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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• Two Months with the HomePod mini: More Than Meets the Eye

• Apple Recaps Its 2020 Services, Including the App Store's Record-Breaking Holiday Season

• Dato Review: Calendar Events and Time Zones From Your Mac's Menu Bar

• Scenecuts Adds Effortless Access to HomeKit Scenes in Your Mac's Menu Bar

• Fitness Totals Review: Effortlessly Surface Fitness Data and Track Your Progress

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly
    • Strong Workout Tracker
    • 11 giveaways for health, fitness, and wellness apps
    • A personal automation for activating Do Not Disturb on an iPhone and Mac simultaneously
    • John's 2021 Apple hardware and app wishes for 2021

Unwind

• John's Pick:
  • Console Wars on CBS All Access

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• MacStories Selects 2020: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year

• Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 14.3 with Apple ProRAW, App Clip Codes, Fitness+ Support, and Direct App Launches from Shortcuts

• Fitness+ Review Roundup

• Apple Releases Cardio Fitness Notifications for Apple Watch

• Headland Review: Fight Your Way Through a World of Imagination

• AirPods Max Power Management Explained by Updated Apple Support Document

• Pro Photographer Austin Mann Explains ProRAW

• Developer Ben Sandofsky on ProRAW and Halide Mark II's Implementation of the New Format

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly
    • Wonder - a simple, elegant Wikipedia browser and research tool
    • A collection of Home Screen customization tools
    • Federico on how he's using Timery and GoodTask widgets
    • A big interview with Balint Orosz, founder and CEO of Craft

• AppStories

  • Episode 198 – The 2020 MacStories Selects Awards

Unwind

• Federico's Pick:

  • Ori and the Blind Forest on Xbox

• John's Pick:

  • evermore by Taylor Swift

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• Apple Announces AirPods Max: Wireless Over-Ear Headphones Available Just in Time for the Holidays

• AirPods Max First Impressions Roundup

• Fitness+ Service Launching December 14th

• The Wall Street Journal Interviews Apple's Jay Blahnik on Fitness+

• ShortSwitch: A Shortcut to Quickly Import Screenshots and Videos from a Nintendo Switch on Your iPhone and iPad

• Apple Frames, Now with Support for the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max

• Level Touch: A HomeKit-Enabled Smart Lock That Everyone in Your Household Can Appreciate

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly
    • A collection of modern note-taking apps
    • A shortcut for generating PDFs linked on a website,
    • Alex takes a trip down memory lane with Phoenix

• MacStories Unplugged

  • Using Craft for work

• AppStories

  • Episode 197 – Workflows Revisited: Note-Taking

Unwind

• Federico's Pick:

  • The Last Campfire by Hello Games

• John's Pick:

  • Marvel's latest Black Widow series written by Kelly Thompson and art by Elena Casagrande

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• Apple Names App of the Year Winners

• Apple Recognizes Best Books, Audiobooks, and Podcasts of 2020

• Year-End Music Insights From Apple's Replay 2020 and Top 100 Playlists, Plus MacStories' Apple Music Wrapped Shortcut

• Apple Announces Partnership with (RED) to Combat HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 and Highlights Its PPE Donations in Zambia

• Amazon Rolling Out "Type with Alexa" Feature in iOS App

• Downloading YouTube Videos on iPad with youtube-dl and a-Shell

• Peter McKinnon on Apple's MagSafe Wallet

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly
    • A collection of focused Mac utilities
    • Federico's custom menu bar URL scheme launcher

• AppStories

  • Episode 196 – Workflows Revisited: Email

Unwind

• Federico's Pick:

  • Plastic Hearts by Miley Cyrus
  • Wonder by Shawn Mendes

• John's Pick:

  • folklore: the long pond studio sessions by Taylor Swift
  • Indie Chillout

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• MacStories Shortcuts Icons and Perspective Icons: 40% Off from Black Friday to Cyber Monday

• macOS Big Sur: Widget Roundup

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly

    • John's Holiday Gift Guide
    • Reading DRM-Free EPUBs in MarginNote for iPad
    • Tips for Remote Tech Support
    • Mac Dictation and Big Sur beta tips

  • MacStories Unplugged: The Year in Music, 2020 Edition

    • Federico and John share their Apple Music playlists, collecting their favorite songs of 2020, pick their albums of the year, second-guess the Grammy nominations, and each chooses five bands that define their tastes in music.

• AppStories

  • Episode 195 – App Store Changes and Apple's Evolving Relationship with Developers

Unwind

• Federico's Picks:

  • Hades
    • The genius of Hades' God Mode
  • All You're Dreaming Of by Liam Gallagher

• John's Picks:

  • folklore: the long pond studio sessions by Taylor Swift
  • The 10-Year Hunt for the Lost McDonald's DS Game by Nick Robinson

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Club MacStories
• Apple Reduces App Store Commissions to 15% for Small Businesses Starting Next Year
• Apple M1 Mac Review Roundup: Big Performance and Battery Gains
• Apple Launches an Embeddable Web Players for Podcasts
• Winners of the Second Annual Apple Music Awards Announced
• GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl, Commits to New Policies for Protecting Developers
• Sebastiaan de With Reviews the iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera
• Custom Shortcut Icons No Longer Open the Shortcuts App First in iOS 14.3 Beta 2
• iOS 14.2, JIT, and Emulation at Full Performance

