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Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

Town Hall, Apple’s March 8, 2022 ‘Peek Performance’ Event


Club MacStories Town Halls are part of the monthly and other special live audio events we hold in the Club MacStories+ Discord community. The show is a recorded and lightly edited version of the Town Halls that we produce, so Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members who can’t attend the event live can listen later. To learn more about Club MacStories+ and Club Premier, visit our Club plans page.

Ep. - Town Hall, Apple’s March 8, 2022 ‘Peek Performance’ Event

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Federico, John, and Alex are joined by Lachlan Campbell to talk about Apple services, the new iPhone SE and iPad Air, plus the Studio Mac and Apple Studio Display, which were announced at today’s ‘Peek Performance’ event.

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Our thanks to Daylite for sponsoring MacStories this week.


In This Issue

John recommends Diagrams, a tip that mimics the iPhone and iPad’s scroll-to-top gesture on the Mac, Federico shares a shortcut that batch-converts Timery saved timers into a set of single-action shortcuts, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of...


Up Next On MacStories’ Podcasts

Next week on AppStories, Federico and John talk about how to get more out of Twitter while avoiding doom scrolling, through a combination of advanced Twitter features, third-party apps, and Shortcuts. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico shares why he’s enjoying Elden Ring so much, and John recommends Kimi, an HBO Max thriller...


Apple ‘Peek Performance’ Event Hub and Town Hall

Next Tuesday, March 8th, Apple will hold the Peek Performance event that it announced earlier this week. As always, you can expect comprehensive, in-depth coverage from the MacStories team. To make it easy to follow along, we’ve created a Peek Performance Event Hub and special RSS feed, which will collect all of our coverage in...


Previously, On MacStories

Stories Apple Announces March 8th Online Event OutlineEdit 3 Offers a Fast, Keyboard-Driven Way to Outline Your Thoughts Last Week, on Club MacStories: Voting on the Next AV Club Pick, a Tip for Avoiding Accidental Lock Screen Activations, Utility Shortcuts for Mac, and a New Episode of Unplugged Tweetbot 7.1 Adds Background Notifications for Follows,...


In This Issue

This month, Federico on how he’s using Dropbox and symbolic links to sync the game emulator Dolphin between Windows and macOS and John on finding the right level of file organization that doesn’t create too much busy work, using a combination of folders, tags and search....


Prizmo: Pro Scanner App with OCR, Pencil Annotation, PDF & DOCX Export [Sponsor]

Prizmo is a fully-featured scanner app for iOS and Mac that lets you capture documents and receipts, turning them into professional PDFs that you can share, archive, annotate, fill out as forms, or sign with the Apple Pencil or your finger. The app is perfect for scanning business cards to add people to your contacts too.

The capture workflow on iOS has been streamlined in Prizmo’s latest release as a tap-free multi-page scanning process with the ability to review pages as you scan. Text recognition starts immediately in the background, and the PDF is auto-uploaded into your shared folder immediately without any user action.

Prizmo also offers some of the deepest editing tools available in any scanning app, such as page curvature flattening, edge repair, background cleanup, user-editable OCR layout, and much more. Prizmo edits are non-destructive, meaning you can reverse any operation at any time without the need of rescanning, so even your Apple Pencil annotations from a week ago can be edited at any time.

Among Prizmo’s output formats, PDF gets many customizable options, including image compression level and a JBIG2 encoder for extremely lightweight black and white scans of just 40KB per page, useful for archiving large amounts of data. It also comes with image and text exports and can create fully-formatted DOCX documents that you can edit further in Apple Pages or Microsoft Word.

Prizmo offers not one but three OCR engines to handle the variety of languages and document styles too. And its most advanced one, Cloud OCR, is about to get an important update in the coming weeks with new, breakthrough capabilities.

Prizmo is localized in many languages, and it offers specific accessibility features for blind and vision-impaired users, including VoiceOver support and a dedicated text reader.

Through Sunday, March 6th, Prizmo’s Premium Pack, which is a one-time payment, is 30% off on the App Store, so be sure to download it today for just $/€13.99. Prizmo for Mac is on sale, too, for 33% off ($/€39.99) on the Mac App Store.

Our thanks to Prizmo by Creaceed for sponsoring MacStories this week.


In This Issue

John has a collection of alternative read-later apps, Federico shares a tip for preventing accidental Lock Screen activations, John explains why utility shortcuts work so well on the Mac, an all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap of MacStories articles,...