This week on AppStories, Federico explains his return to the Mac, including his hardware setup and the apps he’s using, and I recommend some apps he should try.
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Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings:
Club MacStories+ AV Club Town Hall
Last week, Federico and I were joined by Jonathan Reed to discuss the debut albums of Coldplay and Oasis live in the Club Discord. Club MacStories+ Discord members picked Coldplay’s Parachutes, and Federico picked Oasis’ Definitely Maybe in honor of MacStories’ anniversary last week. Club MacStories+ and Premier members can listen to the event in the Town Hall podcast feed.
Club MacStories+ Automation April Shortcuts Workshop, Part 2
We threw a second live Automation April Shortcuts workshop in Discord last week with special guest Rosemary Orchard where we explained our approaches to building new shortcuts, when to build utility functions called from other shortcuts, our recent shortcuts experiments, and projects. The event is also available in the Town Hall podcast feed.
This week, Federico explains his return to the Mac, including his hardware setup and the apps he’s using, and John recommends some apps he should try.
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Developer and Club member Vidit Bhargava met Tim Cook yesterday during his trip to India and had the chance to demo his dictionary app LookUp for Cook. (Link) Allison Johnson published a great review of the iOS game Pocket City 2 for The Verge this week. (Link) Aqara’s millimeter wave presence sensors are one...
During the 2021-22 holiday break, I went a little overboard with Obsidian and Shortcuts in an attempt to automate every aspect of the documents I create each week. I dove into the Obsidian Dataview plugin and created templates triggered by shortcuts in an attempt to generate shells of the dozen or so documents I create...
Music Timer Music Timer combines music and a Pomodoro timer into one app on your Mac. The menu bar app works with both Apple Music and Spotify and lets you customize the length of your timers. Press start, and your music starts alongside your timer, which is a nice way to dive into a...
Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: The Automation April channel continued to be incredibly active this week as members shared their creations for the Automation April Shortcuts Contest and swapped tips and tricks for building shortcuts. We held our second Automation April Shortcuts Workshop in Discord with Rosemary Orchard, which...
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico started watching How I Met Your Father, season 2, on Hulu, which in itself is a minor miracle from Italy, and picked up Pokémon Scarlet again, while I stumbled across Rabbit Hole, an action/thriller/conspiracy show on Paramount+ starring Keifer Sutherland.
Federico’s Picks:
John’s Pick:
Hyperduck is a recent utility from Sindre Sorhus for sending URLs from an iPhone or iPad to your Mac that has some very interesting applications. Hyperduck hasn’t replaced my use of AirDrop, Handoff, and other Apple technologies that move data between devices, but it has extended those features in meaningful ways and has quickly worked its way into my everyday computing life.
Hyperduck does just one thing very well. It sends URLs from an iPhone or iPad to a Mac using iCloud. That’s different than how AirDrop works, which has some advantages.
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