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Comfort Zone
Niléane is out on assignment, so Chris and Matt hold down the fort, discussing what “pro” tools look like, the most pro Thunderbolt dock you can buy, and how they automated their note-taking.
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MacStories Unwind
This week, automation crimes, HomeKit gardens, tattoo crime shows, and videogames. It’s a packed episode, just in time for the long holiday weekend in the U.S.
Magic Rays of Light
Sigmund and Devon discuss what the future of the theatrical experience could look like and look back at Apple Original French culinary drama Carême.
Comfort Zone, Episode 56, ‘If It’s Not Space Black, It’s Not Pro’ Show Notes
Main Topics
- What makes something “pro”?
- CalDigit TS5 Plus
Other stuff
- F1 movie had a great opening weekend
- Parallels
- Hush
- ScreenFlow
- Audio Hijack
- Actions for Obsidian
- OWC Thunderbolt 4 Dock
- Roadcaster Duo
- Scarlet Solo
- Zoom H4N
- Sennheiser MKE
Follow the Hosts
- Chris on YouTube
- Matt on Birchtree
- Niléane on Mastodon
- Comfort Zone on Mastodon
- Comfort Zone on Bluesky
MacStories Unwind, ‘Tending Your HomeKit Garden’ Show Notes
Automation and HomeKit Crimes
- HomeKit-Compatible Kasa Smart Plugs
- HDHomeRun
- Love Island (USA and Italy)
- ‘Montoya, por favor!’ the viral Spanish clip that could change reality TV for ever Television The Guardian
- ‘Montoya Por Favor!’
Picks
- John’s Pick:
- Blindspot on Netflix
- Federico’s Picks:
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Magic Rays of Light, Episode 175, ‘The Future of Cinema and Carême’ Show Notes
The Future of Cinema
- 28 Years Later
- Martin Scorsese no longer watches films in cinemas due to audience bad behaviour | The Guardian
- Apple Granted 34 Patents Today Covering an Advanced Infrared Camera System that could work with Apple Pay & Much More | Patently Apple
- Apple won a Wild patent for an Augmented Reality Light System that projects AR content onto tables, walls+ without a Headset | Patently Apple
- Apple Just Patented an Image Sensor With 20 Stops of Dynamic Range | Y.M.Cinema Magazine
Releases
Extras
- What’s Coming in July 2025 | Foundation, Acapulco & More
- Apple Fitness+ Workouts Inspired by F1: The Movie
- Smoke — An Inside Look
- Foundation — Actually Helpful Recap: Fast Forward to Season 3
- Shrinking — Celebrating Pride with Michael Urie
- Inside the high-speed production of ‘F1 The Movie’ | Apple News In Conversation
- Jerry Bruckheimer: On Working with Apple Films, Lewis Hamilton, and F1 | The Zane Lowe Show
- Stick’s Ultimate Guide to Golf Hot Spots | Apple Maps
- Owen Wilson on Hot Ones
- The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott
Recap
TV App Highlights
- The Instigators
- Ballerina: From the World of John Wick
- Thunderbolts*
- The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
- Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
- Tornado
- The Luckiest Man in America
- On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
- Sinners
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MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Comfort Zone, and NPC: Next Portable Console that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.
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