IOS Tutorials

1Password for iOS allows you to securely store all your passwords, personal information, credit cards, software licences and much more on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

This tutorial shows how to effectively use 1Password within the limitations of iOS multitasking and fast application switching, and demonstrates the use of the built in 1Password browser,

The tutorial also demonstrates the use of a Javascript bookmark in Mobile Safari, to rapidly look up your login information from any site in 1Password.

The full tutorial includes sections on:

• Introduction to 1Password
• Setting Up a Login Entry
• Using the 1Password Browser
• Setting Up A Shortcut Bookmark
• 1Password Information Types

Links

Unofficial "Look Up in 1Password" bookmarklet for iOS 5

Text Snippet for Javascript Bookmarklet

javascript:window.location='onepassword://'+window.location.href.substring(window.location.href.indexOf('//')+2)

Expand your productivity on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch by taking control of your Clipboard using Pastebot.

Pastebot allows you to copy, paste and manage multiple clips on your iOS device. Store for re-use, organise into folders and capture multiple text snippets or images without the constant switching between applications.

An immediate productivity boost.

This week's tutorial takes you through all the great features of Pastebot and demonstrates how you can take control of your clipboard on iOS. The full tutorial covers:

• Introduction to Pastebot
• Copying with Pastebot
• Accessing & Organising Clips
• Editing Clips
• Creating Group Clips
• Background Processing
• Pastebot Sync
• Wrap Up

The first hints & tips screencast for iOS5!

In this week's show, I take you through a selection of hints and tips on iOS5 designed to make using your iPad or iPhone easier, as well as pointing out some not so obvious features of iOS5.

• Mastering the Home Button! - We all use the home button, but just a few minutes understanding the correct sequence of keypresses to control the iPad or iPhone will pay dividends.
• Apps in the Multitasking Bar - Lot's on controversy and confusion about what should you do with applications residing in your multitasking bar. This section sets out to explain some misconceptions.
• Double Tap on the iPhone - A look at a new feature only available on the iPhone
• Triple Tap on Home Button - Try it now and it doesn't do anything. This section shows you how to configure your "triple tap" to fire up lot's of potentially useful actions - including zooming your iPhone and iPad displays.
• Speak Selection - A simple setting to allow you iPhone or iPad to speak any elected text.
• Restore Closed Tabs - Want to restore closed tabs in mobile Safari on the iPad? - Simple!
• Doing the Dock Shuffle - If you're like me, your home screen may be beautifully organised (or perhaps not), but all the others screens are a random mess of icons. This section shows you a simple tip to allow you to easily shuffle individual icons or groups of icons between screens. I also show you a neat way of searching therough all your screens, collecting icons to move as you go.
• Emoji Keyboard - Now standard in iOS5, the Emoji keyboard allows you access to hundreds of tiny, colourful graphics to insert in any application. Liven up your tweets with some beautiful graphics.

Skitch for iPad is a fantastic free annotation tool for the iPad.

Skitch for iPad allows you to capture photos, screenshots, web pages, maps or just doodle on screen. Once captured, Skitch has a full set of annotation tools to mark up any images with lines, shapes arrows or text.

Once you've annotated you images, you can share via email, Twitter or save them to your camera roll. If you're an Evernote user, you can even save then directly to your Evernote account.

With full AirPlay support on iPad 2, Skitch turns your iPad into a really useful presentation device. Annotate images in real time and have the display appear on a remote HDTV or Projector via an Apple TV. You can even enter a "Separate Canvas Mode" and just output your full screen image. There's a full demonstration of this feature in the tutorial - very cool!

In detail, the tutorial covers:

• Capture Modes
• Annotating Photos
• Annotating Screenshots
• Annotating Web Pages
• Annotating Maps
• Annotating Blanks
• Exporting & Sharing Annotations
• AirPlay Support

iTunes Match is Apple's unique service that allows you to access your iTunes music collection in the cloud, from any supported device - Mac, iOS or Apple TV.

It does this by analysing your existing music collection in iTunes, and seeing which tracks you have, match the tracks held online in Apple's huge iTunes library. If it finds a match (and some other criteria are met), Apple will allow you to access those matched tracks, without having to upload your music. If it can't find a match for a track, it will upload just those unmatched tracks.

Once the matching and uploading process is finished, you can then access all the tracks from up to 10 devices.

Even better, the matched tracks are available in DRM free, 256kbps versions, regardless of the bitrate of the original version. You can even delete the originals, and re-download the higher bit rate tracks, provided you've taken the necessary precautions of course!

This tutorial takes you through configuring and using iTunes Match on your iOS device and Apple TV.

The full tutorial includes sections on:

• ITunes Match on the iPad
• Initial Setup
• Playlists on your iOS Device
• iTunes Match on the Apple TV

For more information on iTunes match and how to subscribe and set it up on your Mac, check out the companion Mac video tutorial - SCOM0330 - iTunes Match on your Mac.

