Canvas: Recent Episodes
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Canvas was a podcast all about mobile productivity. Armed with iOS, Federico and Fraser walked through workflows, explored the best apps for the iPad and iPhone, and helped users solve problems. Hosted by Federico Viticci and Fraser Speirs.
In this, final, episode of Canvas, Fraser and Federico look into the future of the iPad ecosystem.
Fraser and Federico open with an important announcement about the future of Canvas, then speculate on how iOS automation might move forward in the future.
In this episode on the future of the iPad, Fraser and Federico take a look at cloud services - both Apple's and third parties.
In this post-event episode, Federico shares his impressions of the new 3rd generation iPad Pro and we look to the future of iPad hardware.
In this forward-looking episode, Federico and Fraser try to imagine what the future of the iPad might be, with particular consideration of the software it runs.
In a surprising turn of events, Fraser buys an Android phone and Federico demands to know why.
This week, Federico spends a quarter of the show saying "Shortcuts", Fraser invents a morse code Shortcut and OpenDoc is referenced in the passing.
This week, Fraser and Federico take a look at the "Big Four" task managers on iOS - Things, OmniFocus, Todoist and Apple Reminders - and consider how the iOS ecosystem has changed since the early days.
This week, Federico leads us through an exploration of the new features coming (soon!) in iOS 12.
Fraser is joined by David Chartier for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of cloud storage in 2018 and its impact on our lives.
Appropriately for the topic, Federico is away so Fraser is joined by Bradley Chambers to share tips and tricks for managing summer travel with iOS.
Fraser and Federico have been living on the early betas of iOS 12 for a couple of weeks now and they really like it.
With Federico at WWDC, Fraser is joined by David Chartier to evaluate the announcements of Apple's Keynote.
In this solo episode, Fraser takes you through four techniques for restricting the function of an iOS device in different scenarios.
Turns out™ that iOS was for content consumption all along! This week, Fraser and Federico look at ways to watch TV and video content on iOS.
In this episode, Fraser and Federico chat about the weather and how to keep an eye on it digitally through iOS.
On March 27th, Apple held its 2018 Education Event showcasing the 6th Generation iPad and various new education apps and features. We dig into these announcements and look at iOS' role in education.
In this episode, Federico and Fraser look at your options for reading and creating eBooks on iOS. From mainstream apps like iBooks and Kindle to Marvin, Hyphen and creation tools like Book Creator, we cover it all.
This week, Fraser leads us on a deep-dive into the feature set of Find My Friends, the built-in location sharing app in iOS.
This week, Federico schools Fraser in the ways of Apple HomeKit and HomeKit compatible accessories.
This week, Federico and Fraser continue discussing techniques for connecting to remote computers using screen-sharing protocols like VNC.
With Christmas just around the corner, we bet some listeners might be the new owners of a shiny Apple Watch quite soon. Here are our favourite apps and tips!
For our 50th episode, we take a look at the outside of our iPads instead of the inside. Fraser and Federico open up their kit bags and show what they carry alongside their iPads.
In this episode, we wrap up our look at long-form editors with a look at the honourable mentions for other interesting apps on iOS.
In this first episode of a mini-series on long-form writing on iOS, Fraser and Federico go deep on one of their favourite applications: Ulysses.
Making, accessing and using versions of files is something that has been built into some iOS apps for a while now but few know how to access the feature.
With iOS 11 released, apps are starting to receive updates to be compatible with features like the new Files app. In this episode, Fraser and Federico dig into what’s possible for cloud storage.
In this solo episode, Fraser shares information about iOS storage management, backup and OS updating in preparation for iOS 11.
This week Fraser and Federico take a look at the changes coming to one of the most-used applications in iOS: Apple Notes.
This week Fraser and Federico resolve their differences over another major iOS 11 feature: Multitasking.
In this episode, Fraser and Federico dive deep on the topic of Drag and Drop in iOS 11.
This week Fraser and Federico really explore the space looking at Mind Mapping tools on iOS.
This week Fraser flies the show solo and brings an update on programming on iOS by going into detail on Apple’s Everyone Can Code initiative.
This week Fraser and Federico welcome special guest Merlin Mann to discuss opportunities for improvements that may - or may not - arrive in iOS 11.
This week Fraser and Federico look at another aspect of personal security on iOS: password managers.
This week, inspired by true events, Fraser and Federico look at the user-facing security technologies available in iOS.
This week Fraser and Federico dig into the changes in Apple's recent iWork 3.1 update and explore Apple Classroom 2.0.
This week Fraser and Federico take their Apple Pencils in hand and share some notes on taking notes with the iPad Pro.
This week Fraser and Federico tackle a core part of iOS: the Share Sheet.
In this episode, Fraser and Federico update the Workflow series for the major new feature that debuted in Workflow 1.7 - Magic Variables.
This week Fraser and Federico close out the Workflow programming series with some of the more advanced techniques in Workflow programming.
This week Fraser and Federico take a look at some of the advanced programming structures in Workflow.
This week Fraser and Federico continue the Workflow series by looking at integrating Workflow with third-party apps.
This week Fraser and Federico continue the Workflow series with a look at how to use Variables and Workflow's built-in actions.
This week Fraser and Federico begin a multi-part series on the iOS automation app Workflow.
This week Fraser and Federico complete the set and talk about Microsoft Office and Google Docs on iOS.
This week Fraser and Federico take a look at a leisure activity on iOS: watching video.
This week Fraser and Federico take another pass at managing tasks on iOS, this time looking at implementing Getting Things Done with OmniFocus on iOS.
This week Fraser and Federico take a pass at task management on iOS. This is another area of productivity where iOS is very well served for options.
This week Fraser is joined by writer David Chartier to explore some of the stranger things you can do with iOS.
The mission of Canvas has always been to illuminate the parts of iOS that people think can't be done. In that spirit, this week Fraser and Federico dig into how to program on iOS.
This week Fraser and Federico discuss travelling with iOS devices.
This week Fraser and Federico (particularly Federico) drop serious knowledge on 3rd party iOS mail clients.
This week Fraser flies the show solo to talk about his experience in creating, delivering and sharing presentations with iOS.
This week Fraser and Federico tackle email on iOS using everyone's default client Apple Mail.
This week Fraser and Federico investigate the rich world of camera-based scanners on iOS.
This week Fraser and Federico talk about generating, managing and annotating PDF files on iOS.
This week Fraser and Federico dig into how to be more efficient with typing and text entry on iOS.
Federico and Fraser go in-depth on modern photo management on iOS devices.
Photo management is traditionally one of the trickier areas to deal with in an iOS-only lifestyle. This week, we focus on the modern era of photo management by looking in-depth at iCloud Photo Library, which can minimise or even eliminate many of the difficulties in handling a large library of photos. We also discuss apps that work well with iCloud Photo Library and tell you how to spot ones that don't.
Federico and Fraser go in-depth on the Document Picker and Document Provider system in iOS 9.
In this initial episode of Canvas, Federico and Fraser discuss the available tools and techniques for downloading files from the web and uploading files back to websites. This is a task that was difficult-to-impossible on iOS before iOS 9 was released but is now easy.