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  • Apple Airs New iPhone 5 Commercial: “Music Every Day”

    23 May 2013, 10:36 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Following the “Photos Every Day” commercial first aired last month, Apple today posted a new iPhone 5 ad called “Music Every Day”. As the name suggests, it is a follow-up to the previous commercial, this time with a focus on music. Music Every Day…
  • → Using Tweetbot Searches to Replace RSS

    23 May 2013, 1:52 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Sean Korzdorfer shares a Tweetbot tip that I didn’t know about: you can construct complex searches with boolean operators and filters and launch them with a URL scheme, both on OS X and iOS. And not just regular searches — you can apply a query to look for…
  • Apple Confirms WWDC Keynote on June 10

    23 May 2013, 12:45 pm by: Federico Viticci

    As first reported by John Paczkowski at AllThingsD, Apple has confirmed its WWDC ’13 keynote for June 10 in San Francisco. Speakers haven’t been revealed yet, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see CEO Tim Cook kicking off the keynote, with other…
  • → Save Keyboard Maestro Macro Screenshots with Keyboard Maestro

    23 May 2013, 12:01 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Patrick Welker goes all meta with a macro to save Keyboard Maestro macros as screenshots — a new feature of version 6.0.
  • Auto Tag Songs in the Background with Shazam for the iPad

    23 May 2013, 11:15 am by: Cody Fink

    Shazam is one of those things that has always felt entirely magical. With a tap of a button, usually any song playing from a static filled speaker is correctly tagged, and sorted into a tab where you can revisit it on your accord at a later time. It’ll pluck…
  • Evernote Launches Reminders

    23 May 2013, 10:04 am by: Federico Viticci

    In the years I’ve spent using and recommending Evernote, I’ve always noticed a chasm between people who rely on the service to store reference material and notes, and those who want to also use Evernote as a “getting things done” system to keep track…
  • → Mailbox Now Available for the iPad

    23 May 2013, 9:20 am by: Cody Fink

    As I said in my own review, Mailbox helps me get rid of all the unimportant stuff before I even sit down at my computer. I’ve described Mailbox as a complement to the inbox, not a replacement, and that continues to be true. I still log into Gmail when I need…
  • Rdio 2.2 Includes URL Scheme for Search

    22 May 2013, 4:35 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Rdio 2.2, released earlier today, includes — besides an improved interface and label search — a new URL scheme for launching searches from other apps (thanks, Adam). The URL scheme is fairly simple: rdio://search/[search term] In the past, I relied on a…
  • Chrome for iOS Getting Voice Search Soon

    22 May 2013, 4:06 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Following this morning’s rollout of the Voice Search for desktop, Google has also announced through the official Chrome blog that Chrome for iOS will receive the same feature “over the coming days”. Voice Search, already available through the standalone…
  • → Twitter for Mac Gets Notification Center Support

    22 May 2013, 3:05 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Twitter updated its official Mac app today to include support for Notification Center and fixes for Growl (among other improvements). Notifications can be configured in the Settings, and, in my initial tests, they worked fine for mentions and direct messages.…
  • Rdio for iOS Update Brings Label Search, Revamped Sidebar, New “Find People” Feature

    22 May 2013, 12:31 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Rdio 2.2, released today for the iPhone and iPad, brings a series of important new features such as label search and improved user search, plus a revamped look for the slide-out navigation. A feature highly requested by Rdio’s userbase, label search allows…
  • The Omni Group Launches OmniPresence For Automatic Document Syncing

    22 May 2013, 12:00 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Announced in December 2012, The Omni Group has today started the public rollout of OmniPresence, their new free automatic document syncing solution for OS X and iOS. OmniPresence, based on open web technologies, is available inside OmniGraffle,…
  • Share To Flipboard Magazines From Drafts

    22 May 2013, 11:33 am by: Federico Viticci

    I’m a big fan of Flipboard’s magazine feature, which was introduced earlier this year with version 2.0 of the app. By leveraging Flipboard’s existing presentation style – capable of re-formatting web articles, videos, and photos with a beautiful…
  • → Latest Chrome Release Includes Voice Search Support

    22 May 2013, 9:22 am by: Federico Viticci

    Jerry Hildenbrand: Google Now style voice search has just went live in the latest Chrome stable version for the desktop (Version 27.0.1453.93). As far as we can tell from playing around testing things, the full contextual search isn’t running like we saw in…
  • Apple Rolls Out Online Store Design Changes

    22 May 2013, 8:26 am by: Federico Viticci

    Apple rolled out a series of design changes to its online Store overnight, bringing a cleaner, more subdued style for graphical elements and larger, image-centric spots for products and accessories. The most notable change is the front page of the Store, which…
  • → Infinitesimal Bits of Time

    21 May 2013, 9:57 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Adam C. Engst, in his overview of Keyboard Maestro 6: In fact, many of my macros are utterly simple and obvious — I could type “cheers… -Adam” at the end of every email message I send, or I could press Control-period. Just because I’m saving only a…
  • → Behind the Scenes of Paper’s Zoom

