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I’ve been giving the new Castro update a try now that it’s got a trim silence feature. Compared to Overcast, I like Castro’s podcast discovery feature better because I feel like it has more podcasts and also more variety. It feels like this feature was designed as a forethought whereas Overcast’s was added as an afterthought. I also like the UI a bit better than Overcast’s “card” based UI, but imo it’s a bit “big” (spacing, font). Downsides though is that Castro doesn’t have a “sleep after this episode” though I guess you can just turn off continuous play but then you need to remember to turn it back on. I’m not really sure I like the whole inbox —> queue triage system either cause I prefer to just have everything added and if I don’t like it I’ll skip/delete the episode after the fact. Castro has per-podcast settings for playback speed etc but there doesn’t seem to be a way to set them without having to go into the main menu. Overcast on the other hand lets you change them right there on the now playing card. But the thing I dislike the most about Castro is the pull down menu it implements. I’m really not sure how anyone working there thought it was a good idea to add a tiny pull down gesture that is exactly identical and in the same place as iOS’s system wide pull down menu. e: Castro’s triage system is that you can choose to add a new episode to the top or bottom of your queue, or to archive (ignore) it. I feel there there should be one more button to add an episode right below the current top episode. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 07:45 on May 25, 2018 |
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MarcusSA posted:It does?? Y’know, I double-checked before posting my reply, and found articles that mentioned Instagram’s Focus mode (its name for Portrait photos) is available on certain non dual-lens phones. I took the reputable sources at their word, assuming they worked off an Instagram press release. But I tried to use it now on my spare phone and it didn’t work. The internet made me stupid.
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It has a fake-DOF filter that uses software rendering in my 6s+. It’s actually not bad at all to be honest.
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xzzy posted:Apple denied approving the steamlink app, no reason given but there sure are theories! I was looking forward to try that but figured this would happen. The Toucharcade* review was extremely positive and openly questioned why Apple would allow this on the store. The only shocking thing about this is that I just don't care anymore.  * a site that may or may not use crapware iTunes affiliate links as part of their business model
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Are there any (good) email apps that does Exchange, push notifications, and has an easy way to save emails as PDFs? Both the default Mail.app and Outlook don’t support saving to pdf. Spark does do this, but according to people in the iPhone thread Spark basically needs access to my email accounts in order to push notifications to me which crosses that out too. Proteus Jones posted:A lot of them do these days if you want push notifications (Airmail, Spark, EdisonMail). Basically they cache your credentials and constantly pull email. When a new one shows up, they use Apple’s push notification API to alert you.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Are there any (good) email apps that does Exchange, push notifications, and has an easy way to save emails as PDFs? I just want to be clear, when I say “cache credentials” I’m not referring to the app on iOS. I referring to their own servers which they place in the middle of the iOS app and your email servers. This is exactly how Acompli did it, and why it was denied for use at my work until MS bought it and rebranded it as Outlook for iOS. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 16:11 on May 25, 2018 |
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Proteus Jones posted:I just want to be clear, when I say “cache credentials” I’m not referring to the app on iOS. I referring to their own servers which they place in the middle of the iOS app and your email servers. Yeah I got that. I (maybe foolishly) thought that Spark transported email from me and the mail server without seeing the contents using imap/exchange/etc, and then that it did all the other stuff like sorting emails into groups etc on device.
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eames posted:* a site that may or may not use crapware iTunes affiliate links as part of their business model What about this is “crapware,” and also, who cares?
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Because you have no credibility as a journalist when your bills are paid by the thing you're claiming to review.
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the day I knew democracy died was when we lost journalistic integrity of honest, unbiased candy crush reporting
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maduin posted:The Outlook app was really good for a while after it was acquired, but the longer Microsoft has had it, the shittier it's become. Almost all the Sunrise people have left for other companies, too, which doesn't really look great for the future... Thanks for the recommendation for Notion. I'm a sucker for planning apps and such. I find myself constantly bouncing between a solid notebook and an app every 4-6 months. I like the idea of it being a knowledge base though, pretty clever uses I can come up with her potentially. If I get the discipline to build it out properly. Is there a way to export it all in the event that I decide to go another route / company goes under? I'd hate to spend all that time to not have a good clean solution for that.
