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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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Previously, On MacStories

iPhone 7: Computer from the Future Exploring the iMessage App Store One Month Later: Our Favorite Stickers and iMessage Apps OmniGraffle Standard and Pro for Mac Gets a Big Update The Iconfactory Goes All Out for Halloween Lessons From Phoneys’ Brief Life in the iMessage App Store Walt Mossberg on Siri’s Failures and Inconsistencies Lessons...


Home Screen: Jeremy Burge

Twitter: @jeremyburge. Founder of Emojipedia and host of the Emoji Wrap podcast. My Home screen currently has seven dots down the bottom which shows my organisational system: popular apps neatly organised on the first page, and the rest sprawling across the following pages in download order. Buffer: Emojiipedia has millions of visitors a month, but...


Interesting Links

Still not used to calling it “macOS” instead of OS X? Let Stephen Hackett guide you to the places where the X still stands. Simogo – makers of the excellent Year Walk, DEVICE 6, and many other games – have started sharing the first details of their next title, coming sometime in the future. Amazon...


In This Issue

Television Time,Great Console & PC Games Ported to iOS (Vol. 1), Jeremy Burge’sHome screen, plus the usualWorkflow Corner, Weekly Q&A, Tip, Links, and recap of MacStories articles....



Interesting Links

Zapier has introduced Push, a Chrome extension to manually run workflows for the hundreds of apps supported by Zapier. The Guardian was invited to have a look at Apple’s first iOS developer academy in Italy, opening this week in Naples. Sarah Larson, writing for The New Yorker, on living with Alexa for the past few...


Renaming and Uploading Multiple Images to Dropbox

THE WORKFLOW CORNER One of the longstanding annoyances of iOS is the inability to move multiple files at a time with the Open In/Copy To menu. In my daily iPhone and iPad usage, what I find particularly tedious is how slow uploading multiple images from the Photos app to Dropbox can be. While on the...



Home Screen: Fraser Speirs

Twitter: @fraserspeirs. Co-host of Out of School and Canvas podcasts. I wear a lot of hats at work as a school manager, classroom teacher, systems administrator, podcaster, public speaker, and sometime consultant to other schools. Let’s start with the dock which, on my iPad, is set up for a very work-optimised arrangement with the five...