Category: Apps
Apple Ships ‘Podcasts’ for iOS
Apple has today launched a new standalone app for Podcasts that runs on iPhone and iPad. This should help to centralize and promote podcast listening and downloading for users, breaking it out of the iTunes Store proper.
We’ll be talking about the app on the 512 Podcast this afternoon.
My OmniFocus Theme
Fantastical’s Half-Off Sale
There’s really no reason not to have this great app in your menu bar.
NYT Coming to Flipboard
An innovative move for the Old Gray Lady.
LeVar Burton, on Reading
…in an interview with Ars’ Jacqui Cheng:
This is one of the reasons it was so important to me, from a personal level, to bring Reading Rainbow to this new generation of kids, to try and do something about it. Here’s what I know: in 26 years on PBS, we were able to—through the medium of television—have an impact on the reading habits of children. I want to see if we can make light and do it again.
Bento 4 Ships
The new release makes it easier than ever to create new databased by including 25 built-in templates especially designed for iOS. 40 themes are included which provide coordinated backgrounds, fonts and shading for custom database creation. And access to FileMaker’s online “Bento Template Exchange” is now integrated, making it easier to find templates that other users have created. The Exchange currently hosts more than 1,000 free templates from Bento and FileMaker users.
Reeder 3
Reeder has always sported a nice and customized look, but this app is more than just a pretty face. As I mentioned above, Reeder is jam packed with new features. Some are huge, some are subtle, but all are awesome.
The update to my favorite iPhone RSS app is great, but I was disappointed that the app didn’t retain any settings after being upgraded from version 2.
All of the Filters
Don’t put every Instagram filter on a single photo, or this will happen. Yikes.
Day One 1.8 Teased
The upcoming update to the journaling app will include the ability to add photos, weather and location data to entries. I’m pumped.