MacStories Team

3288 posts on MacStories since July 2011

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.

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David Smith shares a trick for eliminating the city label from the Apple Watch’s GMT watch face. (Link) Inspired by Stephen Hackett’s high-resolution collection of Mac OS 9 wallpapers, Arun Venkatesan created a set of static and dynamic wallpapers based on the Finder icon using colors similar to the new M1 iMacs. (Link) John has...


Inoreader: Take Back Control of Your News Feed [Sponsor]

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However, RSS is only part of the Inoreader story. The service offers a unique email address that you can use to subscribe to email newsletters, so you can enjoy them just like RSS feeds and declutter your inbox. Inoreader can also monitor complex Twitter searches, so you never miss the latest about your favorite topics. You can even monitor changes on webpages that don’t have RSS feeds and Facebook pages, pushing the latest updates to Inoreader’s central hub. Most recently, Inoreader added an audio player that allows you to use it for audio content like podcasts too.

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Our thanks to Inoreader for sponsoring MacStories this week.


Perks

1Blocker 4.0 Exclusively for Club MacStories members, we have 10 coupon codes for 1Blocker 4.0, the content blocker app that was updated this week and reviewed on MacStories. Winners will be chosen on Wednesday, May 5th and contacted by email. Enter for a chance to Win!...


In This Issue

Muse, a 1Blocker 4.0 giveaway, a tip for routing audio outputs on your Mac with SoundSource, Federico shares how he migrated thousands of email messages from Hey back to Gmail,plus the usual App Debuts, Links, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming podcast episodes....


Interesting Links

Spotify has launched a podcast subscription program to compete with Apple’s that won’t cost podcasters anything for the first two years and charge a 5% fee thereafter. (Link) Engadget spent two weeks with Spotify’s Car Thing hardware and came away impressed with its utility for owners of older cars that don’t have built-in entertainment systems....


Previously, On MacStories

Spotify Rolling Out Redesigned ‘Your Library’ Page for Mobile Apps Apple Q22021 Results - $89.58 Billion Revenue 1Blocker 4.0 Adds In-App Tracker Blocking with Its New Firewall Feature Updated Eve Energy Smart Plug and Energy Meter Released with Thread Support Hands-On With Apple Music’s New Collections of Chart-Toppers in Cities Around the World “Your Information...


Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

Next week on AppStories, Federico and John revisit email and the their vision for portable data that isn’t siloed in apps. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John recap the release of iOS and iPadOS 14.5 and 1Blocker 4.0 and cover updated products from Eve, Apple’s earnings and increased investment in the...


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Our thanks to Honeybadger for sponsoring MacStories this week.


Interesting Links

Nilay Patel of The Verge has a fun look back at a very brief and strange period of PC history: the meteoric rise and fall of the Eee PC. (Link) After stories circulated that Apple pays twice as much per stream as Spotify, Variety stepped in to explain that it’s not that straightforward or simple....