My go-to Dropbox-powered, Markdown-equipped iOS text these days is Notesy. The $4.99 universal app is fast, powerful and has been updated for iOS 7.
Before using Notesy, I was a die-hard PlainText user. PlainText was one of the first apps in its category, worked well and looked good.
Before iOS 7, the app was free with a single in-app purchase to remove banner ads. While I was no fan of this method, I enjoyed the app and paid without any hesitation.
One of my favorite iOS apps just got a nice overhaul for iOS 7.
Joined by Matthew Alexander, Myke and I wade through a mountain of follow-up, discuss the iPad mini with Retina display, Netflix, fitness trackers and the means of payment used in Tennessee, Hawaii and parts of Europe.
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If you’re a web designer, you know how paying full price for resources like stock photos and fonts can have a negative effect on your bottom line. Now there’s a new service that can increase your profits by giving you cash back on these important design components.
Lootback.com has found a way to work with merchants such as Thinkstock, iStock, and Envato to help you save money. Lootback’s featured merchants pay the company a small commission for sending customers their way. Instead of keeping it all, Lootback splits its commission with you. The merchant gets a sale, Lootback gets a commission, and you get a great discount on your purchase; everyone wins.
Matthew Panzarino breaks down the sapphire story.
Mike Beasley:
Customers have always been able to request screen sharing, at which point the AppleCare representative would instruct them to download an application from Apple’s site that facilitates the connection. Now the download is listed directly on the support page. If a customer opts to use screen sharing, the AppleCare rep must comply with their request whether they think it will help or not.
I wasn’t aware this could be done with AppleCare. Putting the feature in front of more users puts AppleCare more in line with what Amazon is doing on the new Kindle Fires. Anyone who has worked in IT knows how helpful this can be, and I think it’s a great change to Apple’s support system.
Has anyone checked on Gene Munster today? Also, how do I get a job as an analyst?
When I saw this headline, I thought “Oh, cool, McCain thinks the NSA has over-stepped its bounds” and was excited. Then I read this:
The senator for Arizona, a former Republican presidential candidate, said [head of the NSA Keith] Alexander should be held accountable for the leaks of thousands of documents by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, which revealed NSA surveillance and spying on a massive scale. McCain said Snowden, who worked for the NSA as a contractor, should never have had access to classified information.
Rob McGinley Myers, discussing iMovie ‘08 and Final Cut Pro X, in response to my post from Friday about iWork:
You can argue about whether either of these redesigns was actually successful. In my opinion, iMovie 08 was a mess when it first came out, but Final Cut Pro X was actually amazing for a first time user. But what you can’t argue is that each was a bold, radical departure from the past that laid a new foundation for the app’s future.
Jean-Louis Gassée, closing out a scathing piece on the new iWork:
I’ll leave comparing the even more crippled iCloud version of iWork to the genuinely functional Web version of Office 365 for another day and conclude.
First. Who knew and should have known about iWork’s bugs and undocumented idiosyncrasies? (I’ll add another: Beware the new autocorrect)
Second. Why brag instead of calmly making a case for the long game and telling loyal customers about the dents they will inevitably discover?
There’s been lots of noise over the last couple of weeks about the new version of iWork, and the fact that Apple stripped many features from the desktop applications in the name of inter-operability with iOS and iCloud.com.
Earlier this week, Apple announced that it will be adding several features back to iWork for Mac over the coming months. The article is an interesting one, but this particular paragraph is worrisome:
Apple:
There is no limit to the number of photos you can upload to My Photo Stream over time, but iCloud limits the number of photos that can be uploaded within a given hour, day, or month to prevent unintended or excessive use.
Update: This might not be so new after all.
I think this article highlights how confusing Photo Stream is, and why it’s probably best to view the service as a temporary conduit to move photos between devices, not as a long-term storage solution.