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Re:US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners on Friday August 07, 2026 @02:49AM (#49206781)
gregorian chanting intensifies

Show HN: Build native iOS widgets from any HTTPS endpoint

Posted by elkabong on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:41AM
from the show-hn dept.

I built Dashlet since I often found myself building different web dashboards for all sorts of data (custom page views monitoring, app downloads, info from my home sensors) and I quickly got tired of always having to navigate to a page in Safari and reenter credentials to access them.I wanted to just simply be able to see it on my phone, when scrolling around it - in almost realtime.I've built...

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Re:Show HN: iOS app that continuously turns contact dates into calenda... on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @09:30AM (#47765419)
Thank you very much!

Show HN: iOS app that continuously turns contact dates into calendar events

Posted by elkabong on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:44AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://keepdates.app

I built KeepDates after realizing I kept missing important dates that were already saved in my contacts.Birthdays are automatically handle by iOS, but everything else was just ignored. I always dutifully curated my contacts, adding different dates to each (friends' kids' birthdays, anniversaries, significant events), but always seemed to forget about them as the day approached. I tried manually...

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Re:wallpapers designed to hide the notch on the iPhone X on Sunday November 12, 2017 @02:46PM (#15682265)
https://www.cromulentlabs.com/notcho/
Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:35AM (#15246576)
Your wife could also know your passcode and vice versa, if this is such a necessity
Re:Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-Looking Iron Meteorite on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:44AM (#12871328)
Rescue Rover? :) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Rescue_Rover_1991
Re:App Store Improvements on Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:39PM (#12408697)
So, you mostly use premium/paid apps?
Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @08:06AM (#11760840)
He forgot his laptop, because it wasn't on the belt when he came out of the scanner. They gave it away before he had a chance to forget it. The couple of minutes it took him to realise that he didn't actually all of his stuff off the belt (even though, he did, since the laptop wasn't there any more) wouldn't have made a difference since somebody else has taken it beforehand anyway.
Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @05:59AM (#11760148)
That is a fair point, however, in that case, there would be a computer left over on the belt, that the author would've seen when he got out of the scanner.

On a side note: do people not keep their laptops in sleeves (even when in backpacks)?

Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @05:26AM (#11760011)
I'm surprised that everyone is focusing on the TSA for giving his computer away (awful), but to me, the even more objectionable thing is that THE WOMAN TOOK A RANDOM COMPUTER and just left with it. Any reasonable person would say "that is not mine", or am I being too naive? And, since she didn't do that, there was clearly malice involved, so the police were also clearly in the wrong, saying that it was an accident and not a crime.
Re:The Swiss Shouldn't Mock the Apple Watch on Friday January 22, 2016 @11:18AM (#10953575)
I am amused how the article states that the iPhone was an "instant hit". It was successful-ish for the time - it sold around 6million in 5 quarters - but was also being scoffed at by every other dumb- or smartphone maker. Same with the iPod I guess... and iPad... and everything that has evolved and changed their respective markets in their iterations.