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Many of us have used financial management applications on our computers at one time or another. Some applications specialize in the fundamentals of tracking money while others offer more features and give you the big picture of your entire net worth in addition to banking and budgeting.

In this week’s show, Todd introduces you to Moneydance, an application that has just about everything you need to manage your finances. You learn about its main features and get familiar with its layout as Todd sets up accounts from scratch and walks you through a day in the life of a Moneydance user.

With the recent influx of apps on iOS that provide functional widgets, it's easy to be overwhelmed with their sheer number. Lee has been spending some time working with a lot of the options out there with a view to relaying some of his favourites to the SCO community. One that has merited its own tip is Headlines.

This application allows you to display customisable news widgets that connect to a variety of sources, and this week Lee walks you through its configuration and shows you how to make it your own.

Lee has been testing lots of mobile scanning applications recently as he tries to remove his reliance on his desktop ScanSnap. After finally settling on SwiftScan, he shows you how it's used and how much depth there is to this versatile application.

Lee shows you in this tip how to use a widget creation tool called Widgetsmith. This iOS application is able to retrieve photo, calendar, reminder, and health data and create amazing-looking widgets. Widgetsmith also offers stunning formats for displaying the date and time, battery information, weather, and more.

In this week's tip, Rosemary covers recent updates to the Shortcuts app. This includes the Set Wallpaper action, Home Screen Launchers, and getting the details of emails and messages which can prompt you to run a shortcut.

Craft is an application that is rapidly gaining cult status amongst creative people in the Apple ecosphere. Using this software you are able to create beautiful, modular documents, and publish to users and viewers with the touch of a button.

With Lee as your guide, you learn how to create and edit these documents on both macOS and iOS, as well as export your files to different formats.

Halide Mark II is a camera application that gives manual control over shutter speed and ISO on your iPhone, giving you more flexibility over these two important aspects of exposure. There are also unique settings that allow you to capture both RAW and JPEG images at the same time.

In this screencast, Todd explains what the exposure triangle is so you can better appreciate the manual controls at your fingertips. After getting a tour of the app's interface, you dive deeper into the controls and settings available in Halide Mark II so you can take full advantage of all it has to offer.

Loom allows you to capture video of your screen and optionally your webcam while simultaneously uploading the video to the Loom online service. When you're finished recording, you can use the Loom web service to crop out portions of your video screencast, add calls to action, and share a link to your video.

In this week's episode, Allison gives you a tour of Loom and walks you through its workflow for creating screencasts.

In the third and final part of this deep dive into Microsoft Teams, Lee moves away from basic messaging, communications and file sharing and into some of the different applications and integrations that can be made with the software. He shows you how applications like OneNote and Microsoft Planner can be used in a Teams environment, and how you can configure third-party applications using Trello as an example. The series concludes with a look at Teams on iOS.

In this screencast, Rosemary introduces you to Crouton, her preferred recipe app for iOS. As well as capturing and storing recipes, it offers an automatic meal planning feature. Rose concludes by showing you Crouton's clever hands-free feature that can assist you when making your recipe. 

There are a number of powerful PDF Applications for the Mac that allow you to do just about anything with your PDFs. Many of these applications were first developed on MacOS and later ported over to iOS in a non-feature complete version. For those who work with iOS devices primarily, this made it more difficult to work with PDFs with the tools they were familiar with on the Mac.

PDF Expert 7 is a full-featured PDF application that was first released for iOS and has since added features to the place where a MacOS version was released! In this screencast, Todd walks you through all of the features of PDF Expert 7 including the built-in file manager, the many ways to customize how you view your PDFs, the tools available for working with your PDFs like annotations, editing, and filling in forms, and the various search, export, and security options built into the application.

 PDF Expert 7 really is a powerful desktop application made natively for your iPad and iPhone!

With so much happening in the world that has the potential to affect our mental well-being, it's important to realise there are tools out there that can help us keep on top of things. Lee discovered one such application recently that he has been using with his family to help track of physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety and mood changes.

In this tip video, Lee runs through Mindfull, an anxiety tracker for iOS, and shows you how to use it to keep tabs on changes in your mood and health. You also learn how to look for trends and relationships between symptoms that may just help you stay sane in a challenging time.

Notability from Ginger Labs has been around for over ten years. It turned the iPad into a full-featured note-taking app and has remained a favourite with countless users since.

In her very first ScreenCastsOnline tip video, Allison Sheridan walks you through some recent improvements to Notability that enhance handwriting. You learn about drawing shapes, creating various types of lines, and take a peek at the handwriting recognition feature.

In this show, Rosemary shows you what you can do with Toolbox Pro and Charty, two companion apps for Shortcuts on iOS.

Toolbox Pro simplifies some commands and allows you to do things that otherwise would not be possible in Shortcuts. Charty allows you to create a variety of beautiful charts and plot your data using Shortcuts.

With the iPad becoming more prevalent as a direct laptop replacement, file management needs to be quick and easy. Anybuffer is a shelf utility that allows you to access frequently used files as well as store them quickly and easily.

With Lee as your guide, you learn several ways for getting files into Anybuffer, as well as how to organise them using the Shelves feature within the application, so you can quickly find and use your content.

When used properly, Twitter can be a valuable source of both information and entertainment.

In this tip video, Don takes you through two aspects of Twitter that both help you control the firehose of information, as well as being able to store and reference threads of information for future reference. The first is finding and subscribing to existing Twitter lists, the second is using an App called "Thread It" to save and share Twitter threads in PDF format.

We've received several requests for more workflow-style shows that combine multiple apps to accomplish a goal. This week, Todd shows you his workflow for capturing, editing, and publishing photos on the go using his iPad and iPhone, along with his favourite apps.

In this week's tip, Rosemary takes you on a tour of FE File Explorer Pro for iOS.

Connecting to multiple servers and services is what File Explorer Pro is all about. This flexible utility remembers your connections, and also allows you to create files within its interface. You can it as an additional location within the Files app, and access your various connections from there as well.

In this week's show, Allison takes you on a detailed exploration of a popular messaging app, Telegram.

Telegram is a cross-platform and secure messaging service that works with Apple devices as well as Android, Linux, and Windows. It supports end-to-end encryption with private chats and allows you to set timeouts on messages so they disappear on both ends. It's got a superb search engine, and fun features like stickers and the ability to conduct polls inside group messages.

In the second of this two-part series, Lee concludes his tour of Airmail 4. Expanding on the topics covered in the first screencast, you learn how to configure templates and set up rules to automate and streamline email management.

Lee also runs through the wealth of configuration options available, then switches to iPhone to show you the interface and how to compose an email on Airmail for iOS.