For this first Monthly Log column of 2023, I thought I’d take readers on a quick behind-the-scenes tour of two apps I’ve been testing on my iPhone lately and how they’ve been working out so far for me. Pocket Casts This is, by far, the biggest app-related change I’ve brought to my everyday iPhone workflow...
Mastodon Clients for iOS and iPadOS
Federico
John
AppStories Episode 314 - Mastodon Clients for iOS and iPadOS
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This week, Federico and John cover the iPhone and iPad Mastodon apps they’ve been testing and share what they like and don’t about each.
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Mastodon Clients for iPhone and iPad
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Imagining Apps for an Apple VR Headset
AppStories Episode 313 - Imagining Apps for an Apple VR Headset
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This week, Federico and John imagine the kinds of apps that may emerge for an Apple VR headset.
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Imagining Apple VR Apps
- Inside the Tech Powering Apple’s Envelope-Pushing, Risky Mixed Reality Headset
- Apple Delays AR Glasses, Plans Cheaper Mixed-Reality Headset
- Apple Vision? Apple Reality? What Apple Could Name Its AR/VR Headset
- Meta Quest Pro review: get me out of here
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Scrobbling Apple Music to Last.fm from Windows with AirScrobble and Cider
Yesterday on MacStories, I wrote about Apple’s native Apple Music client for Windows, which debuted on the Microsoft Store alongside Apple TV and Apple Devices. In the story, I mentioned in a footnote (that’s always the best place for these things) how the official Last.fm desktop scrobbler doesn’t recognize songs playing in the Apple Music...
Read-Later Apps
This week, Federico and John look at the history of read-later apps and the many similarities and differences between them and today’s read-later apps, like Matter and Reader, as well as link organizers, such as GoodLinks and Anybox.
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Read Later Apps
- The History of Read-Later Apps
- Why Are Read-It-Later Apps Suddenly Hot?
- Matter: A Fresh Take on Read-Later Apps
- Federico on Readwise Reader
- Readability Directs Shared Articles to Own Servers, Cuts Out Original Publishers
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Keeping Up with Twitter…without Twitter
Ever since I moved from Twitter to Mastodon (you can find me here), I’ve felt the need to figure out a way to keep up with people who are still using Twitter and whose tweets I find useful and interesting. Understandably, not everybody is ready or wants to move away from Twitter, but if I’m...
Gone but Not Forgotten: The Third-Party Apps (Part 2)
AppStories Episode 311 - Gone but Not Forgotten: The Third-Party Apps (Part 2)
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This week, Federico and John conclude their ‘Gone but Not Forgotten’ series with more third-party apps, including productivity, communications, and entertainment apps, plus games.
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Gone but Not Forgotten: Third-Party Apps (Part 2)
- Bento
- Growl
- Editorial
- Adium
- Bowtie
- CandyBar
- Fontcase
- iPhone 4 Case Program
- Instacast
- Mr. Reader
- ProTube
- Rdio
- Articles, CoverSutra, and Groceries
- MacHeist
- Rolando
- Jelly Car
- Flappy Bird
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The 2022 MacStories Selects Awards
AppStories Episode 310 - The 2022 MacStories Selects Awards
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This week, Federico, John, and Alex introduce the fifth annual MacStories Selects award winners and interview the MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement award winner, Greg Pierce, the creator of Drafts.
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2022 MacStories Selects Awards
- Best New App: MusicBox
- Runner-Up: Runestone
- Best App Update: Audio Hijack 4
- Runner-Up: Spring 4
- Best New Feature: Marvis Pro’s customizable sections
- Runner-up: Timery’s Live Activities
- Best Watch App: Timery
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Best Mac App: Raycast
- Runner-up: Bike
- Best Design: Pixelmator Photo
- Runner-up: CARROT Weather
- Readers’ Choice Award: CARROT Weather
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App of the Year: Marvis Pro
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Gone but Not Forgotten: The Third-Party Apps (Part 1)
AppStories Episode 309 - Gone but Not Forgotten: The Third-Party Apps (Part 1)
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This week, Federico and John extend last week’s ‘Gone but Not Forgotten’ theme to third-party apps, including Dropbox text editors, Twitter apps, email clients, and more.
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TOPIC
Gone but Not Forgotten: The Third-Party Apps (Part 1)
- I Am Rich
- Dropbox Text Editors
- Twitter apps
- Pinbook
- Email Clients
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