Stories Apple Releases a Statement on Its Efforts to Deter The Misuse of AirTag and the Find My Network Tweetbot 7 Adds Back the App’s Stats View and Includes New Themes Contactless Payments Are Coming to the iPhone Fantastical 3.6 Adds In-App Scheduling and Quarter View Play: A Fantastic Utility for Saving and Organizing YouTube...
In This Issue
A collection of apps that support system apps, more Safari keyboard shortcuts in Tips, Federico explains how to extract comments from shortcuts by parsing them as XML or JSON, interviews with developers about In-App Events, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap of MacStories articles,...
Interesting Links
Robb Knight dissected an old iSight camera, replacing its innards with a Raspberry Pi Zero and camera module to create a cool retro webcam for his MacBook Pro. (Link) Cameron Faulkner reviews the Elgato Key Light Mini for The Verge, which looks like a nice addition to a portable webcam setup. (Link) Apple has introduced...
Up Next, On MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John revisit their 2021 wishes for Shortcuts to see which came true and which didn’t and share their new Shortcuts wishes for 2022. This week on MacStories Unwind, John recommends the Video Game History Hour podcast and Federico goes deep on his M1 Mac videogame emulation setup...
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In This Issue
John shares a collection of obscure, but handy Mac keyboard shortcuts, Robby Burns’ desk setup, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories podcast episodes....
Reader Setup: Robby Burns
Twitter: @robbyburns; Website: robbyburns.com. Musician, Educator, Author, and Host of the Music Ed Tech Talkpodcast. This desk is in my home music studio in Maryland. I run a private percussion teaching studio out of this space and produce my blog/podcast Music Ed Tech Talk. My 14” MacBook Pro is the core of my computing life....
New Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Discounts
For those who haven’t joined the Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Discord community, we wanted to let you know that we have added two new discounts to the rotating list of app and service discounts: 30% off Clean Email, the email batch processing and inbox cleaning service with apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac...
Previously, On MacStories
Stories Preserve and Play the Original Wordle for Decades with WordleForever CARROT 5.5 Debuts Redesigned Weather Maps with Expanded Customization Options Podcasts AppStories, Episode 258 – Starting the New Year with New Shortcuts, Workflows, Apps, and More MacStories Unwind: Brooklyn 99, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Ghost of Tsushima, Director’s Cut...