Question: I’m trying to convince my wife the iPad Pro is the best replacement for her five-year-old MacBook Air given the type of tasks she do on her Mac. However, even a relatively simple task of annotating images has proven to be such a pain for her on the iPad. What do you use on...
Tips
[[graham]] If you’re using a Bluetooth keyboard with your iPad it’s not immediately obvious how you can bring up the Emoji keyboard or any other 3rd party keyboard. Thankfully Julia Richert on Twitter helped me out and explained that you can switch keyboards by pressing Cmd+Control+Space (although on my weird BT keyboard the shortcut is...
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Question: I prefer using the software keyboard on my iPad Pro, and use it propped up slightly by a Smart Cover. However, I was recently told by a doctor I need to not hunch over a device like I currently do due to the angle of my iPad. How do you balance your preference for...
Five TV Picks from Graham
Many of you will know by now that I watch quite a bit of TV drama, probably too much actually. There’s a huge amount of quality TV available today, and I couldn’t resist highlighting five TV shows from 2015 that I highly recommend watching. These aren’t necessarily the best, but they are five of my...
Our Favorite Notification Center Widgets
{.app-collection} [[federico]] 2Do As my default task manager, I use 2Do’s widget quite a bit on both the iPhone and iPad to check on tasks for the current day and mark them as complete without having to open the app. In the widget, 2Do can show tasks due today (with colored labels for the list...
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Question: I’m looking for an app for reading PDFs with the ability to markup the text using the new Apple pencil. I’ve been using Readdle’s Documents but it doesn’t seem to support the pencil very well. Any suggestions? Thanks.(Terrance Goodpasture, @brterrance) [[federico]] I’ve heard good things about Notability and GoodNotes, Terrance. Both support PDF files...
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Question: Regarding a new iPhone Smart Battery Case, do you think it implies Apple acknowledges iPhone 6/6s’ battery is not sufficient for some heavy users? Do you think Apple will give a higher priority on battery for the next iPhone, rather than making the battery-pregnant case or removing the headphone jack? (Jung) [[federico]] I think...
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Question: Like Federico, almost every shred of my computing is now iOS-based, and I consider my iPad Pro as my main device. The pain points are fewer and fewer, and were long since eclipsed by the benefits. But one issue I have grappled with more and more is cloud-storage search (where, in an iOS-based environment,...
Relax, It’s the Weekend
Nat and Lo YouTube Channel Watch on YouTube You may be familiar with the Google 20% project initiative where employees can work on another project in 20% of their time. One of those projects is the Nat and Lo YouTube channel. In each of their videos they visit and chat with other Google employeesand find...