Reversing Apple’s giant wall at WWDC 2016 with OCR. Amazingly nerdy project. Seth Clifford and Tim Nahumck are using Slack in interesting ways as a personal information center. How Fraser Speirs has automated the deployment of 90 iPads in 90 minutes. Musixmatch, the popular service to discover music lyrics, has launched lyrics translations, differentiating from...
Home Screen: Andrew
Club MacStories Member On my Home screen you’ll notice that I don’t have many apps, nor do I have any other pages of apps. I’ve discovered two things in the past year that have motivated this change. First, I like to enjoy my wallpapers. And second, I can’t stand flipping through pages to find my...
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Twitter has updated their custom set of emoji – called Twemoji – with new icons from the Unicode 9 spec, made by The Iconfactory. Speaking of emoji, Jeremy Burge explains why a single emoji can take up multiple characters on Twitter. How Pokémon GO took over America last weekend. Facebook optimizes battery consumption for older...
Home Screen: Will Hains
Twitter: @willhains.Programmer. Since iOS 7 I have arranged my Home screens to a three-page discipline, where the middle page is my “first” Home screen. This way, the other two pages are always only one swipe away, and Spotlight, too (down, rather than right or left). Since iOS 10 shows a dot for the widgets screen...
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You can now receive your favorite newsletters in NewsBlur and read them alongside RSS feeds. Club member Stephen Millard explores the topic of using Drafts to edit Dropbox files further. Katie Floyd has a good primer on IFTTT and how you can get started with the service. Changes to color reproduction are coming to the...
Home Screen: Steve
Club MacStories Member I, like many of your readers (just guessing), took the Grey challenge to organise my Home screen. A blank bottom row really does make it look so much more elegant (I never would have guessed it), and there is no going back for me (although his 3-in-the-dock idea breaks the symmetry, which...
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More iOS 10 Features I’m Excited About
[[federico]] iOS 10, announced last week at WWDC, is a feature-packed release with an all-new Messages, SiriKit, refreshed Apple Music, and other major changes Alex covered in depth in our overview. In this collection, I’m going to focus on other iOS features and changes I’m also excited about. Multilingual Keyboard Perhaps my biggest annoyance of...