iOS

Apple mobile devices

penultimate

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January 11, 2011

There are a growing number of handwriting apps for the iPad, I picked Penultimate mostly because it is only $0.99, and it has gotten some pretty good reviews. The iPad can occasionally be an infuriating tool, in that the ‘keyboard’ is not as suited for real typing as you might want. The idea of using [...]


IPhone photography

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January 10, 2011

One of the interesting advantages to having an iPhone is that it has a camera, and even more importantly, you can load some photo editing apps onto this camera. As a consequence I see that the iPhone (camera) has a potentially special role in furthering artistic photography.  


Thought controlled iPad

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January 10, 2011

In the coverage of the 2011 CES (i.e. the International Consumer Electronics Show) which has been filling up the techno blogs this week, I saw what, at first, appeared to me a fascinating premise. I saw literally 50 online links to what is purported to be a mind control interface for an iPad. As with [...]


Pulse News and Flipboard

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January 6, 2011

Flipboard came out early last summer, and has become Apple’s iPad app of the year. Considering the hoopla surrounding the iPad and huge number of apps it has in the App store, this is quite an honor. The idea behind what Flipboard originally was to create a ‘magazine’ format to look over your own Facebook [...]


HeyTell for iPhone

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January 4, 2011

I just tried out a new communications app on my iPhone; HeyTell turns your phone into a strange combination of a push to talk radio (walkie talkie) with voice mail ability. I’ve tried it out (it works great!) and it is worthwhile if only in the sense that some of you may have a use [...]


so, you got an iPad for Christmas…

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January 3, 2011

First off, I saw an article on Mashable.com (IPads Dominate Holiday Gifts in Mashable Poll), and wondered about how many people actually got (or received) an iPad for Christmas. I decided that it would be a good thing to provide a collated list of the plethora of help articles, lists of apps to get first, [...]


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