Riccardo Mori » My essential iOS apps — Part 1: “This article may disappoint some people. It doesn’t want to be an in-depth guide to ‘The 30 best iOS apps you must have on your iPhone or iPad’. It’s not going to be another piece along the lines of ‘The best iOS apps introduced in 2013″ or ‘iOS apps that everybody must have’. Instead I wanted to focus on a selection of apps that have proven to be indispensable to me over the years, making this article more akin to…

The reception for Fin has been great, and I couldn’t be more pleased that people are out there using it for their talks, podcasts, etc. I have lots of plans for improvements over the coming months, and as always, your feedback has been invaluable in helping me shape those plans. Today I’m announcing version 1.1 of Fin is available. There were two important additions for this version. The first is local notifications. Fin has always had the ability to keep track of its timer, even when you…

One thing that I wanted to be certain didn’t happen when I started working on Fin was the neglecting my first app, x2y. While x2y has a great feature set and just this summer received a UI overhaul for iOS 7, I nevertheless don’t see it as “done” by any means. There are always things you can add and other ways to improve any piece of software. With this in mind, right after the Fin 1.0 release, I went to work on a small update to x2y:…

This is a series of posts about the making of my marketing video for Fin. You can see the other parts of the series by following the links below: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 This is part ten, the final in a series detailing the process of making a product marketing video for my app, Fin. I hope to inspire others to try and make these kinds of videos for their own products, as I think they are pretty essential for selling apps to customers.…

This is a series of posts about the making of my marketing video for Fin. You can see the other parts of the series by following the links below: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 This is part nine in a series detailing the process of making a product marketing video for my app, Fin. I want to inspire others to try and make these kinds of videos for their own products, as I think they are pretty essential for selling apps to customers. Music I’…