{.app-collection} [[federico]] Free- Download iPhone App Lively My favorite app for basic Live Photo exporting needs, Lively lets you convert Live Photos to GIF, movie, or static frames. There are plenty of settings to play with: GIFs can be played backwards and auto-reversed with speed settings and two sizes; individual frames can be extracted from...
Member Requests
[[federico]] This week, we received two similar questions about converting PDFs to images on iOS: :::block {.question}Question: I give presentations regularly. Due to compatibility issues I have started saving all my slides as images. This has been my fail safe measure against font issues and other unforeseen ridiculousness and has worked great on the desktop....
App Debuts
[[federico]] Clickarus Indie rock band Airplane Mode built Clickarus, a metronome app for iOS that lets you create a set list of songs, each with their own tempo. You can choose between multiple click sounds, easily switch between songs with touch or connected Bluetooth devices, and everything is synced with iCloud. You can read the...
Member Requests
:::aside [[federico]] In last week’s issue, I asked Club members to let me know if they could recommend any apps and workflows for academic writing on iOS. We’ve received a lot of interesting responses, and we’ve decided to include some of them below (with permission from these fine members, of course). ::: I saw the...
App Debuts
Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy IX, Square’s classic RPG for the original PlayStation, has launched on iOS this week. The port features higher-res movies and characters models and tweaks to make the experience more enjoyable for modern players, such as game boosters and the ability to skip random encounters. It’s also 20% off for the...
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Question: I’m having an odd issue with 1Writer and the Wordpress Workflow I’m not sure if you’ve encountered. When I post to Wordpress from 1Writer via Workflow, all of the Markdown code come across, not the desired effect. For example, If I type in bold text, in the Wordpress post I get **bold text** and...
Pocket
You may know Pocket as the read-later app available on a variety of platforms, and you wouldn’t be wrong, but Pocket has evolved quite a bit over the past few years. As part of version 6.0 released last year, Pocket has gained recommendation and social components to discover interesting stories inside the app. The discovery...
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Question: I was wondering if Workflow could do some metadata processing on photos, for example adding and removing some metadata info like this: Remove GPS coordinates Remove camera info Set IPTC metadata like keywords or rating Set copyright information Change the DPI value. (Tudor Vedeanu, @tmvedeanu) [[federico]] Workflow doesn’t currently have a way to edit...
Zapier
You may have heard of IFTTT for web automation – and you may have come across some of its limitations, too. IFTTT works great for most people who are looking for basic types of automation between web services (and, to an extent, iOS apps), but if you’re looking for the power-user version of web automation,...