    21 May 2013, 6:20 pm by: Cody Fink

    FiftyThree gives us a closer look at Zoom, explaining why they chose to use a loupe instead of expanding the entire drawing. Our team spent many hours with the accessibility zoom, and looked at the best implementations of zoom across a range of apps. One…
  • → ChewingPencils’ Evernote Workflows for Alfred

    21 May 2013, 6:00 pm by: Federico Viticci

    This is a great collection of Evernote workflows by my friend Sean Korzdorfer. I have been trying them for the past hour, and I’m impressed by the search workflows with filters for note content, attachments, and dates. Make sure to read the documentation to…
  • → Google Chrome App Launcher in Development for the Mac

    21 May 2013, 5:35 pm by: Cody Fink

    Chrome’s App Launcher, now available for preview in the latest Chromium build on the Mac, can be found on Chromebooks and is currently available in beta builds on Windows. It’s Google’s take on Jump Lists on Windows or Stacks on OS X: grids of web…
  • Scanner Pro Gets Real-Time Border Detection

    21 May 2013, 7:12 am by: Federico Viticci

    Readdle’s Scanner Pro has been my favorite iOS scanner app for over a year now: …for the professional who runs a small business, or individuals who do scan documents, just not so many every day, I’d seriously suggest considering Scanner Pro on the new…
  • Keyboard Maestro 6.0 Adds Syncing, Browser Actions, Device Triggers, And More

    20 May 2013, 11:29 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Long-time MacStories readers know how deep-seated Keyboard Maestro is in my OS X workflow. I use it every day, constantly, to automate my Mac to speed up writing, resize images, save PDFs, execute scripts, and more. Version 6.0 is out today and it brings over…
  • TextExpander Touch 2.0 Brings Fill-In Snippets, Formatted Text To iOS

    20 May 2013, 9:57 pm by: Federico Viticci

    I rely on Smile’s TextExpander to save keystrokes on my Mac on a daily basis, but the iOS counterpart, TextExpander touch, has always felt vastly underpowered due to limitations imposed by Apple on the iPhone and iPad. Today’s major update, TextExpander…
  • → How To Wrangle Outlook 2011 To Work With Gmail – May 2013 Update

    20 May 2013, 3:55 pm by: Cody Fink

    I wrote MacStories’ tutorial on how to integrate Gmail with Outlook for Mac 2011 back in 2010. There’s been quite a few updates since then, and Microsoft has fixed many of the issues I mentioned in the original guide. Too, Gmail itself has been visually…
  • #MacStoriesDeals – Monday

    20 May 2013, 2:11 pm by: Chris Herbert

    We have many great deals for #MacStoriesDeals today. You can find us as @MacStoriesDeals on Twitter. Staff Favorites Last week’s sponsor: Smile Software New! Checkmark: $4.99 > Free (review) New! Google Hangouts for iOS: Free Skala Preview for Mac: $4.99 >…
  • → How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right

    19 May 2013, 9:51 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Gus Mueller: But how are we going to know Apple has finally fixed iCloud syncing for developers and is really serious this time? And I’m not just talking about Core Data syncing, I’m also talking about the APIs developers are given to push document data…
  • → CriticMarkup in Marked 1.4

    19 May 2013, 9:26 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Brett Terpstra: The initial release of CriticMarkup included a preprocessor for Marked 1.5+, but given the uncertain release date of the next incarnation of Marked, I wanted to make it work with the standard custom processor feature of Marked 1.4. A few…
  • → Learning to Love Evernote

    17 May 2013, 12:04 pm by: Federico Viticci

    A collection of 10 DRM-free Evernote screencasts by my friend Bradley Chambers. I watched the videos, and I think Bradley did a good job in providing a general overview of Evernote, as well as offering some useful tips on how to use it on OS X and iOS. An…
  • iTunes 11.0.3 Supports AirPlay Speaker Control Via AppleScript

    16 May 2013, 4:15 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Also new in iTunes 11.0.3 is an update to the app’s AppleScript dictionary that adds support for controlling AirPlay speakers. The AppleScript additions contain several options: you can check on an AirPlay device’s name, activity, availability on the…
  • iTunes 11.0.3 Brings New App Updates Screen

    16 May 2013, 3:32 pm by: Federico Viticci

      In the 11.0.3 update for iTunes released today, Apple included a new “Updates” area for iOS apps. As noted by MacStories reader Graham Robson, the Apps area of iTunes now comes with a new “Updates” tab that lists available app updates (if any); if…
  • Apple Releases iTunes 11.0.3 with Updated MiniPlayer, Various Improvements

    16 May 2013, 1:44 pm by: Federico Viticci

    Released in late November 2012, Apple today updated iTunes to version 11.0.3. The new version, available through the Mac App Store’s Software Update panel, brings a redesigned MiniPlayer, an improved songs view, support for multi-disc albums, and performance…

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