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This week, Jonathan has found en e-reader that’s just right, John imagines a more modular Mac mini, and we have a budget tracking app giveaway, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and this week’s episodes of MacStories podcasts....
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Niléane explains how to turn a Mac’s Dictation key into a mute switch, Jonathan adds to the team’s growing summertime travel experiments, and John wonders what happened to the power user app market, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and...
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