SCOI0048 Readability on iOS

One of the latest Google technologies to cause a stir is Google Now. This is a service usually found on Android phones and tablets that automatically and intelligently pushes information to your device, based on context. Location based information, appointments, weather, travel information... it all just appears when you need it.

Well Google Now is also available for your iOS device.

In this first part of a two part series, I take you through the updated Google Search app, which has now been updated with Google Now.

The Google Search app is more than just Google Now, it acts as a 'hub' for many different Google applications and services.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Introduction
• Google Search UI
• Google Now Cards
• Google Now on iPhone/iPod touch
• Searching with Google Search

Released just a few short days ago, Status Board is a beautiful notification panel for your iPad. Gather together multiple information sources and turn your iPad into a live status panel with weather, time, email, twitter, RSS feeds, graphs, tables and more.

All gorgeously rendered on your iPad Retina display.

Purchase the optional TV Out module to view the screen on a full HDTV and use it as a status board for groups or teams.

This first tutorial gives you an introduction to many of the customisable features of Status Board and leads you through setting up most of the predefined modules. In the next episode, I'll take you through some of the more advanced features and demonstrate how to turn your data into live charts.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Introduction
• Initial Default Panel
• Customising Modules

A major update to Flipboard released this week - the ability to create and share your own digital magazines via Flipboard v2.

Flipboard has always been a great way to gather information from many different sources and read in a beautiful digital format. Now you can become a curator of information and assemble it into your own magazine. Not just from within Flipboard, but also from anywhere on the web with the new Flipboard bookmarklet.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Flipboard v2 Introduction
• Accessing Magazines
• Searching for Magazines
• Creating A Magazine
• Installing The Bookmarklet
• Sharing Email

Do you sometimes wish you could just send a recently clipped piece of text, image or web link across from your iPad to your iPhone? Or working on your Mac, just want to send some text to copy to your iPhone?

Well you can, and you can do it seamlessly and automatically using iCloud and CloudClipboard.

Cloud Clipboard is available as a universal app on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch via the iTunes App store. You can also find a Mac client over on the Mac App Store

CloudClipboard is highly configurable and allows you to capture many types of clippings manually or as a background process. Once you've captured your clippings, iCloud syncs your clippings with your other devices running CloudClipboard automatically, ready for sharing or copying to the local clipboard on that device.

With full support for iOS and OSX, CloudClipboard is a great cross platform solution for all your clipping needs.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Introduction
• Capturing Clippings
• Settings on iOS
• Syncing Between iOS Devices
• Exploring The User Interface
• CloudClipboard on the Mac
• Settings on the Mac App

The Contacts application in OSX and iOS (previously Address Book), hasn't really changed much over the years. Except for a questionable make over, the basic functionality has remained the same.

Enter Cobook.

Cobook is a re-imagining of the traditional Contacts application, with some very smart new features. Best of all, it utilises the same underlying contacts data and is able to sync using iCloud. Add in a fully featured OSX application, and you can use Cobook across all your devices.

Cobook includes powerful integration with most of the major social networks allowing you to auto populate and maintain your contacts list.

Searching your contacts is a breeze and you can easily organise by using tags from within the application.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Installing Cobook
• Cobook Settings
• Using Personal Cards
• The Phone Dialer
• Viewing Individual Contacts
• Working with Multiple Contacts

Although I recently covered 1Password for iOS, the app has had a significant update within a few weeks of its release. With support for custom URL schemes, you can now access your 1Password browser and information, directly from Mobile Safari and other third party applications.

In this episode, I explain custom URLs and how they increase the usefulness of 1Password.

With a simple tap and the addition of the 1Password URL scheme name, you can open any webpage from Mobile Safari directly in 1Password to retrieve your stored credentials, fill in your digital identity or use your stored credit card information.

I also show you how to create a Mobile Safari Bookmarklet to make the process even easier:

javascript:window.location='op'+(window.location.href);

(Shout out to Federico Viticci - Macstories

In addition, I take a look at the new 1Password integration in Tweetbot, how to use custom URL schemes in Mr Reader, as well as setting up a Search 1Password action in Launch Center Pro.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Introduction
• New 1Password URL Schemes
• Creating a Bookmarklet
• Tweetbot Integration
• Mr Reader Integration
• Using the Search URL scheme name
• Adding a Launch Center Pro Action

The second of a two part episode looking at various options on how to move information from one application to another.

In this episode, I look at the many different ways you can share or move information to other applications, based on the intended usage of the information.

The full tutorial covers:

• Sharing with Pocket
• Sending To OmniFocus
• Sharing From Other Apps
• Sharing from Zite
• Sharing from TweetBot
• Sharing from Mr Reader