Jared Nelson on TouchArcade:

A new report from Kotaku states that Rockstar is currently developing a remaster of that 3D trilogy–which includes GTA III, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas–and is planning on releasing them on all current and last-gen consoles including the Switch, PC, and mobile devices. Rumors of old GTA games being remastered have run rampant for years now, and the only confirmation we have this time around is Kotaku saying it comes from a source they trust, but the whole idea isn’t really that far-fetched. Bringing them up to speed to run on more modern hardware and, more importantly, be able to be more easily maintained into the future makes a lot of sense given the historical importance of that particular GTA trilogy. Plus those games are still loads of fun.

I’m not sure that I’d care too much about a remaster of these games. I have already played them to death when they were released originally, as well as over the past decade or so that they have been available on mobile. What I’d love to see is GTA 4 brought to mobile.

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Multitasking can be done the same way as it was before, but there’s also a new multitasking menu that streamlines the multitasking experience, offering quick-tap options for entering into Split View or Slide Over with two apps. In the App Switcher view, you can also get into a quick Split View mode by dragging one app’s window onto another, which is handy.

Some positive changes to iPad multitasking in iPadOS 15. Not quite ‘desktop class’ multitasking, but a big improvement.

Some great ideas in this iPadOS 15 concept.

Jason Snell:

So here comes the 2021 iPad Pro, which is an even more extreme dunk in terms of features. Adding an M1 processor isn’t going to add the same boost as it did on the Mac side, because the iPad Pro was always powered by an energy-efficient Apple processor. But it’s still an upgrade of two processor generations, and that matters. A new display on the larger model allows Apple to set a new standard for brightness and dynamic range. Thunderbolt accelerates the iPad’s connectivity with other devices.

And yet, in 2021, it feels like the same story: Apple killed it on the hardware side, and the software…well, the software lags behind, to put it nicely. Apple built a spectacular sports car, but where are the roads to drive it on?

I really hope iPadOS 15 brings some Mac-like features to iPad.

If you want to add tags to your Jekyll blog but found out that it is simply not supported by Github pages. You are at the right place here.

It is true that Github pages do not support customized Ruby plugins for Jekyll site. It is also true that the great jekyll-tagging is not one of Github default jekyll plugins.

As a result, we need to implement Jekyll tagging without plugins, it sounds hard, but here is a step-by-step guide to achieve so.

I might finally have use for all these invisible tags I’ve been adding to the website.. 😎

In the latest update to the popular podcast player, Overcast has overhauled its Apple Watch app to be more intuitive and bring several features that were previously only accessible on Overcast for iPhone.

The newly designed watch interface ditches the horizontally scrolling panels to reveal features, and instead uses a single screen providing button access to settings, podcast library, and now playing controls. In addition, a sync button keeps podcasts stored on your watch in sync with those on your ‌iPhone‌.

Some welcome updates to the Overcast Apple Watch app.

Parasite is the best film I’ve seen in a long time.

It’s somehow equally funny, thrilling and tragic, while carrying a message about class levels and the gap between the haves and have-nots. None of this should be a surprise when you look at the list of awards it received. For a non English language film to win four Oscars takes some doing.

I came across this review of Parasite on Letterboxd, which is the perfect post-film read.

What a useful feature. Having exported all my film ratings from IMDb and importing them into Letterboxd, I now have a (mostly) accurate diary of all the films I’ve watched since 2011!

I really enjoyed reading these reviews.