Scroll the menu to find all the places to visitIf you’ve used Google Earth on the iPhone or iPod Touch have you ever visited one of the poles? If you do be sure to check out the compass in the top right corner of the screen. If for example you zoom in on a point roughly 90°N & 135°W you will see the compass rotate and spin freely.
Obviously the Google Earth compass is not magnetic but I thought it was
interesting to note this curious feature and that it is not repeated on
the Windows desktop application.
06 Jul 2016
Like many who blog I keep a list of topic ideas which I plan to blog about at some point. When I get some time to write I pick a topic that I like the look of and get some words thrashed out. I was surprised when I saw something in last week’s MacStories members’ newsletter that directly related to something rather niche I had on my list.
As I expect you’ve already guessed, this post is about that particular topic. It’s about getting text to and from the iOS app Drafts from Dropbox.
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05 Apr 2016
I haven’t posted about Workflow for a little while, but it remains one of my favourite applications on iOS and I’m still actively creating and revising workflows. In fact I’m currently clocking in at 176 workflows on my devices. Today I thought I’d clear up the dry spell on Workflow related posts and put something together around one of my text manipulation workflows. This particular one manipulates the character case of text on the device clipboard.
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07 Jun 2015
Workflow app is one of my favourite iOS apps. As well as being incredibly innovative and useful in so many ways, it is also something I enjoy exploring and tinkering with. In fact I’ve pitched in on Twitter several times to give people a hand figuring out how to do what they want in Workflow.
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30 May 2015
Smile Software have just released a new update to their TextExpander product that brought a particularly interesting new feature. The option to run JavaScript based snippets. At first this may appear unremarkable given that the previous OS X snippets could take advantage of AppleScript, or shell script based options such as BASH, Perl and Python (to name just a few). The exciting thing to me however was that the JavaScript based snippets could also run on the iOS version; whereas AppleScript and shell script based snippets cannot.
As an initial foray into using JavaScript snippets on my iOS devices I decided I’d try recreating one of my existing snippet groups.
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