Twitter: @robotspacer. Founder of Junecloud, creator of Deliveries for iOS and the Mac. How did you get started as a developer and with creating Deliveries? I grew up making things on Macintosh computers. I’ve always been more into art than programming, but tools like HyperCard and Director made it easy to play around with animation...
In This Issue
Bitmoji, Recording Audio on Macs and iOS, a tip for quick list creation in Reminders, Federico’s Photos shortcuts for his iOS 12 review, an interview with Deliveries creator Mike Piontek, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....
Turn Touch: Beautiful Control [Sponsor]
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The Turn Touch features just four buttons, but with taps, double taps, and tap-and-hold, the device puts an astonishing range of control at your fingertips. The Turn Touch is tough too. It’s constructed from dense, durable woods that stand up to shocks, drops, and dirt. What’s more, the Turn Touch is always on, ready to make the most of your smart home devices.
The Turn Touch works with a long list of smart devices. Control your Mac or iOS devices, Hue lights, Sonos speakers, WeMo devices, smart thermostats, and much more. Configuring the Turn Touch is simple from an iOS device or Mac, and once it’s set up, the Touch Touch’s battery lasts about a year ensuring that it’s there when you need it.
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Smart devices don’t have to be made of cheap, ugly plastic. Check out Turn Touch today to learn more, and bring beautiful control to your smart home.
Our thanks to Turn Touch for sponsoring MacStories this week.
PowerPhotos - The Ultimate Toolbox for Photos on the Mac [Sponsor]
PowerPhotos is a powerful utility for the Mac that lets you merge or split Photos libraries and eliminate duplicate photos. People use multiple Photos libraries for all sorts of reasons, but one of the most common is to break an enormous library of tens of thousands of photos into smaller more manageable sub-libraries.
PowerPhotos is just the tool you need to manage all of your photos across libraries. From the creator of iPhoto Library Manager, PowerPhotos provides the same sophisticated toolset and more for Apple’s Photos app.
You can store photo libraries on external or networked drives and copy photos while maintaining and preserving albums and related metadata like keywords, titles, dates, locations, and descriptions. Not only can PowerPhotos help by splitting up your Photos library into multiple libraries, it can merge them too. The app also makes it easy to find and eliminate duplicate photos.
One of the most powerful features is the ability to search across multiple libraries at one time. It’s a great feature that allows you to search as though all you photos were in one library even when they aren’t. Finally, PowerPhotos can ease the transition to Photos helping you migrate multiple iPhoto or Aperture libraries to Photos.
We have a special limited-time deal just for MacStories readers. Receive 20% off at checkout by using the coupon code MACSTORIES18. Even if you haven’t had time to set up multiple Photos libraries yet, grab this deal now so you have PowerPhotos’ tools at your disposal when you’re ready take the plunge.
Our thanks to PowerPhotos for sponsoring MacStories this week.
Interview
A few weeks back, as we were celebrating the 10th anniversary of the App Store, a relatively new app developer, Matt Barker, wrote in and shared his story with the MacStories team. We loved getting to hear from someone new to app development who’s finding success on the App Store today, and wanted to...
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Interesting Links
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In This Issue
Outcast, Apps Perfect for Relaxing (Vol. 1), a 10% discount on time tracking app Timing, how to read Instapaper articles on your Kindle, filtering URLs from Reminders, Matt Barker’s story about getting started with iOS development, plus the usualWorkflow Corner, Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next...