The first in a brand new series of tutorials all about the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV. Basically, anything with iOS!

This week is all about iBooks 1.5, Apples recently updated eBook reader. Available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, iBooks gives you a seamless reading experience, enhanced by the addition of some new features such as full screen mode.

If you're not a member of ScreenCastsOnline for iOS, be sure to check out the sample chapters, by clicking the Chapter tab above.

In this tutorial we cover:

• Installing and Using iBooks
• Adding Books
• Adding PDFs
• Reading Books
• Additional Book Controls
• Reading PDFs
• Organising Collections
• iBooks on iPhone

An excerpt from the SCOtutor for iPad Application

[Originally published June 2011] It seems like there are hundreds of text editing applications available for the iPad, quite a few with Markdown and DropBox support built in.

Understandable really, as the iPad is the perfect tool for creating documents on the go, with Dropbox allowing you to sync with your Mac, and Markdown giving you the ultimate in portability and flexibility. But which iPad application do you choose? Well, I must have tried them all, but I've finally found one that I most comfortable with, one that is simple to use, but very powerful.

That application is Writing Kit for iPad

The iPad really came into it's own on my recent trip to WWDC. Two seven hour flights, each way, gave me plenty of time to watch a few films and write a few documents and blog posts. Even though my 13 MacBook Air is lightweight and portable, it's still just a bit too big to sit nicely on the seat tray in Economy (or coach to our US friends).

The iPad however, is just perfect.

I've been looking for the perfect writing app for the iPad for ages, and must have tried everyone on the market. There always seemed to be just one or two features missing. I'd settled on the strategy of using plain text files, formatted using the Markdown language as the perfect solution for portability. Files created on the iPad could be whisked across to my Mac without any worries of cross application incompatibility. My search seems to have come to an end with Writing Kit for the iPad.

Writing Kit has full support for DropBox allowing you to seamlessly transfer your file to your Mac. A dedicated keyboard takes away the hassle of trying to remember Markdown commands or fighting with the standard keyboard to access symbols and other characters. A good selection of fonts, resizable with a pinch or the fingers as well as a unique way of moving your cursor, character by character, or word by word with just a few taps. Working on a long document? Writing Kit also allows you to view an outline of your document and jump to any heading quickly and easily.

Want to create blog posts with images from your camera roll? Writing Kit has integration with CloudApp, allowing you to select an image, upload to the cloud and insert an image link in a single process. If you're using Writing Kit to create a document requiring research on the net, it's built in research tools and browser means you can do everything within the application - no need to keep switching back and forth with Safari. Once you have your quote, link or image from the web, Writing Kit allows you to paste them into your document with just a few taps, all correctly formatted and annotated. There's also integration with services like InstaPaper, Evernote, Delicious, Pinboard. . too many to mention.

This week's tutorial takes you through all the main components of Writing Kit, demonstrating many of it's features.

An excerpt from the SCOtutor for iPad Application

An excerpt from the SCOtutor for iPad Application

As promised, this week I take a look at the machine Apple has designed to be the ultimate media center for your HDTV, and that's the Apple TV.

The only thing is, some people find the limitations of the Apple TV to be severely restrictive. These limitations extend to its tight integration with the iTunes ecosystem, its inability to playback any form of media other than Quicktime encoded videos and the somewhat frustrating decision by Apple to limit its extendability by disabling the onboard USB port. However, all these limitations can be overcome by the installation of ATVFlash by FireCore.

ATVFlash is a suite or third party applications and utilities that install on the Apple TV and allows you to take control. It installs most of the popular standard video and audio codecs, allowing your Apple TV to play most types of media files. It installs file transfer capabilities to allow you to transfer media files to your Apple TV using standard FTP or SFTP clients. It allows you to store and playback full DVD images of your DVD collection giving you access to all the submenus and extras found on most DVDs. It installs a number of external media browsers and players that help you organise and play your media collection, with seamless integration with the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and TVRage, retrieving movie and TV information along with movie posters.

It allows you virtually unlimited expandability by enabling the USB port and allowing you to connect and access external USB drives to store huge media collections. It even allows you to connect a USB Keyboard and Mouse. As well as these additional media related functions, ATVFlash also installs a fully functional, Safari based Internet browser to allow you to browse the Internet from your couch on your HDTV. You can even install additional OSX Applications on your AppleTV

The really cool part though is that all these applications and utilities are installed automatically by the ATVFlash menu driven installer. You don't need to access the command line and type convoluted Unix commands, in fact, no technical experience is required at all. Just download the ATVFlash package to your Mac or PC, insert a spare USB stick and run the package to create a bootable USB drive (all automatically). Insert the USB drive into your AppleTV and reboot and that's it! Once your upgraded AppleTV is up and running, a simple menu selection to enable the USB port and your done.

In this weeks show, I take you step by step through the simple install procedure and demonstrate many of the included applications and utilities as mentioned above.

