Making, accessing and using versions of files is something that has been built into some iOS apps for a while now but few know how to access the feature. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: In this episode, Fraser and Federico go into detail about how to access file versions in iCloud-backed apps like iWork. Federico then goes into the nuclear option and explains how he uses Wo...
Oct 13, 2017•39 min•Ep. 46
With iOS 11 released, apps are starting to receive updates to be compatible with features like the new Files app. In this episode, Fraser and Federico dig into what’s possible for cloud storage. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: Featured App’s Google Drive – online backup Dropbox Documents by Readdle PDF Expert by Readdle Microsoft OneDrive Gladys Working Copy...
Sep 29, 2017•49 min•Ep. 45
In this solo episode, Fraser shares information about iOS storage management, backup and OS updating in preparation for iOS 11. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: When a major new iOS version lands, you’re going to want to update soon but do you have enough free space on your device and are you fully backed up? This episode will help you get ready on both counts. Featured Link...
Sep 15, 2017•51 min•Ep. 44
This week Fraser and Federico take a look at the changes coming to one of the most-used applications in iOS: Apple Notes. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Balance : Find out more about Balance Open and get $2 in Etherium. Links and Show Notes: Apple Notes is now a seriously full-featured application, incorporating styled text, attachments and, in iOS 11, tables, inline sketches and a new Instant Notes feature. In this episode we look at many of the new features as well as a few old favour...
Sep 01, 2017•39 min•Ep. 43
This week Fraser and Federico resolve their differences over another major iOS 11 feature: Multitasking. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Eero : Never think about WiFi again. Use code CANVAS for free overnight shipping. Away : Travel smarter with the suitcase that charges your phone. Get $20 off with the code ‘canvas’. Links and Show Notes: The changes to Multitasking in iOS 11 are probably the most extensive re-working of any part of the iOS user experience in a long time. There’s a whol...
Aug 18, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 42
In this episode, Fraser and Federico dive deep on the topic of Drag and Drop in iOS 11. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Ministry of Supply : Dress smarter. Work smarter. Get 15% off your first purchase. Links and Show Notes: Drag and Drop is one of the cornerstone features of iOS 11, but how does it really work and how can you expect it to change your approach to working on iOS?
Aug 04, 2017•52 min•Ep. 41
This week Fraser and Federico really explore the space looking at Mind Mapping tools on iOS. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Ministry of Supply : Dress smarter. Work smarter. Get 15% off your first purchase. Links and Show Notes: As promised in Canvas 35 (Outlining), mind mapping is the other side of that coin. In this episode Federico talks us through some of the mind mapping tools that he uses when building his famous iOS review articles. Featured Apps MindNode – Delightful Mind Mappin...
Jul 21, 2017•39 min•Ep. 40
This week Fraser flies the show solo and brings an update on programming on iOS by going into detail on Apple’s Everyone Can Code initiative. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Ministry of Supply : Dress smarter. Work smarter. Get 15% off your first purchase. Links and Show Notes: Everyone Can Code is Apple’s company-wide program for introducing coding techniques to interested students in schools and at home. Swift Playgrounds on iPad is one of the biggest features of this but there are oth...
Jul 07, 2017•28 min•Ep. 39
This week Fraser and Federico reflect on a couple of weeks of intensive use of iOS 11. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS to get 20% off. Links and Show Notes: There is so much for iPad users to love in iOS 11. Files, drag and drop, multitasking, screen recording and the like. In this episode, Fraser and Federico dive into the excruciating detail of the impact on productivity of some of these changes. Sometimes the...
Jun 23, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 38
This week, we go in-depth on the iOS-related announcements from WWDC 2017. Guest Starring: Tom Bridge Links and Show Notes: This week Tom Bridge of the MacAdmins Podcast is sitting in for Federico, who is on location at WWDC 2017. Tom and Fraser go in-depth on the new iPad hardware announcements and the major features of iOS 11. Featured Links iOS 11 Preview MacAdmins Podcast...
Jun 09, 2017•1 hr•Ep. 37
This week Fraser and Federico welcome special guest Merlin Mann to discuss opportunities for improvements that may - or may not - arrive in iOS 11. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Guest Starring: Merlin Mann Links and Show Notes: iOS is an increasingly mature operating system but nothing is perfect and there are so many things - large and small - that we want to see tweaked and improved in iOS. ...
May 26, 2017•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 36
This week Fraser and Federico look at two options for outlining on iOS. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS to get 20% off. Links and Show Notes: Outlining is a powerful software technique that goes far beyond the bullet list in a word processor. Outliners let you create structured documents and - crucially - expand, collapse and restructure them at will. If you haven't used an outliner before, we look at two option...
May 12, 2017•40 min•Ep. 35
This week Fraser and Federico look at another aspect of personal security on iOS: password managers. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: Many people have looked at password managers and decided they are too complex, too annoying or just too geeky for daily use. This episode is here to convince you or your friends and family of all the great and important reasons why you should ...
Apr 28, 2017•49 min•Ep. 34
This week, inspired by true events, Fraser and Federico look at the user-facing security technologies available in iOS. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS to get 20% off. Links and Show Notes: iOS is a very secure operating system but there are settings and controls that you might set in various ways to enhance or reduce your security. This episode dives deep into the settings available to users to protect themselv...
Apr 14, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 33
This week Fraser and Federico dig into the changes in Apple's recent iWork 3.1 update and explore Apple Classroom 2.0. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: iWork is a great suite of apps that comes for free with iOS devices. There's a lot of power in there and Apple has recently expanded these capabilities with iWork 3.1. This show discusses some of the additions and looks at Ap...