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xzzy posted:Because you have no credibility as a journalist when your bills are paid by the thing you're claiming to review. Lol well one of the dudes who runs TA is a goon and honestly they are lucky the site is still around. They really make like no money on the drat thing.
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Proteus Jones posted:I just want to be clear, when I say “cache credentials” I’m not referring to the app on iOS. I referring to their own servers which they place in the middle of the iOS app and your email servers. Did they unban it because “we trust Microsoft” or because you use Office365-hosted Exchange servers and they already have your mail anyways?
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fordan posted:Did they unban it because “we trust Microsoft” or because you use Office365-hosted Exchange servers and they already have your mail anyways? The 2nd part.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Both the default Mail.app and Outlook don’t support saving to pdf Does this trick not work anymore?
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Pretty sure there's a "Make PDF" Workflow action.
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FCKGW posted:Pretty sure there's a "Make PDF" Workflow action. There absolutely is. I have an “Action Workflow” that set to convert “all pages” to a PDF and then ask me where I want to save the PDF on my iCloud Drive.
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I tried making a workflow for this but I couldn’t find any actions(?) that suggested it could save an email as a pdf, but that’s a moot point anyway because I don’t see a “share” button in Mail.app to trigger workflow actions with?Craptacular! posted:Does this trick not work anymore? So that works but it shows each page of the email as separate PDFs. It’s really inconvenient to download multiple pages and then find a way/remember to concatenate them together after the fact.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I tried making a workflow for this but I couldn’t find any actions(?) that suggested it could save an email as a pdf, but that’s a moot point anyway because I don’t see a “share” button in Mail.app to trigger workflow actions with? It’s a little clunky, but you need to select “print” in the email you want to make into a PDF. Then you have to long press one of the preview pages. If you have 3D Touch, you’ll feel two “clicks”. There’s probably an easier way, but this works. Hit Print:  Long click one of the preview pages:  Hit the “action” icon  Select Run Workflow:  Make sure you have a workflow set up to convert to PDF. 
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Proteus Jones posted:It’s a little clunky, but you need to select “print” in the email you want to make into a PDF. Then you have to long press one of the preview pages. If you have 3D Touch, you’ll feel two “clicks”. There’s probably an easier way, but this works. Oh that’s neat. I knew about that print workaround but I always saw multi page emails show up as separate PDFs. Turns out zooming in on one (reverse pinching works too) will get you all pages in one document. From there I can just save directly to Files (it’s already a pdf), no need for workflow.
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Hello Spaceman posted:Y’know, I double-checked before posting my reply, and found articles that mentioned Instagram’s Focus mode (its name for Portrait photos) is available on certain non dual-lens phones. I took the reputable sources at their word, assuming they worked off an Instagram press release. Works fine on my 6s, but it's part of the new fake snapchat Stories feature with all the filters (camera in the top-left). You don't get it in the old timeline photo mode (bottom center + button).
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What’s a good cross platform (iOS and web) read it later service to replace Instapaper? Instapaper has been shut down “temporarily” for the EU because if GDPR and who knows when they’ll bring it back up. I’m currently trying out Pocket which seems to be okay but it’s not free. It being not free doesn’t bother me but I thought it was owned by Mozilla since they’ve baked it directly into Firefox, so I figured it would have been a free service.
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Boris Galerkin posted:What’s a good cross platform (iOS and web) read it later service to replace Instapaper? Instapaper has been shut down “temporarily” for the EU because if GDPR and who knows when they’ll bring it back up. I’m currently trying out Pocket which seems to be okay but it’s not free. It being not free doesn’t bother me but I thought it was owned by Mozilla since they’ve baked it directly into Firefox, so I figured it would have been a free service. A good service is pinboard. It costs money.
