Slightly Cynical Sarcasm In A Sticker A combination of 50’s-style illustrations combined with sassy sayings like ‘Don’t call lazy something that is actually selective participation.’ These stickers are perfect for snarky conversations with your pals. Funny Pictograms These are the sort of stick figures that you’d normally find on street signs doing all kinds...
App Debuts
The Snail The Snail is a new visual approach to tuning instruments and analyzing sound. The macOS version of The Snail is $99, but you can get the iOS version for just $1.99. The app analyzes sound received by the iPhone’s microphone and plots it on a spiral graph according to various characteristics of...
Q&A
Question: When trying to share content such as Safari webpages, or even video links from apps like ProTube, I just want to quickly share it to Twitter. Except now with iOS 11, there are no integrated social accounts, which makes the standard share to Twitter extension useless. I presumed that since share extensions have been...
iMazing Mini Simplifies iOS Device Backups
iMazing is a macOS utility for transferring files to and from iOS devices and backing them up. This week, DigiDNA, the maker of iMazing, introduced a menu bar app called iMazing Mini that offers the core backup features of the full iMazing app for free.
AppStories, Episode 14 – Pick 2: Ulysses and FullContact→
On this week’s episode of AppStories, we pick two apps and discuss how and why we use them for our work. For the first installment of Pick 2, Federico covers Ulysses and how he’s used it over the past year and for the iOS 11 review he is currently writing; John explains how he uses FullContact to keep in touch with developers and sponsors of MacStories and AppStories.
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Tempo Creates a Beautiful Training Log for Runners With Health App Data
I love running with my Apple Watch, but I’m not a fan of most running apps; too many want to update me constantly about my progress while running. Other apps want me to share my runs on social networks. That’s not for me. I’d rather have an app parse the data collected after I’m home and can spend some time with it, which is precisely why I’ve enjoyed using Tempo.
Nintendo Switch Online App Released Ahead of Splatoon 2
On Friday, July 21st, Nintendo will release Splatoon 2, one of its marquee titles for the Switch console, which will be the first game to take advantage of the Nintendo Switch Online app for iOS. The app is available to download now, but won’t be of much use until Splatoon 2 is released Friday. In the meantime, you can download the app, sign into your Nintendo account, and review instructions on how to invite friends to play. Invitations can be sent over social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Line. The app will also allow players to chat with friends using a headset connected to their iOS device.
Nintendo Switch Online is a free download on the App Store. Nintendo’s online service is free while it is in beta, but will cost $19.99 per year or $3.99 per month when it launches in 2018.
Isabel Ge Mahe is Apple’s New Managing Director of Greater China
Apple has announced that it has named Isabel Ge Mahe Managing Director of Greater China, a newly-created position within the company. Ge Mahe most recently led Apple’s wireless technology engineering teams working on cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, location, and motion technologies. She has also overseen the engineering teams developing Apple Pay, HomeKit, and CarPlay.
Apple CEO, Tim Cook, had this to say about the appointment:
“Apple is strongly committed to invest and grow in China, and we are thrilled that Isabel will be bringing her experience and leadership to our China team,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “She has dedicated a great deal of her time in recent years to delivering innovation for the benefit of Apple customers in China, and we look forward to making even greater contributions under her leadership.”
Ge Mahe, who will start in her new position later this summer in Shanghai, added:
“I’m honored to have this opportunity to represent Apple in China and work more closely with our incredibly talented team,” said Isabel Ge Mahe. “Everyone at Apple is proud of the contributions we make to the communities where we do business, and I am looking forward to deepening our team’s connections with customers, government and businesses in China to advance innovation and sustainability.”
As Ge Mahe’s appointment underscores, China is an important market for Apple. The country accounted for 29% of Apple’s revenue in the March 2015 quarter according to Recode. Since then, however, revenues generated in China have slipped as the iPhone has lost market share to other mobile phone manufacturers.
Clean Up Your Inbox Today (and Keep It That Way Forever) with SaneBox [Sponsor]
What if you had someone who would sort through your email and find only the important messages? That is exactly what SaneBox does. After you set it up, SaneBox leaves your important messages in your inbox and moves the rest to a SaneLater folder for reviewing later. That initial inbox purge is powerful because it reduces your inbox to a manageable number of messages. With additional training to tell SaneBox what’s important to you, it only gets better at dealing with the daily deluge of messages.
There’s much more to SaneBox than shuffling unimportant messages into a designated folder, though. If there’s something you never want to see ever again, send it to the SaneBlackHole, which is much easier than unsubscribing to unwanted messages.
You can also set up SaneReminders by sending messages to an address that sends a reminder to you at a later date if the recipient of your message hasn’t responded after a certain amount of time. Or forward messages to SaneReminders to have it pop back into your inbox at a later date when you are ready to deal with it.
SaneBox works on top of your existing email setup. There’s no app to download or new email account to set up. It all works server-side so you can use any email client you want.
Sign up today for a free 14-day SaneBox trial to take back control of your email. MacStories readers can receive a special $25 credit automatically by using this link to sign up.
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