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How to follow just the Finer Topics you want
More and more readers are asking for ways to follow just the topics they want on Finer Things sites, and I’m happy to oblige! Bookmark tags One thing you can do is bookmark specific tags, because I try...
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Fever lets you add a feed to multiple groups
Fever, a self-hosted feed reading alternative to Google Reader, lets you add feeds to multiple groups. This is handy if you want to make sure you don’t miss a site’s articles or if a site writes about...
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KitCam for iPhone can share the original photo or your edited masterpiece
KitCam for iPhone, my favorite photo and video app by a mile, keeps a copy of your original photos even after you edit and apply lenses, film, and frames. When you share one or more photos, tap the...
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MATTER lets you add paid articles to Pocket
Matter, a journalism project that nearly tripled its goal on Kickstarter, is the first paid publisher to officially adopt Pocket as a read later service. Pocket supports saving subscription or...
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Finer News: Updates to RSS feeds, main sections
Google’s been shutting down services in an effort to focus, and one clearly not long for this world is FeedBurner, the service I (and many, many publishers) have used to power my RSS feeds. I’m going...
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Use Photo Stream instead of emailing photos to yourself
If you have an iPhone or iPad and a Mac, and are sick of emailing photos to yourself for work, blog posts, or other uses, there are two much faster, simpler ways based on Apple’s Photo Stream. Option 1...
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Change your iPhone’s brightness with a quick swipe in Riposte
In Riposte for App.net, you can change brightness with three-finger swipes up and down. Note that this doesn’t change brightness in just Riposte, you’re adjusting your device’s overall brightness...
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Facebook Chat lets you disable messages from specific friends
In addition to letting you mute conversations until tomorrow morning or forever, Facebook also allows you to filter friends from sending messages in the first place. This could be useful for tempering...
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iPad displays battery percentage while charging, even if that setting isn’t...
When you charge an iPad, it will display its battery percentage in the status bar. This happens even if you don’t have the option enabled under Settings > General > Usage. As Dean Mayers points...
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Use your Mac to add Passbook passes to iPhone
Mac OS X quietly¹ supports adding Passbook passes to your iPhone, thanks to iCloud sync. If you see a Passbook prompt in, say, an event registration email from Tito or Eventbrite, or a site like...
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Finer Things in… #1: Photojournalism layoffs
I’m pretty dang excited to say I’ve launched the first Finer Things in Tech podcast with my friend John Morrison, though it might not be about what you think. In fact, some episodes may not be directly...
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The Magazine hides controls to make room for images
If you’re reading an article in The Magazine on iPad, and you scroll past an image that takes up the full width of your device, the controls at the top of the screen will fade out while the image is...
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Pocket has an inbox so you can share links directly with friends
Pocket, a media-rich read later app for iPhone and iPad, lets you send articles, photos, and videos directly to your friends’ Pocket accounts. When you want to share something with a friend, you can...
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Windows 8 can run two apps side-by-side
Windows 8 has a really useful feature that lets two apps run side-by-side, and they automatically share just the right amount of screen space. While running one app, two-finger swipe from the left to...
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iTunes 11 can download just the first TV episode, or all
If you buy a TV series with iTunes 11 that has at least a couple episodes, iTunes will prompt you to download just the first episode, or all of them.
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Save multiple images from Mail to Cameral Roll at once
You can save some real time if you come across Mail messages on iPhone or iPad that have multiple images you want to keep around. To save multiple images at once from a Mail message to Cameral Roll in...
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iOS Spotlight will tell you where apps are hiding
Got a lot of apps laying around in folders? Is it hard to track them down sometimes? If you search their name in Spotlight (from the home screen, swipe right or tap the Home button once), it will...
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WWDC 2013
For the second Finer Things In episode, John Morrison and I discuss some of the finer details of OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7, what they mean to each other and Apple’s future. We went a couple minutes...
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iOS 7 can set a panorama as your lockscreen image, do the cool parallax thing
It turns out that iOS 7 is anything but “flat.” Parts of it use a parallax effect to make it look like content can be underneath other content and move at different speeds, adding a sense of...
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Pixter’s website lets you play with photo sharing filters
Pixter is a new freemium, ad-free photo sharing service with a free iPhone app. If you scroll down to the interactive demo on Pixter.in, you can drag the iPhone across a photo, drag the in-app photo...
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