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Softpedia _____________ NVIDIA GeForce NOW 2.0.33.112 (Freemium) Content: Play any of your games on your Mac, even those that aren't compatible with Apple desktop devices, via NVIDIA's cloud gaming platform Source: https://mac.softpedia.com/get/Games/NVIDIA-GeForce-NOW.shtml Author: Softpedia Mac Date: August 25, 2021 at 06:24PM An @AppleStyleOfficial project
<b>Open App Markets Act</b> Content:
<a href="https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition">Richard Blumenthal</a> (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28144867">Hacker News</a>):

New bipartisan antitrust legislation that targets Apple’s <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/guide/app-store/">App Store</a> and Google’s Play Store was <a href="https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition">today introduced</a> by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Marsha Blackburn, and Amy Klobuchar.
The Open App Markets Act [<a href="https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8.11.21%20-%20Open%20App%20Markets%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text.pdf">PDF</a>] is meant to create “fair, clear, and enforceable rules” that will protect competition and strengthen consumer protections. According to the three senators, Apple and Google have “gatekeeper control” of the two main mobile operating systems and their app stores, allowing them to dictate the terms of the app market.
Under the terms of the bill, which applies to companies that own or control an App Store with more than 50,000,000 users, Apple would not be able to require developers to use its own in-app purchase system, and it would be required to allow developers to distribute apps through alternative app stores.

<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-and-google-seem-spooked-by-bill-requiring-more-app-stores-and-sideloading/">Jon Brodkin</a>:

The Chamber of Progress’ <a href="https://progresschamber.org/">website</a> lists 20 “corporate partners,” with Apple and Google being the most relevant ones in this case. Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter are also funders.
[…]
But the group’s lobbying against the new app-store legislation neatly matches the positions of Apple and Google, which have been fighting attempts to make their mobile operating systems more open. Apple issued a statement yesterday that conveyed the same basic message in a less combative way. “At Apple, our focus is on maintaining an App Store where people can have confidence that every app must meet our rigorous guidelines and their privacy and security is protected,” the company said, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/11/bipartisan-bill-targets-apple-and-googles-ability-to-profit-from-app-stores.html">according to CNBC</a>.

<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/20/apple-takes-on-state-legislatures-georgia-506299">Emily Birnbaum</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/birnbaum_e/status/1428713395675672576">tweet</a>):

Apple’s aggressive lobbying efforts in Georgia, the extent of which were previously unreported, highlight a pattern that has played out with little national attention across the country this year: State lawmakers introduce bills that would force Apple and its fellow tech giant Google to give up some control over their mobile phone app stores. Then Apple, in particular, exerts intense pressure on lawmakers with promises of economic investment or threats to pull its money, and the legislation stalls.
[…]
When Georgia legislators introduced a pair of app store bills in early February, Apple immediately hired five new lobbyists to advocate against the legislation in the state. And during the frenzied debate following the bill’s introduction, Apple lobbyists told legislators that the company could pull out of two important economic development projects in Georgia — <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2021/01/21/how-atl-hbcus-attracted-apple-backed-tech-hub.html">a $25 million investment</a> in a historically Black college in Atlanta and a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/kia-is-preparing-to-build-apple-cars-in-the-u-s-11612498065">potential multibillion-dollar partnership with Kia</a> to build autonomous vehicles in the city of West…
The Story of Playdate Content:
Christa Mrgan:

