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Home Screen: Femke van Schoonhoven

Twitter: @femkesvs. Emoji Queen at Atomic, Digital Designer at The Apartment and co host of the Design Life Podcast. It may seem at first glance that I have the standard social media apps –but as a creative and lover of side projects these apps are much more for me. They’re how I connect with my...


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How a tattoo artist is using an iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil to preview his creations and make customers happier. One month after its release, Panic on the launch of Firewatch and how it went. Apple’s 40 Years in 40 Seconds video, annotated by Stephen Hackett. Minor changes to emoji in iOS 9.3, spotted...


In This Issue

Ulysses 2.5,Supplementary iOS Cameras & Photography Tools, Matthew Cassinelli’s Home screen, plus the usualWorkflow Corner, Weekly Q&A, Tip, Links, and recap of MacStories articles. [[more]] [[public]] :::block {.spotlight} CLUB MACSTORIESFEEDBACK Dear Club MacStories Members, We want to get some feedback on how we’re doing with Club MacStories, and get some ideas on how we could...


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Marcus Fehn, co-founder of The Soulmen, on porting Ulysses to the iPhone and building the widely acclaimed version 2.5. Doug Adams on how you can join together audio files to create audiobooks you can listen to with Overcast’s new File Uploads feature. How the Ticketfly team rethought their iPhone app with a simple purchase flow...


Home Screen: Matthew Cassinelli

Twitter: @mattcassinelli. Associate Analyst at Vayner Media. Old Phone If you know me and my level of interest in Apple and workflows, you might be surprised to see me still using an iPhone 5S. Two years ago I bought one for the step tracking and I’m just now out of my 2-year contract. Be that...


Home Screen: Matt Braun

Twitter: @mattbraun. Developer of SketchPartyTV, Taptronome, and MASH. I’d like to just point out a few of the most important apps and why I keep them on my Home screen. Rise. Although I mostly use the alarm on my Apple Watch these days, sometimes I need to be absolutely certain I wake up on time...


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Apple has improved audiobook support on the iTunes Store – you can now re-download previously purchased audiobooks through iCloud. Dictionaries for OS X brings translations to the built-in Define menu on the Mac. Spotify’s new Fresh Finds playlists are based on the anonymized tastes of 50,000 hipsters. The Blockhead is a side-facing plug for Apple...


Home Screen: Ben McCarthy

Twitter: @BenRiceM, Website. Designer, photographer, developer. I won’t go into detail on everything but here’s a few reasons for why things are they way they are. First and foremost, everything is colour coded line by line, and where possible, grouped by category. And often the lines are placed vertically by ease of access. Sure, sometimes...