[audio_player src=”https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/0de98bba-5e4d-4879-94dc-8c76a3a88322/episodes/efa8e3aa-c5ce-4817-89b5-4d263c8077f3/audio/fe9a3566-3925-490a-9485-dad10214c723/default_tc.mp3?nocache” total_duration=”00:21:04” caption=”“] [subscribe_to_unwind] This week on MacSt … | Continue reading
Email isn’t going anywhere anytime soon despite its flaws. Tools like Slack have replaced the lion’s share of internal communications at many companies, and a long list of messaging apps have chipped away at conversations among individuals. Still, email has proven resilient. One … | Continue reading
App Shortcuts in iOS 16. A note from Federico: This year, I’ve decided to try some new things for my annual iOS 16 review. Some you’ll see on Monday. One of them is previewing small excerpts from the review in the OS Preview series on MacStories and MacStories Weekly for Club Mac … | Continue reading
Yesterday, the Code conference held a session featuring Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tim Cook, who talked about Steve Jobs’ legacy with host Kara Swisher. As part of the event, the trio unveiled the Steve Jobs Archive, an online repository of historical material from Steve … | Continue reading
If you build a dystopian and cynical security program born out of fear, mistrust, and suspicion, then you will inevitably make your fellow employees your enemies. That’s a quote from Honest Security, Kolide’s mission statement, and North Star. It was written by their CEO, Jason M … | Continue reading
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This week on AppStories, we roll up our sleeves to talk about the Music app and how it could be improved. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Trade – Save Big, Support Small Roasters. Get $30 off your first order. Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple. Sourcegraph – Universal … | Continue reading
One of the tradeoffs I see a lot in the apps we cover is between simplicity and flexibility. Simplicity has its virtues, but often apps designed to make things as easy as possible for users end up being inflexible, resulting in cookie-cutter output. The flip side is that maximum … | Continue reading
Today, Relay FM, which was founded by our close friends Stephen Hackett and Myke Hurley, kicked off its annual fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to help combat childhood cancer. We’d love it if MacStories readers joined us in supporting this cause. You can make … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look at what’s coming up next: First Anniversary of Club MacStories+ Town Hall Last week we marked the first anniversary of the expansion of Club M … | Continue reading
Kosmik is a dashboard for your creativity. Built for designers, researchers, and writers, Kosmik’s infinite canvas for the iPad and Mac lets you bring together notes, your writing, images, websites, PDFs, and more on a single canvas called a Universe, so you can stop switching be … | Continue reading
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Apple has confirmed that its first fall event will be held on September 7th at 10:00 am Pacific US time. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, this fall’s event will include an in-person component. https://twitter.com/joannastern/status/1562470492077846531?s=21& … | Continue reading
On the heels of a report earlier this month by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman that Apple would delay the release of iPadOS until October, the company has confirmed that the OS will follow the release of iOS, although it hasn’t said exactly when. In a statement to TechCrunch today, Apple … | Continue reading
I’ve spent a lot of time in the Home app since moving to North Carolina. I moved right after WWDC, so I’ve disassembled, reassembled, and reconfigured my home automation setup, all in the midst of testing the latest iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS betas. What I’ve learned is that … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we consider what it takes to create a great set of modern Shortcuts actions using examples of what Apple is doing in its own apps and what some of our favorite third-party apps are already doing to make Shortcuts accessible to a wider audience and more us … | Continue reading
One year ago tomorrow, we introduced the MacStories audience to all-new versions of Club MacStories and AppStories. Club MacStories+, Club Premier, and AppStories+, were the culmination of months of work on ideas that we’d been considering for years and represent the first step i … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look at what’s coming up next: MacStories Weekly: Issue 322 Federico shares a tip on how to use Quick Note as an Obsidian launcher I consider wheth … | Continue reading
We are now well into the two-year transition window Apple began with the release of their M1 chip. In fact, the second generation of Apple Silicon processors – the M2 – is now available. Apple will continue to support Intel-based Macs, but the power found with Apple Silicon is pr … | Continue reading
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Source: Pixelmator. The Pixelmator team announced today that its iPhone and iPad photo editor, Pixelmator Photo, has moved to subscription pricing, and a Mac version of the app is on the way. Existing Pixelmator Photo users won’t have to subscribe to continue using the app and sh … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, I’m joined by Alex Guyot to talk about Alex’s MacStories origin story and walk through all of the changes coming to watchOS this fall as part of the MacStories Summer OS Preview series. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Concepts - Infinite, Flexible … | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett writing on 512 Pixels about the M2 MacBook Air: There’s something about the design of this machine that I can’t escape. The footprint is pretty similar between the two notebooks, but in my backpack, there’s a huge difference. Don’t get me wrong: I am thrilled that … | Continue reading
It’s not unusual for Apple keynotes to feature gaming. Sometimes it’s about Apple Arcade, and other times it’s a demo of a third-party title coming to one of the company’s platforms. However, this year’s WWDC keynote was a little different, sprinkling developer-focused gaming ann … | Continue reading
