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In this exciting episode of iOS Today, Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard embark on a thrilling adventure, exploring a range of iOS apps and features designed to enhance your outdoor experiences. From hiking trails and pollen forecasts to offline maps and home security, they cover it all. Join them as they share their top picks and dive into the world of iOS shortcuts to help you make the most of your devices.
AllTrails: A popular app for finding nearby trails, with filters for distance, difficulty, and attractions. It offers trail information, photos, and offline downloads for Plus subscribers. OS Maps by Ordnance Survey: Great Britain's official mapping app, providing offline access to maps, routes, and public transport information. It also integrates with CarPlay for easy navigation. First Aid by American Red Cross: A free app offering a comprehensive guide to administering first aid in various situations, with quizzes and training classes available. Guru Maps & Navigation Offline: An offline map app that allows users to download maps for cities and regions worldwide, ensuring access to navigation even without an internet connection. My Pollen Forecast Pro: An app that provides local pollen forecasts, helping users track allergens and potential triggers. It offers a companion Apple Watch app for on-the-go information. National Trust - Days Out App: A UK-specific app that helps users discover events and historical sites managed by the National Trust organization.Shortcuts Corner:
Ron's request for a shortcut to adjust alarm volume or output based on whether he's wearing earbuds. Rosemary suggests using the sleep alarm feature or creating an automation to play a song on a HomePod when the alarm goes off. Steve's request for a way to manage notifications from home sensors during bedtime to monitor an elderly family member with dementia. Rosemary advises setting up activity notifications for specific sensors within the Home app.Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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What do you do when you don't have WiFi or cellular service? Mikah Sargent and guest host Dan Moren share some tips, tricks, and apps that will work when you're using your iPhone offline.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
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Spring has fully sprung and that means it's time for Spring Cleaning! Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent share some of their favorite tips, tricks, and apps to help you clean up your Apple devices and make room for new photos, music, files, and more!
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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Apple's operating systems are filled to the brim with accessibility affordances, features, and technology. Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent share some of the accessibility features you can use on your iPhone, iPad, or other Apple device.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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If you're looking to take a trip, these apps for iPhone and iPad can help you plan and complete your trip with ease. Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent share some of their favorite apps for travel management, flight tracking, packing, and more.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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Want a better way to organize and track the videos you watch? Want to keep up with all the latest streaming shows? Need a way to organize and mark off your grocery list? Worried you'll forget to pack something when you travel? Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent share some of the best apps for keeping track of everything you do with list apps.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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Rosemary is joined once again by developer James Thomson to discuss developing apps for Apple's new Vision Pro mixed reality headset. James provides insights from his experiences creating 3D interfaces and porting his apps like PCalc to Vision Pro. They explore the device's potential, current app ecosystem, and challenges around personalizing the headset for multiple users.
James shares the backstory of the silly 3D "Easter egg" he created years ago in the PCalc About screen Porting the 2D PCalc app to Vision Pro vs. bringing his 3D dice app experience to the new platform using RealityKit Potential challenges if the Vision Pro fails to gain a critical mass of users and developers Comparisons to the iPhone and Watch launches - will a lower cost "Vision SE" be needed? The personal customizability of Vision Pro hardware to each user's eyes/face and subsequent challenges for device sharing Discussion of early rental services popping up in China to allow people to try before buying Excitement for the evolution of visuals and "holodeck" experiencesFeedback
Bill asks if there's a suitable mount for holding iPhones on top of flat TVsShortcuts Corner
Dickie asks Rosemary how he can downsize batches of images into a new standardized folder without resizing already-small files.Host: Rosemary Orchard
Guest: James Thomson
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In this episode of iOS Today, Rosemary Orchard and special guest James Thomson dive deep into the world of indie app development, exploring Thomson's popular apps, PCalc and Dice by PCalc, and uncovering some hidden Easter eggs.
James' Journey into App Development: Thomson's path began with an interest in video games and led to the creation of his first app, a calculator, in 1992. Evolution of PCalc and Dice: Discussion on how these apps have adapted and evolved across different Apple platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Mac. Privacy in App Development: Thomson emphasizes the importance of user privacy and avoiding analytics that could inadvertently collect sensitive information. 3D Technology and App Development: Exploration of how experimenting with 3D graphics led to the creation of Dice, a dice-rolling app for tabletop gaming. Educational and Professional Use Cases: How PCalc has been adopted in schools. Shortcuts Corner - HomeKit Automation: Practical advice on creating an automation that integrates HomeKit devices with Shortcuts for enhanced home security.Host: Rosemary Orchard
Guest: James Thomson
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iOS 17.4 includes a whole host of changes and features for your iPhone. Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent share what you can expect, including new emoji, Apple Podcasts transcripts, game streaming apps, Stolen Device Protection improvements, and more.
Apple Podcasts Transcripts: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/apple-is-bringing-auto-transcripts-for-podcasts-in-ios-174 SharePlay for HomePod/Apple TV: https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/26/apple-music-shareplay-homepod-apple-tv/ New Emoji: https://blog.emojipedia.org/first-look-new-emojis-in-ios-17-4/ Next-Generation CarPlay Preparations: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/25/ios-17-4-next-generation-carplay/ Streaming game apps are now allowed on the ?App Store? worldwide: https://www.macworld.com/article/2218263/ios-game-streaming-apps-restrictions-lifted.html Messaging with Siri: https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/set-language-siri-reads-messages/ Stolen Device Protection: https://www.techradar.com/phones/ios/take-that-iphone-thieves-ios-174-will-make-stolen-device-protection-even-better Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/ iOS 17 Adoption is Slower Than iOS 16 Adoption: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/05/apple-shares-ios-17-adoption-numbers/ Apple Vision Pro's Developer Strap and Diagnostics Mode Revealed in More Detail: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/02/apple-vision-pro-developer-strap-diagnostics-mode/ The worst way to play Pokémon: https://www.threads.net/@rileytestut/post/C2-i4tEOlv8Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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We're hands-on with Apple's new Vision Pro headset and that means it's time to talk about some of the wonderful third-party apps available for the spatial computing device. Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent demonstrate some of the apps and games, discuss the latest news, and Rosemary Orchard helps out listener Kevin with a Shortcut.
Juno for YouTubehttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/juno-for-youtube/id6476961640
Endel Realmshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/endel-focus-sleep-relax/id1346247457?platform=appleVisionPro
Kineohttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/kineo-flipbook-animations/id286948844?ls=1
Synth Ridershttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/synth-riders/id6473729300?ign-itscg=30800&ign-itsct=SynthRiders205
Croutonhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/crouton-recipe-manager/id1461650987
Widgetsmithhttps://apps.apple.com/gb/app/widgetsmith/id1523682319
NEWS
Forgot your Apple Vision Pro password? Apparently there's no easy way to recover it*https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/05/forgot-apple-vision-pro-password-recover/
YouTube says a Vision Pro app is "on the roadmap"https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24062425/youtube-vision-pro-app-360-vr-video
Vision Pro Teardown?Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weirdhttps://www.ifixit.com/News/90137/vision-pro-teardown-why-those-fake-eyes-look-so-weird
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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