1 month ago | By Mac Rumors

At the end of each year, Apple shares its picks for the best App Store apps, podcasts, Apple Music songs, books, and more, and today the company is highlighting the top books, audiobooks, and podcasts of 2020.
Code Switch by NPR was named the Apple Podcasts: Show of the Year, which is a new category for 2020.
Apple also highlighted the top 10 biggest shows of 2020, which include Stuff You Should Know by iHeart Radio, This American Life, The Daily by New York Times, and Crime Junkie by audiochuck.
Apple's favorite podcast picks include California Love by LAist and KPCC, Canary by The...
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Unread 2.4 brings improved widgets and a re-worked interface

1 month ago | By iMore

What you need to know
Unread 2.4 is now available in the App Store.
This update improves the Recent Article widget, adds the option to use Unread's context menus in place of iOS 14's, and more.
Have you read the story about Unread? It's a reader for reading RSS feeds so they aren't unread anymore.
Unread, already one of the more popular RSS readers around, has a new update out for iPhone and iPad. Version 2.4, the new update builds on previous releases that added things like widgets - a staple of any good app running in a post-iOS 14 world.
Speaking of widgets, Unread 2.4 now lets users...
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9to5Google Daily 566: Google Play Store announces 2020 app award winners, Google/Nest WiFi gain video calling prioritization, plus more

1 month ago | By 9to5Google

Listen to a short-form recap or roundup of all the top 9to5Google stories of the previous 24 hours. 9to5Google Daily is available on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Amazon , iTunes and Apple's Podcasts app , Stitcher , or through our dedicated RSS feed for Pocket Casts and other podcast players.
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You know it's Christmas when it snows in the Apple Store app

1 month ago | By iMore

What you need to know
The Apple Store app says it's Christmas. Who am I to argue?
"Let it snow" is, as ever, your key to a snowy Apple Store.
Every Christmas the Apple Store app does more than act as the gateway to new stuff. It turns into a gateway to somewhere magical. Somewhere we can forget about 2020 and the madness we've endured. And it's doing it now.
I am, rather elaborately, talking about the trick that has the Apple Store app act like it's snowing. You've seen it before, right?
Here's Rene showing it off on Instagram.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rene Ritchie...
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