarrelovesquare)

A comprehensive visual history of the Apple.com website from 1994 to 2019. View the evolution of Apple's website from imagemap-based basic HTML homepages in ...

Go from messy living room to legendary Super Hero when you try our new Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings animated backgrounds — only for a limited time.

Starting next week, your in-app events can be discovered right on the App Store, giving you a whole new way to showcase your events and expand their reach. You can now create in-app events in App Store Connect and schedule them to appear on the App Store. These timely events, such as game competitions, movie premieres, and livestreamed experiences, can encourage people to try your app, provide existing users with new ways to enjoy your app, and give former users reasons to return. Events will appear on the App Store on iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 starting October 27, 2021.Learn about in-app events

When iOS 4 landed on the iPhone and iPod touch, a lot of people expected there to be this explosion of multitasking applications that would enable us to do things like automatically copy information to our Pastebot clipboard. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. Private APIs are still a sorry subject for developers in Apple’s community, so

1996 was the year of the city guide. By 1998, they were already gone.

I do this talk called "The Engineer, The Designer, and The Dictator", and it's a talk about the things I love. It's a little bit about the nature of engineers and why I think we might have more power than we deserve. I talk about designers, the creators of art, and how I want the engineers and desig

By shutting out white supremacists and reinventing itself to be more accessible, Discord has added millions more users—teachers, boy scouts, book clubs, even Black Lives Matter protestors—and landed a $100 infusion from investors.

All the tools you need to build and deploy your Progressive Web Apps.

Amazon and Epic Games are the first to support the Microsoft Store.

Should you use Safari or Chrome? In this extremely in-depth Safari vs Chrome comparison, you'll get a definitive answer. No more looking!

Thanks to a MS-DOS emulator called iDOS 2 on the App Store, you can install Microsoft Windows 3.1 on your iPad—then play classic Windows games or simply shock your friends. Here’s how to set it up.

Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture. It doesn't matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large. Users' endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media. As the first book of its kind, this reader contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement …

iOS 15 brings new ways to stay connected, powerful updates that help users focus and explore, and intelligent features to get more done with iPhone.

Useful additions, but not flashy ones

When I reviewed iOS 7 last year, I took a different approach and tried to consider Apple’s redesigned OS from the perspective of someone who uses iPhones and iPads for work and personal tasks on a daily basis. I noted that a new structure enabled developers to make more powerful apps, and I concluded hoping

As announced at Apple's "California Streaming" media event on September 14, the public release of iOS 15 will be on Monday, September 20....

The History of iOS 14 | iOS 14 - 14.8 Features & Changes in Each UpdateiOS 14 came & went quickly but it did bring a ton of new features & changes that we ha...

Siri Shortcuts are a powerful new feature in iOS 12 that allow your app to expose its functionality to Siri. This enables Siri to suggest...

Lately, over the course of the last few months, I’ve realized that I’m lacking something crucial to building this business: my inspiratio...

An iterative update after a major overhaul.

A comprehensive visual history of Google Maps from 2004 to 2021. See a gallery of the Google Maps evolution from the beginning to present day.

The other day a colleague and I were trying to remember how to get the icon art for iOS apps to help write notes. We though we remembered a way to get them out from examining the package. Later I w…

The latest technology news and updates from Ctrl blog by Daniel Aleksandersen.

When a company stumbles, it's often not because it made a bad decision. It's because it made a decision that benefited itself rather than its customers.