This month, Stephen looks back at Steve Jobs’ Digital Hub strategy and iTunes, John builds a workspace, and Ryan optimizes how he works on iOS....
Interesting Links
Fast Company interviewed John Giannandrea, Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering to talk about how Google is bringing AI to its products, cloud services, mobile devices, and the open source community. (Link) Intel is building Thunderbolt 3 support into its CPUs and offering the specification to third parties royalty-free next year as a way of...
Interview: Jelly Bean Soup (née Daniel Farrelly)
Twitter: @jellybeansoup. Co-host of theindependencepodcast andcreator of GIFwrapped. Where did you get the nickname Jelly? When I was a kid, our dog at the time was always having litters of puppies, and my sister and I would name every one. One such puppy ended up with the name “jellybeansoup”, which stuck with me until I...
Home Screen: Tim Nahumck
Twitter: @nahumck. Co-host of the Fundamentally Broken podcast and author of nahumck.me Setting up Home screens can be a huge mental burden. Choosing the right wallpaper, layouts, apps, etc. can be painstaking for some. For me, creating the ideal Home screen layout starts with the wallpaper. My current wallpaper is one that I found via...
Previously, On MacStories
iOS 11: iPad Wishes and Concept Video Game Day: Old Man’s Journey Nike Announces New Collection of Apple Watch Bands Apple’s New Switch to iPhone Ad Campaign Anker Is Building an Electronics Accessory Empire Screens 4.0 for macOS Adds Curtain Mode, Drag-And-Drop File Transfers, Touch Bar Support, and More Snapchat Adds Collaboration to Stories IKEA’s...
In This Issue
Behind the scenes of the MacStories iOS 11 concept video, MindNode, Apps with Apple Pencil Support (Vol. 1), an interview with James Thomson, Alex MC’s Home screen, plus the usualWorkflow Corner,Tip, Stickers, App Debuts, Links, and recap of MacStories articles....
Interesting Links
Over the next few months, push notifications will become available for skills on the Amazon Echo and third-party Alexa devices. The first skills to add notification support will be AccuWeather, The Washington Post, Just Eat, and Life360. (Link) GIPHY has added the ability to save GIFs as Live Photos on iOS, allowing users to preview...
iOS 11 Concept Video: Behind the Scenes, by Sam Beckett
Background Sam: Last year, Federico reached out to me to see if I would collaborate with him and produce a concept video for the upcoming iOS 10 release. This proved to be a really fruitful partnership, where Federico set the vision, we both refined it and then I brought it to life with mockups and...
Interview: James Thomson
Twitter: @jamesthomson. iOS and macOS developer, creator of PCalc and DragThing. Apple has never brought its system Calculator app to the iPad. Why do you think that is? I’m not sure to be honest, although I’m obviously quite glad since I believe it brought PCalc to a much wider audience. Only yesterday I saw there...