It may feel like a conspiracy, but The Atlantic explains the puzzling connectivity issues passengers often experience as soon as they board an airplane. (Link) Plex has added free ad-supported movies to its service, but the quality of the films included is quite poor. (Link) Spotify has named the top songs, artists, playlists, and podcasts...
Interview: Alex Hay
Twitter: @mralexhay. Documentary editor and creator of Toolbox Pro. How would you describe Toolbox Pro in a sentence or two? It’s a digital Swiss-army knife, bundling some of the most powerful Apple frameworks into the drag-and-drop simplicity of Apple’s Shortcuts app, opening up brand new opportunities for automation on iOS and iPadOS. How did you...
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Introducing the MacStories Selects Readers’ Choice Award
For this year’s edition of the MacStories Selects Awards, we wanted to involve Club members by asking you to pick your favorite iOS or iPadOS app of 2019. The app doesn’t have to have been released this year, but it must be from a third-party developer. No Apple apps allowed. The button below leads to...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John share their 2020 wishes for Apple’s system apps on iOS and the Mac....
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In This Issue
This month, Ryan’s impressions of the AirPods Pro one month later, Stephen imagines what a 14-inch MacBook Pro might look like, and John shares his first impressions of the Shoulderpod G2 iPhone camera grip....
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MacStories Unplugged
[[unplugged_artwork]] This month, Federico and John talk about Black Friday, Amazon stores, Beats Studio 3, AirPods Pro, the Loupedeck+, the upcoming Apple Music shortcuts Federico has been building, the MacStories Selects awards, a special New Year’s issue of MacStories Weekly coming January 10th, and the Black Friday/Cyber Monday MacStories Shortcuts Icons 50% off sale. Show...