"iPhone 12 Pro Max"
Consider incorporating #21 into this piece. (Keep gettin bigger tho...)
Some related links
- Twitter Moment
- "The Precarious Legacy of the iPhone 8" (My last iPhone "review.")
- "David Blue on iPhone & iOS"
- The Test iCloud Photos Album
- The Flickr Album
Remember to organize and properly index all iPhone photography across Google Photos.
Apparently I'm going to have to go back and find what Twitter has deleted from the iPhone 12 Pro Max Twitter Moment because Moments have a silent 98 Tweet limit. I'm going to have to gather them as well as what's left of the Moment, currently, and migrate the Tweets to this collection. (Yes, that's a shortlink.)
Apparently, the only way to accomplish this is to do it through Tweetdeck, so this is definitely a task that's going to have to be done on desktop.
Add my iOS Twitter List to Wiki.
Twitter Collection Embed Code
<a class="twitter-timeline" data-theme="light" href="https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/timelines/1354848736350973953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">iPhone 12 Pro Max - Curated tweets by NeoYokel</a> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I've actually been posting related """"pics"""" on a brand new Instagram account for some reason.
"iOS Apps for Superusers"
A list of apps for those of us who want to explore just how much we can do with our fucking phones.
“iOS Apps for Superusers” (Apple Notes)

My iPhone Wallpapers Shared Folder
I can't believe I've missed commenting this all this time... The Mapaper map images, especially, are too beautiful to miss!

A google drive folder of particularly attractive (but somewhat out of date) wallpapers.
The Psalms' New Telegram Channel
I've created yet another Telegram channel that I'm going to attempt to use to share related media/documentation/minutia as I have been here but in a slightly different format. I thought I would try it because 1.) I want to take more advantage of Telegram, generally and 2.) I should avoid using GitHub as a file sharing service, and using Telegram as a substitution when particular challenges become an issue might actually stick.
MKBHD IN THE WEEDS
And here I was thinking myself original in going longform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7J9aMy_CFk
This kid is pretty fucking good at this, you noticed?

Pocket Casts on the Windows Desktop...
- Here's the actual, official Windows Store link. Which seems oxymoronic in no insignificant degree.

