{.app-collection} [[jake]] Duet Display Although it’s been a staple of the App Store for years, Duet Display is still an incredible utility for iPad and Mac users. Through a cable between your Mac and iPad, you can turn your iPad into a second display, meaning that you’ll have more space to be more productive when...
Ditching My iPhone for the Apple Watch Series 3
[[jake]] I, like many people, have phone anxiety. I’ll start going somewhere, pat my pockets to realize my iPhone isn’t there, and turn back to get it. At meals, I’m a typical millennial, using my iPhone between bites to browse Twitter or send a quick text. But I don’t like being that way, and the...
Quickly Accessing Contexual Menus in iOS 11
[[ryan]] With iOS 11 launching publicly next Tuesday, I wanted to share a tip regarding something I wish I’d known back in June when I first got on the beta. On the iPad, the advent of drag and drop has made accessing contextual menus – such as the one that appears when long-pressing a link...
Working in the Apple and Google Ecosystems
[[jake]] Between the words of this article are physical pauses – ones to check my phone, take a sip of water, and check Twitter. Every so often, I’ll pause for a different reason, if only for a second: “Hey Google! Next song.” For the past couple of months, I’ve been diving ever deeper into Google’s...
Extras
In honor of World Emoji Day, which was celebrated earlier this week, we thought we would share some of our favorite emoji. 1. What are your ten most-used emoji? [[ryan]] Nothing too unusual in here I don’t think. The thumbs up is my single most-used emoji, which I think might be out of the ordinary....
Apps from Apple Keynotes
{.app-collection} [[jake]] Affinity Photo Affinity Photo was the star app at WWDC 2017, and for good reason: it’s one of the most advanced photo editing tools available and an awesome showcase of the power of the iPad Pro. The demo, through the creation of a movie poster for Pirates of the Caribbean, walked us through...
Reddit Apps for iOS
{.app-collection} [[jake]] Reddit The official Reddit app is all about giving you what the site believes is the optimum browsing experience. For the typical Reddit user, all of the most important pieces are there right when you launch the app: your front page, a search option with all of your subreddits, quick access to messages,...
Monthly: Simple, Quick Budgeting
Monthly is a money-tracking app aimed at helping you budget and manage your expenses.
The above sentence is notably simple – I wanted to write it that way so that you can understand the philosophy behind Monthly before you even launch it. You’ll find that Monthly funnels itself into one area and doesn’t budge; for most apps, the reality behind that fact is a kiss of death. But Monthly, in all of its simplicity and speed, stands on its own as an app that does its one job incredibly well.