Category: iOS
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I purchased a couple of audio-books at The Pragmatic Bookshelf, and how do I seriously listen to them on my iPhone?
- https://pragprog.com/categories/audio-books/
- https://pragprog.com/titles/a-fsfire/fire-in-the-valley/
- https://pragprog.com/titles/a-jsrw/effective-remote-work/
- https://pragprog.com/titles/a-actb2/technical-blogging-second-edition/
- https://pragprog.com/titles/a-jkthp/the-healthy-programmer/
- https://pragprog.com/titles/a-kcdc/the-developer-s-code/
Actually I had a 20% discount voucher, that’s why I got them all at once.
I want to listen to the audio-book on my iPhone and to read the corresponding e-book on my iPad in sync. Makes sense, doesn’t it? That’s my new alternative to binge-watching on the treadmill in the gym. I can imagine to do that in the green as well.
The audio-books come as “.m4b” (a “protected MPEG-4 audio”), or as a ZIP file with “.mp3” (which I unpacked into a directory). They live one of my Synology DiskStations, actually in a “Drive”, that I can see with a Synology app on my iPhone. I can actually navigate into the respective folder using the Files app on my iPhone. The Synology Drive app allows to download the files in question “in place” (in advance, e.g. through my home wifi), so I am not forced to download them through the mobile Internet of my smartphone.
Once I try to “share” an “.m4b” or an “.mp3” to the Books app, the Books app is not available. In other words: the Books app on the iPhone is only good for audio-books purchased through Apple. Isn’t that silly?!? It’s a P.I.T.A., to be honest.
If I “share” the “.m4b” with my VLC on my iPhone, VLC plays the “.m4b” just fine. I can see the TOC (through the triple-point, “Video Options” (never mind!), “Chapters”), and that is certainly a “must” for an “audio book app”. Fine so far.
I am reading “the e-book” on my iPad in the Books app. The Books app on the iPad does not refuse to handle an e-book not acquired through Apple.
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my smartphone gets called by a number, and it knows the number by a prefix only … – I would like that to be a match
Wouldn’t that be a very, very nice feature?!
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audio streaming service: TuneIn
This is a website and app on Android and also on iOS, that I enjoy using. It lets me collect and categorise my favourite radio streams comfortably.
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how to turn off “autocorrect” on iOS and macOS
Der article praises the feature quite comprehensibly.
But I never got friends with autocorrect during the last many years, and I doubt, I ever will. I am not patient enough to teach the system my vocabulary. Actually the system should deal with me communicating in English, German, Hebrew, and French. Either by explicitly switching languages, or by recognising that itself. But anyway, it’s not for me (so far).
I decided to switch off autocorrect on iOS and macOS, and I am happy with that.