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly
    • Crossy Road
    • Today ReScheduler shortcut updated to take advantage of 'native' edit reminder action
    • Big Sur widget tips (John)
    • What the M1 means to the native vs. web app debate

• AppStories

  • Episode 194 – macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review

Unwind

• Federico's Pick:

  • The Pathless
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection
    • Wikipedia
    • Halo: The Master Chief Collection is Now Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
    • Halo Quick Resume

• John's Pick:

  • Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.
  • Game & Watch - History on Wikipedia Follow us on Twitter

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• GoodTask – Better Widgets for Reminders and Calendars on iOS 14
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Links and Show Notes Rewind

BestPhotos 3 Introduces Calendar View, A New Compare Interface, and More

iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 mini Review Roundup

Austin Mann's iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Review

PetaPixel Interviews Apple Executives on iPhone Camera Design Philosophy

Apple Announces Availability of New M1-Based Macs and macOS Big Sur

Replay Apple's November 2020 Presentation and Other Videos

Apple's November 2020 Event: By the Numbers

Apple Unveils New M1 Apple Silicon Chip for Macs

The M1 MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro: The MacStories Overview

The M1 Mac mini: The MacStories Overview

MusicBot 1.1 Brings Shazam Integration, Music News and Reviews, Release Dates, Compact UI, and More

Coming Soon: The 2020 Edition of the MacStories Selects Awards

AirBuddy 2 Review: Fine-Grained, Customizable Control of the Wireless Headphones and Devices Connected to Your Mac

iPhone and iPad Apps Are Coming to the Mac App Store

Apple Add Automatic Updates in TestFlight 3.0

Craft Review: A Powerful, Native Notes and Collaboration App

HomePod mini Review Roundup

macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review

The Independent Interviews Federighi, Joz, and Ternus on M1 Macs

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • Collection: November Event Highlights
  • Behind the Scenes: The MacStories Big Sur Review
  • Federico: iPad Features I'd Miss on an Apple Silicon Mac
  • An interview with PCalc developer James Thomson
• MacStories Unplugged

AppStories

• Episode 193 – iOS Apps We Want on the Mac

Unwind

• Federico's Pick:
  • Hyrule Warriors

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• Apple One Subscription Bundles Are Now Available

• Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 14.2 with New Emoji, Wallpapers, AirPlay 2 Interface, AR Face Detection, and Shazam Toggle for Control Center

• Switching Your Default HomePod Music Service to Pandora

• Apple Announces November 10, 2020 Online Media Event

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly
    • MacStories Favorite: Doodle Jump
    • Shortcuts Requests, including a way to archive webpages as images
    • John on what running iPhone and iPad apps on Apple silicon Mac might be like

• AppStories

  • Episode 192 – How Widgets Have Changed the Way We Use Our Devices

Unwind

• Federico's Pick:

  • girlfriends by girlfriends

• John's Pick:

  • Queen's Gambit on Netflix

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

• Using Soor's Widgets and Magic Mixes

• Managing the Internet Access of HomeKit Devices with the Linksys Velop Mesh WiFi Router System

• Apple Signs Jon Stewart to Expansive Deal for TV+ Series and More

• Clips 3.0 Brings New Video Aspect Ratios and an Upgraded iPad Experience

• Shortcuts Corner: Apple Frames for iPhone 12 and SE, Get Image Resolution, Encode Images to Base64, and Search Articles in Reeder

• Microsoft Is Rolling Out iPad Pointer Support to Its Office Suite

• Club MacStories

  • MacStories Weekly
    • MacStories Favorite: Pixelmator Pro
    • A new Reeder shortcut
    • Ryan debates purchasing an iPhone 12 mini or Pro
  • MacStories Unplugged
    • This week on Unplugged, our Club podcast, we discuss the upcoming release of Big Sur, Federico makes John nervous by poking around in Disk Utility and ejecting drives while he records, John gets fiber Internet and tests HomeKit mesh WiFi routers, and Federico unwinds post-iOS review.

• AppStories

  • Episode 191 – New Apps Enabled by Apple Hardware and OS Advances

Unwind

• Federico's Pick:

  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan

• John's Pick:

  • The Haunting of Bly Manor on Netflix

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Links and Show Notes Rewind

iPad Air Review: Forward-Looking

Halide Mark II Review: The Convenience of Computational Photography and Flexibility of RAW in an Elegant Camera App

Reeder 5 Review: Read Later Tagging, iCloud Sync, and Design Refinements

Adobe MAX Kicks Off with Illustrator for iPad, Photoshop, Lightroom, and Fresco Updates for iPad, Plus the Addition of Fresco for iPhone

Hands-On with the HomePod's New Intercom Feature, Alarms, and Siri Tricks

Apple Debuts New Music Video Streaming Service Called Apple Music TV

Club MacStories

• MacStories Weekly
  • MacStories Favorite: Keep
  • A collection of technologies that will shape the future of Apple's products
  • Ryan's system for setting up a new iPhone
  • Lots of new and updated apps and more

AppStories

• Episode 189 – Apps and the iPhone Event: Apple's Latest Innovations in the Home and Mobile Photography
• Episode 190 – The New iPad Air: Apple's Most Forward-Looking iPad

Unwind

Federico's Pick:

• You're Worth It by Hodera

John's Pick:

• Serpentine Prison by Matt Berninger

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