![]() ![]() Until you pay, each note has a 25 MB limit, and you have a usage cap of 60 MB per month, which could go quickly if you take a lot of voice notes. However, unless you shell out $44.95 per year for a paid account, you’re going to come up against some limitations. With its slew of note-taking capabilities, you won’t mind keeping Evernote on your home screen. You can access your notes near-instantaneously via Evernote’s Web site or the recently redesigned Mac app. It even supports OCR for images, so you can snap a picture of a business card, then find it by searching for its contents later. The cloud-based note service’s newly redesigned iOS app can capture not only voice, but text and photos as well. Replace it with: For an option that provides voice memos and much more, consider the free Evernote. ![]() If the recording is too big, your only option is iTunes. You only have three options to export notes: email, text message, or iTunes sync. Memos are easy to record, but hard to move. Worse, if you’re the type who would use it frequently, Voice The problem is, when was the last time you had to take a voice memo? If you had to record something, would you even remember that Voice Memos is standard on every iPhone, or where you buried it when you last cleaned up your home screen? You could dedicate a spot on your home screen for it, but, let’s be honest, you don’t want to take up valuable real estate with something you might use once a year. It’s even one of Apple’s better uses of skeuomorphic design (where the app looks like a real-world object). Voice Memos - When you need to record a voice memo, Apple’s Voice Memos app will do the job. There’s an ad-supported free version without push notifications if you’d like to try it out. Additionally, it can update quotes once every 15 seconds, and can even calculate commission fees. It offers detailed statistics, push notifications, and can be locked with a However, if you want to keep a closer watch on your stock portfolio, the $1.99 StockWatch is an easy investment. It’s probably free, more useful than Stocks, and will let you make trades and adjustments. If that’s you, then you’re probably best served by your financial institution’s official app. Replace it with: Most investors are invested in mutual funds inside a 401K or IRA. If you’re a serious trader, you’d be better off with something that actually notifies you of market changes. Notification Center, it’s constantly ticking off stock prices, which is distracting when you just want to check the weather or see your latest messages. And the Stocks widget is more annoying than useful. Traders and those with significant portfolios will want something more robust, while the vast majority of iPhone users - who likely don’t own or watch any individual equities - will bury Stocks in a folder, never to be seen again. And while nearly everyone outside of Southern California wants to know about the weather, far fewer people want to keep close watch on their stocks. It too is simple and competent, yet horribly outdated (what would the default stocks be today?). Stocks - Like Weather, Stocks is a holdover from the launch of the original iPhone. Rather than screen-hungry toolbar buttons, Check the Weather relies on gestures: swipe right for an hourly forecast, swipe left for a 12-day forecast, and swipe up for a short-term precipitation forecast powered by the also-amazing Dark Sky. Its design is simple and gorgeous, with a terrific use of typefaces like Idlewild, Futura, Helvetica,Īnd Avenir Next. ![]() It’s everything you could want in a weather app. Replace it with: Although there are oodles of weather apps for iOS, and Adam Engst is fond of WeatherBug (see “ WeatherBug Elite 1.0,” 4 March 2010), let me recommend the $1.99 Check the Weather. And for anyone who is more involved with the weather - outdoor athletes, students walking among classes, farmers, and construction workers, to name a few - Weather is cold, dreary, and unsatisfying. For casual users, the widget tells them everything they need to know: current temperature and a five-day forecast. Weather - Although Weather is a simple, competent app, almost all of its functionality has been supplanted by the Weather widget introduced with Notification Center in iOS 5. #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors. ![]()
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