Over the past few weeks, I’ve been researching plain text apps for iPhone and iPad. Here’s where it all started: I often find myself wanting to store random bits of plain text in a document, which I don’t want to save in Apple Notes or iA Writer where my more important notes and documents live....
Install Custom Themes in Textastic
In last week’s issue of MacStories Weekly, I noted that Textastic’s default themes didn’t support proper syntax highlighting for JSON content, where I would have liked to see different colors used for keys and values. Earlier this week, Textastic developer Alexander Blach released a minor update to Textastic 9 that has brought full compatibility...
Connected, Episode 281: Oligarch Modder Community→
On this week’s episode of Connected:
Stephen and Myke launch new careers as iPhone designers and Federico keeps refreshing Apple Music. Also: Swift Playgrounds on the Mac, Apple News+ and a few things we are currently enjoying.
You can listen below (and find the show notes here).
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The Beta Releases that Will Change the App Economy
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AppStories Episode 149 - The Beta Releases that Will Change the App Economy
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This week, Federico and John discuss the updates to Apple’s OSes and developer tools, the changes to the app economy they signal, and the impact they’ll have on users and developers.
An Adventure with OCR, Raindrop Uploads, and Hundreds of PDFs
When I covered the Raindrop.io bookmarking service in my Must-Have Apps roundup and Issue 208 of MacStories Weekly, I mentioned the possibility of uploading your own images and documents in addition to bookmarking webpages. Last week, Raindrop rolled out an update that brought full-text search (along with permanent copies) to the iPhone and iPad...
Adapt, Episode 18: Fixing Multitasking→
On this week’s episode of Adapt:
Multitasking is key to using the iPad as a primary computer, but the current drag and drop-centric system is flawed. Ryan shares his idea for a new approach, then Federico details his email app discoveries.
You can listen below (and find the show notes here), and don’t forget to send us questions using #AskAdapt and by tagging our Twitter account.
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Connected, Episode 280: Peanut Butterpeanut Butterpeanut Butter→
On this week’s episode of Connected:
This week, most of the show document got shredded as a bunch of breaking news took place during recording. iOS 13.4 is bringing a bunch of changes, Mac Catalyst could become more useful and universal apps are coming to the Mac. When not breaking news, Federico shares a sad story, Myke reads a tweet about bread and Stephen struggles with how to edit the episode.
You can listen below (and find the show notes here).
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The Elements of Modern iOS and iPadOS Apps
AppStories Episode 148 - The Elements of Modern iOS and iPadOS Apps
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This week, Federico and John discuss the features and technologies that go into building a modern iOS or iPadOS app with examples of some of their favorite implementations.
Jason Snell’s 2019 Apple Report Card→
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.
This is the fifth year that I’ve presented this survey to a hand-selected group. They were prompted with 12 different Apple-related subjects, and asked to rate them on a scale from 1 to 5 and optionally provide text commentary per category.
It’s always a pleasure to share my thoughts about Apple’s past year in Snell’s annual report. Not only is it a great read – at this point, it’s also a fantastic historical resource collecting years of commentary about Apple.
You can read Snell’s complete report card here. For context, I’ve included my full responses to Snell’s questionnaire below.