Khaos Tian, the developer that discovered the recently revealed and fixed HomeKit vulnerability tells the story behind their efforts to get Apple to fix the security hole, which went uncorrected until 9to5Mac published the developer’s story about the issue. (Link) Ben Thompson looks back at 2017 at Stratechery.com and the overarching themes that dominated the...
Previously, On MacStories
The State of Nintendo’s Smartphone Games PDF Viewer 2.1 Adopts iOS 11 Document Browser How Apple Watch Saved One Man’s Life Rainbrow, a Game Controlled by the iPhone X’s TrueDepth Camera Spark: The Future of Email [Sponsor] My Must-Have iOS Apps, 2017 Edition Pokémon GO’s ARKit-Powered Release Coming Soon AutoSleep 5 Adds Automatic Apple Watch...
Interview: Matt Birchler
Twitter: @mattbirchler. Author of birchtree.me and creator of Today’s Forecast and The BirchTree Podcast. What role does the iPad currently play in your life? And how has your recent move from an iPad Air 2 to an iPad Pro impacted your iPad usage? The iPad has been a big part of my computer usage for...
Home Screen: Sebastiaan de With
Twitter: @sdw*. Freelance designer and photographer, designer of Halide, and motorcycle world traveler.* Lock screen: I use a photo from Division XVI as my Lock screen (it fades in super cool), and sometimes photos from Halide users. I use Google Fi on my iPhone X, but it shows the local Dutch carrier as I am...
Announcement
Dear Members, Thanks again for your support this year. As a reminder, this is our last MacStories Weekly issue of 2017. We will return in the new year on January 12th. In the meantime, you will receive the Monthly Log the last week of December, which will be our 61st newsletter of 2017. While we...
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In This Issue
Productive,Alternatives to Apple’sHome App, Matthew Cassinelli’s Home screen, an interview with Riley Testut,plus the usualWorkflow Corner, Weekly Q&A, Tip, Links, App Debuts, and recap of MacStories articles....
Interesting Links
Dave Nanian details how SuperDuper!, the macOS app for cloning your Mac’s boot drive, has been updated with APFS snapshots, which gives it Time Machine-like powers to roll back a drive to certain points in the past. (Link) Gamasutra has an interesting interview with Francois Alliot, the developer behind Reigns and Reigns: Her Majesty, a...
Interview: Riley Testut
Twitter: @rileytestut. Independent iOS developer, USC student. You’ve released a Game Boy emulator for iOS called GBA4iOS and are working on a much bigger app called Delta to emulate Game Boy, SNES, and N64 games. How did you get started with emulation? Around Christmas 2011, I came across a link on Twitter with instructions on...