Jacob Krol, writing for CNN, interviewed Apple Maps’ David Dorn, its product lead, and Meg Frost, its design lead, about the app’s steady improvements since its introduction in 2012. The story covers many of the features added in the fall with the r…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we look at the app trends we expect to see in 2022, including trends that will continue from 2021 and new trends we think will emerge in the new year. Sponsored by: Memberful – Monetize your passion with membership Linode – …
Lees meerThe notch bar in BetterTouchTool. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been playing around with (and thoroughly enjoying) BetterTouchTool’s latest major feature: the notch bar. This feature is currently available as an optional alpha update in BetterT…
Lees meerDetailsPro is the accessible, graphical tool for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac that brings your app designs to life with SwiftUI. The future of modern app design on Apple’s platforms is SwiftUI, and with DetailsPro, you can be up and running immediately…
Lees meer0:0035:52 This week on MacStories Unwind: Best Videogames of 2021 Federico’s new service for tracking games Backloggd Federico PS5 Games Kena: Bridge of Spirits Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Spiderman Miles Morales …
Lees meerSource: Apple. Yesterday, Apple released Swift Playgrounds 4.0, the first version of the app from which you can build an app and publish it on the App Store. That’s a big step forward for the app that started as a limited sandbox for learning to cod…
Lees meerPixelmator Photo has long been one of my favorite iPad photo editing apps. The app makes great use of the iPad’s large screen, which provides space for tools alongside the image you’re editing. Reducing that experience to even the largest model of i…
Lees meerYesterday, iOS and iPadOS 15.2 were released with a grab bag of new features, refinements, and fixes. There are some handy details in this release, many of which are found deep within the Settings app, so it’s worth poking around to find the ones yo…
Lees meerPCalc John Voorhees: I’d love to tell you that there was drama surrounding the selection of this year’s first-ever MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement award, but there wasn’t. In the end, it was the easiest pick of the lot. Last month, I sat dow…
Lees meerJohn: The MacStories Selects Awards are our annual celebration of the apps we love and the people who make them. Every year, the MacStories team uses hundreds of apps. Some are familiar favorites, but most are new. So, after many months of testing t…
Lees meerSketch, note, and explore endless ideas with Concepts’ infinite canvas for iPad. Draw in designer COPIC colors with liquid pens and brushes, and organize images, text and sketches into visual mood boards. Used by creative professionals for visual th…
Lees meer0:0031:33 This week on MacStories Unwind: Best TV Shows and Movies of 2021 TV Shows: John: Hawkeye Loki WandaVision Foundation The Mosquito Coast Ted Lasso, Season 2 Mr. Mayor The Head The Great British Baking Show Federico: Foundation Ted Lasso, Se…
Lees meerWallpaper has published an in-depth profile of Apple’s Design Team that takes readers behind-the-scenes at Apple Park for a peek at the wide array of disciplines for which it is responsible. The story covers everything from hardware design to typogr…
Lees meerPok Pok Playroom, the delightful collection of digital toys that won an Apple Design Award earlier this year, got a big update today that expands the app’s town toy significantly. In the months since the app’s launch, the Pok Pok team has been hard …
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we continue our series on Obsidian with a discussion of the app’s core plugins, which control many of its most advanced features. Subscribe here. On AppStories+ this week, we discuss Apple’s 2021 Apps of the Year and take a …
Lees meerOrka is MacStadium’s virtualization layer created for Mac build infrastructure that allows Mac and iOS developers to orchestrate macOS in a cloud environment using Kubernetes on genuine Apple hardware. Soon, Orka 2.0, which is currently in beta, wil…
Lees meer0:0044:29 This week on MacStories Unwind: Our Favorite 2021 Albums and Singles Federico Albums: - Screen Violence by CHVRCHES - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power by Halsey - 30 by Adele - An Evening with Silk Sonic by Silk Sonic - Who Am I? by Pale…
Lees meerApple has revealed its annual App of the Year winners. This year, the company picked a collection of 15 apps and games from among the millions available on the App Store, naming them the Apps of the Year. In recent years, Apple has also used its App…
Lees meerEarlier today on Six Colors, Jason Snell wrote about running Shortcuts from the command line: I was reminded by Simon Støvring, maker of the excellent Mac and iOS utility Data Jar (which is a persistent data store that’s accessible via Shortcuts), t…
Lees meerMy latest Shortcuts experiments began in earnest on my way back from Rome. I stopped in Ireland for a few days to deal with COVID testing and start ramping back up to my normal work routine. I wasn’t quite ready to tackle the day-to-day yet, so I de…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we introduce part one of a new series on Obsidian, explaining what the app is and does, why it’s important, the compromises that come along with using a non-native app, and how we are using it. Subscribe here. On AppStories+…
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