Category: Apps

  • Unread 2 – My Favourite iPad RSS Client

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    Over the last number of weeks I’ve looked a number of RSS clients for your iPad. Today is the day I’m going to choose a winner out of the contenders. ## RSS Client Criteria The primary task on for an RSS client is reading, so if it doesn’t have an interface that presents words in…

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  • Using Lire on iPadOS for RSS Feeds

    Using Lire on iPadOS for RSS Feeds

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    We’re almost done looking at RSS apps for use on your iPad so that we can make a final pick of the best RSS application for iPadOS. Today we’re going to look at [Lire](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/lire-full-text-rss/id550441545). To start, Lire has an understated pleasant 2-column design. Nothing flashy here, just easy reading and clean lines. ![Lire main view](https://curtismchale.ca/assets/reviews/lire/lire-main-view.jpg)…

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  • Batch Process Images With Shortcuts and Affinity Photo

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    Shortcuts, Affinity Photo and Bulk Processing I work with a bunch of screenshots and photos for my reviews because in addition to doing a video to go with an application or piece of hardware I write a blog post to go with it. Today I’m going to show you how I batch process images with…

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  • Fiery Feeds Review

    Fiery Feeds Review

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    The other RSS clients I’ve looked at so far have followed a standard function. Add your feed service to them and then read your feeds. Here Fiery feeds breaks that mold by not only showing the articles from the feeds you subscribe to, but also showing things that those feeds may be linking it. Let’s…

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  • Trackpad or Mouse for Your iPad

    Trackpad or Mouse for Your iPad

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    With iPadOS 13.4 out for a while we’ve had enough experience using the newly enabled trackpad to have a preference between a mouse or a trackpad for iPadOS. Both devices will get the new magnetic cursor found in the operating system as long as the application you’re in supports it. If the application was built…

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  • DEVONthink as a Read It Later Service

    DEVONthink as a Read It Later Service

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    While there aren’t as many options as in a service to save full text for reading later as there are in RSS sync services, you’ve still got a few. For those of us on the Apple platform you can use their built in Read It Later system which syncs between your devices. For multi-platform/os options…

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  • What’s New in Obsidian 0.5.2

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    Quick tour of the new features in Obsidian 0.5.2

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  • Is Reeder 4 the Best iPadOS RSS Client?

    Is Reeder 4 the Best iPadOS RSS Client?

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    Today my journey to look at RSS clients means we’re stopping with Reeder, which was my go to RSS client for a while back in Reeder 3 days[^1]. One of the biggest features that puts Reeder above other options is it’s integration with services not of the RSS variety. Specifically if you use Instapaper, Pocket,…

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  • Inspecting Web Pages With iPadOS

    Inspecting Web Pages With iPadOS

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    When I started making my iPad my main computer one big hurdle was inspecting the source code on web pages. Yes iCab had an option, but it was janky and barely worked. Then I looked at WebTools, which was leaps and bounds better but still wasn’t great. Today I’m going to talk a bit about…

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  • NetNewsWire for iOS and macOS Review

    NetNewsWire for iOS and macOS Review

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    When I started with a Mac around 10 years ago one of the first things I needed to find was a good RSS client and the top one at the time was clearly [NetNewsWire](https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/). Over the years it changed hands, and didn’t get updates, and changed hands, and generally wasn’t a great option anymore. Fortunately…

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