Next week on AppStories, Federico and John take a critical look at Apple’s latest iPad ads and provide suggestions for new third-party apps the company could use to show off its hardware....
In This Issue
Halide, Favorite Mac Games (Vol. 1), a worldwide time zone shortcut and answers to member workflow requests, Mac FinderTips,plus the usualWeekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....
Previously, On MacStories
Apple Publishes Videos Showcasing iPad Pro Workflows Concepts for iPad: An Adaptable Infinite Canvas to Suit Anyone’s Needs Pixelmator Pro Updated with New Layers Features Apple Announces ‘Shot on iPhone’ Photography Challenge Microsoft Office Debuts on the Mac App Store...
Interesting Links
Musish is an impressive web implementation of Apple Music that looks and feels almost exactly like Apple’s native implementations. (Link) Ars Technica takes a look back at the many online community innovations that began at LiveJournal and what eventually led to the site’s undoing. (Link) A new law in Australia that allows authorities to compel...
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Next week on AppStories, Federico and John interview Yarrow Cheney, whose animated feature film credits include directing The Grinch and The Secret Life of Pets and production design for the Despicable Me movies and The Lorax, about the role the iPad plays in his filmmaking process....
Interesting Links
Writing on his personal blog, Guilherme Rambo explores different solutions to hack around with private APIs on iOS, including Pythonista and Swift Playgrounds. (Link) TechCrunch has a look at some of the changes to the Twitter app that the company plans to test in an upcoming limited beta designed to enhance the conversational aspects of...
Home Screen: Maxmilian Litteral
Twitter: @maxhasadhd. Creator of Television Time and Cinema Time. I love extremely colorful art, and on my phone I would usually have a really colorful wallpaper. However, that wallpaper can also detract from the art of the icons on my home screen. So I decided to start featuring the app icons themselves instead of having...