I was worried that having the sideloaded shit on there and running on a dev beta build was slowing the phone down, but I just recorded the best of the three Geekbench 5 runs I've ever put the phone through lol.
The State of Notetaking With Git Integration on iOS
This was originally intended as a response to a post on the Obsidian forums, but apparently it included too many hyperlinks for one's post there, so trying to post it got my account suspended. (lol)
Regarding Git on iOS, I just wanted to pop in and and share Working Copy since it wasn't mentioned.
I've spent the past eight or nine months playing around with Git as integrated into the entirety of my writing/notetaking/curating/documenting process. (here's the primary subject repo, if you're curious, but there's nothing particularly special about anything I've done with it so far.)
in the past three months, especially, this has involved working more on my new iPhone than I have since community college, when my iPhone 4 was my only computer for three semesters. (that is a good story lol)
I think I have a fairly good picture of Git on iOS, specifically, after all the reading and testing (screwing around) I've done.
here are the bullet points:
- for a brief period between 2017 and Fall, 2018, there was finally a text editor with relatively non-janky integration with Files called Textor.
- Textor was removed from the app store when its developer was hired by Apple in October of 2018.
- Brett Terpstra's excellent database of text editors currently lists three as having integration with Files: Paper, Pretext, and Writemator. (Haven't tried any of them yet, though.)
Personally, I would rather go through the hassle to write in Bear and export to Working Copy every once in a while than any other workflow I've found yet because I love how both apps look and work, but maybe I'm just superficial lol.
Most Intriguing Apps
An ongoing list of links to iOS apps, App Stories, and greater media coverage.
The Gist is probably the best way to keep up with this at the moment. (Here's a shortlink: http://bit.ly/dbintrigue)
I’ve privately maintained a list like this for as long as I can remember, to be honest, but it’s never been particularly useful to others until now. Though it’ll probably never be alphabatized, standardized, or comprehensively annotated, it will be kept relatively up-to-date - certainly for the duration of my iPhone 12 Pro Max long review.
Apps
- Mapaper on the App Store
- Yahoo Mail - Organized Email on the App Store
- Socratic by Google on the App Store
- The CW on the App Store
- Ninja Attack! on the App Store
- TTYL on the App Store
- Honk on the App Store
- Destruction simulator on the App Store
- Aerofly FS 2021 on the App Store
- Cake Web Browser on the App Store
- Nighthawk for Twitter on the App Store
- Psiphon on the App Store
- Microsoft Lists on the App Store
- Microsoft Pix on the App Store
- Spectre Camera on the App Store
- Fenix for Twitter on the App Store
- Toolbox for Pages on the App Store
- HEY Email on the App Store
- Aviary on the App Store
- [Scrivener on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scrivener/ id972387337)
- Final Draft Mobile on the App Store
- FiLMiC Pro Remote Control Camera Kit on the App Store
- Age Clock on the App Store
- How Swift Powered 3 Extraordinary Apps : Mac App Store Story
- BARS - Rapper's Delight on the App Store
- E.gg - digital zine creator on the App Store
- Snapseed on the App Store
- Reeder 5 on the App Store
- Dispo - Live in the Moment on the App Store
- NOISE on the App Store
- Music Makers : Mac App Store Story
- A News App for the Curious : App Store Story
- Ferrite Recording Studio on the App Store
- Living Earth - Clock & Weather on the App Store
- V for Wikipedia on the App Store
- iziCast on the App Store
- Carrot Weather : App Store Story
- Annotable: Annotation & Markup on the App Store
- PANTONE Studio on the App Store
- GitJournal on the App Store
- For All Mankind: Time Capsule on the App Store
- Cardhop on the App Store
- Otter Voice Meeting Notes on the App Store
- Telescope: News Reader on the App Store
- Fontise - Font Maker Keyboard on the App Store
App Stories
- Stream Bieber Live in TikTok : App Store Story
- Capsicum : App Store Story
- Finance for Couples : App Store Story
- Radiant One : App Store Story
- Mend a Broken Heart : App Store Story
- Champion Black Developers : App Store Story
- Drafts : App Store Story
- "Bringing CARROT Weather to Apple Watch" | App Store Strory(?)
- Video: "Bringing CARROT Weather to Apple Watch" | Apple Developer
Apps in Tech Media
- Apple’s App Store is hosting multimillion-dollar scams, says this iOS developer | The Verge
- The Making of the CARROT Apps with Brian Mueller | AppStories Episode 6
iOS Apps to Watch
Note: I basically just copied this from a note that hadn't been modified in years. Suffice it to say, you should probably check versioning dates before downloading any of them.
iJustine's 10 Years of iPhones video is an important one to include
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH2YrnCyWi8
Matthew Cassinelli's "How To Get Started With Shortcuts" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7uyfnd_51o
Apple Support Scam Call
I finally received the Apple Support scam call I asked for for Christmas!
The end result wasn't all that exciting - she hung up as soon as I asked her which iCloud account of mine she was referring to.
It almost certainly doesn't matter, but here are the two numbers involved.
The number of the caller: +1 (800) 297-2199 The number from which I received an RDP invite link via SMS: +1 (844) 334-6022
iPhone for the Visually Impaired
Visually impaired iPhone use (Reddit Video) The original Tweet
https://twitter.com/Kristy_Viers/status/1287189581926981634

Voice Notes Raindrop Feed
I don't know why it took me until now to realize I could have been using a Raindrop collection as a feed for my audio notes.
https://raindrop.io/collection/17059498
RSS
https://raindrop.io/collection/17059498/feed
Shortlink
http://bit.ly/dbvnotes





