MacStories Unwind: AirPods Max, Fitness+, Two New Shortcuts, and a HomeKit Lock Review

By John Voorhees

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This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• Apple Announces AirPods Max: Wireless Over-Ear Headphones Available Just in Time for the Holidays
• AirPods Max First Impressions Roundup
• Fitness+ Service Launching December 14th
• The Wall Street Journal Interviews Apple’s Jay Blahnik on Fitness+
• ShortSwitch: A Shortcut to Quickly Import Screenshots and Videos from a Nintendo Switch on Your iPhone and iPad
• Apple Frames, Now with Support for the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
• Level Touch: A HomeKit-Enabled Smart Lock That Everyone in Your Household Can Appreciate

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • A collection of modern note-taking apps
  • A shortcut for generating PDFs linked on a website
  • Alex takes a trip down memory lane with Phoenix
• MacStories Unplugged
  • Using Craft for work

AppStories

• Episode 197 – Workflows Revisited: Note-Taking

Unwind

• Federico’s Pick:
  • The Last Campfire by Hello Games
• John’s Pick:
  • Marvel’s latest Black Widow series written by Kelly Thompson and art by Elena Casagrande

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MacStories Unwind: Apple’s Year-End Award Winning Apps, Music, Podcasts, and Books, youtube-dl on iPad, Texting Alexa, and the iPhone MagSafe Wallet

By John Voorhees

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This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• Apple Names App of the Year Winners
• Apple Recognizes Best Books, Audiobooks, and Podcasts of 2020
• Year-End Music Insights From Apple’s Replay 2020 and Top 100 Playlists, Plus MacStories’ Apple Music Wrapped Shortcut
• Apple Announces Partnership with (RED) to Combat HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 and Highlights Its PPE Donations in Zambia
• Amazon Rolling Out “Type with Alexa” Feature in iOS App
• Downloading YouTube Videos on iPad with youtube-dl and a-Shell
• Peter McKinnon on Apple’s MagSafe Wallet

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  * A collection of focused Mac utilities
  * Federico’s custom menu bar URL scheme launcher

AppStories

• Episode 196 – Workflows Revisited: Email

Unwind

• Federico’s Pick:
  • Plastic Hearts by Miley Cyrus
  • Wonder by Shawn Mendes
• John’s Pick:
  • folklore: the long pond studio sessions by Taylor Swift
  • Indie Chillout

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MacStories Unwind: The App Store Small Business Program, M1 Macs, Music Awards, Photography, and Home Screen Shortcuts

By John Voorhees

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This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Club MacStories
• Apple Reduces App Store Commissions to 15% for Small Businesses Starting Next Year
• Apple M1 Mac Review Roundup: Big Performance and Battery Gains
• Apple Launches an Embeddable Web Players for Podcasts
• Winners of the Second Annual Apple Music Awards Announced
• GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl, Commits to New Policies for Protecting Developers
• Sebastiaan de With Reviews the iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera
• Custom Shortcut Icons No Longer Open the Shortcuts App First in iOS 14.3 Beta 2
• iOS 14.2, JIT, and Emulation at Full Performance

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • Crossy Road
  • Today ReScheduler shortcut updated to take advantage of ‘native’ edit reminder action
  • Big Sur widget tips (John)
  • What the M1 means to the native vs. web app debate

AppStories

• Episode 194 – macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review

Unwind

• Federico’s Picks:
  • The Pathless
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection
• John’s Pick:
  • Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.

