Bradely Chambers, for The Sweet Setup:
The Christmas season is a magical time of the year for our families. This is the time of year when we get to provide in home technical support for all of their products. They’ve got you as a captive audience for a few hours, and they’ve been waiting all year to ask you a number of questions. We decided to make a list of things you need to do to be proactive in taking care of your family members’ iOS devices and Macs.
This is an important one, Mac users.
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This is follow-up to Friday’s post on ripping audio from YouTube and sending it to Huffduffer with Workflow for iOS.
As I wrote on Friday, Dropbox’s handling of shared links doesn’t play nice with Huffduffer, so I was sending my audio out to a remote server via Transmit for hosting.
Turns out, there is a way to do this with Dropbox and Workflow. It does require Clean Links from the iOS App Store.
Workflow has already become an incredibly useful iOS tool. It’s letting me do things on my iPhone and iPad that I previously could only do on my Mac.
For years, I’ve stripped the audio from talks uploaded to YouTube and listened to them in my podcast client via Huffduffer.
In the past, seeing a link to something while on the go means having to send the URL to Instapaper and having to remember to rip the audio and upload the file to Dropbox or S3 when I return to my Mac.
Will Leitch for Bloomberg:
We’ve been watching a magic balancing act, an actor playing a part on the fly every night, for nine years. Colbert says he’s retiring the character after this week: Now we get to see the real guy.
As much as I’ll miss the character Stephen Colbert, I’m looking to foward seeing what he does on The Late Show.
That said, this is still my all-time favorite Colbert appearance:
There’s a lot of chatter today about the end of Serial, the podcast from This American Life that has followed the story of Adnan Syed, who is in prison after being found guilty for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.
SPOILERS BELOW. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Today’s episode didn’t end the way some people wanted. Adnan is still in prison, and the world is still unsure of his guilt.
Serial ends with lots of open questions; there’s no clear next step, no immediate benefit to Adnan for taking part in the story. Serial may have unpacked his case — his very life — but it didn’t put things back together in a way that has much closure for the audience.
Pebble:
‘Tis the season for anticipation. We count down the days to gifts and good wishes, and we just can’t wait. We’ve been in the workshop ourselves, crafting something Android Pebblers will love unwrapping. Version 2.3 of our Android app gives Pebble the power to reply and act on notifications right from your watch. It’s Android Wear notification compatibility on Pebble, and it’s awesome.
Android users on our own team are super thrilled with what version 2.3 lets them do from their Pebbles. We’ve built actions that even Android Wear devices themselves don’t perform.
This week, on Connected:
This week, the boys talk about photo management, iOS workflows and smart watches. Shocking, right?
Joking aside, Dropbox is getting serious about things, Workflow is an amazing app and my Pebble is going back from whence it came.
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Jason Snell, at The Sweet Setup:
Because Apple makes it, Mail is for everybody. But it’s not for everybody. Apple designed it to serve the masses, and if you want more–or less–from your email client, Apple Mail may not suit you. Maybe its old-school approach to mail, lifted from classic mail clients like Eudora and NeXTMail, just doesn’t fit the modern emailer. Maybe you want deep links to productivity apps on your Mac that Mail just won’t provide. Or maybe you’re just tired of being in a dysfunctional relationship with Mail.
Back in May of 2013, I took a look at all of Apple’s software in the Mac App Store and walked away with the conclusion that a lot of Apple’s first-party Mac apps were in pretty sorry shape.
Let’s revisit that, and see how things shape up here at the end of 2014.
Please note that all prices listed below don’t take into account that many of these apps are free for with new Macs. Ratings pulled from the Mac App Store on December 14, 2014.
Kevin got caught doing something stupid and it looked like it was going to cost him his girlfriend, but then he found FotoGone: a clever new app that promised to erase the incriminating online evidence.
Kevin never backed away from a good opportunity, and FotoGone promised a world of possibilities without repercussion. Or so he thought.
Check out this fascinating short story by Canadian author, Jason Finnerty.