Affinity, which offers great alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, is popular for its one-time payment for a lifetime, as opposed to monthly recurring payments for Adobe ...

As Andy Hertzfeld describes on folklore.org, early Apple employee Chris Espinoza drew a calculator for the Macintosh. He showed it to Steve Jobs. Jobs’s response? “Well,” he said, “it’s a start, but ...

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was infamous for his harsh critiques of the work of his team. Hardware or software, if Steve wasn’t 100% happy, you would certainly know about it. Chris Espinosa, who wrote ...

As somebody who has the same obsessive attention to visual detail as Jobs and who has never been able to exercise it fully in order to build elegant software despite being naturally inclined, I really ...

In February 1982, Apple employee #8 Chris Espinosa faced a problem that would feel familiar to anyone who has ever had a micromanaging boss: Steve Jobs wouldn’t stop critiquing his calculator design ...

As a full-time Android user who keeps an iPad Mini and an old iPhone 13 Pro Max on my desk to check out the supposedly greener grass, I am very happy with my digital allegiances. And when Apple rolled ...

The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...

The company remains tight-lipped on how it uses customer content to train its own AI model, which can generate layered designs that are easier to edit. Canva has built its own foundational AI model ...

iOS 26 is finally available to install on iPhone devices. After three long months of beta testing, iPhone users can finally take advantage of the new Liquid Glass UI in the iOS interface. Several ...

Last year, when Apple released iOS 18, it introduced several significant changes to the iPhone’s Calculator app. Basically, it gave it a bunch of new abilities. The headline new feature was Math Notes ...

Apple has released new design resources following the introduction of its new operating systems, helping app developers work on the appearance of apps for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26. The ...