Ryan Christoffel

147 posts on MacStories since November 2016

Ryan is an editor for MacStories and co-hosts the [Adapt](https://www.relay.fm/adapt) podcast on Relay FM. He most commonly works and plays on his iPad Pro and bears no regrets about moving on from the Mac. He and his wife live in New York City.

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In Search of the Perfect Podcast Player

[[ryan]] Podcasts are on the rise in broader culture, and they have certainly been on the rise in my life over the last eighteen months. The podcasting world has grown large, and it’s still growing every day, so much so that for a while I had too many podcasts on my plate. I had to...


Our Favorite Watch Apps, Vol. 1

{.app-collection} [[ryan]] Timepage Like Apple’s Calendar app, Timepage for Apple Watch displays your next seven days of calendar events. Timepage presents each day as a separate card, and navigation through days is handled by swiping right and left. Each card features the day’s date, which day of the week it is, the projected high temperature,...


Bumping Against Limitations with iPad-First Computing

[[Ryan]] I used to be a very happy Mac user. When I first switched from a Windows PC to a Mac in 2007, the Mac instantly became my favorite device – and it stayed that way until late 2015. It was in 2015 that I first discovered MacStories. Ironically, the discovery of MacStories is what...


PDF Viewer

[[ryan]] There is no shortage of solid iOS apps for managing PDFs. PDF Expert, Notability, and PDFpen are all regularly updated, top-notch options. But one of the most significant differences between those apps and PDF Viewer is cost. PDF Viewer is entirely free, with no strings attached. Despite being free, PDF Viewer still contains the...


iOS Apps with Editing Extensions in Photos

{.app-collection} [[ryan]] Annotable Annotable is a fantastic image editor with a number of helpful tools including a magnification loupe, a tool to pixelate sensitive information, and simpler options that add text, arrows, or other shapes to an image. It’s all extremely simple and easy to use. My favorite part about the app, though, is that...


Apple TV as a Second Screen Device

[[ryan]] In November 2015 I sold my MacBook Air and adopted the iPad Pro as my primary computer. If you’ve adopted an iPad-first workflow yourself, you know that one of the blessings and curses is the lack of macOS-style window support. In many cases the limitations of having one or two apps onscreen can be...