Since Club MacStories was launched in 2015, nearly every issue of MacStories Weekly has featured a Favorite iOS, iPadOS, Mac, or Apple Watch app. It’s a chance for the MacStories team to spotlight an app that we believe deserves members’ attention. Sometimes that’s because the app fills a need in a unique way, and other...
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Announcement
Happy New Year! To mark the return of MacStories Weekly after our two-week holiday break, we wanted to do something a little different. This week’s issue of the newsletter includes many of the same sections readers have come to expect each week, but with a twist. Because this is the first issue of the new...
In This Issue
In this special New Year’s issue: A collection of our favorite health, fitness, wellness, productivity, and personal finance apps to kick off 2020, giveaways of each of the apps in the collection, a New Year’s Shortcuts Pack from Federico, answers to member shortcut requests, an interview with 9to5Mac’s Zac Hall, an all-new members-only eBook collecting...
In This Issue
This month, how Ryan improved his tech life in 2019, Stephen on three Apple products that made a difference for him in 2019, and John clears out the digital cruft from the year gone by....
2019 Winter Festival of Artisanal Software [Sponsor]
The 2019 Artisanal Software Festival is a fantastic collection of carefully-crafted apps for writing, research, thinking, and more at terrific prices. As in past years, software artisans from around the globe come together to offer fair discounts direct to you from the workshop door.
The 17 apps span a wide spectrum that will assist you with everyday knowledge work. There are apps to plan your next big project, conduct research, organize your research, edit images, manage email, write, and more:
- Tinderbox – Visualize and organize ideas and plans.
- Panorama X – Collect, organize, and understand your data.
- Nisus Writer Pro – The powerful word processor for the Mac.
- DEVONthink 3 - Your paperless Mac office.
- Aeon Timeline 2 – The timeline tool for creative thinking.
- TextExpander – Recall your best words. Instantly, repeatedly.
- Spam Sieve – powerful email spam filtering
- Storyspace – Serious hypertext narrative.
- Bookends – The reference manager you’ve been looking for.
- Trickster – Your recently used files, at your fingertips.
- PDFpen – Powerful PDF editing.
- HoudahSpot – Powerful file search for Mac.
- HoudahGeo – Photo geotagging.
- DEVONagent Pro – Your smart (re)search assistant.
- BBEdit – Power tool for text.
- ImageFramer Pro – Your art. Showcased.
- Hook – Work smarter.
Tools with attitude: no gimmicks, no bundles, no gotchas – just saving of hundreds of dollars on these fine tools for a limited time. Visit the WinterFest website now for links to amazing deals each of these fantastic apps and to learn more.
Our thanks to the 2019 Artisanal Software Festival for sponsoring MacStories this week.
In This Issue
Countdowns, the MacStories Selects Honorable Mentions, a big Remote, Mouse & Keyboard app giveaway, Federico’s Club-exclusive MusicBot Pro shortcut, MacStories Unplugged, a teaser for aspecialissue of MacStories Weeklycoming January 10th,plus the usual Links, App Debuts,arecap of MacStories articles, and an update on MacStories’ podcasts....
MacStories Unplugged
[[unplugged_artwork]] La Dolce Vita Federico and John recorded this month’s episode of MacStories Unplugged in person from Rome, talking about video games, apps for planning long-term projects, and high-resolution digital audio. Show Notes Video Games Link’s Awakening 3DS Version Switch Version Pokemon Sword and Shield An Introduction to the Video Game Championships Making the Jump...
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