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: Johanna Romero

Twitter: @johaleesi. I.T. Support Manager on a journey to become an iOS developer. My Dock My dock houses the applications I use the most. As the proud owner of a 10.5” iPad Pro, I can only fit up to 13 apps in there. As a power user though, I need more, thus a folder of...


Perks

Streaks Exclusively for Club MacStories members, we have 10 promotional codes for Streaks, one of our favorite iOS apps for helping you form good habits. You can read John’s review of Streaks 3.0 here. Simply enter your Club MacStories email address in the Google Form linked below and we will randomly select 10 winners. Entries...


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In This Issue

Clips,Goofybut Fun Apps, an interview with Streaks developer Quentin Zervaas, Kyle Seth Gray’s Home screen, Brian King’s video production setup, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, stickers, and recap of MacStories articles....


Interview: Quentin Zervaas

Twitter: @qzervaas. Founder of Crunchy Bagel, creator of Apple Design Award winner Streaks, Streaks Workout, Health Face, and other apps. With a big update to Streaks around the corner, we wanted to ask Quentin Zervaas about what we can look forward to from the update, what he’s looking forward to in iOS 11, and more....


Reader Setup: Brian King

Twitter: @bkbkbk. Video producer and editor. As a video editor and the owner of a production company, I need a Mac setup that works well when I’m editing on location. It also needs to be comfortable when I’m at the office and deep in a long editing session. Previously, I was running with a 27”...


Interesting Links

Marc Zeedar, writing for TidBITS, argues that abandoned apps pose a threat to the viability of the App Store as a professional computing platform. (Link) Dipayan Ghosh takes the position in a New York Times opinion piece that Apple’s recently-announced Guizhou, China data center will undermine Chinese citizens’ access to the Internet. (Link) Emoji are...


Home Screen: Kyle Seth Gray

Twitter: @kylesethgray. Digital Marketer, Cyclist, Web Developer, Music Lover. I’ve felt for the longest time that Find My Friends was one of the most underrated apps on iOS. While Google and Facebook have introduced similar features, Find My Friends is great because it doesn’t store any location info and doesn’t murder your battery. I love...


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