Twitter: @mcbramhill; Website: markbramhill.com. Creator of Welcome to Macintosh. 1. How did you get started podcasting? Like most podcasters and radio producers, I started as an avid listener, especially of more produced podcasts like This American Life or Radiolab or 99% Invisible. Absurd amounts of my time were (and continue to be) spent listening to...
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Learnji Learnji helps you learn a new language through emoji, and we’ve got 10 promo codes exclusively for Club MacStories members. Simply enter your Club MacStories email address using the link below, and we will randomly select 10 winners. Entries close 9 PM New York time on Thursday, August 24th. Winners will be contacted within...
In This Issue
Affinity Photo,iOS space apps, an app giveaway, an interview with Mark Bramhill,Bradley Chambers’Home screen, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Tip, Links, stickers, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s AppStories episode....
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Coming up next week on AppStories, Federico and John interview Dermot Daly, founder of Tapadoo, a Dublin-based app development studio, about how he got started, the Tapadoo origin story, what it’s like to develop apps in the regulated medical field, the challenges of working for clients and facing iOS developers today, and more....
Interesting Links
Decades before Steve Jobs demoed pinch-to-zoom on the first iPhone, he visited Carnegie Mellon University to see what a team on-campus was doing with one of the world’s first multitouch interfaces and a pinch-to-zoom predecessor. (Link) A major update to f.lux was introduced this week, bringing a variety of improvements like bedtime mode, new settings...
Home Screen: Bradley Chambers
Twitter: @bradleychambers. Co-host of Out of Schooland Writer at Chambers Daily and Tools & Toys. My iOS 11 Home screen is finally to a place where it makes me happy. I have four folders up top. Productivity should really be called ‘Frequent’ because it mainly contains apps I use often. Lifestyle includes media, shopping, and...
Interview: Jason Snell
Twitter: @jsnell. Founder and Editor in Chief of Six Colors; Podcaster on The Incomparable andRelay FM. 1. You recently launched a new podcast for Relay FM called Download. What is the basic premise behind the show, and how does it differ from your other tech-focused show, Upgrade? Last year, I was talking to Myke Hurley...
Interesting Links
John Gruber takes on facile arguments that Apple should defy China over iOS VPN apps that have not received a license from the government, explaining the complexities of the situation for Apple and its customers. (Link) The Emoji Subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium has proposed 67 draft candidates for encoding into Unicode 11 including frowning...
Home Screen: Ryan Christoffel
Twitter: @iryantldr. Writer for MacStories and Club MacStories. iOS 11 is such a fundamental change for the iPad that it requires a complete rethinking of Home screen and dock. Going from six apps in the dock to many more than that is game-changing. On the 12.9” iPad Pro you can have fifteen docked apps, plus...