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Question Mark Mound posted:I’ve been using Pocket for a while and I’ve never paid for it. It's free with a paid option to remove ads. It's just that Mozilla owns it and I thought they were all in on the free/open source software thing, and it's really weird that they are building in a paid service into their free browser. Either way, I'm not a fan of Pocket after using it for a few days. On my iPad everything is a tile and I just really hate the tile/Pinterest-like interface. On my iPhone there is just so much wasted space and no way to turn off pictures/thumbnails. All the ads it shows me are for Audible and I already subscribe to it, and there's no way to tell it that I'm not interested like in Instagram. Grassy Knowles posted:A good service is pinboard. It costs money. maduin posted:Pocket is free if you’re okay with ads. Pinboards the best though if you’re cool with paint some money. Use Pinner on iOS. I was hesitant to check this out because from the name I thought it was another tile/Pinterest-like thing but it looks pretty neat. I signed up for the trial (really it's just cancel within 3 days) and while I couldn't import from Instapaper, I could export from Instapaper and import that into Pocket, and then import from Pocket. One of the selling points of Pinboard is that it's fast but honestly the website feels excruciatingly slow to me. I don't like how the Chrome extension requires me to click the icon, then mouse over the "read later" button and click that just to save a link. Is there a way to make it behave like the Instapaper extension where clicking the button saves the current tab? I'm also really confused about the numbers in Pinboard that show up next to my username. I take it it's suppose to show how many bookmarks I have, but my "unread" page shows 0 despite me marking some bookmarks as unread. The number also doesn't seem to update/change when I delete bookmarks.
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Boris Galerkin posted:One of the selling points of Pinboard is that it's fast but honestly the website feels excruciatingly slow to me. I don't like how the Chrome extension requires me to click the icon, then mouse over the "read later" button and click that just to save a link. Is there a way to make it behave like the Instapaper extension where clicking the button saves the current tab? I'm also really confused about the numbers in Pinboard that show up next to my username. I take it it's suppose to show how many bookmarks I have, but my "unread" page shows 0 despite me marking some bookmarks as unread. The number also doesn't seem to update/change when I delete bookmarks. For your first question, I just use the "read later" bookmarklet from this page. I don't think I've ever even tried the extension. As for the number, it doesn't update live when you make changes on the page - try hitting refresh.
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Arcsech posted:For your first question, I just use the "read later" bookmarklet from this page. I don't think I've ever even tried the extension. Neat, thanks. This is much better than the extension I had installed. Another question, is Carrot Weather "worth it" if I don't care for the "snarky" personality (I'm just going to disable it because I think it's dumb), live in a country where Dark Sky up to the minute rain forecasts aren't available, don't care about the augumented reality thing, don't care about the achievements (seriously why is this a thing), and don't care much for a radar view? What I'm looking for is a nice pull down/lock screen view of weather conditions and a nice/fast watch complication would be a big bonus. I keep reading glowing reviews for this but those things I don't care for are what the reviews say is great about it, but then again I'm probably also never going to open the app other than to change settings. The default Weather app is okay but I feel like the Weather Channel source is off for my location. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 06:45 on May 31, 2018 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:Neat, thanks. This is much better than the extension I had installed. I use it and you can turn off all the snark. BeWeather used to be my go to recommendation. Then it turned to unreliable poo poo where it had difficulty pulling in weather data from it’s feed.
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Proteus Jones posted:I use it and you can turn off all the snark. Yeah what the hell happened to BeWeather? It’s really annoying now how bad it is about pulling data. Did weatherunderground change their API massively or something? Now I use the weather channel app.
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weather.gov  Well and the Apple weather widget on my watch face.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Neat, thanks. This is much better than the extension I had installed. I like it, but I enjoy the snark (today's message was an early congratulations to the 2024 President-Elect Rosanne Barr). Having used a variety of weather apps, I like the layout of Carrot though, so I'd probably use it even without the commentary. The achievements are kind of fun and the map mini-game was worth the price of admission.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:There’s something funky with the native weather app because it currently has San Juan, PR at a cool 30 degrees all week. As cool as it would be to see snow in the Caribbean I think the data is off. ...it’s probably in Celsius
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