There aren’t many details, but The Verge reported this week that Apple has acquired music analytics company Asaii that boasts the ability to identify ‘the next Justin Bieber’ with its music discovery technology. (Link) Craig Grannell uses reduced transparency on his Mac and questions on his blog, Revert to Saved, the wisdom of using the...
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In This Issue
MarginNote,Advanced Photography for Everyone, Federico answers a long list of Club member workflow requests, Ryan’s home screen, the results of our Apple Watch poll, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a sneak peek at next week’s AppStories topic....
Interesting Links
New life was breathed into an old script that provides a Quick Look of audio files in iTunes that is now capable of trimming those files. (Link) In another demonstration of the iPhone XS’s camera quality, it holds its own in a side-by-side test with a $7,500 Canon video camera. (Link) Professional photographer Annie Leibovitz,...
Straw Poll
Straw Poll #25 - Apple Watch Series 4 Written Responses What Is Your Favorite Complication? A relatively consistent and small number of complications came up as Club members’ favorites. Among the complications with the most mentions in roughly the order from most mentions to least were: CARROT Weather Drafts Fantastical Streaks Things Pedometer++ Activity Weather...
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Home Screen: Ryan Christoffel
Twitter: @iryantldr. MacStories editor and team member since 2016. Over the last couple years I’ve stopped restoring my newly purchased iPhone from a backup, and instead set it up as new. As such, my home screen received a fresh layout just last month when my iPhone XS Max arrived. My home screen reveals a lot...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John discuss some of their most commonly-used shortcuts....