Twitter: @robbyburns; Website: robbyburns.com. Musician, Educator, Author, and Host of the Music Ed Tech Talkpodcast. This desk is in my home music studio in Maryland. I run a private percussion teaching studio out of this space and produce my blog/podcast Music Ed Tech Talk. My 14” MacBook Pro is the core of my computing life....
New Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Discounts
For those who haven’t joined the Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Discord community, we wanted to let you know that we have added two new discounts to the rotating list of app and service discounts: 30% off Clean Email, the email batch processing and inbox cleaning service with apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac...
Previously, On MacStories
Stories Preserve and Play the Original Wordle for Decades with WordleForever CARROT 5.5 Debuts Redesigned Weather Maps with Expanded Customization Options Podcasts AppStories, Episode 258 – Starting the New Year with New Shortcuts, Workflows, Apps, and More MacStories Unwind: Brooklyn 99, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Ghost of Tsushima, Director’s Cut...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John conclude their tour of new apps they’re trying and rediscovering. This week on MacStories Unwind, we cover our first joint Unwind pick, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, plus MacStories highlights....
In This Issue
This month, Federico covers FloatingPlayer, a unique music utility that uses Picture-in-Picture to create a floating now-playing widget on the iPhone and iPad, and John embarks on an iCloud sync-based RSS experiment that splits his feeds across two apps....
Unite 4: Turn Websites into Apps on Your Mac [Sponsor]
Unite 4 for macOS can turn any website into an app for your Mac. The app uses a lightweight, WebKit-powered browser as a backend, allowing you to easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. It’s a terrific way to get those sites you visit every day out of a tab and into a dedicated, standalone app.
Unite 4 has dozens of features and customization options that make it a terrific alternative to resource-hogging Electron apps or uninspired Mac Catalyst implementations. The apps you create are easy to set up, fast, and only limited by your imagination:
- Create dedicated apps for your favorite streaming services like Netflix and Disney+
- Save your laptop’s battery by using Unite for Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp with full notification support
- Listen to music services like Apple Music or Spotify
- Enjoy podcasts with Overcast
- Organize your notes in a dedicated Roam Research app
- Never again lose your Figma design work among a sea of Safari tabs
- Limit the ability of apps like Facebook to track you across sites
- Check your Instagram feed
- Track your finances with Robinhood
No matter which sites you use, Unite can turn them into apps for your Mac with customizable colors, an icon that fits the version of macOS you use, dark mode, support for the macOS Keychain, floating windows, and even menu bar-based apps that appear with a single click.
This week only, MacStories readers can get 20% off when you purchase Unite 4 at bzgapps.com/macstories or by using the promo code ‘MacStories’ at checkout.
Unite is free to try for 14 days and is available as part of a Setapp subscription too.
Download Unite 4 today and turn your favorite websites into your favorite apps too.
Our thanks to Unite 4 for sponsoring MacStories this week.
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Up Next On MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John cover the themes and details of the Starter Pack event they shared this week on MacStories. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico shares one of his all-time favorite TV comedies and he and John both share PlayStation videogames and recap the MacStories highlights from this week....
In This Issue
Federico shares MatterBot, an advanced shortcut for managing your Matter queue, John explains how he’s using an Obsidian weekly note shortcut that takes advantage of the new MacStories Shortcut Launcher plugin to plan his week, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap of MacStories articles,...