This week, Federico and John look at the strange assortment of apps they’ve downloaded recently.
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- The rules of ‘You Downloaded What?’:
- No betas or pre-release apps
- Only apps dowloaded in the past 45 days are allowed
- Mac apps downloaded directly from developers’ websites and the Mac App Store are allowed
- tvOS and watchOS apps are allowed
- Electron apps are not allowed
- Catalyst apps are allowed
- John’s apps:
- Federico’s apps:
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[[federico]] I was recently setting up my various Gmail accounts with Apple Mail in iOS 13, and I ran into an issue that, following some research on Google, turned out to be a common problem for quite a few folks using a G-Suite email address with Apple’s native Mail app. I encountered the bug in...
This week, Federico and John continue their series of episodes on the new and updated apps coming from Apple in the fall with Reminders.
- Direct Mail – Create and send great-looking email newsletters with Direct Mail, an easy-to-use email marketing app designed exclusively for the Mac.
- Astropad Studio – Turn your iPad into a professional graphics tablet. Get started today with a 30-day free trial.
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This week, Federico and John dig into the role of Catalyst in Apple’s Mac and iPad strategy expanding on Catalyst Can Rescue the Mac and Grow the iPad, a story John wrote on MacStories.
- Astropad Studio – Turn your iPad into a professional graphics tablet. Get started today with a 30-day free trial.
- Pocket Lists – The world’s friendliest to-do list app.
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[[federico]] Every year as soon as WWDC wraps up, I need to install the beta of the new version of iOS on at least one of my primary devices to start taking notes for my annual review. As I’ve explained in the past, this initial testing phase is key to get a sense of what...
Question: Have you tested creating this newsletter in Mailchimp on an iPad running the iPadOS 13 beta? That has been one of the biggest hangups keeping me from making the iPad my primary device. (Jacob) [[federico]] The new desktop-class Safari in iPadOS does allow you to edit content blocks in the Mailchimp newsletter editor. However,...
This week, Federico and John start a series of episodes on the new and updated apps coming to iOS and macOS Catalina in the fall starting with Notes.
- Astropad Studio – Turn your iPad into a professional graphics tablet. Get started today with a 30-day free trial.
- Direct Mail – Create and send great-looking email newsletters with Direct Mail, an easy-to-use email marketing app designed exclusively for the Mac.
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This week, Federico and John are joined by MacStories colleague Alex Guyot in San Jose where they talk about the upcoming Notes, Reminders, Apple Watch, and Shortcuts updates coming in the fall.
- Luna Display - The only hardware solution that turns your iPad into a wireless display for your Mac. Use promo code STORIES at checkout for 10% off.
- Perfect Tempo - Any song, Any tempo.
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This week, Federico and John are in San Jose attending WWDC where Federico sat down with Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering to talk about Apple’s new developer tools like Catalyst and SwiftUI, as well as iPadOS.
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- Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering
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