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.

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Ales Nesetril has a few ideas on how the iTunes Web Preview and iOS app installation experience could be improved. This week in encryption: OmniFocus has added support for end-to-end encryption; the Day One team is still working on it. LaunchKit is joining Google. Their tools to help developers launch apps have been open-sourced. An...


In This Issue

This month, Federico writes about consolidating years of photos, John automates his new ecobee3 Smart Thermostat, the debut of Reader Setups, and we share the results from Straw Poll #11....



Reader Setups

Reader Setup is a new section in which we’ll highlight iOS and Mac physical setups from our readers. If you have an interesting setup, or make a novel use of accessories and other hardware, please let us know. Paul Biba Twitter: @paulkbiba, Club MacStories Member I thought you guys might find my setup of interest....


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Panda, a different take on the desktop news reader, has launched a beta of version 5.0. New features include more layouts, customization, integrations, and pro subscription plans. Emojipedia has partnered with DuckDuckGo for emoji definitions in search results and “bang search” shortcuts. Drew Coffman on how you can copy your Kindle highlights to Evernote. Mindfulness...


Home Screen: Andrew Stewart

Twitter: @astewartPhD.Assistant Professor at Clark University, Club MacStories Member. As an assistant professor at a research university, the apps on my iPhone, iPad, and Macs are essential to getting my work done. OmniFocus is my favorite task management app because it’s incredibly powerful, integrates project review seamlessly, and works very well across all of my...


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Home Screen: Will Hains

Twitter: @willhains.Programmer. Since iOS 7 I have arranged my Home screens to a three-page discipline, where the middle page is my “first” Home screen. This way, the other two pages are always only one swipe away, and Spotlight, too (down, rather than right or left). Since iOS 10 shows a dot for the widgets screen...