AppStories, Episode 3: App Camp for Girls with Jean MacDonald and Grey Osten →

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On this week’s episode of AppStories, we invited Jean MacDonald and Grey Osten, co-founders of App Camp for Girls, to talk about their organization and the goals of the program. App Camp for Girls, now at its fifth year, helps middle-school age girls get started with app development, and, for the first time, there will be a Camp in Chicago later this year.

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AppStories Episode 3 - Interview: App Camp for Girls with Jean MacDonald and Grey Osten

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Federico and John interview Jean MacDonald and Grey Osten, the co-founders of App Camp for Girls – an organization that helps middle-school age girls get started with app development.

Canvas, Episode 34: Password Managers →

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This week Fraser and Federico look at another aspect of personal security on iOS: password managers.

On this week’s Canvas, we talk about password management with a focus on 1Password and their modern subscription offerings. You can listen here.

App Debuts

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Newsify The popular RSS client (which supports both Feedly and iCloud sync) has added a web app to access your subscriptions from desktop computers. The latest version also brought 3D Touch improvements and a bigger font size option on the iPad. After Ice This app is a simple but effective visualization of what our...

Workflow and the Trello API, Part 2: Exporting a Single Trello Card

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In last week’s issue of MacStories Weekly, I used member Silvio’s question as a starting point to explain how I’ve been using Workflow and the Trello API to manage and export newsletter sections for the Club. In Part 1 of the series, I covered the basics of authenticating with the Trello API and saving...

Q&A

By Federico Viticci

Question: In the first AppStories episode you said you were trying out Newton as your email app. You have said in the past that you use SaneBox too. How do you access your SaneLater folders, or any SaneBox folder, using Newton? I cannot find a convenient way to access the Sane folders without a lot...

Prizmo Go Review: Smarter OCR with the iPhone’s Camera

By Federico Viticci

I’ve long been using Prizmo to quickly extract text contained in photos using the iPhone’s camera. Developed by Creaceed, Prizmo has always stood out among iOS scanner apps thanks to its accurate and fast OCR. While most scanner apps focus on digitizing documents and exporting PDFs, Prizmo complemented that functionality with the ability to recognize and share text with just a couple of taps. Prizmo could be used as a scanner app for paperless workflows, but I preferred to keep it on my devices as a dedicated utility to effortlessly extract and share text.

With Prizmo Go, released today on the App Store, Creaceed is doubling down on Prizmo’s best feature with a separate app that’s been entirely designed with OCR and sharing text in mind. While OCR was a feature of Prizmo, it becomes the cornerstone of the experience in Prizmo Go, which takes advantage of impressive new OCR technologies to make character recognition smarter, faster, and better integrated with other iOS apps.

iPad Diaries: DEVONthink’s New Advanced Automation

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iPad Diaries is a regular series about using the iPad as a primary computer. You can find more installments here and subscribe to the dedicated RSS feed.

When I covered DEVONthink To Go in the first iPad Diaries column back in February, I briefly mentioned the app’s limited support for URL schemes and automation. I concluded the article noting that DEVONthink’s advanced file management features were ideal candidates for my writing workflow – particularly given the app’s ability to store different types of documents, reference them with unique links, and search them with Boolean operators. I also expanded upon the idea of using DEVONthink as my only iOS file manager in the latest episode of Mac Power Users.

I’ve been moving more work documents and other research material (web archives and PDFs, mostly) to DEVONthink over the past two months. The turning point occurred a few weeks ago, when DEVONtechnologies began adding advanced x-callback-url automation to DEVONthink’s beta channel and were kind enough to let me test and provide feedback for the functionality.

I was genuinely excited by the prospect of a scriptable DEVONthink: due to iOS’ lack of a deeply integrated Finder, I’ve always wanted a file manager that could be extended and enhanced through automation and other apps. With an improved set of URL commands and various optimizations for usage in Workflow, DEVONthink To Go can now be that kind of file manager. I made my decision: this is the app I’m going to use to manage the research content for my iOS 11 review this summer.

The automation features introduced by DEVONtechnologies in the latest DEVONthink for iOS go deep into the app’s structure, covering discrete functionalities such as file creation, search, and data retrieval. These changes will enable a greater number of users to integrate DEVONthink with their favorite iPad apps and workflows. And while the new commands are documented in the app, I thought it’d be useful to provide some concrete examples of how we can take DEVONthink to the next level through automation.

Connected, Episode 139: Artisanally-Raised, Hand-Crafted Yaks →

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Casey Liss comes to set Federico straight about Plex in a new segment called Follow-on. Then, Stephen and Federico talk about Apple’s recent environmental push, the changes coming to the iTunes Affiliate Program and AppStories, Federico’s new podcast and website.

On this week’s Connected, Casey tells us why managing media in a Plex library isn’t so complicated and we also discuss the recent launch of AppStories. You can listen here.