The original Asheville concept was for a device that pretty faithfully recreated Game & Watch-style games, which are composed of LCD segments, which Neven explains are, “…kind of like an old-school clock, where it just has shapes that it can turn on or off. It doesn’t really have pixels all over the screen. That’s not how our screen works, but we thought, well, maybe it’ll look and work like that. And we played with that idea for awhile.”
[…]
“Everything we do is to create kind of like an alternative to, to the, what did I say? Touch-screen psychosis. To us, it’s very unsatisfying to use a touch device. I get it, and I think it’s a great interface for creating a lot of different applications without, you know, having hundreds of buttons and knobs and stuff. So it’s very effective for like a smartphone, but for a gaming device… A gaming device to me is almost the same as a musical instrument. It’s about zero latency, muscle memory, and you need to feel that you are in instant control of everything that happens.[…]”
[…]
“The components are packed in quite tightly. And so even for the screw, we needed the head of the screw to be a thinner dimension than what we could find off the shelf, we needed it not to be quite as long because then it would go and hit the LCD, right? So every single component is being made on a custom basis,” says Steven N.
[…]
“All of the quirks of Playdate, I think, helped tremendously in attracting developers to want to make something for Playdate,” says Cabel. “If Playdate had a full-color OLED screen and a powerful 3D chip, it would take a very long time for one person to say, ‘Yeah, I’ll make a game for that.’ By going in the opposite direction of where gaming has gone lately, we return to a scale in which one person, two people, three people can make an awesome, entertaining, you know, lengthy, meaningful title, and the constraints enable that.”

Previously:

Playdate Pre-Orders
Playdate

Source: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/08/25/the-story-of-playdate/ Author: Michael Tsai Date: August 25, 2021 at 10:14PM An @AppleStyleOfficial project
New Club MacStories Content:
Federico Viticci:

Today, we’re announcing the all-new Club MacStories featuring two additional tiers: Club MacStories+ and Club Premier. The new plans offer extra content, a brand new, powerful web app to read Club articles on the web with advanced search and RSS features, exclusive discounts, and a new Discord community.
Club Premier is the ultimate plan that includes all of Club MacStories, Club MacStories+, and the new extended, ad-free AppStories+ podcast in a single, $12/month package.
[…]
Calliope is a fully responsive, modern web app, so for the first time you’ll be able to properly read MacStories Weekly and the Monthly Log in a web browser.
[…]
This is one of the major changes enabled by Calliope: each article exists both as part of a bigger entity – the newsletter – as well as on its own, with its own unique URL. This means each article can be linked and shared with other people on the Internet.

Source: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/08/25/new-club-macstories/ Author: Michael Tsai Date: August 25, 2021 at 10:14PM An @AppleStyleOfficial project
Additional Banking Information in App Store Connect Content:
Apple:

Due to changes in local regulations, the bank account holder’s address is now required if you have bank account information in App Store Connect. Account Holders, Admins, and Finance roles can now provide a valid address in the Agreements, Tax, and Banking section. Please provide this information by October 22, 2021, in order to avoid a potential interruption of your payments.

I’ve seen reports that the site is unreliable at saving, although it worked fine for me. However, it is not obvious that in order to edit the info you need to click on the Paid Apps agreement, which just looks like regular black text with no underline or button border.
Source: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/08/25/additional-banking-information-in-app-store-connect/ Author: Michael Tsai Date: August 25, 2021 at 10:14PM An @AppleStyleOfficial project
WordMark 47 – Write markdown the easy way
Content: WordMark is a lightweight markdown editor. It renders markdown inline so that you can focus on your content better.   You can quickly write articles/posts and publish to multiple online platforms based on your needs.   Version 47: Fix an input bug for inserting images in the post while typing using IME   Intel, 64-bit […]

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Deliver Express 2.6.20 – Automated file delivery with hot folder processing
Content: Deliver Express is an automated solution to send and share files easily across the Internet and local networks. Deliver Express Enterprise lets you send files to up to an unlimited number of locations. Deliver Express processes files automatically from hot folders and offers automatic e-mail notifications, multi-destination transfer, detailed delivery history and much more. Deliver […]

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Deliver 2.6.24 – Easily share files across the Internet and local networks
Content: Deliver is a complete solution to send files across the Internet and local networks with email notifications. It supports FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 and other major services, and offers automatic email delivery notifications, compression, delivery to multiple destinations and much more. The notification messages are based on variable templates and contain the download link to […]

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Cisdem AppCrypt 6.1.0 – Password-protect access to your apps
Content: Cisdem AppCrypt is designed specifically for protecting your apps to make sure you’re the only master running your Mac. Simply by setting a password and adding the apps to lock to the lock list, no one is able to access your protected apps without the correct password.   The app does not modify anything in […]

