MOSX Tumblelog

Hi, I’m Andreas (G+, Facebook). This is my personal blog. I used to write a lot about iOS and Mac apps only, but then decided that I should share my learning experience and my journey. Stuff that is hard for me. Now I focus on productivity, spirituality, sport and exercises, overcoming beliefs, and meditation. Generally stuff that I’m up to and things that were going through my head for some time. Understand German? You can read a really great interview how I roll here.
You can find my personal iPhone and iPad homescreens here.

On MOSX I used to publish tutorials and reviews of OS X and iOS apps in English and German.
Now I produce animated explainer videos, custom screencasts, and app previews only. Read my free book 10 Tips for Creating Engaging Product Videos.

MOSX is also on Twitter , Facebook and Google+.

Homescreens 2012-10-05

It looks like I’m overdue with an updated Homescreens post here. So let me fix that.
You can also find my homescreens at homescreen.me.

It’s still fascinating how I use my iPhone to consume media mostly when I’m out and about. Whereas I use my iPad mostly as a “business” device to manage things. But I also use it for writing and to learn things.

The wallpaper is also entirely different. I like more colorful and brighter wallpapers on the iPad, on the phone I prefer darker less distracting ones.

iPhone

The only notable addition I’ve added to my iPhone is Dragon’s Dictation app. Since this phone is “only” a iPhone 4, I don’t get Siri to dictate stuff, but I find it very useful on my iPad. I “write” chat messages with the dictation feature. It’s just more convenient than typing. I guess Byword is also new. Not because I couldn’t use Notes as well to write notes, but Byword is an app that makes writing fun. Similarly fun as Scrivener. The Mac app also allows to sync images in folders through iCloud. They won’t display on iOS though, but at least their in the same location as the text.

iPad

I’ve added a couple of TV apps to follow the TV program more often to the Media folder. I don’t really like TV anymore.
It’s awkward, annoying, clumsy. The problem is that I work in the media business. Therefore I should keep up with that media at least a little bit. No matter what my own opinion may be, there are a notable number of people watching TV. If a client needs consultation with TV media, I should be able to give appropriate answers.

PDFPen is also new and Skitch is back. I like the new Skitch on Mac and iOS. And I got into Goolge+. It’s not that terrible. I plan to use the Hangouts feature in the future for live workshops.

I think there are more news apps in the Dock now, since I use my iPad first to read what’s going on in the world, much like a newspaper. Reeder to read new articles, Tweetbot to skim through the stuff friends are up to, Pocket to watch videos and other stuff and Instapaper.
Pocket is my Reading List. It’s where I throw stuff in that I come across in Reeder and Tweetbot. Those apps are configured to share to Pocket. I don’t use Safari’s Reading List much. I’d love if more apps would be able to share things to the built-in Reading List. But because app developers think Pocket is so cool, I use Pocket. Pocket is slow and no fun, but it gets the job done. I despise its web interface. You need to click two times just to delete an item. When editing tags the grid view changes to list view, which is not very intuitive. And don’t get me started on tags. I despise tags too. I’m whining. Pocket isn’t that bad after all.

Both

I think I’m now at ~100 apps on each device. They’re both 16GB models with about 3-4 GB free space. My 5GB iCloud space is filled by 60%. (I’m backing both devices up to iCloud)
There is way too much stuff on my phone and pad, but I just don’t want to miss all music and camera apps. Those just have to be there.

iOS, yay!

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