The free version of this weeks show has been sponsored by ATVFlash

An excerpt from the SCOtutor for iPad Application

[Originally published June 2011] It seems like there are hundreds of text editing applications available for the iPad, quite a few with Markdown and DropBox support built in.

Understandable really, as the iPad is the perfect tool for creating documents on the go, with Dropbox allowing you to sync with your Mac, and Markdown giving you the ultimate in portability and flexibility. But which iPad application do you choose? Well, I must have tried them all, but I've finally found one that I most comfortable with, one that is simple to use, but very powerful.

That application is Writing Kit for iPad

The iPad really came into it's own on my recent trip to WWDC. Two seven hour flights, each way, gave me plenty of time to watch a few films and write a few documents and blog posts. Even though my 13 MacBook Air is lightweight and portable, it's still just a bit too big to sit nicely on the seat tray in Economy (or coach to our US friends).

The iPad however, is just perfect.

I've been looking for the perfect writing app for the iPad for ages, and must have tried everyone on the market. There always seemed to be just one or two features missing. I'd settled on the strategy of using plain text files, formatted using the Markdown language as the perfect solution for portability. Files created on the iPad could be whisked across to my Mac without any worries of cross application incompatibility. My search seems to have come to an end with Writing Kit for the iPad.

Writing Kit has full support for DropBox allowing you to seamlessly transfer your file to your Mac. A dedicated keyboard takes away the hassle of trying to remember Markdown commands or fighting with the standard keyboard to access symbols and other characters. A good selection of fonts, resizable with a pinch or the fingers as well as a unique way of moving your cursor, character by character, or word by word with just a few taps. Working on a long document? Writing Kit also allows you to view an outline of your document and jump to any heading quickly and easily.

Want to create blog posts with images from your camera roll? Writing Kit has integration with CloudApp, allowing you to select an image, upload to the cloud and insert an image link in a single process. If you're using Writing Kit to create a document requiring research on the net, it's built in research tools and browser means you can do everything within the application - no need to keep switching back and forth with Safari. Once you have your quote, link or image from the web, Writing Kit allows you to paste them into your document with just a few taps, all correctly formatted and annotated. There's also integration with services like InstaPaper, Evernote, Delicious, Pinboard. . too many to mention.

This week's tutorial takes you through all the main components of Writing Kit, demonstrating many of it's features.

[Originally published Aug 2010] This week's show features an iPad application recently launched to critical acclaim, and seen by many to be a ""must have"" application for the iPad. Some have even deemed the release of the application to be an equivalent of the PC's ""VisCalc"" moment!

The application is OmniFocus for iPad by The Omni Group. OmniFocus is a powerful task management application for the Mac, iPhone and now iPad. It can be utilised to support the ""Getting Things Done"" or GTD methodology, or you can use it to create your own system of task management. The iPad version can be used as a standalone application, or you can use the robust Internet or LAN based syncing technologies for a completely integrated task management system across all your Apple devices. OmniFocus for iPad has been designed from the ground up to work beautifully with the iPad. The standard Project and Context views have been re-designed and a brand new Forecast view has been introduced. Forecast view allows you to see all your Actions scheduled on a daily basis for the next week and beyond. This makes it simple to assess your workload for the week, and even easier to re-schedule or re-arrange tasks to remove the overloaded days.

The iPad version of OmniFocus is also optimised for location - your can easily assign locations to contexts and view them on the large enhanced map view.

Another powerful feature of OmniFocus for iPad is not new but has been given a new lease of life, and that's the Review process. Often overlooked, the review process allows you to keep on top of all your projects and actions. The new Review view makes this really easy on the iPad. The show will take your through all these facets of OmniFocus and more. In detail the show covers:

• OmniFocus Introduction
• OmniFocus Inbox
• Adding Information to Actions
• Viewing & Organising Projects
• Contexts in OmniFocus
• Location Contexts
• Forecast and Review Views
• Review View
• Inbox Tips, Safari, Syncing & Perspectives
• Sending Actions via Email
• Safari Bookmarklet
• Syncing via MobileMe
• Missing Perspectives

This week's show is a full free show and has not been endorsed or sponsored by The Omni Group.

An excerpt from the SCOtutor for iPad Application

An excerpt from the SCOtutor for iPad Application

1Password for iOS allows you to securely store all your passwords, personal information, credit cards, software licences and much more on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

This tutorial shows how to effectively use 1Password within the limitations of iOS multitasking and fast application switching, and demonstrates the use of the built in 1Password browser,

The tutorial also demonstrates the use of a Javascript bookmark in Mobile Safari, to rapidly look up your login information from any site in 1Password.

The full tutorial includes sections on:

• Introduction to 1Password
• Setting Up a Login Entry
• Using the 1Password Browser
• Setting Up A Shortcut Bookmark
• 1Password Information Types

Links

Unofficial "Look Up in 1Password" bookmarklet for iOS 5

Text Snippet for Javascript Bookmarklet

javascript:window.location='onepassword://'+window.location.href.substring(window.location.href.indexOf('//')+2)