Category: Apps

  • My iOS Podcasting Setup

    My iOS Podcasting Setup

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    While I still don’t do interview shows from my iPad because I can’t record local audio and send it to the other party, I do record all my solo Podcasts directly to my iPad. I also edit all my podcasts directly on my iPad. Today we’ll walk through the gear and software I use to…

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  • Shawn Blanc on managing photos in iOS

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    Shawn has a good post on what he does. I’m still not sold on what iOS provides for digital asset management. I’m trying out Pixave to handle my video files now. It’s working okay, but has some issues I’m trying to dig deeper into. If you’ve got other options to manage, tag, sort, find digital…

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  • My Daily Shutdown Routines in Things 3

    My Daily Shutdown Routines in Things 3

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    One of the best things I’ve added to my productivity system lately is the idea of a daily shutdown routine. Currently I have one for the end of the workday shutdown. I have one for the end of the day house shutdown and a set for Friday shutdown and Monday startup. Let’s take a look…

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  • My iOS video workflow on The Sweet Setup

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    You know I’m iOS first because I’ve said it a few times. Many of you have asked how I do it so I’ve been writing about it. Today you can read about how I shoot and edit videos with LumaFusion on my iPad Pro over on The Sweet Setup.

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  • Dealing with zip files in iOS

    Dealing with zip files in iOS

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    One of the things I get to do as I develop websites on iOS is deal with .zip files. I download plugins for WordPress and need to uncompressed them to upload to a client site. I need to grab a folder of files and compress them for a client so they have a copy of…

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  • Operating System Windowing and Focused Productivity: An Assertion on Why iOS feels more productive

    Operating System Windowing and Focused Productivity: An Assertion on Why iOS feels more productive

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    I’ve made no secret about my change to a mostly iOS work environment. I eschew the task managers that everyone talks about and stick with paper and pen because it allows more focus. It’s so much harder to make commitments for future me with paper. In short, I believe that constraints are amazing. They make…

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  • Why I’m Not Buying the iPad Pro…yet

    Why I’m Not Buying the iPad Pro…yet

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    Today Apple announced an update to iPad Pro’s. They’re faster and they use USB C. One has a bigger screen with the same footprint. The other has the same size screen with a smaller footprint. Coming from my iPad Pro 9.7” either of these would be a substantial upgrade, but I’m not purchasing either of…

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  • Building an Ergonomic iPad Workstation

    Building an Ergonomic iPad Workstation

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    A while ago I wrote about my iPad setup. Today, I’ve got a video of what I’m using right now to do all my web development work and writing work. Ledetech iPad Stand: https://curtismchale.ca/recommends/ledetech-ipad-stand/ Kinesis Freestyle Blue: https://curtismchale.ca/recommends/kinesis-freestyle-blue/ Gear Used iPad Pro 9.7 (not available but the 10.5 is): https://curtismchale.ca/recommends/ipad-pro-on-amazon/ Canon 60D: https://curtismchale.ca/recommends/canon-60d/ Rode Video…

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  • How I Do Web Development from my iPad Pro Full Time

    How I Do Web Development from my iPad Pro Full Time

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    Blink Shell this support Mosh yes I’ll do a better review of this on it’s own later the point today is to put it all together for you I had already used Vim and a bunch of Unix tools, so moving it all to Digital Ocean wasn’t a problem You can see my Vim config…

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  • Is Pocket ready for iPad Power Users?

    Is Pocket ready for iPad Power Users?

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    Last week I took a look at Unread on iOS. One of the comments I made was that after using Unread, all other reading applications suddenly had a very high bar to jump. Where I once thought that Instapaper and Pocket had decent reading experiences, I realized that they were far behind Unread in this…

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