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Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

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Interview: James Thomson

Twitter: @jamesthomson. The developer of PCalc for iOS and the Mac and Dice. About a year ago, you wrote that to adopt Mac Catalyst for PCalc you would have to almost entirely rewrite the app’s UI. Has that changed? If so, how? The new version of PCalc on the Mac is still a traditional AppKit...


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Interesting Links

GameClub, which has brought a large catalog of games that had left the App Store back to life, is expanding their offerings by bringing classic PC games to iOS starting with Chook & Sosgig. (Link) Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, Apple TV, Twitch, and Spotify integration are all coming to the Sony PS5 when it launches in...


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Interesting Links

Birdwatch, reports The Verge, is the name of a project under the works at Twitter that could enable users to help moderate misleading tweets. (Link) Dr. Drang explains how he’s working around a limitation of Apple’s iCloud Keychain system by generating new random passwords using Python and Shortcuts. (Link) 9to5Mac reports on the creative work...


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Interview: Markus Müller-Simhofer

Twitter: @MullerSimhofer. Developer of MindNode and founder of IdeasOnCanvas. What has been the most challenging change to Apple’s OSes for you to deal with in updating MindNode? There are two new security enhancements in iOS 14 that took a surprising amount of time to adapt to. One change is related to querying user-installed fonts and...