This month, Federico shares lesser-known and underappreciated features of Spotify, John adopts a day keyboard and night keyboard lifestyle for his iPad Air, and Alex explains how he uses Sidecar as part of his mobile-friendly Mac setup....
Interview: Jim Metzendorf
Twitter: @jmetzendorf. Podcast editor for Mobile Nations, Relay FM, Sword & Laser, Dithering, and The Incomparable. Author of ‘The Professional’s Guide to Audio Podcast Production.’ What hardware and software do you use to record and edit audio? Do you use any specialized plug-ins? My primary computer is a 2019 16” MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz...
In This Issue
SnapMotion, Spotify shortcuts, Alex’s Apple Watch setup, an interview with podcast editor Jim Metzendorf, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming podcast episodes....
Call for Volunteers
We’re working on some new things for MacStories that will launch later this year. If that sounds vague, it’s on purpose because everything is still in the planning stage, and it’s too early to share details. However, as we explore our options and ideas, we would love to draw on the expertise of Club members....
Interesting Links
Om Malik explains the profound effect the iPhone has had on photography, comparing it to the impact of Eastman Kodak’s Brownie camera had on film photography over 100 years ago. (Link Nuts is a unique Apple Arcade title involving squirrels and a mystery, and Shacknews has a terrific in-depth interview with one of its creators,...
Previously, On MacStories
CARROT Weather 5 Introduces New Design Elements, Custom Interface Builder, and More Apple Publishes ‘A Day in the Life of Your Data’ Case Study and Reveals That App Tracking Transparency is Coming in the Spring How Matt Birchler Is Using Hey Email, Almost One Year Later Apple Breaks Records with $111.4 Billion in Revenue for...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John talk about all the apps they use for writing, except text editors. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover a busy week at MacStories, recapping news of executive changes at Apple, Black History Month, Data Privacy Day, OS updates, and Time to Walk, plus...
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Interesting Links
Peer-to-peer transfer protocols were what made music sharing take off at the turn of the century, but now the same technique is being applied to decentralize web traffic with the IPFS protocol and has been adopted by the Brave browser as explained by The Verge. (Link) Bitcoin mining takes a lot of computing power, which,...