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MacStories Unwind: Apple’s M1 Macs, Big Sur, MusicBot, and New Reviews

By John Voorhees

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Sponsored by: GoodTask – Better Widgets for Reminders and Calendars on iOS 14

This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• BestPhotos 3 Introduces Calendar View, A New Compare Interface, and More
• iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 mini Review Roundup
• Austin Mann’s iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Review
• PetaPixel Interviews Apple Executives on iPhone Camera Design Philosophy
• Apple Announces Availability of New M1-Based Macs and macOS Big Sur
• Replay Apple’s November 2020 Presentation and Other Videos
• Apple’s November 2020 Event: By the Numbers
• Apple Unveils New M1 Apple Silicon Chip for Macs
• The M1 MacBook Air and 13” MacBook Pro: The MacStories Overview
• The M1 Mac mini: The MacStories Overview
• MusicBot 1.1 Brings Shazam Integration, Music News and Reviews, Release Dates, Compact UI, and More
• Coming Soon: The 2020 Edition of the MacStories Selects Awards
• AirBuddy 2 Review: Fine-Grained, Customizable Control of the Wireless Headphones and Devices Connected to Your Mac
• iPhone and iPad Apps Are Coming to the Mac App Store
• Apple Add Automatic Updates in TestFlight 3.0
• Craft Review: A Powerful, Native Notes and Collaboration App
• HomePod mini Review Roundup
• macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review
• The Independent Interviews Federighi, Joz, and Ternus on M1 Macs

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • Collection: November Event Highlights
  • Behind the Scenes: The MacStories Big Sur Review
  • Federico: iPad Features I’d Miss on an Apple Silicon Mac
  • An interview with PCalc developer James Thomson
• MacStories Unplugged

AppStories

• Episode 193 – iOS Apps We Want on the Mac

Unwind

• Federico’s Pick:
  • Hyrule Warriors

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MacStories Unwind: iOS and iPadOS 14.2, Default HomePod Music Services, and Apple Silicon Macs

By John Voorhees

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Sponsored by: Shake – Bug Reporting Tool for Your Mobile App

This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• Apple One Subscription Bundles Are Now Available
• Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 14.2 with New Emoji, Wallpapers, AirPlay 2 Interface, AR Face Detection, and Shazam Toggle for Control Center
• Switching Your Default HomePod Music Service to Pandora
• Apple Announces November 10, 2020 Online Media Event

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • MacStories Favorite: Doodle Jump
  • Shortcuts Requests, including a way to archive webpages as images
  • John on what running iPhone and iPad apps on Apple silicon Mac might be like

AppStories

• Episode 192 – How Widgets Have Changed the Way We Use Our Devices

Unwind

• Federico’s Pick:
  • girlfriends by girlfriends
• John’s Pick:
  • Queen’s Gambit on Netflix

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MacStories Unwind: Shortcuts Corner, HomeKit WiFi Routers, Clips, and Music Widgets

By John Voorhees

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Sponsored by: Sketch – The Design Platform Trusted by Over One Million People

This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• Using Soor’s Widgets and Magic Mixes
• Managing the Internet Access of HomeKit Devices with the Linksys Velop Mesh WiFi Router System
• Apple Signs Jon Stewart to Expansive Deal for TV+ Series and More
• Clips 3.0 Brings New Video Aspect Ratios and an Upgraded iPad Experience
• Shortcuts Corner: Apple Frames for iPhone 12 and SE, Get Image Resolution, Encode Images to Base64, and Search Articles in Reeder
• Microsoft Is Rolling Out iPad Pointer Support to Its Office Suite

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • MacStories Favorite: Pixelmator Pro
  • A new Reeder shortcut
  • Ryan debates purchasing an iPhone 12 mini or Pro
• MacStories Unplugged
  • This week on Unplugged, our Club podcast, we discuss the upcoming release of Big Sur, Federico makes John nervous by poking around in Disk Utility and ejecting drives while he records, John gets fiber Internet and tests HomeKit mesh WiFi routers, and Federico unwinds post-iOS review.

