John Voorhees

1301 posts on MacStories since November 2015

John is MacStories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four MacStories podcasts: AppStories, which covers the world of apps, MacStories Unwind, which explores the fun differences between American and Italian culture and recommends media to listeners, Ruminate, a show about the weird web and unusual snacks, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about the games we take with us.

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App Debuts

[[John]] Panoramic Photos Panoramic Photos is made by the developer of Series, which is a more complex app for formatting images and video in social media-friendly aspect ratios. Panoramic Photos is a subset of Series focused on one task: breaking up a panoramic photo into multiple shots that works well with Threads and the way...


An RSS, Bookmarking, Read-Later, and Highlighting Update

When it comes to RSS, bookmark management, read-later services, and highlights, the experiments never truly end. I’ve been trying a few new things recently that I thought I’d share today. RSS First, I’ve tentatively decided to abandon Feedly as my RSS sync service when my one-year subscription ends this fall. As a sync service, Feedly...


App Debuts

[[John]] Tizipizi Tizipizi is an interesting new time zone tracking app for the iPhone and iPad. The app supports tracking multiple time zones that can be renamed with titles that are more meaningful than city names. The app also tracks daytime hours and uses a slider system to allow you to line up availability across...


A Week Off For AppStories and a Beta Beat Update

As the summer draws to a close, Federico and I have decided to take one week off from AppStories to recharge. We’re working on a bunch of new episode ideas for the fall, including an upcoming episode about bookmarking and link organizers. We’ll be back on September 3rd with a new episode of AppStories+ for...


Gadget Show & Tell

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AppStories Episode 348 - Gadget Show & Tell

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AppStories+ Deeper into the world of apps

This week, Federico and John look back at the gadgets they’ve accumulated over the summer and share what’s worked and what hasn’t.

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Fresh Starts

What if you could start over from scratch? That question is a thread that’s run through my careers. I started out as a bankruptcy lawyer. The whole point of bankruptcy – at least the reorganization flavor of it that I specialized in – is starting over. Maybe a company was monumentally mismanaged or caught a...


A Classic Pick 2

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AppStories Episode 347 - A Classic Pick 2

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This week, Federico and John each share two app recommendations in a classic Pick 2 episode.

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App Debuts

Essayist If you’re a student, Essayist is an excellent focused writing environment that includes the kinds of reference citations that you’ll need. The latest ‘Back to School’ update adds over 25 new reference types, new backgrounds for the app’s writing environment, and chapter and table of contents support for the Chicago/Turabian citation style. ReminderCal I’ve...


Interesting Links

[[John]] Wired has the story of a group of teenagers who were inspired by the story of a group that hacked the Boston subway system more than a decade ago to see if they could do the same. (Link) Apple got a win from the US Supreme Court, which ruled that it did not need...