Source: CES. I love the spectacle of CES. It’s a relentless firehose of ‘new’ that’s full of over-the-top ideas, vaporware, creepy robots, bizarre gadgets, and, best of all, legit previews of tech that’s just around the corner. CES 2023 hasn’t disap…
Lees meerWinterFest 2022: The Festival of Artisanal Software is back with a fantastic collection of carefully-crafted software for writing, research, thinking, and more at tremendous prices. As in past years, software artisans from around the globe come toge…
Lees meerWith the introduction of the App Store, mobile gaming took off, quickly becoming the number one driver of revenue for the store. By the time Apple Arcade was released, more than a decade later, mobile games were dominated by free-to-play titles supp…
Lees meerBecause Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings: MacStories Weekly: Issue 350 Sleeves 2. Sleeves 2 An update to Todoist Tasks, the Obsidian plugin that adds compatibility with t…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we introduce the fifth annual MacStories Selects award winners and interview the MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement award winner, Greg Pierce, the creator of Drafts. Sponsored by: Kolide – Maintaining endpoint security …
Lees meerIt’s the end of the year, and before I take a few days off to relax for the holidays, I have a few cool things to share that have been sitting on my desk and Mac for a little bit. The Belkin Mount with MagSafe for Mac Desktops and Displays One of ma…
Lees meerIntroduction John: It’s time for the MacStories Selects awards, our annual celebration of the apps we love and the people who make them. Every year since 2018, we’ve paused at the end of a busy year to reflect on the hundreds of apps we’ve tried and…
Lees meerDrafts When we chose the second annual lifetime achievement award winner, there was no doubt in my mind that it should be Drafts. Developed and maintained by Greg Pierce of Agile Tortoise, Drafts has been the place where text starts on iOS for nearl…
Lees meerBecause 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 349 Announcements about the Club’s Mastodon account, the Clu…
Lees meerFor many people who have stepped away from Twitter, Mastodon is their first experience with a decentralized social network. There’s a lot that can be said about the pros and cons of decentralization, but I want to focus on one very specific technica…
Lees meer“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 …
Lees meer0:0027:50 This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John share their favorite videogames of 2022. The Best Videogames of 2022 Joint Picks: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Vampire Survivors Federico’s Picks: Elden Ring Cyberpunk…
Lees meerAs of today, MacStories is officially on Mastodon with its own server for each of its properties and team members. You can find us here: MacStories Accounts MacStories AppStories Club MacStories MacStories Team Accounts. Federico John Alex Silvia Th…
Lees meerThis week on AppStories, we extend last week’s ‘Gone but Not Forgotten’ theme to third-party apps, including Dropbox text editors, Twitter apps, email clients, and more. Sponsored by: Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple. Memberful – Monetize your …
Lees meerFreeform is a brand new iPhone, iPad, and Mac app from Apple that lets users create multimedia boards on an infinite canvas that include text, images, drawings, links, files, and more. It’s an ambitious entry into a crowded category of apps that tak…
Lees meerStage Manager in iPadOS 16.2. Ever since I last wrote about iPadOS 16, I have continued using Stage Manager on my iPad Pro. As I wrote in October, I like the idea behind Stage Manager more than its implementation. Despite the flawed design of its mu…
Lees meerBecause 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 348 The Club MacStories+ AV Club is returning with a Town Ha…
Lees meer0:0021:38 This week, Federico and John share their favorite TV shows and movies of 2022. The Best TV Shows and Movies of 2022 Joint Picks: TV Shows Severance Loot Federico’s Picks: TV Shows Better Call Saul For All Mankind John’s Picks: TV Shows Str…
Lees meerShawn Hickman is back with another excellent update to Sofa, the downtime/media organization app for iPhone and iPad that we’ve covered several times on MacStories. Sofa remains my favorite one-stop app for managing lists of media I don’t want to fo…
Lees meerWhen Live Activities debuted with iOS 16.1, a long list of apps supported the feature. There were some great examples, like the ten apps I covered in October and Timery, which was updated shortly thereafter. Because developers didn’t have a lot of t…
Lees meerJoanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal, who interviewed Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, in connection with the new security features coming to its platforms, reports that Apple has abandoned its efforts to id…
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