AppStories

• Episode 191 – New Apps Enabled by Apple Hardware and OS Advances

Unwind

• Federico’s Pick:
  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• John’s Pick:
  • The Haunting of Bly Manor on Netflix

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MacStories Unwind: The All-New iPad Air, Halide Mark II, Reeder 5, and Creative Pro Apps

By John Voorhees

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Sponsored by: SaneBox – Organize Your Inbox (and Never Waste Time on Email Again) With SaneBox

This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• iPad Air Review: Forward-Looking
• Halide Mark II Review: The Convenience of Computational Photography and Flexibility of RAW in an Elegant Camera App
• Reeder 5 Review: Read Later Tagging, iCloud Sync, and Design Refinements
• Adobe MAX Kicks Off with Illustrator for iPad, Photoshop, Lightroom, and Fresco Updates for iPad, Plus the Addition of Fresco for iPhone
• Hands-On with the HomePod’s New Intercom Feature, Alarms, and Siri Tricks
• Apple Debuts New Music Video Streaming Service Called Apple Music TV

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • MacStories Favorite: Keep
  • A collection of technologies that will shape the future of Apple’s products
  • Ryan’s system for setting up a new iPhone
  • Lots of new and updated apps and more

AppStories

• Episode 189 – Apps and the iPhone Event: Apple’s Latest Innovations in the Home and Mobile Photography
• Episode 190 – The New iPad Air: Apple’s Most Forward-Looking iPad

Unwind

• Federico’s Pick:
  • You’re Worth It, EP by Hodera
• John’s Pick:
  • Serpentine Prison, Matt Berninger

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MacStories Unwind: The Best Ways to Enjoy Federico’s iOS and iPadOS 14 Review, Plus a Rundown of This Week’s Apple’s Event

By John Voorhees

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Sponsored by: Ulysses – The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad, and iPhone

This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• Federico’s Annual iOS and iPadOS Review
  • iOS and iPadOS 14: The MacStories Review
  • iOS and iPadOS 14 Review Extras: eBooks, Wallpapers, Shortcuts, Podcasts, and Newsletter
• Apple Event
  • Apple’s iPhone 12 Lineup: The MacStories Overview
  • Apple’s HomePod mini: The MacStories Overview
  • MagSafe’s Return and Apple’s New iPhone Accessory Lineup
  • Apple’s October 13, 2020 Keynote: By the Numbers
  • Apple’s October 2020 Event: All The Little Things
  • Replay Apple’s October 13, 2020 Keynote and Other Videos
  • Apple Announces New iPhone and HomePod mini Availability
  • Understanding the Camera Enhancements Coming to the iPhone 12

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • Federico’s making of his annual iOS and iPadOS review
  • Brian King’s behind-the-scenes look at the 3D graphics and animation in Federico’s review
  • Ryan with a collection of favorite moments from the Apple event
  • John on Apple’s improving integration of its products on display at the event this week
• MacStories Unplugged
  • Federico and John dive into more behind-the-scenes details about Federico’s iOS and iPadOS 14 review

AppStories

• Episode 188 – iOS and iPadOS 14: The MacStories Review

Unwind

• John’s Pick:
  • The GRAMMY Museum, RE:LIVE Music Moments

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MacStories Unwind: Food Tracking, Time Tracking, and Text Editing, Plus Federico on His Review and American TV

By John Voorhees

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Sponsored by: CardioBot – Heart Rate and Activity Tracker

This week on MacStories Unwind:

MacStories

• FoodNoms’ Widgets Thoughtfully Combine Goal Summaries with Actions to Make Food Tracking Easier Than Ever
• Timery Debuts Powerful Time Tracking Widgets for iOS 14
• Ulysses 21 Brings Revision Mode to iPhone and iPad Alongside Updated Design
• Apple Announces October 13, 2020 Online Media Event
• 4K YouTube Content Begins to Show Up on the Apple TV 4K
• Apple Health Records Expands to the UK and Canada
• Instagram Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary on the App Store with Classic Icons and Adds New Stories Archive and Anti-Bullying Features

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • 11 more app Giveaways
  • A collection of apps with widgets
  • Ryan’s iPadOS 15 wishes
  • An interview with Markus Müller Simhofer, developer of MindNode

AppStories

• Episode 187 – Must-Have Music Widgets for Your iPhone

Unwind

• Federico’s Pick:
  • Coraggio by Carl Brave
• John’s Pick:
  • Tiny World on Apple TV+

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