In 2021, Kolide went through the SOC 2 Type 1 audit, and they found out just how challenging it can be to prove compliance to a third-party auditor. They also learned firsthand something their customers had been telling them for a while: that they couldn’t have gotten their SOC c … | Continue reading
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Photo editors are the perfect fit with automation tools because, so often, there’s a set of edits, filters, transformations, or file exports that you want to apply to multiple images. Many apps come with some sort of built-in batch processing tool, which is great, but supporting … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we consider how iOS and iPadOS 16 are affecting our work and personal lives. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Kolide – Nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here. Setapp – Mor … | Continue reading
Apple has released a free web app that lets podcasters create artwork and links to promote their shows on Apple Podcasts. The app offers several customization options that should appeal to a wide variety of creators who want to market their shows on Apple’s service. Still, there … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look at what’s coming up next: MacStories Weekly: Issue 331 Federico on how to wipe significant locations from iOS’ intelligent suggestions feature … | Continue reading
Device security is a lot like Mount Everest: it’s tough to scale. When you’re a small company dominated by engineers, you can keep up with fleet management with nothing more than trust and a spreadsheet. But once you start to hire marketers, designers, and the rest, the number of … | Continue reading
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Last year, we awarded Noir Best New App of 2021 as part of the MacStories Selects Awards. Jeffrey Kuiken’s Safari extension for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, which can apply a custom dark mode to websites that don’t offer their own, is a fantastic example of an app that implements a … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we dig into the Recently Added folders on our iPhones and the stories they tell about what we’ve been up to lately. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Trade – Save Big, Support Small Roasters. Get $30 off your first order. Sourcegraph – Universal Cod … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings along with a look at what’s coming up next: The Monthly Log, July 2022 My story on the benefits of running Stage Manager on the Mac and iPad side-by-side and mo … | Continue reading
Do you know the old thought experiment about the AI designed to make paper clips that quickly decides that it will have to eliminate all the humans to maximize paper clips? Many security teams have a similar idea when meeting compliance goals: it would be much simpler if it weren … | Continue reading
Matthew Cassinelli writing for iMore that Apple should be doing more to make it easier for new users to get started with Shortcuts: In many ways, Shortcuts is “learning to code“ for the masses, and Shortcuts as a programming language should have the educational support, technical … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Apple announced its third quarter 2022 earnings, narrowly beating analysts’ consensus expectations. The company didn’t provide earnings guidance going into yesterday’s call and hasn’t since the start of the global pandemic. Coupled with ongoing supply chain disruption … | Continue reading
I recently moved from Illinois to North Carolina, and I don’t know the area at all. As a result, I’ve been using Maps and CarPlay a lot since I got here. The new features coming this fall to each aren’t as extensive as they’ve been in past years, but there are several small chang … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we conclude our in-depth look at changes coming to Apple’s system apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including Home, Notes, Reminders, and Shortcuts. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored by: Concepts - Infinite, Flexible Sketching. Kolide – Kolide can help … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Michael Steeber released The Apple Store Time Machine, a Mac app built with the Unity game engine that recreates four historically significant Apple Stores: Tysons Corner, the first ever Apple Store Sanford Shopping Center, a mini version of the Apple Store Fifth Avenu … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 330 A grab bag of retro and retro-style games on iOS Using multiple RSS sync services to better manage RSS feeds Plus: App Debuts High … | Continue reading
Remote Mouse & Keyboard is the perfect solution for controlling your Mac from other devices on your home network. The app works with the iPhone, iPad, another Mac, the Apple Watch, and even the Apple TV, enabling a wide variety of new uses for your Mac. Whether you’re running a M … | Continue reading
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Source: Twelve South. Not long ago, Twelve South introduced a new 3-in-1 charger for the iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods Pro called the HiRise 3. I’ve used a Belkin 3-in-1 charger on my desk for a few years and love it, but it takes up quite a bit of space. So, when Twelve South … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we continue the MacStories Summer OS Preview Series with part one of our in-depth look at changes coming to Apple’s system apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including Weather, Clock, Safari, Mail, Messages, and Photos. [subscribe_to_appstories] Sponsored … | Continue reading
One of the system app updates we covered on AppStories this week that I’m most excited about is Mail. The app will finally introduce several advanced features this fall, including: Undo send, allowing you to recall a message for 10 seconds after sending a message Message scheduli … | Continue reading
Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 329 Using Messages as a supplementary VIP mail notification system using AppleScript and Mail rules Managing collections of links with … | Continue reading