I was recently talking to a friend who’s an Airmail and Workflow user, and he told me how he’s gotten into the habit of replying to people over email using “audio mails” – brief voice memos embedded as attachments to a message that allow him to talk freely without spending too much time typing....
Easier Mute Filters in Tweetbot
I’ve been going back and forth between Twitterrific and Tweetbot lately and, this past week, I primarily interacted with my timeline using Tapbots’ app. Coming from Twitterrific, I immediately noticed how slow Tweetbot was in letting me create new mute filters. In Twitterrific, you can create new “muffles” directly from the timeline with a...
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Question: I use regex a lot to build workflows, and in doing so I’ve come to realize that it’s critical to be able to see invisible characters. On my Mac, I use TextWrangler’s ‘Show Invisibles’ feature to do this. But I haven’t found a text editor on iOS that has similar functionality. Are you aware...
Remaster, Episode 29: Waiting for the Switch→
We are just one week away from the Nintendo Switch. What do we know?
The Nintendo Switch is launching in a week. On the latest Remaster, we go over the latest details we know about the console, the games that have been announced, and all the hardware we’re buying. You can listen here.
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iPad Diaries: Clipboard Management with Copied and Workflow
One of the common challenges involving a switch from macOS to an iPad is the lack of desktop-like clipboard managers on iOS.
By nature of the platform1 and technical restrictions imposed by Apple, apps like Pastebot or Alfred wouldn’t be able to adapt their Mac capabilities to the iPad. Third-party iOS apps can’t constantly monitor changes to the system clipboard in the background; similarly, it isn’t possible for an iPad app to register as the handler of a keyboard shortcut at a system-wide level. An app would have to at least be currently in use via Split View to listen for clipboard changes, but, even in that case, it would have to be active to receive external keyboard commands.
With these limitations, it’s no surprise that clipboard managers aren’t a flourishing category on the iPad App Store. However, once we accept the intrinsic differences between the Mac and iPad and if we look at the problem from a different perspective, there’s plenty we can do – either with apps or automation – to go beyond Apple’s modest clipboard offerings on iOS.
After years of testing iPad clipboard managers and automation/scripting strategies, this is what I’ve come up with.
Connected, Episode 130: San Frosé→
This week, Stephen and Myke talk about the whirlwind of iPhone rumors and where they keep their data before Myke is joined by a special guest.
I couldn’t join Myke and Stephen on Connected this week, but I enjoyed listening to iPhone rumors and the very special guest in the second half of the show. You can listen here.
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Overcast 3.0: iOS 10 Features, UI Changes, Easy Queuing, and an Interview with Marco Arment
Overcast, Marco Arment’s popular podcast app for iOS, is defined by an interesting dualism: its essence has remained remarkably consistent with the original version released three years ago; at the same time, Arment has periodically revisited Overcast’s design, features, and business model to build a superior listening environment for a larger audience.
The same judicious iteration permeates Overcast 3.0, launching today on the App Store. With improvements to episode management, visual changes aimed at modernizing the interface, and an evolution of the existing subscription-based model, Overcast 3.0 is another thoughtful combination of new ideas and old tropes, which converge in a refreshed yet instinctively familiar listening experience.
iOS 10.3 Beta Adds ‘App Compatibility’ Screen Listing Old 32-Bit Apps→
In addition to a new warning displayed upon launching an old 32-bit app for the first time, it appears that iOS 10.3 will also include a Settings page listing legacy apps that “will not work with future versions of iOS”.
Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors on the latest iOS 10.3 beta released earlier today:
In the Settings app, there’s a new “App Compatibility” section that lists apps that may not work with a future version of iOS. Tapping on one of the apps opens it up in the App Store so you can see when it was last updated. As has been discovered in previous betas, opening one of these apps on your iOS device pops up a warning with a similar non-compatible statement. App Compatibility can be accessed by opening the Settings app and choosing General –> About. From there, scroll down to “Applications” and tap it.
It’s not clear whether these warnings will make it into the final release of iOS 10.3, but they’re a strong sign that developers should prepare for stricter 64-bit requirements in iOS 11.
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