Category: Apps

I’m a creature of habit. This is evident in a lot of areas of my life, but in looking through old screenshots of my iPhone’s home screen:

Wallpapers: 2011 | 2013 | 2016

In addition to how hilariously small old iPhones seem compared to my 6S Plus, the thing that jumped out at me the most is how little turnover there is over time in apps and their placement.

For example, OmniFocus, Tweetbot, an RSS client and Instapaper have anchored my bottom row for as long as I can remember. During times of sin, I’ve used Remember the Milk or Todoist, having them take over the “GTD spot” in that row.

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Evernote’s Chris O’Neill has published a blog post explaining price increases coming to the platform. Plus and Premium are now $3.99 and $7.99 a month, respectively, with discounts for annual buyers. For those customers, Plus is now $10 more a year, while Premium has gone up $20.

Then there’s this:

Beginning today, the prices for our Plus and Premium tiers will change for new subscriptions, and access from Evernote Basic accounts will be limited to two devices. Current subscribers and Basic users who are using more than two devices will have some time to adjust before the changes take effect. If you are impacted, look for a message from us in the coming days.

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NASA PR:

The agency released on Tuesday its popular NASA app for a new platform, the fourth-generation Apple TV. This version joins the app’s other versions available for iOS in iPhone and iPad versions, Android and Fire OS. The NASA app has been downloaded more than 17 million times across all platforms.

“The NASA app has been a fantastic way for the public to experience the excitement of space exploration from their mobile devices,” said David Weaver, NASA associate administrator for Communications. “Now, users with the latest Apple TV can explore and enjoy our remarkable images, videos, mission information, NASA Television and more on the big screen with the whole family.”

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BusyCal has been on my Mac’s Dock for a long, long time. Version 3 is a great upgrade if you’re looking for a powerful calendaring program.

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The Iconfactory has released a new app called BitCam:

Announcing BitCam – the world’s most advanced camera for your mini pocket computer. Years in the making, this is just a hint at what’s to come as we celebrate the Iconfactory’s 20th anniversary this month.

It’s free on the iOS App Store and it is a whole lot of fun.

A photo posted by Stephen Hackett (@_ismh) on Jun 9, 2016 at 12:13pm PDT

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John Vorhees has released Associate, an incredibly clever and useful iOS app for creating Amazon affiliate links:

Associate’s search functionality means the entire Amazon store is at the tips of your fingers, literally. Run a search and tap the result you want. Associate does all the hard work of generating an affiliate link that includes your Amazon Associates credentials. Once you have your link, you can share it with one person or a thousand, its just as easy either way.

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I’ve spent way too much time today searching for GIFs, and realized I’ve never shared my workflow to search Giphy from Alfred.

It’s an easy little workflow to put together. I set the keyword to be gif and the workflow activates this little bash script:

search=$(echo "{query}" | sed 's/ /-/g') open "http://giphy.com/tags/${search}"

Once it’s set up, you can hit the keyword in Alfred and start typing your search query. Hit enter and Giphy will open in your browser with its results.

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I know there are a lot of nerdy shirts for sale right now, but this one is simply amazing.

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Marco Arment has a new app:

Quitter automatically hides or quits distracting apps after periods of inactivity. I’ve found it tremendously helpful to my work efficiency to hide Slack and quit Tweetbot after 10 minutes.

It’s free and works as advertised. I dig it.

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After a rocky day, I rebooted my MacBook Pro last night, and when I went to open Messages, I was greeted with this error message:

Messages is updating…
The Messages database is bring upgraded, please wait while it finishes or Quit Messages and relaunch it later.

Comma splice aside, I let it this sit overnight, with no change this morning. Clearly something had happened to my Messages.app database, but it didn’t seem like it was going to fix itself. Here’s what I did to get the app going again:

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The getting started PDF is full of good information about what this app can do.

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I’ve never been all that into games, but I did love playing Sonic on my friend’s SEGA system. This is going to be fun.

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