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Announced back in May, the tinyPod is a plastic case that turns your strapless Apple Watch into an iPod-like phone. The company claims the case can make a cellular Apple Watch your “phone away ...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/dave-lee-reveals-the-old-school-technology-and-flaws-behind-the-tinypod/

On YouTube, the fantastic Michael MJD—known for exploring the history of tech devices and software—recently revisited the 2011 HP TouchPad. This short-lived tablet is quite fascinating. It or...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/michael-mjd-revisits-the-short-lived-hp-touchpad-and-its-precursor-multitasking-ui/

I last wrote about iPod click wheel games here on MacStories in…2011, when Apple officially delisted them from the iTunes Store. Thirteen years later, some enterprising iPod fans are trying to ...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/ipod-fans-are-trying-to-preserve-lost-click-wheel-games/

Today, the Pixelmator team (this and next week’s MacStories sponsor) announced on their company blog that they plan to join Apple after regulatory approvals are obtained. The Pixelmator team ha...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/pixelmator-team-to-join-apple/

The new iPad mini is the first model with Wi-Fi 6E support, which makes it the best mini for game streaming yet. Of course, it’s a great size for playing App Store and Apple Arcade games too. L...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/gamesir-g8-ipad-mini-and-iphone-controller-walkthrough/

I enjoyed this take on Apple Intelligence’s Clean Up feature by Joe Rosensteel, writing for Six Colors last week: The photographs you take are not courtroom evidence. They’re not historical d...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/you-can-use-clean-up-with-a-clear-conscience/

The Verge’s Chris Welch has an in-depth look at Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features, which include hearing protection, a hearing test, and hearing aid features. On hearing protection,...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/apples-airpods-pro-hearing-health-features-are-as-good-as-they-sound/

Excellent deep dive into the Vision Pro’s travel capabilities by Azad Balabanian, who’s used Apple’s headset extensively on various flights: The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential i...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/traveling-with-the-vision-pro/

I joined Lee Peterson on his podcast, Home Screens, for a tour of my iPhone Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Control Center pages. The theme that ties it all together is ‘quick entry.’ Whether i...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/i-shared-my-iphone-home-screen-and-more-on-the-home-screens-podcast/

It’s been a few months, which is why it’s once again time for a setup update. This time, Federico has added several items to his desk setup. Below, you’ll find a selection of top picks from...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/new-items-and-deals-on-federicos-desk-setup-items/

Today, Apple released the trailer for Submerged, a short film from director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) that the company is touting as the first scripted film created using its...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/submerged-apples-first-scripted-immersive-film-is-coming-this-thursday/

Every so often, you come across a writer who cares so much about their subject that it smacks you in the face. You can’t ignore it, and it sucks so much of the oxygen out of a topic that no one...

https://www.macstories.net/news/tabletops-closes-shop/

The best workflows are the hardest to design because they require restraint. It’s easy to throw complexity at a problem to create the illusion of a grand solution, when it’s often the simples...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/forever-%E2%9C%B1-notes-a-simple-flexible-and-free-approach-to-organizing-your-apple-notes/

Becca Farsace’s latest video is all about her favorite camcorder: the iPod Nano: It’s a terrific video about a different time when simple devices like the Flip Video were everywhere, taking l...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/becca-farsace-on-why-the-ipod-nanos-camera-is-her-favorite-camcorder/

I love this idea by Lee Peterson: using Apple’s Journal app (which got some terrific updates in iOS 18) to track your Home Screen updates over time. Every so often, I see screenshots from peopl...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/using-apple-journal-to-track-home-screen-setups/

Earlier this week, I joined Lex Friedman on Clockwise, the Relay show hosted by Dan Moren and Mikah Sargent. On episode 573, ‘Five Legs and Way Too Many Fingers,’ we covered a bunch of topics...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/clockwise-573-five-legs-and-way-too-many-fingers/

Unlike most reviewers who were given an iPhone to test, Austin Mann didn’t head home, he headed to Kenya. Mann, whose iPhone camera reviews we’ve covered many times in the past, took the new ...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/austin-manns-iphone-16-pro-camera-review/

iFixit has released the results of its teardowns of the iPhone 16 lineup. I love these posts because not only do they provide insights into the repairability of the new iPhones, but they also ans...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/ifixits-teardowns-of-the-iphone-16-lineup-reveal-improved-battery-replaceability-and-more/

One of my favorite parts from Nilay Patel’s review of the iPhone 16 Pro at The Verge was the answer he got from Apple’s VP of camera software engineering Jon McCormack about the company’s d...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/apples-definition-of-a-photo/

Friday is Relay’s annual Podcastathon for St. Jude. They’re raising money during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and the Podcastathon is a fun 12-hour live streamed show from your favorite ...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/npcs-connected-takeover-i-got-the-rgb-going-on/

Apple previously said Apple Intelligence will launch with support for U.S. English only, but other languages will be added over the next year. The company has gotten a little more specific than b...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/apple-opens-up-about-language-support-for-apple-intelligence/

A decade is an eternity on the web, which makes Six Colors’ tenth anniversary something special. It’s weird how “web time” works. On the one hand, Six Colors feels like the sort of instit...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/six-colors-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary/

It’s been an unprecedented week for Apple’s OSes, with updates to every OS landing at the same time at the beginning of the week. Today we’ll publish our fourth and final OS review with Dev...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/chris-lawleys-ios-and-ipados-18-walkthrough/

Apple’s Craig Federighi was interviewed by Wired about the company’s Private Cloud Compute infrastructure that will handle Apple Intelligence requests that can’t be handled locally on-devic...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/craig-federighi-on-apples-private-cloud-compute-architecture/

Architecture and design site, Dezeen has an exclusive first look at The Observatory, a new events space built into the side of a hill at Apple Park. The building, which is near the Steve Jobs The...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/dezeen-highlights-the-observatory-a-new-event-space-at-apple-park/

Source: Bitmo Lab. Bitmo Lab, an affiliate of JSAUX, a videogame accessory maker, has announced pre-orders for an intriguing new iPhone case. The GAMEBABY case, which I came across on Overkill.wt...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/bitmo-lab-opens-pre-orders-for-a-delta-emulator-friendly-iphone-case/

Wired reported today that many large websites are blocking Applebot-Extended, Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) web crawler. Wired determined this by examining the sites’ public robots.txt...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/websites-increasingly-tell-apple-and-ai-companies-to-stop-scraping/

With the rerelease of iOS 18.0, the EU and the rest of the world will have two flavors of the iPhone’s operating system. As Jason Snell writes for Macworld, this is one of Apple’s greatest fe...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-risk-to-apple-of-os-envy/

Apple’s Luca Maestri. Source: Apple. Apple has announced that CFO Luca Maestri will leave that position effective on January 1, 2025, but continue at Apple to lead Corporate Services. Maestri w...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/apple-announces-cfo-transition/

Allison Johnson, writing for The Verge on the latest EU-mandated and Apple-designed changes to iOS in Europe: They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, reg...

https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-dma-version-of-ios-is-more-fun-than-vanilla-ios/