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: Bryan Irace

Twitter: @irace. Engineering at New Company. Ex-Tumblr. I leave the bottom row empty because I like being able to temporarily put apps there when traveling, or when beta testing something new. It also causes me to put real thought into which apps to prominently locate. I probably open Instagram more than Remote, for example, but...


John’s iOS Apps for Conferences (Vol. 1)

There are certain apps that I like to move to my Home screen or at least keep within easy reach on the second page of apps when I go to a conference. With WWDC coming up, I thought I’d share a few that I like to use at WWDC in particular. GoodNotes Unlike the...


Previously, On MacStories

Tweetbot 4.3 Introduces ‘Topics’ for Easier Tweetstorm Creation A Podcasting Divergence Linky 5.3 Adds ‘Markup’ Feature for Image Annotations INKS Review: Painting with Pinball Gemini 2 Trims More Fat from Your Mac Than Ever Before Instagram Says Goodbye to Skeuomorphism with New Icon, Redesign Apple Shortening App Review Times Google Releases Gboard, a Search Keyboard...


Straw Poll

Welcome to Straw Poll! We’ve been thinking of ways to get more community involvement, and so we’re going to start sharing a poll every week or so in the Telegram MacStories Lounge. They are pretty brief and informal, but we think they might also be really interesting. We posted the third Straw Poll earlier this...


Interesting Links

The creators of Siri are working on a new digital assistant with big plans for a platform open to developers. It’s called Viv and it’s set to launch later this year. Intriguing, but we’ll have to see what Apple has in store for Siri at WWDC. Stephen Hackett’s iMac G3 Project now has a hub...


Interesting Links

What a bot platform could look like on iOS with a possible AgentKit framework. Intriguing prospect. Matt Hackett on rebuilding Beme for iOS and Android. See also: Casey Neistat’s video. Instapaper has a new and improved full text search for premium users, who can now sort results, search in titles, filter by author and site,...


Previously, On MacStories

With Launcher 2.0, I’m Rethinking My Notification Center Widgets Annotable Is the Most Versatile Image Annotation Tool for iOS Yet Hazel 4 Adds Rule Previewing, Sync, and More SoundShare Launches an Ambitious Social Network For Music Fans SketchParty TV 4.0 with New Look, Improved Gameplay Overcast 2.5.2 with Quicksync OutlineEdit Packs Power Into a Simple...


Home Screen: Graham Spencer

Twitter: @greyham. MacStories Editor. TAP IMAGE TO VIEW FULL SCREENSHOT OF NOTIFICATION CENTER Notification Center widgets aren’t hugely important to me, but they have become useful enough that I use them a handful of times every day. Easily the most used widget is the LIFX widget, which lets me control my two bedroom LIFX lightbulbs....


In This Issue

This month, Federico takes us behind the scenes on how the iOS 10 concept story was developed, and John shares some of the workflows he has been using to share audio clips to the MacStories Telegram channel....