lire RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry. Unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browseror depend on third party text parsing services,in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds...
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Interview: Markus Müller-Simhofer
Twitter: @MullerSimhofer. Developer of MindNode and founder of IdeasOnCanvas. What has been the most challenging change to Apple’s OSes for you to deal with in updating MindNode? There are two new security enhancements in iOS 14 that took a surprising amount of time to adapt to. One change is related to querying user-installed fonts and...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John dig in deep on Federico’s much-anticipated iOS and iPadOS 14 review. Keep an eye out because AppStories will be published a little later than usual next week to coincide with the release of Federico’s review. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover Ulysses, Timery,...
CardioBot: Heart Rate and Activity Tracker [Sponsor]
CardioBot is a heart rate and activity tracker built from the ground up to help you lead a healthier life. The app is based on the latest studies by the American Heart Association and Mayo Clinic, and with the release of version 5, CardioBot is better than ever.
CardioBot uses a simple Heart Points system to help you keep track of whether you’re getting the recommended amount of aerobic exercise every day. There’s even an iOS 14 widget to help you track your points right on your Home Screen, and a heart rate widget for get a quick update throughout your day.
The app also tracks your resting heart rate and lets you know if you experience any significant changes. If you’ve got the latest Apple Watch Series 6, CardioBot can monitor your blood oxygen levels too, an important measurement of overall wellness. Of course, as with past versions, CardioBot also tracks your workouts to make sure you’re hitting your target heart rate and whether you’re getting enough sleep.
All of these advanced features are packed into a beautiful and recently-updated iPhone UI that makes it simple to understand your heart data and track your fitness progress using variety of graphs and trend analysis. CardioBot also includes an elegantly-designed Apple Watch app.
Download CardioBot from the App Store and start tracking your heart rate and activity today.
Our thanks to CardioBot for sponsoring MacStories this week.
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Interview: Tanmay Sonawane
Twitter: @tanmays. Website: tanmay.me. Creator of Soor,an iOS music app. Soor offers widgets that enable significantly more functionality than what’s found with the widget for Apple’s Music app. How did you decide what functionality to include, and what to leave out, when developing Soor’s widgets? Right from the day that iOS 14 beta 1 dropped,...
In This Issue
Tempo: Workout Log for Runners, Volume 3 of apps with iOS 14 widgets, 10 more giveaways, an interview with Soor developer Tanmay Sonawane, Mail for Mac and Twitter for iOS tips, automating Hue lights, plus the usualLinks, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories podcast episodes....
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