I’m what you might call an iThoughts fan. It’s on all of my home screens on iOS and almost always open on my Mac. iThoughts is my playground for ideas. Many of my longer articles start in a context map and many of my expansive projects live in that form permanently.
That means I can’t silo my data on one device. iThoughts provides a couple of reliable ways to sync data and make sure it’s portable to any other application I need.
I use Find My Friends regularly. It’s a great way to see when my wife will be home so I can have dinner ready and not bug her. With iOS 7 you can now1 ask Siri to locate someone linked with Find My Friends. If you have your relationship set for your spouse, just ask Siri “Where’s my wife”.
Siri will dutifully return a map showing their current location. Tapping the pin will open Find My Friends.
Dave Addey has a nice article about iBeacons. I’m both excited and terrified of this new prospect. It could enable some pretty amazing conveniences. I am concerned about where the data gets used and stored.
With the deluge of app updates this week, it’s easy to miss some major improvements among all of the new skins. The latest Evernote apps for iOS are significant improvements in the design and performance.
Here’s the rundown directly from Evernote. Here’s the video demonstration from them as well:
This is my favorite version of Evernote. While the last stacked-tab interface was an iterative improvement, the usability of this new Control Center-esque design is a huge leap.
If this is accurate, the iOS7 adoption rate is stunning. It’s at 28% in the first 24 hours. Now we just need a toggle in the AppStore to only show apps updated for iOS7 or iOS7 only. Let there be a righteous, cleansing rain that clears out all of the abandoned apps.1
This was my opinion back in 2012. And yes, I’m still using the same analogy. Old people repeat themselves.
I’ve been a committed Pandora premium subscriber for around 4 years. There’s been nothing better than Pandora for pure music discovery.1 I don’t mind buying music I like but I use Pandora to find music I don’t know I like. It was because of my continued enjoyment of Pandora that I was skeptical of Apple’s new iTunes Radio. But Apple is not offering a cheap knock-off of Pandora. They are offering an upgrade.
This is the John Gruber I remember1 (emphasis mine):
To put that in context, the iPhone 5S beats my 2008 15-inch MacBook Pro by a small measure in the Sunspider benchmark (with the MacBook Pro running the latest Safari 6.1 beta). The iPhone 5S is, in some measures, computationally superior to the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro from just five years ago. In your fucking pocket.
This is the bit I don’t understand about the crap on the internet.
PCalc version 3.0 is out today with an impressive visual update as well as some new features.1
Sure, you can go back to the old school theme, but the new Samurai theme is really nice.
For those just now finding out about the best calculator on any platform, you can get a detailed review of version 2.8 from a slide rule savant. I trust him when it comes to calculators.
Junecloud’s Delivery Status is a on oldie but a goodie. It has a single purpose: Track shipments from a variety of carriers and provide optional notifications. The app is available for iOS and as a Mac Dashboard plugin. The iPad and iPhone apps are very good as well as attractive. Nice touch coloring the delivery by the carrier.1
But the best feature of Deliveries is the the online sync account available to donors or through the iOS apps.
I’m still very happy using Cobook on my Mac and iPhone but frustrated by the lack of an iPad version. Today, Cobook universal version is available and it works just like Cobook for iPhone, which is just fine by me.