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AVTouchBar 3.0.7 – An Audio Visualizer for the Touch Bar
Content: AVTouchBar is a fully customizable, versatile Touch Bar audio visualization utility   Highligths Audio Selection – works with the internal microphone and system audio Note: For system audio, you will need to install a third party audio driver to select it in the menu Color Selection – Use the menu bar to choose the color […]

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Pocket cleaner Pro 1.5.6 – Remove junk & clean apps
Content: Pocket cleaner Pro the application that includes ToolKit for cleanup disk space from unneeded junk files that contains on your Mac.   Uninstaller tool is software for completely removing applications and leftover files that associated with app.   Unwanted files Finder scan your files and allows you to quick select from their categories: apps, archives, documents, […]

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WiFi Explorer Pro 3.3.4 – Pro-level tool for Wi-Fi diagnostics
Content: WiFi Explorer Pro takes the code base of WiFi Explorer, and adds a set of features that makes it the right tool for WLAN and IT professionals. You can use WiFi Explorer Pro for preliminary assessments, to help design and validate wireless networks installations, as well as to identify channel conflicts, overlapping, poor signal quality […]

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WidsMob FilmPack 2.9 – A collection of photo filters
Content: WidsMob FilmPack applies analog photo filters on photos. It helps photographers make photos more attractive with colors, contrast and gain   The app contains: 4 different color rendition profiles 28 types of camera profiles 15 options for color modes 25 film gain profiles   Whether vintage rendering, or have fun with colors, you can always […]

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Keep It 1.10.13 – Write notes, keep things, and find them again
Content: Keep It is for writing notes, keeping web links and documents, and finding them again. Available on Mac, and as a separate app for iPhone and iPad, Keep It is the destination for all those things you want to put somewhere, confident you will find them again later.   Notes and Links Make Notes Create […]

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TunesKit Screen Recorder 1.1.0 – A handy 2-in-1 video and audio recorder
Content: TunesKit Screen Recorder is capable of recording anything you like on the PC or Mac screen, such as online videos, computer games, app tutorials, how-tos, video lectures, webinars, video conferences, video calls, live broadcasts, and much more in an easy way. It’s not only a high-quality video recorder, but also an independent audio capture that […]

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DRmare Audio Capture 1.4.0 – Record Any Music from Internet Losslessly
Content: The most professional and versatile audio grabber which can capture all songs from any streaming apps, players, Chrome, Firefox on your Mac computers and edit them to meet different requirements for you.   Easiest Way to Record Music from Any Streaming Media Apps Have you ever came across beautiful songs but have no idea to […]

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TinkerTool System 7.5 – Change advanced OS X settings and more
Content: TinkerTool System  is a collection of system utility features helping you in performing advanced administration tasks on Apple Macintosh computers. The application makes use of a self-adapting user interface which automatically adjusts to the computer model and to the version of OS X you are running. All options available in the current situation are accessible […]

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TunesKit Audio Capture 2.4.0 – Capture any audio played on your Mac
Content: TunesKit Audio Capture is a smart audio grabber that can capture any sound you want on your Mac with one click only. It’s able to record streaming music, such as Apple Music, Spotify, etc., as well as other audio types, including radio stations, broadcasts, game music, etc., played online or from VLC, iTunes, QuickTime Player, […]

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Bandizip 7.10 – All-in-One Archiver
Content: All-in-One Archiver for your macOS   Main Features All-inclusive compression/decompression/browsing/editing App Supported OS: macOS Sierra(10.12), High Sierra(10.13), Mojave (10.14), Catalina (10.15), Big Sur (11.0) Extraction for 30+ formats, including: RAR/RAR5/7Z/ZIP   Compression ZIP, 7Z, TAR, GZ, TGZ compression ZIP file modification (add/delete/rename) Up to 6 times faster compression than the Finder using multi-core Encrypted archive […]

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Boom 3D 1.3.10 – 3D surround sound and phenomenally rich audio
Content: Boom 3D is a revolutionary app with 3D Surround Sound and phenomenally rich and intense audio that is realistic and works on any headphones.   Features: 3D Surround Sound Built-in Audio Player Intensity Control Stunning Interface Built-in Audio Player Equalizer Presets Apps Volume Controller   Version Version 1.3.10: Defect fixes.   Intel, 64-bit processor OS […]

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