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Taking aCouple of Weeks Off Soon
Every year, we take a short break from MacStories Weekly to get ready for the Apple OS launch season. Because WWDC was held later than usual this year, having the extra time to prepare is more important than ever. As a result, we’ll be taking off two weeks beginning August 28th, but we’ll be back...
In This Issue
A collection of apps, a shortcut, and websites that John uses to keep up with his favorite music, Ryan shares how changes to Apple’s Podcasts app are a major regression from the iOS 13 version, a Home screen from Club member Mark Dreger, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles,...
Interesting Links
Brent Simmons published a development roadmap for NetNewsWire for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including details about iCloud sync, a Mac design update, and the eventual transition to SwiftUI. (Link) The Washington Post makes the case that Microsoft’s interest in TikTok is to use it to train its artificial intelligence models. (Link) Julia Alexander explores...
Calory: Track What You Eat! [Sponsor]
Calory is the calorie counter and tracker that makes it simple to record and monitor the calories you consume for healthier living. Too many calorie-tracking apps overwhelm you with data and are hard to use. Calory is different. The app’s elegant interface is designed to make quick work of logging food items and makes checking your progress easy.
The app is available on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, which ensures you’ll always have a device nearby to help you stay on track. On each platform, one of Calory’s hallmarks is its straightforward, glanceable design. There is no distracting, extraneous information, just refined visual cues to make tracking your progress easy and a big plus button for quickly logging calories and meals. For more detail, you can view your data in a journal view, which provides a snapshot of each day tracked.
Calory’s clutter-free interface lets you monitor your calories daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly to spot trends. Tracking other statistics like carbs, proteins, fat, sodium, and more is available too. You can track water intake and your weight, and the app works with Apple Health, which privately stores the data you log.
To make entering meal data even easier, Calory lets you save custom plates, so you can quickly log your most common meals, and scan barcodes. There’s even a recipe database to help inspire you to try new, healthy meals. Of course, there is also Shortcuts integration, which allows you to log items and track your progress using Siri and your own custom shortcuts.
Download Calory today to start tracking what you eat or visit calory.app to learn more about the easiest, most elegant way to count your calories.
Our thanks to Calory for sponsoring MacStories this week.
In This Issue
Ryan compilesa new collectionof terrific iOS utilities, we all shareour wish lists for iOS and iPadOS 14 widgets, we have an all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged, and Walter Wunderlich shares his iOS 14 Home screen, plusthe usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories podcast episodes....
MacStories Unplugged
A Jug of Iced Coffee Federico and John explore iced coffee, America’s obsession with drive-thrus, and ghost towns, along with updates on their OS reviews, the AppStories developer interview series, and more. Show Notes Apps Mentioned: MindNode Outlinely AppStories 178: An Interview with Guilherme Rambo...
Interesting Links
The New York Times reports on Fawkes, a tool that alters photographs by combining images of two people so they cannot be identified by facial recognition software. Based on writer Kashmir Hill’s comment on the results, the technology doesn’t seem quite ready for primetime: “I looked ghoulish, my 3-year-old daughter sprouted what looked like facial...
Home Screen: WalterWunderlich
Twitter: @fuenfhauser. User interface designer and writer in Augsburg, Germany. I‘ve been obsessed with aiming for the perfect Home screen layout for several years now, and whilst I‘m aware that I will never come to a final result, I‘m happy with where I am now with my setup for iOS 14. The day of Apple‘s...