Twitter: @genadyo. Creator of Momento. What was the inspiration behind your GIF creation app, Momento? I am an amateur photographer and I take a lot of photos. I found myself with around 40,000 photos, and it’s impossible to find anything with a library so vast (and growing by the day). I wanted to create something...
Previously, On MacStories
Apple Addresses the Meltdown and Spectre Exploits With Additional Mitigations to Come Track Hyper-Local Weather Conditions With the Netatmo Weather Station Panic to Discontinue Development of Transmit iOS Reverse-Engineering the iPhone X Home Indicator Color Matt Wilkinson Joins Beats 1’s Primetime Lineup Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility Sharing Links from Twitter for iOS Appends...
Interesting Links
Wired has an inside look at Amazon’s lab where it builds and tests Alexa-enabled devices in Sunnyvale, California. (Link) The WebKit team has an excellent explanation of how the Spectre and Meltdown security issues affect WebKit-based browsers that provides a plain-English summary of the issues as well as a deep-dive into the technical side of...
A Roundup of CES Home Automation and Apple Accessory Announcements
CES is a big, messy spectacle that has everything from vaporware and products you didn’t know you needed – and probably don’t – to truly cool new gadgets. We’ve been following the announcements this week and have rounded up a collection of the most interesting and promising gear we’ve seen so far. Many of these products have not shipped yet, so we haven’t had an opportunity to try them, but these are gadgets we will be watching closely throughout 2018 and that are likely to turn up again on MacStories later this year. CES doesn’t end until Friday, so be sure to check back for updates on any additional announcements that catch our eyes.
In This Issue
This month, we have another exclusive episode of AppStories Unplugged for Club members, Stephen covers iOS apps he’d like to see brought to the Mac, Ryan reflects on the tech lessons he’s learned in 2017, and John discusses the writing apps he uses when he’s not using a text editor....
Our Favorite Gear and Accessories of 2017
For each of us, iOS devices or Macs dominate our day-to-day computing, but they don’t tell the full story. Whether it’s a battery pack to keep a device charged, the latest game console for kicking back and relaxing, or a comfortable chair for sitting at a desk while writing, we use a wide variety of other products for work and play. So, with 2017 coming to a close, we compiled a list of our favorite gear and accessories that we used this past year.
In This Issue
Feed Hawk, Games for Holiday Gatherings, Sebastiaan de With’s Home screen, an interview with Matt Birchler, plus the usualWeekly Q&A, Tip, Links, App Debuts, stickers, and recap of MacStories articles....
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
We are taking a two-week holiday break from recording AppStories. We’ll be back on January 8, 2018 with an all-new episode....
Straw Poll
Straw Poll #21: Home Automation Responses...