Mar 31, 2017•51 min•Ep. 32
This week Fraser and Federico take their Apple Pencils in hand and share some notes on taking notes with the iPad Pro. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: Many people dream of the fusion of paper and digital and, for many years, we tried to make the iPad work for this. Rubbery styli, wide parallax error and low-resolution digitizers were the enemy of anything particularly good ...
Mar 17, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 31
This week Fraser and Federico tackle a core part of iOS: the Share Sheet. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS to get 20% off. Links and Show Notes: The Share Sheet is a fundamental tool for getting work done on iOS but how does it work? How does iOS decide what to put in there? And what is the deal with those apps that appear twice? All is explained in this episode. Featured Apps OmniFocus 2 Todoist: Todo List for O...
Mar 03, 2017•53 min•Ep. 30
In this episode, Fraser and Federico update the Workflow series for the major new feature that debuted in Workflow 1.7 - Magic Variables. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Ministry of Supply : Dress smarter. Work smarter. Get 15% off your first purchase. Links and Show Notes: Magic Variables solve a major problem that we identified in episode 23 . Namely, the need to constantly "get details of" and then store the result in a variable over and over until you have all the properties you need...
Feb 17, 2017•37 min•Ep. 29
This week Fraser and Federico change gears and focus on Read Later services. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS to get 20% off. Links and Show Notes: On iOS, three of the big services for "reading later" are Safari Reading List, Pocket and Instapaper. In this show, we discuss the features that are desirable for these kinds of services and review each of the big three, highlighting their best side. Featured Apps Saf...
Feb 03, 2017•44 min•Ep. 28
This week Fraser and Federico close out the Workflow programming series with some of the more advanced techniques in Workflow programming. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS to get 20% off. Links and Show Notes: This week, we look at: Debugging Workflows Encoding Media inside Workflow Using Rich Lists to enhance a workflow's interface Using the Safari Document Object Model Featured Apps Bear - beautiful writing app...
Jan 20, 2017•38 min•Ep. 27
This week Fraser and Federico take a look at some of the advanced programming structures in Workflow. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS for a special 50% off. Links and Show Notes: There are a few things we haven't yet looked at in our Workflow series and, in this episode, we address some of them. We discuss using conditional (or "IF") statements to control code execution. We talk Repeat blocks for looping, explai...
Dec 23, 2016•47 min•Ep. 26
This week Fraser and Federico dive into Web service API programming in Workflow. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Tom Bihn : Bags made in the U.S.A. Lifetime Guarantee. Superior Construction. Thoughtful Design. Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: Many web services publish an Application Programming Interface (API) to allow other programs to work with their service. Workflow provides two approaches to programmi...
Dec 09, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 25
This week Fraser and Federico continue the Workflow series by looking at integrating Workflow with third-party apps. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use code BLACKFRIDAY for 50% off your first invoice on all annual plans (excluding Enterprise). Links and Show Notes: Scripting Workflow itself and its built-in Actions is great fun but the real magic happens when you integrate Workflow with third-party apps. In this episode, Fraser...
Nov 25, 2016•55 min•Ep. 24
This week Fraser and Federico continue the Workflow series with a look at how to use Variables and Workflow's built-in actions. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Sanebox : Clean up your inbox in minutes. Sign up for a two-week free trial and a $20 credit. Links and Show Notes: Variables are a fundamental part of all even slightly-complex programming and Workflow is no different. The show opens with a discussion of how to create and access variables in workflow. After the break, we dive int...
Nov 11, 2016•56 min•Ep. 23
This week Fraser and Federico begin a multi-part series on the iOS automation app Workflow. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS for 20% off. Links and Show Notes: Workflow is the premier app for automation on iOS and unlocks a whole other level of utility on the platform. It can, however, be intimidating for new users. In this first episode, we attempt to demystify Workflow in preparation for getting into more advan...
Oct 28, 2016•58 min•Ep. 22
This week Fraser and Federico complete the set and talk about Microsoft Office and Google Docs on iOS. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Boom for iOS : Redefine the way you listen to music on your iPhone and iPad. Links and Show Notes: iOS now has all three major productivity suites available at some level on the platform. In this episode we discuss Microsoft Office and Google Docs from the perspective of how good they are on iOS. Spoiler: Google Docs doesn't feel the love in this episode....
Oct 14, 2016•48 min•Ep. 21
This week Fraser and Federico take a tour of iWork 3.0. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS for 20% off. Links and Show Notes: iWork has been through numerous changes over the years, including being ported to iOS and the web. More recently, collaboration features and web broadcasting of Keynote presentations have all come along to join the party. Featured Apps Keynote Pages Numbers...
Sep 30, 2016•46 min•Ep. 20
This week Fraser and Federico discuss - what else? - iOS 10. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: MartianCraft : Training crafted just for you Links and Show Notes: iOS 10 is the next major release of Apple's mobile operating system. While perhaps not as "power-user" focused as iOS 9 was, it will smooth the rough edges off many of our daily interactions with our devices. Featured Links iOS 10 Federico's iOS 10 Review...
Sep 16, 2016•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 19
This week Fraser and Federico take a look at a leisure activity on iOS: watching video. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS for 20% off. Links and Show Notes: When people contemplate switching full time to iOS, it's not always the productivity aspects that are the hardest, but bringing over some of your leisure activities too. This week, we look at watching video on iOS. Some say that watching video is the main func...
Sep 02, 2016•42 min•Ep. 18
This week Fraser talks with Ben Brooks about the third major task manager on iOS, 2Do. This episode of Canvas is sponsored by: Pingdom : Start monitoring your websites and servers today. Use offer CANVAS for 20% off. Guest Starring: Ben Brooks Links and Show Notes: In this mini-series on task management, we have covered Todoist, OmniFocus and we wrap up with a look at the third major app 2Do. 2Do is a task manager that includes several powerful features including TouchID protection for lists, ca...
Aug 19, 2016•39 min•Ep. 17
