Announcing our BBC Radio 1 takeover and a series of future-focused topics launching across our platform in June.

Update: Turns out that you can use the highlight colors in raindrop to create more structured highlights in the markdown export. I always struggled using highlights since it was necessary to f…

While Automation April by MacStories is still for another week – the deadline for the Automation April Shortcuts Contest is today.I want to share the Shortcuts I submitted to the contest with…

Over the past weeks I used Raindrop to read and highlight articles. I build a Shortcuts to quickly retrieve the highlights of the latest document in my account and also a few ones to quickly add li…

Every year we like to take a fresh look at the different shortcut options that are available to use with the Shortcuts app on iOS devices and Mac,...

A new way for writers on Substack to recommend each other and discover more great work

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.

A guide to the rich trove of spiritual music on the site.

I got sick of seeing the same obvious Mac app recommendations. Here are 11 free apps you should download ASAP that I've curated from 10 years of using macOS.

Today, I’m excited to announce that I’m brining some great new features to The iTech Everything website’s new version, v1.5.

A collection of hidden Mac gems that deserve your attention.You have probably heard of many of these apps, but some are absolute hidden gems that deserve more attention than they get. So take a look through the list, and I guarantee at least one of these apps you’ll

Well hello, reporters! It’s that time of year again. RevEye My most popular post on Substack this year (kinda surprisingly to me) was also the most recent, RevEye! RevEye helps you avoid making an oopsie by checking if images have already been published online. This helps prevent you from b

Big monitors, QD OLED TVs, and E Ink cars, oh my

I'm generally a fan of the Memories feature of Apple Photos, especially the inclusion of the widget starting in iOS 14. However, there are drawbacks. The biggest of which is that Photos can surface painful past moments.1 An extreme example is the attack on the Capitol last year. Here's Jim Newell at Slate: What was...

Handy apps, fun apps, and everything in between.

Yesterday, I was catching up on some reading and I came across something rather exciting - The Ubiquitous Linking Manifesto. This might first sound like something written for a rather out there UK political party, but it is a set of logical recommendations for something that is becoming ever more important in a world so dependent upon digital information and action.

As the pandemic continued, these exuberant titles looked beyond the long dark night.

Leftfield R&B, rave euphoria, ambient jazz—the RA staff and contributors pick their favorite albums of the year.

Learn about the findings of the April 2021 survey held by Setapp across US participants regarding their preferences in apps for Mac.

Here are six iOS apps that stood out for us this year, but weren’t part of the old standbys list. They’re not all new, but they’re ones we used a lot more this year. Noir I use Da…

John: The MacStories Selects Awards are our annual celebration of the apps we love and the people who make them. Every year, the MacStories team uses hundreds of apps. Some are familiar favorites, but most are new. So, after many months of testing those developers’ apps, we stop to recognize the best. This year, as

Apple celebrates this year’s best and most popular podcasts and their creators.

Apple news, app reviews, and stories by Federico Viticci and friends.

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review

Joshua uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 211 films watched. Favorites: The Long Goodbye (1973), Prince of Darkness (1987), Magnolia (1999), Notting Hill (1999).

Every single podcast feed I’m subscribed to.

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