This week Fraser and Federico dive into managing your calendar on iOS.
This week on Canvas, we talked about managing calendars on iOS and the best iPhone and iPad apps for calendars. It’s a good one. You can listen here.
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App Debuts BBEdit BBEdit, the popular, powerful text editor for Mac, has been updated to version 11.6. The app is now effectively free to use forever with some limitations – a notable change from the past. There are also some new features, which you can read here. Kat Kat is an iOS app for developers to...
Q&A Question: Have you seen any improvements to native iOS text expansion? Syncing between devices seems to have stopped working some time ago. (Bill Cummings)
I haven’t seen any improvements to text expansion on iOS, or even on the iOS 10 beta yet. I know that there were some issues with creating and syncing snippets...
Mapping the iOS 10 Review Like last year, the professional side of my summer will be devoted to finishing my review of the next version of iOS for September. This year, I’m trying to be more pragmatic about how I organize the review in the research and outlining stages. My work on the iOS 10 review started at WWDC during...
Timepage There’s no shortage of calendar apps for the iPhone, but very few of them get close to the unique mix of elegance, innovation, and touch controls of Timepage. Timepage is a relatively new entry in the calendar app ecosystem, but since its launch (and through subsequent updates) it has brought a breath of fresh...
Frank A. Krueger (maker of Calca, a longtime favorite of mine) has launched Continuous, a new programming app for iOS.
He writes:
Continuous gives you the power of a traditional desktop .NET IDE - full C# 6 and F# 4 language support with semantic highlighting and code completion - while also featuring live code execution so you don’t have to wait around for code to compile and run. Continuous works completely offline so you get super fast compiles and your code is secure.
I like the approach he took to “doing work on the iPad” as a software developer:
I love the iPad but was still stuck having to lug around my laptop if I ever wanted to do “real work”. Real work, in my world, means programming. There are indeed other IDEs for the iPad: there is the powerful Pythonista app and the brilliant Codea app. But neither of those apps was able to help me in my job: writing iOS apps in C# and F#. I couldn’t use my favorite languages on my favorite device and that unfortunately relegated my iPad to a play thing.
I don’t know C# and F#, but Continuous looks impressive and exactly like the kind of app we should see on the iPad more often. It even has full framework support for native iOS libraries such as UIKit, Foundation, and CoreImage. Reasonably priced at $9.99 on the App Store, too, with an iPhone version available.
Between Continuous, Pythonista (which recently received a brand new version 3.0), and the upcoming Swift Playgrounds, the iPad as a programming environment is growing up.
This week, Federico was late to the show so Stephen got to talk about Hackintoshes before the new beta of iOS 10 dropped and rocked the Europeans to their core.
You don’t want to miss the first half of the show on Connected this week. You can listen here.
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Federico is back to discuss his thoughts on his first VR experience. This leads to a discussion on what Nintendo’s VR plans could be, before wrapping up with some thoughts on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
A good VR-focused episode of Remaster this week, with a final segment on Zelda. You can listen here.
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