MacStories Unwind: A Darkroom Update and Pixelmator Pro Teaser, a New Flagship Apple Store in Rome, Snowman’s Upcoming App, and Thoughts on Shortcuts Notifications

0:0018:39 Sponsored by: Musens – The Beautiful Music Player This week on MacStories Unwind: MacStories Photo Editor and Organizer Darkroom Adds New Clarity Tool Pixelmator Pro Teases ML Crop Feature and Announces a 50% Off Sale Apple Prepares to Open Its Latest Flagship Store in...

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Apple Prepares to Open Its Latest Flagship Store in Rome’s Historic Via del Corso Shopping District

Today, Apple took the wraps off its latest flagship store in the heart of Rome’s Via del Corso shopping district. The store is Apple’s first in Rome’s historic center, although the company has long had a presence in Rome and other parts of Italy, including another flagship store that was opened in Milan in 2018. The new Rome location isn’t open yet...

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Photo Editor and Organizer Darkroom Adds New Clarity Tool

Photo editing and management app Darkroom has been updated with a new Clarity slider that I’ve been testing on the iPhone and iPad for a couple of weeks now. The new slider in the app’s editing panel is deceptively simple. Move the slider to the right to make the details of an image pop or to the left to smooth out the details. If you look carefully,...

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Pixelmator Pro Teases ML Crop Feature and Announces a 50% Off Sale

Source Pixelmator. Some of the most impressive additions to Pixelmator Pro in recent updates have been the ones that rely on machine learning. From the auto enhancement feature added in 2018 to last year’s ML Color Match and ML Super Resolution, a wide variety of the app’s tools have harnessed machine learning to help photographers edit their images....

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AppStories, Episode 217 – Our 2021 macOS WWDC Wishes

This week on AppStories, we begin our annual pre-WWDC wish list episodes with our 2021 wishes for macOS. Sponsored by: Appfigures – Analytics, intelligence, and App Store optimization tools. Sign up for free, and then use the code AppStories3030 at checkout for 30% off for the next three months. Things – The award-winning to-do app. Pingdom – Start...

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Snowman Announces New Creative Studio and Its First App, Pok Pok Playroom, A Digital Play Experience for Kids

Today, Snowman, the studio behind some of our favorite games on Apple platforms like Alto’s Adventure and Odyssey, Where Cards Fall, and Skate City, announced Pok Pok, a new creative studio that is launching an app on May 20th called Pok Pok Playroom. Pok Pok Playroom is an app designed to encourage interactive play with a series of digital toys that...

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Musens: The Beautiful Music Player [Sponsor]

Musens is a beautiful, customizable music player for the iPhone that brings your music collection and Apple Music’s entire catalog to life with stunning animated artwork. The app has been built from the ground up to take advantage of Apple’s latest Swift UI frameworks and modern features. Whether you’re playing your favorite albums from your own library...

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Shortcuts Needs a Notification Toggle

Chaim Gartenberg, writing for The Verge, on one of Shortcuts’ most annoying limitations in iOS 14 – its obsession for showing notifications for anything it does: Apple, I assume, mandates notifications because Shortcuts are extremely powerful tools for automating things on your iPhone, and it’s easy to imagine unscrupulous use of them. But...

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MacStories Unwind: Epic’s Antitrust Case Against Apple, CARROT Weather Updated, and Another Streaming Service Integrates with the HomePod

0:0029:39 Sponsored by: Inoreader – Take Back Control of Your News Feed This week on MacStories Unwind: MacStories Epic Versus Apple: The MacStories Overview CARROT Weather 5.2 Revamps Layout Customization and Adds New Sections and Data Deezer’s New HomePod Integration Supports...

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Deezer’s New HomePod Integration Supports Hi-Res Audio Playback

Source: Deezer. Late last year, music fans gained the ability to switch their default music service on the HomePod. Pandora was the first to offer the option last November and has now been joined by Deezer in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the UK, and the US. Similar to other services, Deezer’s HomePod voice control functionality...

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