MacStories Team

3292 posts on MacStories since July 2011

Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

Home Screen: Teddy Svoronos

Twitter: @tedsvo; Website: teddysvoronos.com.Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Screen 1: Work The layout of my Home screen is a function of how I’ve adapted to the iOS 11 dock-centric approach of working. With this in mind, the vast majority of my time is spent interacting...


Interview: Shawn Blanc

Twitter: @shawnblanc. Founder of shawnblanc.net, The Sweet Setup, Tools & Toys, The Focus Course, Learn Ulysses,All The Things, and more. 1. You’ve made a number of online courses including the Focus Course, All The Things, and Learn Ulysses. What’s the process like developing and producing projects like those? Basically there are three main phases: (1)...


Home Screen: Jason Snell

Twitter: @jsnell. Editor-in-Chief of Six Colors, host of podcasts at The Incomparable and Relay FM, and Macworld columnist. In the intervening three years since I last updated you on my Home screen, there have been a lot of changes. Most notably, I have lifted Slack above email in my personal communication hierarchy. (I also abandoned...


Interesting Links

Submitted to Apple as a WWDC ‘18 scholarship application, VPL is a proof of concept visual programming language that assembles executable Swift code using touch gestures and an Apple Pencil. (Link) Instagram is cutting off API access for some developers and limiting how often apps can use the API to retrieve user information. The change...


In This Issue

Copied for Mac,a calendar event template workflow, Ryan looks at when app subscriptions work and when they don’t in The Extension, an interview with Shawn Blanc, Jason Snell’s Home screen, plus the usualWeekly Q&A, App Debuts, Links, a recap of MacStories articles, and a sneak peek at next week’s episode of AppStories....


In This Issue

This month, Ryan looks at improving Apple Music’s social features and expanding them to other apps, Stephen considers how Apple’s new Everyone Can Create curriculum fits into the company’s educaton strategy, and John grades himself on his education event predictions....


In This Issue

Pigment,Drag and Drop on iPhone, two great giveaways, how to turn a GIF into a Live Photo wallpaper, a workflow for adding items from a DEVONthink group to a Things project, iPads Around the World with Chris Nehren, an online student, plus the usual App Debuts, Links, and recap of MacStories articles....


Interesting Links

If you enjoyed Stephen Hackett’s video about Apple’s short-lived Pippen game console, check out this article on Ars Technica, adapted from Richard Moss’ book The Secret History of Mac Gaming, for even more details about the system, which debuted in the early 90s. (Link) Sensor Tower data highlights the most successful ARKit-only apps presently on...


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