John Voorhees

5620 posts on MacStories since November 2015

John is MacStories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four MacStories podcasts: AppStories, which covers the world of apps, MacStories Unwind, which explores the fun differences between American and Italian culture and recommends media to listeners, Ruminate, a show about the weird web and unusual snacks, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about the games we take with us.

AppStories, Episode 306 – Nerding Out for the Holidays (Part 1)

This week on AppStories, we share the nerdy holiday season projects we’ve lined up in part 1 of a two-part series.

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ReadKit 3.1 Adds Smart Folders, More Customization Options, and New Lifetime Purchase Options

Around this time every year, I tend to start fiddling with my RSS setup. Last year, I drastically simplified my setup, and it worked well. Still, with Twitter’s fate uncertain, I thought it would be an excellent time to reexamine what various sync services and apps have to offer to refine my RSS reading experience.

One of my goals with this year’s experiments is to find better ways to filter and sort the articles in my feeds. Folders are a useful top layer of organization, but I’ve wanted more control over my feeds for a while now, especially when I’m busiest. One way to accomplish advanced filtering is server-side with an RSS sync service, but support for them by third-party RSS apps is limited. That’s why I was excited to see that ReadKit 3.1 has added a new smart folders feature.

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Last Week, on Club MacStories: Nominations for the MacStories Selects Readers’ Choice Award, Club-Related Tips, Twitter’s Future, and Apps

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 345

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Nerding Out for the Holidays (Part 1)

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AppStories Episode 306 - Nerding Out for the Holidays (Part 1)

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AppStories+ Deeper into the world of apps

This week, Federico and John share the nerdy holiday season projects they’ve lined up in part 1 of a two-part series.

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App Debuts

SongCapsule The Apple Music utility that used to be called Next (which John previously featured in January) has been recently rebranded to ‘SongCapsule’, which has brought new icons and a fresh design to the app. Since we last covered SongCapsule, the app has gained improvements to iCloud sync: now, all your ‘Magic DJs’ and...


For All Its Faults, I’ll Miss Twitter If It Vanishes

Twitter has been on my mind a lot over the past few weeks. It’s still hard to believe how quickly it’s gone from a months-long debate over whether Elon Musk would actually buy the company to a hyper-speed meltdown of the service that has been such a big part of the Apple community for so...


Interesting Links

TechCrunch reports that ahead of a subscription price increase, Hulu Live TV added 14 new channels, including the Hallmark and Weather channels along with six new Vevo channels. (Link) Having trouble keeping up with the latest Twitter news? Twitter Is Going Great! delivers the latest Twitter news as a chronological, filterable timeline. (Link) Atari...



MacStories Unwind: Pokémon Scarlet and Violet First Impressions

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This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John kick off the MacStories Selects awards season with nominations for the Readers’ Choice award before taking a first look at Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.