On this week’s episode of Connected: 2019 was a wild year, complete with the death of AirPower, the announcement of iPadOS, the release of the iPhone 11 and the return of the Mac Pro. This week, Stephen, Federico and Myke revisit the headlines that …
Lees meerThis week, we reveal the 2019 MacStories Selects Awards. Sponsored by: Linode – High-performance SSD Linux servers for all of your infrastructure needs. Get a $20 credit. Kensington The Professionals Choice. Find the right docking solutions for your…
Lees meerJohn: The process of picking the MacStories Selects awards is simple. During the past year as we used and reviewed hundreds of apps, Federico, Ryan, and I kept a shared note in Apple Notes with a list of the apps that struck us as potential candidat…
Lees meerIn a press release today, Apple announced that it is part of a new working group with Google, Amazon, and the Zigbee Alliance called Project Connected Home over IP. According to Apple’s press release: The goal of the Connected Home over IP project i…
Lees meerFor the past several months, I’ve been working on a shortcut designed to be the ultimate assistant for Apple Music. Called MusicBot, the shortcut encompasses dozens of different features and aims to be an all-in-one assistant that helps you listen t…
Lees meerToday the popular task manager Things was updated with several small, but noteworthy enhancements to its Quick Find feature across iPhone and iPad versions, with the Mac update arriving shortly. There’s a convenient new way to access Quick Find, rec…
Lees meerPowerPhotos is the perfect Mac utility to help you manage multiple photo libraries. As technology marches forward, digital cameras produce larger and larger image files, which makes it easy to create huge, unmanageable Photos libraries of tens of th…
Lees meerAmazon today has announced a new partnership with Apple that brings the full Apple Podcasts catalog to all Alexa-enabled devices in the U.S.: Beginning today, Alexa customers in the U.S. will be able to listen to more than 800,000 podcasts available…
Lees meerOn this week’s episode of Adapt: On the brink of the new year, Federico and Ryan share their hopes for the iPad in 2020, then review Ryan’s USB drive challenge and answer some #AskAdapt questions. You can listen below (and find the show notes here),…
Lees meerOn this week’s episode of Connected: Stephen and Myke are joined by John Voorhees to talk about the new Mac Pro, then Federico reflects on the 5th anniversary of Shortcuts. You can listen below (and find the show notes here). 0:0001:35:31 Connected,…
Lees meerTwitter today announced long-overdue support for iOS Live Photos. Rolling out now on all compatible platforms, whenever you add a Live Photo to a tweet you’re composing, you’ll see a new GIF button in the corner of the image. By default the button i…
Lees meerAfter having been pre-announced by nearly 1,000 days, the new Mac Pro finally went up for sale yesterday on Apple.com, alongside the Pro Display XDR. Complementing these two devices, a variety of new accessories have also just launched, some from Ap…
Lees meerEarlier today, Apple began accepting orders for the all-new Mac Pro, which will start shipping to customers in 1-2 weeks. Reminiscent of what Apple did when it released the iMac Pro, the new Mac Pro was provided to a very limited set of reviewers wi…
Lees meerApple today released what are surely its last major point releases of software for the year, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS 13.3, alongside minor updates for the company’s other platforms. In fitting the trend of an out-of-the-ordinary software release cycle…
Lees meerFirst revealed at WWDC this past June, Apple has begun taking pre-orders for its next-generation Mac Pro and 32-inch Pro Display XDR with in-store availability and shipping beginning in 1-2 weeks. The new Mac Pro’s specs are a huge step up from the …
Lees meerLast year, we introduced readers to the MacStories Selects Awards, which honored our favorite apps of 2018 in various categories. The MacStories Selects Awards will be back again this year with awards in the following eight categories: App of the Ye…
Lees meerWhen Drafts for Mac first arrived, I knew there were great things to come – not that it wasn’t an excellent app already! But since that time, Drafts for Mac has evolved. What was previously a functional app is now functional, automatable, and more i…
Lees meerAs promised this fall, Adobe has updated Lightroom for iPad and Lightroom Photo Editor for the iPhone with the ability to import image files from SD cards directly inside the app. The company has added new options when exporting your photos too. I’v…
Lees meerThe Iconfactory has announced that Linea Sketch, its popular iPad sketching app, will be moving from paid up front to a subscription business model. This transition will take place in early 2020 with the release of Linea 3.0. We tried hard to avoid …
Lees meerThis week, we share our 2020 wishes for Apple’s system apps on iOS and the Mac. Sponsored by: Luna Display – Turn any Mac or iPad into a wireless second display. Linode – High-performance SSD Linux servers for all of your infrastructure needs. Get a…
Lees meerIt was a pleasure to spend time with David Sparks and Stephen Hackett talking about Catalyst apps on the Mac for episode 513 of Mac Power Users. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about and covering Catalyst for the past 18 months since Apple gave de…
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