Author: dsellers

Apple has released a second public beta of iOS 10.3. If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do so at https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ .

iOS 10.3 updates the file structure on an iOS device to the Apple File System (APFS). AFPS is optimized for Flash/SSD storage and features “strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, fast directory sizing, atomic safe-save primitives, and improved file system fundamentals.”

Apple has released a second developer beta of macOS 10.12.4. It can be be downloaded from the Apple Developer Center.

macOS Sierra 10.12.4 brings iOS’s Night Shift mode to the Mac, allowing users to cut down on blue light exposure. It also includes Shanghainese dictation support, cricket scores for Siri, and PDFKit improvements.

Christopher Hannah has revved Qwiki, his search app for macOS, to version 1.3 It’s a utility that puts Wikipedia in your Menu Bar.

Qwiki features native searching, article reading in the app, the amity to export links, automation support and more. You can search Wikipedia for articles and display them either in Qwiki or in your web browser. Version 1.3 offers Touch Bar support.

Qwiki 1.3 requires macOS 1010 or higher and costs $3.99. It’s available exclusively through the Mac App Store (http://tinyurl.com/ztckpvg).