Our pals Myke and Stephen at Relay FM announced today that they’re celebrating their podcast network’s 10th anniversary in style with a special live show in London.
The event will take place at the Hackney Empire Theater and feature a group of Relay podcast hosts competing in a game of Family Feud Fortunes. Tickets for the all-ages London show, which is scheduled for next summer on the evening of July 27, 2024, are available now.
If the 5th-anniversary show Relay did is any indicator, this event should be a lot of fun.
This week, Federico and John look back at the gadgets they’ve accumulated over the summer and share what’s worked and what hasn’t.
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Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week:
I kicked off a discussion of the merits of podcast transcripts in light of improvements in AI speech to text apps. Antonio shared a shortcut for creating an iOS web app from any site. Lachlan shared a tip on how to open a...
Dato Dato is a calendar and time zone menu bar app for the Mac by Sindre Sorhus that I’ve used for a long time. It handles your events, tasks, time zone calculations, and a lot more but stays out of the way, which I love. The latest update refreshes the app’s UI and interactions...
What if you could start over from scratch? That question is a thread that’s run through my careers. I started out as a bankruptcy lawyer. The whole point of bankruptcy – at least the reorganization flavor of it that I specialized in – is starting over. Maybe a company was monumentally mismanaged or caught a...
This week on MacStories Unwind, with vacation season rolling into review season, we check in on OS review preparations and our building excitement for widgets everywhere. I learn that a hot dog and a slice of pizza are a common combo in Rome. Federico questions the nature of hot dogs themselves. Plus, we have a music and TV show pick for everyone.
Links and Show Notes
Hot Dogs
John’s Pick:
Federico’s Pick
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There’s something for everyone in the weather app category. There are incredibly technical, complex apps, apps with a narrow focus, ones junked up with ads that don’t respect your privacy, and everything in between.
One of my favorite newer entrants in the category that I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while is Mercury Weather, a weather app that’s available as a universal purchase on all of Apple’s platforms. The app, by Triple Glazed Studios, is a pleasure to use, combining a clear, simple design with coverage on of all of Apple’s platforms.
In some ways, Mercury Weather is a spiritual successor to Weather Line, a graph-centric weather app that was sold to an unnamed purchaser a couple of years ago, which some suspect was Fox Weather based on the app’s 2023 redesign. The comparison is apt but sells Mercury Weather short because its design is superior to what Weather Line’s ever was. The app uses beautiful gradient backgrounds to convey the temperature and conditions, along with a modern layout and clear typography to make it fast and easy to check current conditions and the forecast.
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This week on AppStories, we each share two app recommendations in a classic Pick 2 episode.
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On AppStories+, Federico has a mini surprise, and I experiment with connecting his Sony a6500 mirrorless camera to an iPad Pro.
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Zenitizer 1.2, an iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS meditation app by Manuel Kehl, was released yesterday, adding iCloud sync support. The update means that progress toward your meditation goals and routines you create on any version of the app will sync across all devices for the first time. I recommended Zenitizer to Club MacStories readers not long ago when version 1.0 was released, but it’s such a well-designed and thought-out app, I wanted to go a little deeper today on everything it has to offer.
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