This week, Federico and John continue the Summer OS Preview Series with special guest Malin Sundberg, the creator of time tracking app Orbit, for a chat about the development of Orbit, SwiftUI, Shortcuts for Mac, SharePlay, and more.
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On AppStories+, John asks Federico what kinds of qualities he looks for in MacStories writers.
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- Concepts – Sketch, Note, Draw
- Instabug – Ship Quality Apps with Real-Time Contextual Insights
- Technology Untangled – Join Michael Bird as he untangles innovation through a series of interviews, stories, and analyses with some of the industry’s brightest brains
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Malin Sundberg
– Website
– Twitter
– Orbit, a time tracking and invoicing app for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch
– Cup of Tech podcast
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This week, Federico and John dig into the latest public beta and share their thoughts on changes to Safari on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Books on the Mac, Quick Note, Focus, and Live Text.
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On AppStories+, John sees a movie, Federico experiments with the latest Obsidian plugins, and John explains how he’s using the Loupedeck Live with Obsidian.
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- Instabug – Ship Quality Apps with Real-Time Contextual Insights
- Boom 3D – Take your Mac sound to the next level with Boom 3D. Get 70% off.
- Memberful – Monetize your passion with membership.
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This week, Federico and John consider whether changes coming to Apple’s OSes make a system app-only research and writing workflow possible and discuss where there’s room for improvement.
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On AppStories+, Federico and John talk about Calliope, the web app that underlies AppStories+ and Club MacStories, and John shares his thoughts on the Kobo Elipsa as an eBook reader and note-taking device.
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- Privacy – Smarter payments. Get $5 to spend on your first purchase.
- Instabug – Ship Quality Apps with Real-Time Contextual Insights
- Swell – A new voice-based social platform. Try it now.
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The Viability of an Apple-Only Research and Writing Workflow
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This week, Federico and John continue the Summer OS Preview Series with special guest Gui Rambo for a chat about SharePlay, Shortcuts for Mac, Gui’s app AirBuddy, SwiftUI, and more.
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On AppStories+, Federico shares some good news about his Wii U and quest to play early Metroid titles and John experiences the the brilliance of Amazon returns at Whole Foods stores.
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An Interview with Guilherme Rambo
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Earlier this week, after a long beta period I’ve participated in for the past few months, the official Obsidian app for iPhone and iPad launched on the App Store. I’ve covered Obsidian and my approach to writing my annual iOS review in it on both AppStories and Connected; because I’m busy with that massive project...
This week, Federico and John discuss the emerging trend of app customization, which along with app modularity, lets users control how apps work and look.
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On AppStories+, Federico provides an update about the progress on his review, and John wonders why the Mac share sheet has been so badly neglected by Apple.
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- Instabug – Ship Quality Apps with Real-Time Contextual Insights.
- DEVONthink by DEVONtechnologies – The one place for storing and working with all your documents, snippets, and bookmarks.
- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
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Modularity and its Relationship to Customization
- Apps Discussed
- Functional Customization
- Early Examples
- Direct Integration with Other Apps
- Plugins
- Visual Customization
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This week, Federico and John continue the MacStories Summer OS Preview Series by interviewing Marcos Tanaka, the creator of MusicHarbor and MusicSmart about the latest changes to Apple’s music-related frameworks, his apps, and more.
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On AppStories+, Federico and John go behind the scenes about their OS preview stories, discuss Shortcuts for Mac, and Federico is searching for his Wii U.
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An Inteview with Marcos Tanaka
- Marcos Tanaka
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Apps
- MacStories Coverage
- APIs
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[[federico]] As I wrote earlier this week on MacStories, iOS 15 is the kind of major system update that’s more reminiscent of iOS 10 and 12 than, say, iOS 13 and 14. The reason is obvious enough: this update feels like a grab bag of new, yet smaller features – it’s missing the big marquee...
This week, Federico and John walk through all the changes coming to Shortcuts this fall, including changes to the Shortcuts editor and the new actions you’ll find in Shortcuts on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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On AppStories+, Federico explains his new iPad Home Screen for writing his annual iOS and iPadOS review and other Home Screens he’s considering and Federico and John discuss Shared With You.
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- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
- Swell – A new voice-based social platform. Try it now.
- Privacy – Smarter payments. Get $5 to spend on your first purchase.
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Previous MacStories Coverage of Shortcuts Changes Coming in iOS and iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey
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